well, we’re back from CiY sooner than we thought we’d be. but it’s been a good week. reconnecting with friends, taking some time to recover, pondering/praying about the future… good stuff. i kinda wish it could continue like this, but i’m sure we need to be more productive with our days/time here on earth. 
we had a wonderful day yesterday of gap outlet shopping, indian food, watching “away we go” at the esquire, then hitting up the library on the way home (running into some friends there and then at the grocery store!) and picking out a random selection of movies: “chocolat”, “autumn spring”, “seven brides for seven brothers”, and some bollywood film i can’t remember the name of right now! we watched the first two last night, and it was so much fun to sit in bed, eating blueberries and mango and banana bread and the remains of a chocolate bar, (complelemented our random movie selections), and just be together. we needed it. since we got back, we filled our time with friends and family so much that we didn’t have time for just us. so that was good.
today we’re on to a family cookout, where the smyths are coming to join the reads yet again (this is working out pretty wonderfully! we did it for easter and it was pretty fantastic. i like having our family all together like this!). daniel and i are bringing “gourmet” toppings for burgers as our contribution–we’ll see how that goes. (we reads have never been known for our exotic tastebuds!) from there, we nave no plans, which is always fun to see what adventures comes upon us!
p.s. daniel made sweet potato fries from a 1-pound sweet potato we got from findlay market on sunday. they were delicious!! i love my man! he’s so crazy talented at so many things!
