Sunday Nap

Jeremy and I have been going non-stop for the past week.  With Jeremy's last classes before an 8 week break, studying, cooking, cleaning, seeing friends, selling my first custom order, working, we've been busy.  This weekend has also been packed full of fun stuff to do.  Friday was spent apart with me helping my sister-in-law decorate for Stacy's shower and Jeremy going to church with his dad (getting ready for the service project the following morning).  We each arrived home Friday night tired and cranky.  Saturday morning arrived all too early and we again went our separate ways.  I attended the shower honoring my sister-in-law, Stacy.  It was beautiful.  I had done all the flowers in a blue/purple and ivory theme.  They turned out perfect. The food was wonderful and the decor was planned down to the last detail by my other sister-in-law, Holly.  It was so much fun, and Stacy really racked up in the present department. Jeremy joined the rest of our church in a service project that helped hand out groceries to families in need.  He loved spending time with his dad and some of our close friends, but more than that, he left feeling like his hard work had glorified God and His will for how we should live.  After all that, we packed into my parent's car and headed to Greensboro for an engagement party honoring a close family friend and his fiance.  That was a blast.  Carolina BBQ (as if there's any other kind), all the fixin's, good company, and a bedtime of about 2:30am.  We arrived back home around 1:30pm this afternoon and I demanded that Jeremy take a nap, since we are headed to his parent's house in a couple of hours for his birthday dinner.  I mean, could we have planned more things for this little weekend?  Needless to say, he conked right out.  I got some laundry done, checked email, folded laundry, then decided to join my beloved in our bed. Foster followed suit as he nimbly jumped up on the bed with his sleepy parents.  With Jeremy at one end, his head on his pillow, me at the other end, my head on my dog's warm belly, we napped.  My husband held my feet like a teddy bear and I snuggled my dog like, well a teddy bear.  That was the sweetest time I've had in a couple of weeks.  I'm so grateful for everything and everyone we got to see this weekend.  But I'm also thankful for those quiet moments as a family that we can unwind.  God is good and He provides us with rest time, we just have to take advantage.  

Thank you Lord for my family, for my friends and the wonderful time had this weekend.  As Jeremy still sleeps let him dream of the birthday supper that awaits us in a few hours and the love that he'll soak up.  I thank you for my better half and the chance for him to drool on his pillow in a deep sleep.  I love you Lord, your blessings are abundant.