WEEKEND + FIVE THIINGS I LOVE

It was a great weekend!

We spent the evening at home on Friday with veggie pizza and salads, and then hanging out with my brother who was up for an overnight visit. He was here for Saturday morning and then headed out around noon. It feels so strange yet to only be six hours from my family, versus the thirteen hours that we had from New York to South Carolina.

We spent Saturday morning having a leisure breakfast and sitting out on the deck, soaking up the really gorgeous weather right now! I was expecting to have to deal with the extreme heat of August that the south typically has this time of year, but it’s actually been really nice since we’ve been here. Woot! We don’t have near the view that we did in New York from our deck, but we have a fenced in yard and a little tiny fish pond (which i say is our little consolation prize for leaving our lake view) and so we still love being outside when we can. We did a quick run into town to Lowes later in the morning and then spent the rest of the day working on house projects and organizing. We had taken down an upper section of cabinets in the kitchen to replace with some open shelving, so Ben was working on that and I’m excited to get them put up so I can get my stacks of dishes and drinking cups and coffee mugs off of the counter top. We also had a perfectly gorgeous rainstorm that came through in the afternoon, so I was of course delighted with that, hehe.

Later in the evening, we went walking around our neighborhood introducing ourselves to our neighbors and also bribing them to like us with some little coffee cakes that I made, hehe. We weren’t able to meet all the ones close to us yet, since some weren’t home…but the ones we did meet were friendly and sweet. Our neighborhood feels quiet so far, and we like that. We’re at the end of the subdivision, so we don’t get much through traffic and the main things you hear are mowers and dogs. Living in the suburbs does take some getting used too though…you just can’t just go walking around in your underwear with the window blinds open or play music as loud as you want or let trash in the driveway. We’re used to living in the country with no one around so it’s a little different, but we are enjoying it so far!

We went into the city for a breakfast date on Sunday morning, relaxed at home for the rest of the day, and then went to the evening service at a church in the city that we wanted to visit. We’re churching-hunting, I guess you could say, which is both a little overwhelming and pretty exciting. We don’t know where exactly God will lead us to plug in so we’re just taking it one week at a time for now. The service we were at was really beautiful and full of life and it gave my heart such a good shot of energy and inspiration. It was a little loud for Ayla, so I spent half of the service in the nursing mama’s room with her…and was totally shocked to see Christa Black come walking in the nursery with her little Birdie girl! I loved her book so much and follow her on Instagram and didn’t realize she even lived in Nashville. It was the sweetest thing to see her in person with her tiny baby girl and talk to her for a few minutes. #starstruck

Here are five things I love:

– this pretty thing
– this song
– this inspiring word
– this great cause
– this delicious looking cake

What about you: what was the highlight of your weekend?

I’d love to hear your thoughts!