The Shafferland Shuffle

Happy Sunday, my friends! Hope you all are having a great weekend! (I spent all day yesterday in a ski lodge, so I have now entered prayer mode. Please keep me safe from the germs that took me out last year!) But back to this week...

* Last Sunday morning, our friends were still visiting us, and they went to church with us, even! Ryan and I helped serve communion, and then we came home for long, long naps. We didn't go to a party for the game...but we did have our own little grilling/air fryer party at home. We weren't really pumped about the teams playing, so my personal favorite part was the National Anthem.

* We were on our way to Ryan's mom's Monday night when we encountered the most darling little tiny house/truck that houses a coffee shop! We had seen it around town recently, but this was the first we had stopped to try it. It was DELICIOUS. (And the owner was really good to me, which won me over as a customer. He wasn't confident he could make the drink like I wanted it, so he gave it to me on the house.) We had a good evening with Ryan's mom: at one point we were all studying our Bibles together!

* I don't know what it's like where you live, but around here, potholes have just appeared EVERYWHERE from NOWHERE, sometimes in a matter of hours. When we went to Ryan's mom's Monday night, our road was fine. When we came home in the dark, we thought there was some leftover ice patch in the road. When the sun came up Tuesday, we discovered it was this huge pothole/sinkhole looking thing. It has gotten worse and worse all week and every time someone runs over it, it sounds like they're knocking on our door. Crazy! I had to warn our small group about it before they came over so none of them lost a car or tire or anything. And then there was the crowning Shaffer moment Tuesday night when we went to the grocery store to pick up a couple random things we'd forgotten...and no one thought to take money to pay for it. Whoopsie! So I sat with the groceries and Ryan went home for money.

* I was SO EXCITED to see the mail come on Wednesday, because my scrapbooks were in there!!! Two more for the collection. So happy. I also made my first latte for someone else that day. It was a bit unnerving. It's not like a batch of cookies where you can sneak one to make sure it tastes okay. "Oh yes. I took a quick sip to make sure it was good..." That night we went to a viewing for a lady we used to go to church with, and we were there a couple of hours. It's always sad to get together with friends for funerals, but it is always good to see a bunch of people I've not seen for a long time!

* When I tried to get ready Thursday, I ended up smearing mascara on my nose. I don't think that's the part of my face I want to accentuate, but it made for a good laugh. We went out to Ryan's mom's, and when we arrived, we discovered a tree had come down over the driveway. Ryan hauled it into the side ditch so we could get through. (I'm not sure what I would have done if I'd been alone! Walk, I guess.) We had a good evening with Nita; Ryan's boss made a delicious pot roast for us to take out to her, and we got to enjoy it too!

* Several weeks ago, I posted about Cindy, who was a patient when my mom was a patient last year. Friday morning I got a surprise picture of her with Ryan. Brightened my whole morning! We had to go shopping Friday night, and we stopped by the Goodwill to look for a jacket for Ryan to wear while he went skiing yesterday. Didn't find one, but we did find a gravy boat warmer. Those are actual things? And you know what? Some weeks just call for a hamburger. I'd wanted one for days and days and he took me to get one at Wendy's, which I love.

* And that brings us back to ski day!! Ryan and Shawn had such a great time skiing last year that they wanted to go again this year. We weren't sure it could happen with Ryan's mom's health being so uncertain, but we decided to schedule the day and just cancel it if necessary. But it worked out! We got up crazy stupid early and drove to southern Indiana. I camped out in the lodge for the day, writing and reading and people-watching. (And hopefully not germ-catching.) and the guys had a blast. It was a beautiful day, so several hundred other people had the same idea.