"If you second-guessed your decision to book time to visit a Native American community; that woulb be a Reservation reservation reservation. (Brian Regan, All By Myself.)
Always open with a joke.
It's been a long couple of weeks with some stressful things going on in my life, but it's a 3-day weekend coming up, we're taking the kids out to a shearing festival at a local farm this weekend for the "running of the sheep" where I'll be getting myself some fresh lamb and alpaca barbecue. There's also a woman who's there every year with fresh, hot maple scones and maple syrup flavored coffee first thing in the morning. MMmmmmmmm...
Picked up a lovely hickory axe handle a the hardware store for the axe head I've been working on, and I can't wait to put that thing to work in the yard. I put up a new swing in the apple tree out back that my 5 year old twins just love, everything is blooming and growing, working on projects to improve the house and repair things before our third child arrives in August. God has been good to us.
I'm trying to look past the stress and see how I'm blessed right now. Too many of my close friends and family know about the stressor(s) so when I start to talk to them about it, everything wells up, my stomach ties in knots, and I end up more agitated than relieved.
So this is my mini-vent, mostly about the good stuff going on in my life. Taking stock, if you follow.
Hope all is well with all.
Josh