Well, I was meant to do a weekend recap post today but I literally took the worst pictures ever, even though it was a pretty fun weekend!

Saturday started with an early morning soccer game for D…

I have no pictures of this (this shall be a common theme for this post 😬).

After D’s soccer game, his team had a breakfast social with coffee and donuts … I have no pictures of this.

While J and the kids were enjoying D’s breakfast social with his soccer team, I got ready and headed about an hour away to meet one of my sweet friends who wanted to treat me out to lunch for my birthday! We got Din Tai Fung y’all, and it was a craving that took 2+ years to satisfy. Definitely worth the wait but this is the only subpar photo I remembered to take 😂 I was trying to capture the steam but it just ended up making the picture look hazy. Yay.

After lunch, we walked around and shopped at bit inside Sephora then had some coffee and chatted for a good long while. It was a sweet time together for sure.

After lunch, I drove the hour back home and then worked on some Precepts homework. It was like trying to wake up an old muscle in my brain … was a little hard at first but slowly felt like riding a bike that I was familiar with again. This year in Precepts, we’re covering all the kings and prophets in the OT. You know how God’s people get divided into two kingdoms, Israel & Judah, and there are good kings and bad kings from both … and then a bunch of minor & major prophets sprinkled throughout? I don’t know about you but I can never get the names or timelines straight. This kings & prophets study in Precepts is supposed to take us through ALL of that in detail over the next two years and I am so stinking excited. I feel like after the two years is done, I’ll hopefully have a much better grasp on this part of the OT. It’s probably the one part of the Bible where I feel the least confident in my Bible literacy. WOOHOO!

Anyway, obviously I have no pictures of this.

Sunday, I was scheduled for praise team so left my house bright and early. It was rainy and icky this day, which kind of sucked because later around lunchtime, E was going to perform with her vocal studio at our local art & wine festival! I prayed really hard that God would stall the rain and was a little disappointed when I woke up on Sunday morning and it was clearly raining … BUT! He still answered! There was a brief lull in the rain for maybe about an hour or less? It literally only lasted as long as it took for me to drive home from church, get to the festival, and watch E perform. I’m not kidding, the minute after her song ended, the rain started pouring down again 😮

She ROCKED her performance (she sang the song Naughty from Matilda the musical)!!! She didn’t seem nervous at all and introduced herself, stayed on beat/on pitch … I almost got a little emotional watching her sing. Seems like that’s usually what happens when I watch her perform. Her vocal teacher emailed me later that day saying she was so proud of her and amazed at what she’s able to do when given all these different challenges and tasks. I love our sweet E!

After the festival, we came home and ate grilled cheeses for lunch (YUM!) and then just relaxed. I painted A’s nails and my nails (E didn’t want them done). The kids built legos and played with their toys. I took a nap. Super relaxed and chill Sunday afternoon.

It was a weird feeling for me, though, because I was mentally preparing myself to go back to work today. I’m not used to it, guys! I actually really love Mondays because I love having a fresh start to the week so it felt a little odd to be like ugh … Monday ….

Speaking of work, wow. My first week last week was interesting. The work itself was fine (although I did have to check one girl who had some MAJOR rude sass – she was in the gifted 4th/5th grade combo class and was talking down to me like I was some idiot servant instead of the librarian) but I wasn’t prepared for all the politics in the school. I don’t mean work politics, I mean actual politics! Like woah .. I knew it was a liberal environment but dang, my third day of work and none of the other people I worked with seemed to be hiding their distaste for “conservatives” and “Republicans”. I’m not one of those people who think that a certain political party or candidate is God’s answer to save America BUT I do obviously hold Biblical views which traditionally are more conservative leaning. For a district that talks a big game about inclusivity, it seemed obvious that there was only room for one opinion. It was just disheartening; I’m not really sure why God placed me here in this job but here I am! Continue praying for me, please!