MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Some Days Simple

Some days, simple things are enough and oddly satisfying. Today was like that-- nothing big, no big outings. We went to church, where I actually got to attend the service instead of teaching the 6th grade class. They had a wonderful violinist playing music during the service, a beautiful expressive man playing beautiful expressive music. I do so like the violin... it has such a voice for me. I wished one of my kids had wanted to learn to play-- DD tried but didn't take to it. And the minister who I usually don't care to listen to actually had an interesting sermon. It felt good and connecting to be at that service.

The rest of the day was spent going to Denny's for a very cheap late breakfast (we were all starving), and eating out always gives us a chance to sit down and talk and relax together as a family. And we did chores at home-- kids scraping the icy sidewalks while DH and I took down the Christmas tree and actually putting ornaments away in their labeled boxes, instead of just jumbling them all into an old milk crate like we did last year. And we all tended to laundry-- folding and sorting the clean stuff, putting it away, sorting dirty laundry to be washed. Kids took showers. A tres humble dinner of Campbell's soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. See? Everything so simple, and yet I don't feel depressed or lonely or lacking like I would sometimes feel on a day like today. I'm not sure why. But I'll take it!