Hello Monday

 

Happy Monday, friends! I'm linking up with Holly and Sarah for today's blog post. How was your weekend? Mine was great! Here's what I did, starting with Friday at work.

I dressed comfortably that day since it was our annual Turkey Trot, which is a huge fundraiser/race for the students. This was so much fun to witness! There are pictures below. 

I walked into the classroom and saw this when I sat down at my table! My sweet friend Carla got us all the the same thing. Wasn't that thoughtful?!

I sent this to Chris since it was National Boyfriend Day; I'm rolling my eyes at myself. 🤣

I loved cheering on some of our students!

This is the display outside of the art room right now; I love seeing it each time I pass by! 

I came home and put my feet up before leaving again.

I love a drive out to the country!

I spent part of Saturday with Chris out where he lives in Mississippi; they have this monthly event called Trade Days, where you can buy clothing, baked good, car parts, and animals. I loved and hated it, because there were puppies for sale (and some for free) in horrible living conditions. I had a horrible headache; he drove us back to his house, and I left to head home, but I thought I was going to have to pull over at one point, I felt so bad. I made it home and took a nap before changing clothes and leaving again, this time to meet my old neighbors and dear friends, Katie, Travis, their nephew Zander that they raised, and their two kids. 

Sweet Zander grew up in my living room!

It was so good seeing them! At this point in the day, I also started feeling better. Part of it could have been from the dread I'd felt leading up to Saturday, what would have been my 29th wedding anniversary; once the day arrived, however, I didn't even give it a thought. I'm relieved that it was like this; it also helped tremendously being busy all day. After lunch I went back home, and Chris came over. We ran a couple of errands, then had a pizza and movie night at my house. He left and came back early Sunday morning to go to church with me!

This is me documenting how much I love my new hair product! I'm making the switch from mousse to gel.

I started listening to this over the weekend!

So Chris asked if I would mind if he came to church with me; I thought about it and told him I didn't mind a bit. I have to confess that it was a big deal for me to take someone I'm dating to the church that I attended with my ex-husband for fifteen years. I felt like eyes were watching me as I sat down after choir; we slid in before and left really quickly afterward. He met my best friend and her husband, and then I introduced him to a couple of more people, but we left fast to meet my mom and Bill for lunch after church. I walked out holding his hand and felt like I reached a milestone. 

I have all the thoughts, but things are going well with us, and I'm pleased with this. We've talked about some dates that are coming up; I also don't want to do too much projecting of future dates onto him.

He dropped me off at home after this, we said our goodbyes, then I went to take a nap. I stayed home until about 3:45, then I came to Marilyn's. We ran an errand together, then we had this delicious dinner at a place called Teriyaki Madness. 

And speaking of Marilyn, she asked me to tell you that this is why she's not blogging this week. She has all the home improvement projects to tackle before her house gets photographed on Thursday and hopefully it'll be listed on the market by the weekend. 

What did you do this weekend that you loved? I'd love to hear from you! Thanks for reading my blog today, friends. Love to all!


Jenn