Week 3 Is In The Books

The third full week of 2023 has passed and the fourth week has begun. As I look at the week and see the promise of a new beginning, for some of my fellow bloggers the week is filled with dread and uncertainty. I know there is not one of us with any guarantees, but as I write this my life is still status quo. I do intend to be more present in the lives of the people I love most, either in person or via whatever device connects us most easily.

And I will continue to look for and celebrate the joys, large and small, I find along the way each and every day.

Sunday: After church TheHub and I went shopping for him. He needed a few new dress shirts. (Does this sound like someone who is thinking about retirement any time soon?) After shop[ing we drove to Son2's house and picked up Son2, DIL2 and TGS. We rode  to their potential new house (pending inspections) and got to go through it. It is a quirky, but adorable home and if they get it, will be a fabulous place for them.

Monday: I was able to go to Independence Place and spent the day painting masks and watching their play rehearsal. It is my most favorite happy place.

Tuesday: I did a lot of laundry which is not joyous until it is all done, folded and put away

Wednesday: Felt kind of icky all day, but not bad enough that I could not spend the day reading!

Thursday: I spent the entire day at Independence Place, AKA my happy place. My Beloved Sister came out there to help with the mask painting. We are now finished with everything except the rhino's body and the giraffe's neck. 

TheHub and I got home close to the same time and when he suggested we go out to eat, I did not object.

Friday: I decided it was time for me to put on my big girl pants and do something with the sourdough starter I had been feeding all week. I went a little renegade and measured using U.S. measures rather than a digital scale and grams. I started thinking sourdough was around way before there were standard measures much less digital scales. I found a couple for recipes online for something that would not be qualified as artisanal, and by combining the two wound up with two really nice loaves. 

TheHub and I decided to stay at home Friday night. He had a hectic week at work and we only had 5 more episodes of 1883, so we ate dinner then watched 2 of them. It was a perfect Friday night.

Saturday: The day was gorgeous when we woke, so after a cup of coffee and bowl of grits for TheHub we got ready to do a little running around . 

Since I got the car back from the repair ship it has felt a little "wobbly" when I drove it, plus the oil change indicator was blinking as well as the low battery warning.  I was so outdone with the length of time the dealerships body shop  held my car captive took to repair the minuscule damage to the rear fender, that I was not about to take it back to them for service.

Instead we ran by Express Oil while we were out. They checked everything, changed the oil, then noticed a couple of the lug nuts were missing from the tire next to the damaged fender. I guess it would have been asking too much for the body shop to actually put the tire back on correctly once they did the body repair. My huge joy was that the young man helping us found it before I was driving down the interstate and lost a tire. (We did head back to the Honda dealership and had them put them back on immediately. They were truly sorry it happened?!?)

We got back home before the rains started and settled in for an episode of 1883 before watching Bama basketball followed by the Eagles/Giants football game.

So that ends the joys I had this past week. They were small but I do not live a large and terribly exciting life.

Look for your joys that are always around.

May all your weeds be wildflowers,

Anne