On Friday night I was just about ready to throw in the towel on all parts of my life. I was totally exhausted (Carter had been up coughing all night Thursday night), I had been stressing out about Fay’s pictures for dance all day long, the house was a mess, the dishes weren’t done, it was all just bad. I know you’ve all been there.

But all the kids slept through the night that night! And I woke up to happy faces and snuggles from the family! Plus Josh didn’t have to leave at the crack of dawn! I felt like there might be some hope for my life!

We worked all morning on our yard–which was another thing I was ready to throw the towel in about–and by lunch time it looked like people actually cared about/for the thing! We had worked hard together (the kids are the cutest with yard work!) and it totally transformed my view of the world! We still had a pretty messy house; but the yard looked downright presentable, and it gave me hope for the rest of the house/our life.

After working hard all morning, we played hard all afternoon! We had lunch at Bell’s Deli (Seriously, check it out! Delicious burgers, fries, and cookies!), then we went shopping for summer clothes and pjs, then we went to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point and saw baby animals as well as big animals, and Fay and Carter even got to take a pony ride!

After a day of working and playing in the sun, we were pretty wiped out, but it was a completely different kind of wipe-out than I was feeling on Friday night.  I’m so grateful for something as simple as Saturday each week that gets to heal me from the stress I allow to build in me each week. And it is so delightful that Sunday follows Saturday because that is another kind of healing which is just as wonderful and necessary.