It’s the first day of school AND it feels like fall so basically the best day of July ever 🥰🍂 (No, I won’t be updating this when summer heat returns for another 3 months 🥲)

Well I did have a plan for supper but that was abandoned when I realized that our a/c seems to be slowly dying. Thankfully we had leftover chicken salad in the fridge and we’ll evacuate to my parents house if we need to. Were under a heat advisory so not great timing 🫠

This week I’ve had 2 different ~6-8yo stranger kids come up to me in public and start lightly hitting(tapping?) me, seemingly for fun? It wasn’t aggressive but it still made me uncomfortable and I didn’t know how to handle it as neither mother intervened.

Easy supper tonight: take-and-bake breadsticks (on clearance!), add leftover smoked pork bbq, red onions, cilantro, and bbq sauce. So good!

I'll love thee in life, I will love thee in death, and praise thee as long as thou lendest me breath, and say when the deathdew lies cold on my brow: If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

“O God, grant that my heart might be ordered aright, knowing that all good service faithfully rendered is first a service rendered unto You.” - from A Liturgy for Domestic Days in Every Moment Holy

“Tears may, and must come; but if they gather in eyes that are constantly looking up to [God] and heaven, they will glisten with the brightness of the coming glory.” -Susannah Spurgeon as quoted in Inheritance of Tears

Boldly I approach my Father Clothed in Jesus' righteousness There is no more guilt to carry It was finished upon that cross

Today was a super long day of school and had more than it’s share of rough moments but at the very end of the day I teared up while telling 6yo how proud I was of his progress and perseverance. I’ve never done that before but I was so encouraged 🥹

Posting here for accountability because I’m finally at the point in my 5k plan where I’m supposed to run an actual (but slow) 5k tonight and I am very scared that I’m going to DNF 🥲 Will report back.. 😬

I DID IT!! (with a 1 minute pep talk walk in the middle 😂) I’ve been kinda discouraged with my progress the last couple weeks, but this is a milestone I never thought I would reach so it feels huge!! I did it!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Tis the time of year where my fb feed is full of hurricane models and panic bait 🥲

Old man at the gym who usually just teases me for my Steelers gear said that I was “hitting the weights hard last night” and when I told him I was training for a 5k asked if I was going to win or just participate (I assure you sir I will not be winning 😂) but still 🥹💪🏻

Made smoothies for “supper” because we had a late lunch and my husband is out tonight so now my kids think I’m the best mom ever 😂

Finding all this Alaska/Russia surprise really funny because HAVE YALL NEVER SPENT 12.5 HOURS STRAIGHT PLAYING RISK???