The last few months have been crazy, busy, good. Lots of family time, lots of friend time, lots of fun time. I finally met our new (part-time) next-door neighbors. I am obsessed. In a good, not creepy way. They are a young couple (who isn’t young compared to us these days!). They have twin 5-year-old boys and a 3-year-old boy. The boys are loud, wild, extroverted, friendly, hilarious…all the things boys should be. The mom came over and sat on our back porch for an hour one late afternoon and in the middle of a sentence stopped and said, “What is that noise?” I replied, “Your family!” She was horrified at how loud they were over there, and we laughed and told her we loved sitting on our porch listening to them.
A three-day trip to Williamsburg began the month of June for us. This week, two of the big kids arrived with their two dogs. The youngest and his lovely bride arrived yesterday, along with lifelong friends. Our oldest arrives Sunday. The lifelong friends got their own house on the lake for the week but aren’t too far away from us. It is going to be a blast of a week with lots of food, pool time, swim time, boat time, laughter. All the good things in life.
Speaking of good things in life. I spent the trip to Williamsburg and home again cleaning up my social media accounts. Who knew I had hundreds of creepy accounts following me? And I was apparently following a bunch of creepy accounts, lol. So, all cleaned out. Just family, friends, decorating, carnivore, health, and lots of Christian women. I’m setting a limit on my screen time each day. TBD on that amount but I’m spending way too much time on social media. And I have a stack (upon stack upon stack) of books to read. Summer is the perfect time for that.
I began this post a couple days ago and have just sat down on Saturday morning to finish it. The big kids and their dogs leave after lunch today with their Grandpa. Russell has gone to pick up a Tritoon for us to ride around on the lake for a few days as it will hold 12 people and our fish and ski only holds five. I’m soaking in some quiet on the porch for a bit. If you consider the chewing on chewies by three dogs actually “quiet.” Life is good these days. The old me would be anticipating the fall of the other shoe. The new and improved me is soaking in the family time, the joy, the sun, the laughter, and the peace that comes with knowing that life is short, but moments in time will last forever.
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