The Shafferland Shuffle

If I was glad to see last week go because of vehicle drama, I confess I'm glad to see this week go because of house upheaval! Here's to next week??? Maybe????

* Last Sunday, we started a new series at church, and it focuses on the lessons learned from the Remnant in the Old Testament. They had an incredible new set built at the front of the church to accompany it, and the first sermon was really thought-provoking! After church, we went to a get-together with our Sunday School class. Tacos and fellowship: never a bad way to spend a Sunday lunch!

* Monday, I worked on some writing while Braeya slept, and then I whipped up a batch of chocolate peanut butter cookies for Ryan and me. {This is one of my favorite parts about the new season: being able to make cookies for Ryan to have all ready when he gets home!} We went for a run that night, and the weather was beautiful. That sky!!! Thankful for some not-so-blistering-hot days to run!

* Tuesday, I hunkered down to finish my Bible study homework, and I learned so much. This is what I love about having homework for a Bible study...it helps me focus and learn more than I would on my own. We went for a run that night too, and for the first time in two weeks, I had a really good run. It surprised me, since I felt like I was coming down with something. Annnnnnd that run was the end of the good things, because by the time I went to bed that night, I was aching and feverish and chilling and feeling miserable. I put oil in the diffuser and prayed to feel better!!

* And I did NOT feel better by Wednesday morning. Ryan left for work after tucking me under a blanket on the couch, feeling even more miserable than the night before. Braeya was no help - she just started sunbathing while I moaned and whined. I didn't get to be miserable for long, though, because the crew coming to install the new heating and air system in our house started working that day. {It's kind of embarrassing to show up at the front door looking like death, let them in, and say "I'll be conked out on the couch if you need me."}

* By Thursday I felt MUCH better, and I was grateful. We finally got word that Ryan's truck was done - after a week in the shop - so I went to pay for that, and when I got in the car, I found this crazy little finger puppet on the dash. I gave it to Ryan as a joke when we first started dating {I don't even remember where I got it} and he STILL carries it around. That made my heart smile! When I got home, the work crew told me they  had uncovered some wiring they thought I needed to have checked out, which completely freaked me out. WIRING is no joke. So I did the only logical thing I could: stress eating Cheerios! By the time Ryan got home that night, Braeya was in a snit from having her home turned upside down for two days, and I was freaking out over all the drama. I bet he's glad he came home.

* Friday would have been my little nephew's 27th birthday, if he had lived, and I spent the day reflecting on his life, looking through my scrapbook of the day he was born, and just missing him. The work crew finished up their project, the electrician that paid a visit gave us some info about the wiring, and I felt human enough to go to lunch with my friend Jenny. It was a busy day! Ryan surprised me that night with a new white noise machine for when I sleep. I love that man! He spoils me!

 * Ryan had to work yesterday, and while he was gone, I got busy cleaning up the dirt left behind from this project. I expected dust, but I was unprepared for the actual layer of black FILTH covering several rooms in our home. I dusted and swept and scrubbed on my hands and knees and threw away entire towels not worth saving and did scads of laundry loads - and when Ryan came home, he got busy working to reinforce the ceiling in one of our rooms that had been weakened by the work done this week. Thankful that the Lord planted this idea in his heart and that he had the ability to carry it out. What a mess!! While he did that, I did my own {much more minor} project of distressing an old door!

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