Processing.

What a week.

Grandparents and siblings were here since last Monday, now both they and Andy have left after his weekend spent with us. The house feels empty.

It was a great week. The weather didn't cooperate, but we still snuck in little snippits of time outside, swimming at the lake, visiting the carnival, making s'mores and hobo dinners.

Now I'm processing.

Thoughts, photos, to-do lists to get us back on our feet and ready for another week of traveling, seeing extended family and then Father's Day celebrating on Sunday! (Very cool I get to spend it with both my hubby and Dad!)

• Randomly I want to start bringing yard sale boxes up to my porch to sort through, that doesn't seem smart but it's what I WANT to do.
• I've been considering the list of blogs I check in on lately, those sources that I allow as a voice into my life, and which are truly profitable. It is true that everyone has this ability to SPEAK nowadays using technology and the internet, but it doesn't mean that everything being spoken is profitable to me, or it's audience. I feel like I had a wonderful chance (with the help of wise OLDER counsel and meditating on scripture) to re-direct what MY purpose is in my season of life, and what is just noise for me. Less time on this darn computer, more time in the Word. Perfect.
• Last but not least for tonight, I am thankful for my sister and her gift of photography to us! What beautiful pictures I have now to remember Emma's first year of sports, Livy's contagious big blue eyes and my imperfect chubby cheeks that represent the cooking process for baby #3. Nope, not model perfect, or even trying, but in love and loved. I prefer the later. Thanks Lis!!! We love you.