Sunday Scrapbook: Moments from the Week

 

                It’s possible that I kept dozing on the couch as I wrapped up this week’s virtual scrapbook. Yesterday was a lot of fun, but it was a long day, and I’m sleepy! So much to tell you about this week, so let’s jump in!

                Last Sunday was a full day for your girl. Ryan and I taught Sunday School, I gave the message at church, and then we had a ministry fair, where I staffed one of the tables. WHEW! My feet hurt at the end of that! I welcomed my long nap and was particularly thankful for Ryan’s help throughout the entire day. Ministry is teamwork!

                Monday was the first day in over a week that we had enough of a break from rain to be able to work outside! (And by “we,” I mean Ryan.) Our yard was a jungle, and he was eager to get out there and work on it! I hunkered down with homework and he made the house beautiful again.

                Tuesday, as I already told you, was our date night to the TinCaps game. It was our first time to go to a TinCaps game together, and we talked about how much fun it was and how we should enjoy it more often. (In regular seats. Not in the fancy club. That’s not in our price point! Ha!)

                Our church’s annual staff retreat started on Wednesday. Ryan went with me this year, which came about because of a fantastic story from LAST year’s retreat, which apparently I never told you! I’ll have to tell you that one next week. But anyway, he went with me, and the first day was full of all kinds of adventures. One of the things that made me laugh was this: the staff had a meeting outside the retreat center, and Ryan did not attend this meeting. Every time I glanced up while we met, I saw this statue out of the corner of my eye and thought it was Ryan eavesdropping on us. It was so funny!

                Thursday was beautiful, and Ryan and I loved our free time in the afternoon. We went on many walks, had a little coffee date, and had some great talks. There were a lot of things (separately) about Thursday that were really hard for me, so I was ridiculously thankful to have Ryan there to boost my spirits and calm me!

                We came home from the retreat Friday afternoon (via grocery shopping and a little thrifting) and Lexi was excited to come back home, too! No rest for the weary, though. Ryan had a bunch of outside work to do, and I had a big paper to write for class.

                Yesterday rounded out the week with a lot of fun, because my friend, Kari, made the trip up here to hang out with me for the day – and we went shopping! We stopped by a bunch of my favorite thrift/consignment/antique stores in our area, and we had an amazing time. (Found so many treasures!)