How do these things go together?  They happened on the same day.

On July 19th, I got an email from our friends, the Maxfields, with a gift certificate for the Olive Garden attached!  They sent it for our kids’ summer birthdays.  Now… normally, I “save things for a rainy day.”  Like a day in November where it is cold rain and I have done way more math than a forty-year-old woman should, and I just can’t make myself make dinner.  But… this time I was as wacky as I can be (you can keep your seatbelts off) and decided we’d use it the very next day.  😉

We went Sunday right after church.  We had a blast.  Yum!!

Then we drove about 70 minutes to drop Marie off at camp.  After asking to go for almost two years and Mommy & Daddy finally feeling peace at sending her (a ton of prayer, folks), she got cold feet when it was time for us to leave.  I did get one picture.  And we drove out praying she’d be blessed and grow closer to Jesus during her time at camp.

to be continued…