What a range of emotions we have experienced today. We got to our friends' house so we could drop our dog off, only to find that their dog was dying. We stayed with them until he was gone. It was a heart-wrenching tragic moment, but I couldn't help but think that this is what doing life together is all about. When you truly share your life with others, you are together in good times and hard times. There is not place I would have rather been at that moment. There was nothing I could do to help, but it felt right to be there to pray silently for them in their grief and offer our love and hugs.
Moments later we got to my mom's and were surrounded by the familiarity and comfort of home. The best was seeing the joy on the girls' faces when they got the surprise of the Irwins being here from Florida. As the day went on and there were 15 of us, ranging from 1 1/2 - 81 years, there were moments when I wished to be anywhere else. Preferably a deserted tropical island with the power to make those I wished to spend time with appear and disappear at will. Then there was the moment of laughing so hard I had to sit down for fear of peeing myself (TMI?) because mom, Mindy, and I were trying to work together on a dessert recipe- but we all were reading it at different points and confusing everything! Now I'm with my fabulous four, relaxing in the hotel after swimming, enjoying the relative quiet and . . . I can't wait to go back into the meylay tomorrow!
Tonight I am thankful for:
1) hotels and the staff who have to work on a holiday so my family and I can relax
2) an overabudance of delicious food
3)my Muncie Goebels
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