Relaxing over the weekend

Tim and I relaxed this weekend. It felt good to be home and not pressured to be anywhere or do anything. I decided to bake apple pies since it was cool in the morning. Tim decided to read. We both took naps.

On Monday, we had time to play. We took our friend Thomas and our son Mark to the state fair. (See Tim's blog for his take on the day.) It was an absolutely perfect day--though it did get a little warm. We walked through art exhibits, took in all the smells of the food and animals, watched piglets sucking at their 600 pound mother's feeding apparatuses, watched bungi jumpers and skateboarders take amazing risks, ate wonderful egg rolls as we listened to jazz/blues/rock.

Today it was back to work, and I was very happy to finally get my online newsletter in a PDF format. Then Luke met me at the office and we went off to meet Thomas for a quick trip to Subway and then a too quick ending to his visit at the airport. We hope to spend some time with his son Timothy during the course of his year at Macalester College in St. Paul.

It will be a short week for me with the Labor Day holiday--and next week will be different, too. I'm heading to Chicago on Sunday for two days of training for work at our denominational headquarters. Flying out on September 11 has me a bit nervous, but I'm told it will be the safest day of the year. (I may have blogged about that earlier.)

Traffic has picked up, since school is officially back in session. It is a new season, though the calendar says summer doesn't end till September 21--the lazy hazy days of summer end with the fair and fall kicks in with backpacks and school buses.

Before we know it, Christmas will be upon us. I'll enjoy these last warm days for as long as I can.

Till next time,


Suzi