Odd (For Us) Weekend

It felt like we were just being tossed to-and-fro.

Saturday I meant to do some ironing.  Ended up doing lots of things.  But not the ironing.  (I'll be starting that in just a minute.)  We ran into Costco for one thing and came out with several.  And spent several times the $$ that we intended to.  Although I will admit there wasn't really anything luxury that we bought.  By the time we picked up the ham for Thanksgiving and a book of postage stamps (I think that was $54 all by itself) the cost was adding up.

We actually managed to fit in a bit of a walk.  The weather has been so phenomenally beautiful it's hard to stay indoors.  Wandered a trail we haven't taken before.  Walked by the cell-tower that's not too far from our house.  I was astonished at the massive amount of wires and cables and paraphernalia included in that little area.  Kinda scary. 

Cell-tower near our home.

Our son and grandson stopped by to return something.  Spur of the moment we went with them to McDonald's for food.  I honestly don't remember the last time we ate at McDonald's.  I frankly was a tad hesitant.  But - we discovered that they serve some breakfast items all day long, so breakfast for dinner was what I ordered. Who knew that the McGriddler was fairly tasty?

Sunday was busy.  I had been asked to play for the choir to sing in church on Sunday.  I'd practiced all week.  Practicing will never eliminate my nerves.  But it went ok.  I did have to leave out a few notes that would have been wrong (and audibly so) had I played them, but overall it wasn't too bad.  I went directly from there to teaching R.S.  I had traded weeks with the other teacher at her request.  It's actually been a couple months since I've even been in R.S.  And if I hadn't been the teacher I would have enjoyed being back in the room with all the other sisters.  I was stressed.  I always think I could have done better on the lesson / discussion.  But when I look back at how things went, I can never figure out what would have made it better, how I could have improved it.  So I have to be somewhat content with how things are.  I can't change them once the lesson is over anyway.  So I'd best quit fretting over it.

Friday morning's sunrise across the valley.

The Husband had driven to our grandson's Primary Program (so nice to be invited), which was at the same time as my R.S. lesson.  He came home for me and we went back to our son's for lunch.  Which turned into our only meal yesterday.  We had so-so-so much food.  It was tasty.  Our son does the cooking on Sundays at their house, he likes to try new recipes.  (When I asked him where he got his affinity for cooking from, he just said "I love food".  That was a surprise to me.  But nice to hear.  I'm glad he likes to try new things.)  We had chicken tacos with homemade pineapple salsa (which tasted fine (actually except for the onion it was really yummy!), but I'm still suffering from the effects of the onions, they just do a number on me all around) and an avocado sauce. We were so full we didn't need any more food.

By the time we got home (after a leisurely drive home the long way in the gorgeous day) we were both ready for lounging clothes (i.e. jammies) and quiet. 

This morning's walk was lovely.  I woke up w-a-y too early (just after four - I've been doing that a lot lately and don't know why, it's making me nuts) so just laid in bed dozing until nearly seven.  So it was fully light outside when I left the house.  I took my time, wandered along and thoroughly enjoyed the morning.  The best part was meeting The Husband who had walked out to greet me.  Walking is my favorite exercise-endeavor.  Meeting The Husband while walking makes it just superb.

I'm so grateful today that I managed to conquer a couple hard-for-me things without too much trouble.  Grateful that my R.S. lesson is over and that I managed to muddle through the choir song.  I'm grateful that I'm learning to have "no expectations" when it comes to my heart, it's made things so much easier for me this year.  It'll definitely be a constant effort to not expect.  The results are well worth it.