Monday’s here and my brain is muddled with to-dos and all I want to do is lay in a hammock somewhere and soak up what is left of the sun. That’s the awesome part about Mondays I guess – they are a chance to start fresh, but also a time when everything is beginning which sometimes is exhausting. Starting fresh is hard, but also worth it. Like cleaning out your closet, super annoying at first and tedious, but when everything has a place and everything is in its place it gives you some freedom to move around. I guess that’s why Monday is a good day for naps.

I found myself being reflective this weekend (maybe that explains my last paragraph musing the importance of mondays). I spent unplanned time with David just relaxing around Roanoke – thrifting with no intention to buy, sitting in a coffee shop and reading for hours, and enjoying too loud country music at a local restaurant. Oh and sleeping in, did I mention that part? I think sleep cures most circumstances. Things always feel a lot less dire and dramatic in the light of morning. All that rest prepared us for an intense, but wonderful Sunday. We got to do both a sunrise and sunset session for our dear friends Matt and Becca, and serve in the nursery and go to church. I’m so thankful for rest in the inbetweens though.

Feels time.

• Really, really, really…do not make assumptions about private property. For Matt and Becca’s session we found an open field without a fence and decided to set up furniture and a shoot there Sunday morning. Big mistake in the south. After about an hour a cop showed up to inform us of our trespassing. Oops.
• This kind of February makes me desperately want spring to come. 65 degrees means everything is permissible wardrobe wise. Sweaters can be paired with shorts and dresses can come back out with flats. People in Radford tend to get a little crazed when the sun comes out….somehow the guys on campus get a little extreme. Sun=no shirts and volleyball all day.
• Never underestimate the value of a good waitress. We had a waitress this weekend that decisively told me what she thought about everything on the menu and I found myself falling a little bit in love with her.
• Country music is alright…as long as it is live.
• I have been obsessed with a dessert from Applebee’s for about the last 5 years. I had the illusive triple chocolate meltdown as a freshman and have been dreaming of it ever since. I have legitimately been trying to convince David for FIVE years to go back and share one. Last night we finally did and yes, it fully lived up to my expectations.

Two previews because I just could NOT pick one.