Friday Favorites!

I can actually relate to your buying that sweatshirt to cope with the upcoming weather change! Except for me it went like this: a week ago, I got a hooded sweatshirt from the lululemon website’s sale page to hopefully trick the weather into changing–AND so I would have a “welcome back to Atlanta” present waiting for me when Tom and I get home (we packed up our laptops and drove down to a relative’s condo on the beach in south Florida for a change of scenery and WFH for the week…). My cat sitter said he brought in “a bunch of packages–some amazon stuff, but I noticed your little lulu package in the pile there…” So–when we are home on Sunday–I will have a “welcome home!” package waiting for me, AND a cute sweatshirt just waiting for that time in mid-late September where the early morning temperature has dipped into the low 60s and I can pretend that hoodie season is fully here when I wake up way too early to go teach my spin class or get my own workout in! ;)

This weekend what do I have going on? Tom and I are splitting up our drive home into 2 days, so we can stop overnight in Savannah (we met when we were both living there). We have a couple of friends to visit with–one (who was the first friend I made on my own when I moved to SAV and who later became my roommate and then one of my bridesmaids), who has been foster momming for the last year and a half and who recently went through a job change, and then another (a husband and wife–they were my first friends in my PhD program forever ago and who helped me get a job at their university in SAV when my teaching gig was coming to an end–she was my maid of honor, and her oldest daughter was my flower girl, and the husband is just one of the few people who helps me laugh myself off a bad ledge on some of the not-so-good days). These friends are special to me for many reasons, but most of all: they are at the very tail end of their youngest child (born the summer we got married) going through chemo to fight leukemia. He’s supposed to come home on Tuesday after 20 weeks in the hospital and 4 big rounds of chemo to fight a version of leukemia that can do VERY gnarly things to kids who are diagnosed with it. And this little boy is an absolute fighter and a total champ, and his family has been–well, nothing short of amazing–in how they have handled his diagnosis, making sure their other kids don’t feel slighted or loved any less in the process, and learning to lean on their friends and community big time.

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I hope you have an AMAZING race this weekend and that your family time is so wonderful!!!!

That sweatshirt is adorable!
And how fun you get to hang out with the Piano Guys! Wow!
We are huge Liquid IV fans here. I am definitely going to have to try that flavor now, because it’s our older son’s favorite too.
Not a lot happening here this weekend, which is fine with me.
I can’t wait to hear how your race goes. I know you’re going to do amazing.
Have a good day Janae 😊

Hi Janae! Good luck with the race tomorrow!
Today is my last day of work at my current job! I start a new job on Monday at a different company and I’m so excited for it!
Happy Friday !!