St. Patrick's Day Randomness

Hey friends and fam!  Happy Sunday and Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you!! ❤  It's been a good weekend with some family time, some homework and productive chores, lifegroup and church and a movie with Kristin (Arthur the King - worth seeing), and some time to relax and sleep in!  This post will mostly be a quick photo catch-up...

Starting with the Miss K's Charge Volleyball pics - these two were my favorites, so I bought them!  Their blue uniforms are my favorite, and it's her first year playing Club volleyball.  She has a beautiful smile, and I love that she can also pull off the serious expression. #fierce

This one is more for Chet and Rachael than me.  I'm the oblivious driver enjoying my music and giving them road rage. lol

A counselor clipboard Rach made for me (part 2 of my bday gift - yay!)  Some encouragement for me on the inside, and encouragement for clients on the outside! ❤

Kate and Farrah came up from Texas for a Spring Break visit - it was fun seeing them and catching up with Kate - we had a family dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse Friday night (Mom and Dad were also there - she took this picture)!

Mother/daughter pic

Me and Kate

Kyndal and Farrah (both 10) had fun together

They also went bowling and hung out at Mom and Dad's for a while before and after dinner (I missed that part).

Hanging out with Asher Kenneth as JB babysat for them on Saturday!

So cute!!

Jace was so happy to hold him!

(He clearly loves the idea of having a baby cousin, as I wrote in my first adoption profile book four. years. ago.  It's very sweet and makes me happy, and it's a little stinging and sad for me all at once - not that he should have to worry at all about how it makes me feel on any level.  Overall, I am doing better since my 'Time Change' post, still praying and processing, and super grateful for everyone who cares and prays with and for me!)

The Campbell fam - friends I haven't officially met yet, but I love them all!

Lunch walks are becoming a habit, and I love that!  I hit 300 Peloton walks last week - huzzah!

A pic Chet sent from a realtor lunch event with Cookie Mama cookies he can't eat (during Lent).  Rough times.  Two more weeks!

Brainstorming (with some help from Chatgpt) future business name ideas... no decision made yet, but I'm excited about this idea!

Coach Erin high-fiving Kyndal during a time-out!

As an Ennegram 9, I'm naturally good at this, but working toward speaking up more often.

A perfect thing to scroll across whilst thinking, "I wish God would clarify this for me."

Inspiring post by Ashley Ingersol

I was also inspired by the Mel Robbins podcast to get more serious about a good morning routine.  Tomorrow starts week 3 of Callanetics before work and a 20-30 minute walk sometime during the day - yay!

Easier said than done, but there is real power in this.

#Kategate is odd, but I'm entertained by those who are super invested!

Yay, Heath and Scott (discussing the differences between guilt and conviction).

Yay, Londyn, daughter of Nikki and Billy (who our Diving Deeper lifegroup supported through his hospital stay back in 2009 - she was 4 when he died and moved on to Heaven, and she is now a high school Senior and a beautiful and talented actress).

Yay, Lindsay and Wavy - cuteness!  And I admire Lindsay's dedicated gym routine!

Me returning the favor and sending Chet this pizookie pic from BJs tonight... yum!  (But not for me today). lol

...oooh, I'm often joking around about it, but beneath the surface, I have approximately a million deeper thoughts on that topic and the insidious nature of addiction and the growing hope of rewiring my brain and identity (Scripture + Atomic Habits) and getting serious about throwing off the sins that so easily entangle me (Hebrews) and to whom much is given much is required (Jesus) and the high cost and infinite value of the all-in Christian life (Eldredge) and "precovery" (Furtick) and pre-deciding (Groeschel) and the ever-increasing nature of sin and the hope of breaking free (Moore) and the almost-tangible battlefield of the mind (Meyer) and pursuing wellness (Burkhart) and how all these things I'm reading and learning and hearing from God are coming together in a beautiful way in my mind, YET I still feel a ravenous physical/emotional craving for sweets along with resistance/uncertainty about the idea of giving them up permanently... but that's for a future post, maybe when I finish the Addiction and Grace book, which is fantastic thus far.  God is a God of process, and I'm listening and letting it all marinate for now.

I was happy to finally see Tman and hear about his ski trip, which he loved and plans to join them again next year, which I'm so glad to hear!

An Irish blessing for you this St. Patrick's Day:

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again, my friend,
May God bless you,

And may God hold you in the palm of His hand!

❤