tuesday night: simple things

I really need to be writing a paper.
For the book I've hardly started.
It's due Thursday.

Also,
I really need to sleep.
I haven't gotten more than 10 hours of sleep in the last 4 days.

Before I can do any of that.
I need to share some of the simple things with you...

I was standing over the sink, washing dishes, when he asked me what it was like to go to space.

I had come over for dinner, which has become more of a regular thing now, 

with the deal I would clean up. 

I said deal. 

His mom and dad were getting the other two ready for bed,

he could have been in the play room, all those toys to himself.

Instead though, he chose to ask me about going to space, and how it's really weird I live at school.

"You can live in the spare room!" he said.

"I think I just might P" I told him.

There is just something about sharing a meal around a table that means so much to me.

Or when I ask for suggestions on where to take your car for repair and they just prove to me yet again what a selfless community looks like. 

And the conversations had right before my long drive back to the south side, 

always make the commute better. 

I am at peace. 

The simple things.

I can thank Him for the blessings, and wipe a few tears in solitude.

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Knox County Schools were canceled today.

Immediate sadness filled my heart.

No school, no program.

Just as I was settling into the idea that I would have the evening to actually write that paper I mentioned earlier, I got a phone call joking about how we don't have off days.

And before you get all up in arms about me needing rest and time to be a college kid, 

I hear you. 

But if you know me at all, that paper wouldn't have gotten touched without the motivation of seeing my babies. 

Plus, I work so much better under pressure... and we have been given the Sabbath for a reason, I take that ish serious fam!  

Cleaning the van, getting some paper work stuff up to date, I never have the chance to do that.
Also, there were puppies at the church to play with, so that was the best surprise ever!

Today it happened. 
And I'm okay with doing the little things, because sometimes it leads to my boss handing me the card and saying "take the girls to dinner."

My rest looks different from other peoples rest some days.

Today it looked like letting two Fulton Seniors drive me around, running errands, and eating way too much pizza, while we talked about how "people be catching feelings too quick."  Where they plan to go to college. And parents.

The simple things.

And somehow I get to call this my job.

It's Tuesday night and my to do list seems to be getting longer, rather than shorter. 

But I can't find anything to complain about.

The simple things just keep filling me up.

This is my community.family.life. 

I don't deserve it at all.