Ahhhh, Monday

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I had an awesome weekend, how about you? It was sort of a catch-up weekend, after the past few weekends filled with a back injury and birthdays, but in a good catch-up sort of way. Like a deep cleansing breath that makes you light-headed for a second or two.

On Saturday, after doing my weekly shopping (do you shop on Saturday too?), I did load after load of laundry -- you know the kind where the washer barely gets to catch its breath and it's going 'round and 'round again. And I ironed clothes for hours -- almost as soon as they come out of the drier. It was very productive.

As a reward for my good behavior, and Peach for hers (she cleaned toilets again), Peach and I had girls' night on Saturday night. Doug took the boys to the high school play (a very entertaining production of "Is He Dead?" they said), while Peach and I watched the first half of Gone With the Wind. She made chocolate-covered strawberries (in her Easy Bake Oven) and we stayed up way past her bedtime. It was all good.

Yesterday, college boy came home for just the day. Another nice thing about going to school 30 minutes from home is we can pick him up for Mass occasionally and bring him home afterward. He stayed for dinner, Chicken Parmesan, at his request, and I drove him back afterward. I like for him to touch base once in a while. I think it's important that he not forget what the real world is like -- I tell ya, college life today is sooooo surreal! I don't know who ever thought you'd learn about life in college -- Ha!

Now it's back to Monday and I can catch my breath in a completely different way. Home with my two little schoolers, my week days are often more relaxing than my weekends. I am looking forward to March. I think I hold my breath a bit in February -- what will the weather be? Will school get to be too much within the same four walls all day, every day? Will a bad bug make its way through all the members of our family? I think when I can see spring around the corner, I relax a bit. Maybe it's the light changing (have you noticed?). I look forward to mixing up our school days with the some fun projects and getting out to do school in a different venue -- maybe Panera for a morning, or the library. I don't know why I don't do those things in the winter, when we really need it. I guess during the winter I just need to hole up in our house and stay warm and away from germs (I'm a tad germaphobic, did you know that?). So, even though the weather hasn't changed, I'm looking forward to the month. I know it will end differently than it began, at least weather-wise.

And today I am leaving you with just a tidbit from my Divine Intimacy reflection. It's little, but mighty:

"God does not let Himself be outdone in generosity, and the more we give ourselves to Him in the exercise of intense love, the more He will give Himself to us by grace."


Happy Monday, friend.

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