Grace in Small Things, February 6, 2013

Hey Everyone!

It's a crazy, stressful, exhausting time with trying to get packed and moved, buy a house, rent out our current house, and my husband's about to leave us for a month (he starts work on Monday, we're staying with my parents until we close on the house or figure out Plan B)...ugh...will miss him so much.

But there are good things happening in my world:

1. A lovely dinner last night with a writer friend of mine and his wife, who also happens to be my OB. They used to live in Albuquerque and it was such fun to get their recommendations on where to go and what to do. They say we'll love it there...

2. Moved me and the kids and the dogs to my parents this morning. They (my parents) have made us all feel so incredibly welcome. I know it's a lot to take us in for a month, but so grateful to a) want to spend all this time with them (and feel like they want to spend it with me) and b) to get along so beautifully with them...not everyone has this kind of relationship with their parents. I'm very grateful for it...

3. Dexter-the-dog is recovering nicely from his eye surgery. He gets to be a one-eyed pirate dog now...arrrrrrr (that's my best pirate impression). Poor guy, but he seems to be in great spirits. Can't wait to take the cone off his head

4. Sucks to work late into the night, but grateful I can do it on days like today where I needed to be with the kids and take care of a zillion other things during normal business hours

5. The light on the Book Cliffs (which run all the way into Utah) late afternoon is so, so beautiful...for the past month I've noticed it almost every day and it's incredible...I think my mom and the babies and I are going to go on a little field trip someday soon...Jeep out there one afternoon and take some pictures...the light this time of year is one of my favorite things about this place...going to miss it for sure

XOXO