What a weekend! I'm still reeling a little bit from the past few days and the transition into Monday was rough, to say the least. "We did it!" Ken and I said to each other Sunday night as we got ready for bed, and both wished upon all our lucky stars that we had an extra weekend day to recover before being thrown back into the work week. No such luck, but we went to bed exhausted in the way that really fortunate people get exhausted, stuffed with friends and family and celebrations, and then woke up next to each other, for a 10 minute in-between-snoozes morning cuddle that made the Monday morning a little sweeter.
I came across this collection of quotes from The Great Gatsby today and as I read through them, I came across a few that seemed appropriate and fitting to some of my recent days and thoughts:
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
"They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another."
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
Absolutely enchanted these days! and only repelled in the sense that I fantasize about a week of sleep. And I feel compelled to write down how enchanted I was by this weekend's variety, indulge me, will you?
On Friday night, my sister was in town and we got to have a quick dinner together before going our separate ways for errands and we pretended that this is what life would be like if we lived in the same town and had the luxury of dinners to catch-up in person. Eunice eemo please come around more!
High school friends with their babies! Our friend Caroline got married this past weekend and with friends flying in from New York and California, we got together for a brunch to gush at the babies and just enjoy the fuzzies of being in each other's presence. Sloane stayed at home with my MIL that morning but if I had brought her, we could have lined up the kids and been like, "look at what we made!!" and patted ourselves on the back about it.
The wedding was later that afternoon and here we are, dressed up, excited and sore. Ken had done an intense workout that morning, and I was still sore from my workout a few days ago. Don't worry, we worked it out on the dance floor later that night, but then I developed some cramping from all the enthusiastic dancing and then I guess I got the baby all riled up because she proceeded to keep moving and kicking in incessantly for the rest of the weekend....
Caroline was such a beautiful bride and we all had so much fun celebrating the bride and groom.
We picked up pie and had lunch outdoors on what turned out to be a perfect spring afternoon. It's rainy and cloudy all week but I'll put up with it, as long as the weekends are sunny!
Sunday afternoon found us at a birthday gathering for this special boy, Os, and all of us, grownups and kids, decompressed under the setting sun, rolling around, eating treats and cake, talking and enjoying each other's company. It was a great end to the weekend!
One more Gatsby quote to leave you with:
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
is baby faye the one you posted about a while ago when she was very very little and sloane loved her?
ReplyDeleteso great how your sister is able to visit from time to time!
ReplyDeletewish time would slow down, sloane is growing up so fast. i love going back to your previous posts from when she was still a chubby baby. she's growing up quite nicely though. Love these pictures!
and Os is a really cute name!
Yeah, i t begins with summer!,
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