We dropped the boys off at school and stopped by Hae’s to get some coffee. Neither one of us have been great about this, but every so often we take turns remembering that we’re supposed to be being more intentional about doing little things like visiting these coffee shops together. We get into the habit for a while, but then life gets busy again and that just seems to be the way that it goes. I really don’t even notice it most of the time.

With the kids being older and in school we have more time for these things. While we were in there UIS cross country team came in. It looked like they had just finished a workout. Of course I had to think of our son out in Nebraska and how this could have been him walking in if things had gone a different way. It’s so interesting to me how marriage unfolds across the seasons.

This evening my mother-in-law came over for supper. While at Hae’s I started googling recipes looking for colorful fall meals to serve and delight our evening company. Josh suggested we just order pizza from Rico’s like we sometimes do on Fridays. That was fine and admittedly easier. I do still want to try the nourishing fall recipe thing sometime. On the way home we stopped by County Market and picked up a few groceries.