Busy As A Bee!

We have been busy lately! Busyness goes in spurts for me and right now it's definitely busy. As a matter of fact, I should be heading to work now to do a "special project" that I said I'd do but instead I'm relaxing and sitting on the computer. I haven't had much down time so I'm enjoying this immensely!

We've had alot of company pass through town lately which is always a pleasant surprise for us. Two weeks ago, some friends from our camping club called us asking if we'd like to meet for dinner. They were passing through on their way to her 40 year high school reunion in Oregon. We had the best time and it was so neat to spend time with this couple outside of our camping club. Obviously, they are much older than us, but that is the beauty of our camping club, meeting people of all ages and developing wonderful friendships out of spending time together each month. You can't go back in time but I sure wish we had discovered the whole "camping/RV" community years ago. We are having the best time and making wonderful, meaningful friendships through this hobby.

Sunday, I got a call from my friend Susie telling me that our mutual friend Cindy was in town and they wanted us to come for dinner Monday night if we could. I worked all day Monday and knew I'd be tired but boy was it worth it. Susie's children came to dinner plus a neighbor of hers who I hadn't seen in years came for dinner too. The 4 of us women lived in the same neighborhood and raised our children together so being with them brought back a flood of happy and fun memories. One of the highlights of the evening though was seeing Susie's 2 kids again. After knowing them for almost 20 years now, it was such a pleasure seeing them as successful young adults and being able to reconnect with them, but on a different level, a grown up level. My eyes are welling up with tears now thinking about how precious each of the people were at this small, intimate get together and thinking "where has the time gone!" God truly has put loving, giving, and amazing people in my life over the last 20 years and He's allowed me to make treasured memories with them.

Now, if all of that wasn't enough, we also were able to go to dinner with my step-dad Jim last night who is in town on business (from Colorado). There aren't enough words to describe how we feel about Jim. He's just simply the BEST! Again, dinner out after a long days work but so worth the time. The only thing missing was my mom!

So, even though I'm feeling very busy these days, I'm feeling very blessed and very loved. I'm finding there's nothing better to me at this time in my life than spending quality time with friends and loved ones...and I'm making it a priority!