A Weekend of Dates

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Last Friday, as I mentioned on the Shuffle this past Sunday, was a hard day for Ryan's mom. I hear she's doing better now, after some medications were altered, but that day was really hard. She ended up going home with her husband for the weekend (it was, after all, their anniversary) and elected not to come back to our house. But we didn't know when she left that she wouldn't be coming back, so we lived our weekend very intentionally, trying to do our best to rest, spend time together, and have the house prepared for her return.

Friday evening, we sat on the couch the entire night. We ordered pizza, watched DVR'd shows, and napped. It was heavenly. We so sorely needed that time together to just talk and be a couple.

Ryan did not have to work on Saturday, so we slept in until 8:30. Also heavenly!!! Our big plan for the weekend was to decorate our house for Christmas, because we thought it would be easier on everyone to do that when Nita wasn't here, and we thought she would be here all throughout next weekend, so we wanted to make sure we had it done while we had the time.

More on that later, but in the middle of Saturday afternoon, we took a break to go on a date! There's a coffee shop we used to go to quite often that shut down for a time while they built a new building in a new location. Saturday was their opening day at their new place, so we went!

Fun fact: the building behind the sign there is actually the building next door to what they just built. The one you can see has actually been for sale most of the time we've lived in Kokomo, and I am totally enamored with it. Know what I thought it would be perfect for? A coffee shop.

We got our favorite drinks: a grasshopper for Ryan and cabin fever for me:

The inside of the new store is super nice. I wanted to take a ton of pictures, but there were people everywhere, and I didn't think they might appreciate that, so I didn't.

We sat for a while, enjoyed our coffee, and then got back on the road!

We had several stops to make, and Kohl's was on the list. We found this ornament that seemed appropriate for us!

LOL!!

I realize we probably got way more into this next part than we should have, but we made our inaugural trip to our brand new Aldi. We've had one for a million years, but the building was also a million years old, and it showed. They built a brand new building and its HUGE! (One of the cashiers told us it's the biggest one in Indiana.) It was packed and people were in insane hurries, but despite the fear of being trampled, we had a great time. We were not in a hurry, and we wanted to enjoy learning the layout of the new store.

I'd read a few rumblings online that some people didn't like it at all, and I wondered if that was true, because when we checked out and the cashier asked us what we thought, she actually had this huge, heaving sigh of relief when we said we loved it. We think once the traffic calms a little (it was only the third day for it to be open) and people get the hang of it, it will be a really lovely place to shop, in comparison to what we had before, especially!

We ended up getting dinner while we were out, stopping by Hobby Lobby with the portion of our county NOT at Aldi, and coming home to do more decorating.

It was fantastic!!!! Three cheers for date weekends!