It's like we live for the extraordinary moments and live through the ordinary ones.
I have always been the person to look forward to the "next thing". When I was in high school, I just wanted to get to college. When I was dating Parker, I just wanted to get engaged. When he proposed, I just wanted to get married. The list goes on and on. I don't think I am alone in this way of thinking, but there is so much beauty in each stage of life that I may miss if I am always trying to get to the next extraordinary milestone.
This past weekend was a moment of clarity for me. It was so completely ordinary yet one of the best weekends I have had in a long time. Parker and I were together from Friday night to Sunday night and spent time with nobody but each other. I can't remember the last time we did this. We usually reserve weekends for spending time with friends or traveling, both of which we love and are blessed to do, but sometimes, you just need to shut the world out and reconnect. Our weekend is hardly an advertisement for the exciting married life, but man, it was wonderful...
Dinner Friday night followed by a movie that was just okay.
Picking out paint colors Sunday followed by a lunch that put both of us in a food coma.
Nature walks with Jenny.
A trip to the grocery store together to get random things to eat for dinner followed by Parker showing me how to eat ramen noodles for the first time.
Downloading Mario Kart and getting way too competitive about trying to beat the other.
Church via streaming on the couch because we overslept (again).
Tennis.
Cooking Sunday night dinner together and eating steaks that were arguably still mooing.
We went to bed Sunday night feeling energized with hearts full. This weekend, I got to take a step back. And it reminded me that the ordinary moments really are so often extraordinary.
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I love this :) sometimes the best moments in Ryan and my marriage are when we do the most mundane of things. Like sitting and doing a budget...we laugh, we figure it out, we just have fun together. There's nothing better!
Andy and I were just talking about how the "boring" things we do together are actually wonderful. Like, he and I can just sit and talk for hours when normally I'd be totally bored.
Kyle and I would much rather just spend time together at home, relaxing. That is our idea of the perfect "date".
I love everything about this. Sometimes you need these weekends to just plug into each other and really just "be".
I completely agree that it's so easy to get caught up in wanting the next big milestone to come along! Since I met NPG, I've been trying my best to take in all of the little things in life and make those little things (like grocery shopping together) turn into the big things!
In the military life, it's really easy to keep looking to the next duty station (I do it every single week). But the "mundane" days together are better than any days apart!
Amen, my sista!
SO well said, something I'm trying to learn to understand better this year.
I LOVE this lady!! About a year and a half ago I wrote a post entitled "delighting in the beauty of the ordinary" (http://www.caravansonnet.com/2014/06/delighting-in-beauty-of-ordinary.html) that discussed this same thought and I LOVE this beautiful reminder that you shared today!! Thank you so much for sharing!! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
Blessings, Rebecca :)
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