
What a great day I've had...nothing big, nothing fancy, just a day that makes me glad to be alive and glad to be me.
I suppose it began last night. I went to bed at 8:19 since I couldn't keep my eyes open and had read the same sentence in my book about three times. I have a vague recollection of Audrey coming to tuck me in, but I could be imagining it!
(I tend to be a morning person, more than a night person. And since I get up early--5:30 just about every day--I go to bed extra early from time to time for what's known in our family as "reverse sleeping in.")
Audrey had a late start this morning, so we had a lazy morning around here...sitting around the breakfast table in our pjs eating oatmeal with dried cherries, pecans, brown sugar, and milk. Then when Toben took Audrey to school, Emma and I took Daisy on a walk.
Our new neighborhood has something like 37 acres of open space and trails running through it. We wandered across the creek that runs behind our house, jumping from stone to stone. Then we followed the path along the creek, spied three ducks, looked at all the different kinds of pinecones on the different kinds of pine trees, and collected fall leaves to put on the dining room table. We kept going straight where Toben and I had turned the other day, and came out at a huge park! We found two tennis balls along the way, tried to entice Daisy to play ball, and went down the slides--Daisy too. (She liked the curly slide the best!)
We came home, got cleaned up, played Candy Land and Mancala, played in the backyard on the swings, and watched "The Doodlebops."
We all went to get Audrey from school, took the kids to get passport photos taken (we're off to Mexico just before Christmas on a cruise with my whole family), and had a lovely French kind of meal--quiche lorraine, salade verte, and baguette with Nutella for dessert.
The girls are out of the tub, and it's just about time for our betime prayers. An ordinary kind of day that brings joy because of its ordinariness...
And lots of other good things happened too--we got rid of the last of the moving boxes (yeah Craig's List), I had a great conversation with my friend Sarah, the UPS man brought me a box of books filled with lots of great advance copies from said friend Sarah as a surprise, I received an encouraging email from a friend in the Bible study I left behind in California, and I thought of a great Christmas gift for my dad.
Life is good...