Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Rudi is home after a month.

2. Rebecca and I catch up over French sodas and supper.

3. After coaching, I stop for a key lime pie milk shake and settle into one of the Adirondack chairs tucked around Crystal City to read and chat with my folks on the phone.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Katie had her baby, a beautiful little boy, to make the sixth player on our next generation team.

2. Two brothers had such a good time at Friday’s beach volleyball camp that they showed up for my grass camp on Monday! (Kudos to their mom for making that happen.)

3. Rudi finished the ride he went to Europe to do within the timeframe he hoped for and set some personal bests on several segments of the course. (Also, the countdown clock to his return is now less than a week!)

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Time out with my friends after our volleyball loss.

2. Clean sheets and a cat tucked in on either side of me.

3. A bride, a groom, and a bridesmaid take the same Metro train as me. The bride stands for several stops, handing her bouquet to her husband. He stares at her with a huge grin on her face. It’s one of the things I love about living in the city.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

I thought of this blog post in bed Thursday night and thought, there’s no way I’ll forget to take care of that first thing in the morning… Here it is Sunday morning, and I just circled back to see if I had, in fact, taken care of it, and, surprise! I had not.

So, here are three beautiful things from last week:

1. Anna and I meet for brunch and a catch-up.

2. John and his friend so enjoyed the Fort Reno concert that we met up to attend again this week! He brought his girlfriend, as well, so we were able to get to know each other better.

3. My teammate Harmony aggressively rolled her ankle during our game on Wednesday. She took herself for x-rays the next day and they came back negative for a fracture, so thankfully, it’s just a bad sprain. (She tells me she’s able to stand with crutches, so I’m hoping this means she’s able to be back at work this coming week.)

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Hearing that Mugsy, my parents’ shy cat who’s been living in a single room since moving in with them in March, finally wants to explore the rest of the house. (It should be noted that the kitten, Pickle, does NOT consider this a beautiful thing and tracks her progress into what he considers his territory.)

2. The first day of summer coaching goes well. We have 20 kids and multiple volunteer coaches, the temps stay south of 90°, and the smoke from the wildfires is still to our north.

3. The new laptop Rudi gave me for Christmas finally gets to come off the sideline when Microsoft announces that my old one (which has been having battery challenges) will no longer run Word. Transferring the files from one to the other takes time but happens seamlessly, even going so far as to keep my web browser tabs open.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. My dear friend getting to go home from the hospital

2. A team baby shower with really cute volleyball-themed onesies

3. Fireworks on back-to-back nights

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?