Thursday night Missy and I made half of a very long drive, stopping at some completely random and sketchy hotel.
It was not a great place to stay. We got stalked by a long term hotel resident who asked us if she could use our cell phone (which we declined), the room smelled like an ash tray, and the bed was harder than organic chemistry.
And it was great. Because it was not the car, not the highway, and we were very tired.
My friend Marie Furie shared this poem with me, that her partner sent to her.
"healing comes in waves
and maybe today
the wave hits the rocks
and that’s ok,
that’s ok, darling
you are still healing
you are still healing.”
—Ijeoma Umebinyuo, be gentle with yourself
So I got this whopper traffic ticket the other day. Without realizing I was doing so, I had been commuting with my ez pass on "hov/free ride" mode, with only me in the car - for about 2 months.
Whoops.
I started commuting with it set the right, legal way, and realized using the express lanes round trip each day was going to cost me around $600 a month.
Nope.
Missy knows the local roads really well. She helped me plot out a decent back way. It's not the 25 minute jaunt the hot lanes are. The back way takes about 45 minutes at least.
But it's kind of fun. I'm just grateful I have options.
Wow. That just takes my breath away.
This is Lucy. She's a ladybug pillow pet. She and Katie drove down for the weekend. Lucy didn't do much of the driving.
It's been ages since we got a good, serious chunk of time with our girl, Katiebug. She and Lucy came down to spend the weekend with us.
She went to the munch with us, and we taught her how to play Minecraft. She made us AMAZING peanut butter pancakes on Sunday.
Sunday afternoon we got extra special time with her, which I'm not going to get into enormous detail about, because I'm not the spank-and-tell type. (Go ask her if you want.)
I'm just grateful Missy and I had the chance to spend good quality time with Katie. We love her lots.
