Top Ten...

So I was thinking I would do a weekly top ten list of highlights from my week. Since I'm a week behind this is technically for last week, meant to do it last night, but got busy and didn't have time before bed.

1. Hanging out with friends outside at Empire over 1/2 price cake.
2. Megan getting a box we sent her in the mail; I love sending mail, but am getting worse and worse at actually getting things sent.
3. Going for morning walks/jogs in the neighborhood before school. Although quite muggy and humid so peaceful and quiet, which you need when you spend most of your day with six year olds.
4. Great dinner with friends at a lovely home with lovely hosts.
5. Talking to friends who have moved away on the phone, hearing updates on life.
6. Talking to my Mom and Dad after my first day of school. No matter how old you are I think this is necessary. :)
7. Taking a nap on a Friday afternoon and waking up Friday night to a cooking roommate.
8. Exchanging hilarious e-mails with Megan Breed.
9. Getting a pedicure on a Saturday afternoon.
10. And of course....having brunch with Michael, at LePeep.

feelings.

I feel like I should post something, but don't have much interesting to say. My brain feels a bit like mush. I have not been remembering things lately. It's a little embarrassing. Like last Sunday I went to see a movie, that I realized after it started playing I had already seen, but couldn't remember where, when, or with whom? Oops. That's not good. I try to be put together, but sometimes I'm just not.

happy birthday eva!

Today I got to spend my day with my family. My niece Eva turned one and she was dedicated this morning at church. It was a precious time and I'm so glad I got to be there. We kept saying, "How much difference a year makes." True story. I will post pictures at some point, but my camera isn't cooperating and I have to go to school tomorrow. I can't believe I'm starting my 5th year at "the stone"...

summer

I have really enjoyed summer. I almost feel like I got to be a kid again this summer. Not because I didn't have responsibility, but because I felt truly alive. I got to really remember what it feels like to truly love what I am doing. I got the opportunity to do things that make my heart happy. I got to eat lunch with friends, hang out with some of my favorite people in the city, serve, work for really cool people, experience things that I forgot make me feel alive. There are still people I wish I would have seen, things I would have done, trips that would have been taken, conversations that would have been had, friends I would have seen more, but it's over. Time to be a teacher again. I'm praying for there to be more joy and life as the seasons change yet again in my life.