The house was unusually quiet this weekend. Max and Olivia left on Friday morning for their annual trek to Elev8 (youth conference) in San Diego with our church’s youth group. Rudy has asked about them several times a day and will be excited to have them home later today.
Rolf took advantage of the near-empty house to begin the bathroom remodel. With guests arriving soon for Max’s graduation, this project will need to be done in stages to insure we’ll have a functional bathroom when the house is full but he got a big chunk of the work done. Yay!
Rudy and I didn’t have time to lounge by the pool for very long this weekend as there was lots to celebrate in the lives of our friends…
I’m so grateful for this long weekend filled with things we love to do and people with whom we love to do life…I am blessed to live in my comfortable home, in a beautiful town that is part of a larger, wonderfully diverse, complex country that I love dearly. I am grateful we set aside a day every year to remember those who gave their lives in service to our country and it’s citizens but after experiencing all that we got to experience this weekend, I’m feeling strongly that the impact of the collective sacrifice should be felt EVERY day…everyday we exercise the freedom to remodel a bathroom, start a new business, worship God on a public beach, go to school, make friends, travel, write blogs, have a family, enjoy life, etc, etc, etc…you get the idea. So, to my fellow Americans who gave their lives while in active military duty, thank you for your part in firmly establishing our safety, freedom, and democracy! We won’t stop being grateful.
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Amen. Lovely post, Trish.
Amen sister! and thank you to Wilson for his service to our country! blessings!!!