Good to Be Home

 

It's good to be home. It's been a long time coming with all the trips and weddings. I kept landing and repacking for the next thing. Since February I've been living like that. And in the weeks at home I've been in the garden and at the sewing machine or watering the flowers God provided for the weddings. And don't forget the food prep and canning and freezing and hosting events.

Needless to say, it's been a lot. A lot of "a lot" is good and fun. Blessings and praise...as well as grieving and loss of what was... but that thought is only briefly landed on. Like a bee on a flower. Mostly it's blessing and praise because that's where the goodness of God is best noticed.

I got home to a mattress still leaning up against the bedroom wall because we replaced the old and are now waiting on the people that want it to come pick it up. There's a chair also taking up prime real estate in my bedroom because we did a living room shuffle yesterday.

Which brings me to the couch replacement story. We've been losing furniture and kids at the same pace as well as gaining more along with in-laws. So really it's just a shuffle. Who knew one would shuffle furniture and children at the same time? Anyway, somehow we lost all our couches to the kids. While I was gone, Bruce toyed with the idea of surprising me with a new one but I think I said too many confusing likes and dislikes over the phone.

So the evening after I was home we went to a massive furniture store and tried to have an open mind. Thankfully, messenger got our attention and the marketplace find we were interested in, became a go. We went. The love seat with electric powered seats turned out to be exactly what we were looking for. We loaded it on the trailer and came home watching the most amazing Northern lights dancing across the sky.

It is good to be home, even tho home is morphing into a space where two middle age people struggle and stumble around, rearranging the living room furniture and all the many extra furnishings, (Maybe Laife wants this for his house? Or, I wonder if this is Shaunti's? Toria's coming back in January,  shall I store this for her?)

Trying to figure out how to make high protein, low carb meals for two people, is proving to be a fun challenge. We must endeavor to be healthy and strong for our family's future. We even take walks together around the block with whatever dog we are dogsitting. 

It's good to be home and growing healthily old together. Hopefully,  I can give more attention to this blog and tell you how to do it gracefully. And with joy. But more truthfully, it'll just be ordinary living with an insertion or two of human humor and mistakes.