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?
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks to share our readerly shame: ten books that we acquired right after they were published but that we’ve yet to crack open. Here are ten of mine, most of which I’d include on a list of favorite writers:
It should be noted that this revisits a topic we covered back in 2022, and I had a distinct memory of writing that post while sitting on the floor of the Portland airport waiting to come home from a trip to see Rudi’s dad and Rebs. (I should confess that while I only own half of those titles, all ten remain unread, although I did go to read Agnes Grey only to discover that Anne Brontë’s books weren’t included in the compendium I thought they were in.)
How about you? Do you have books you eagerly snapped up as soon as they came out only to have them lingering still on your bookshelf?
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?
Rudi has left for his annual cycling trip in Europe, so I’m on my own for the next month. I figured this was a good time to bring planning posts back to keep me focused on getting some things taken care of. Here’s what I hope to tackle this weekend:
The full baker’s dozen might be a stretch, but I’m betting I can tackle at least half of the list.
What do you hope your weekend includes?