Sunday Scrapbook: Moments from the Week

 

It’s a holiday weekend! Last year we were up in St. Ignace this weekend, preparing to walk the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day. This year we are home enjoying rest and projects. What are you doing on this long weekend? Here’s a peek back at the week we just had!

Last Sunday I spoke at church about reminding others of their faith…reminding ourselves to use our God-given gifts and power…reminding each other to pray for those around us. I do not know what it was about that message that created the level of spiritual warfare I faced ahead of delivering it, but it was next-level. I was kind of glad when that one was behind me!

Can I just tell you how much I love my new laundry basket? It makes me SO HAPPY. I found a permanent spot for it in our bedroom, and when it’s not busy hauling clean laundry, it holds some little quilts!

I will have to do a whole post about this eventually, but Ryan finished the overhaul on our kitchen island this week. I adore the outcome. It brightened up the room, and the permanent feet are an upgrade from the bed risers we’ve had it perched on for the last two years! (Those were a creative and affordable solution that we don’t regret, but this is lovely.

We celebrated another monthiversary this week. I’ll tell you about it soon, but don’t overexpect, okay? Between work and church responsibilities, we did very little creative dating for this day. But you know what? We spent it together as much as we could, so three cheers for that!

Thursday night we decided to go out for a walk. Poor sweet Lexi has not gotten as many walks as usual, partly because we were gone a lot and partly because of the excessive heat! The sky was darker, so I checked the radar, and it promised we were good for the next hour. So…that was a lie! But we did have fun walking in the rain.

Friday evening we had a date night! The week had been extra long for Ryan in work hours, but he was up for a date night, so we headed out to eat and to do a little shopping. (He was a gem and dropped me off at Hobby Lobby to enjoy quiet, mindless sauntering while he went to Aldi.) I had the best time looking through the aisles and finding fun things I might want to buy…but didn’t. And then we found coffee and headed home. It was a grand evening.

Remember how I said I looked at Hobby Lobby for fun things I might want to buy but didn’t? Well…had some non-buying remorse on Saturday, so we drove back that afternoon to get this gorgeous full-length mirror!!! The one we’ve had for years is pretty utilitarian, and we didn’t have a good place to permanently put it in our house. But this one is gorgeous enough to be prominent, and I happened to think of the perfect place for it. SO EXCITED!