September 29, 2023 - Friday



I’m finally starting to get to the point where I’m ready to be home and rejoin life. I’ve been going through an overwhelmed season lately, but I’m feeling like I’m ready again to hang out, attend all the stuff, and make all the things work instead of cringing every time something else comes up.

Ben and I went on our last date of the week today, while the kids and Marme and dad just stayed here all day. We are through leftovers and fridge stuff, worked on packing, and I finished my second book of the trip. 🏆 😃 Packing was pretty terrible, as it always is. Making sure nothing is lost, trying to get everything to fit in the car…it’s all just so very stressful and I hate it so much.

Our date was nice though. We had really yummy food at we ran to Walmart. It was very reminiscent of our dates at home, just switch target for Walmart. I cooked lobster cakes for dinner with the leftover lobster meat from the other night and they were SO GOOD. I mean, not to toot my own horn, but I don’t know when the last time is that I ate something so good, including all the times we’ve been out to eat lately. Haha too bad I can only afford lobster in Maine. 😅 MJ pretty much never compliments my cooking though. I don’t know if she just doesn’t like it or if she just isn’t great at verbalizing? Maybe there’s a part of her that feels like we’re competing when it comes to cooking? I hope not. It just makes me sad that she never seems to think I make good food. I try really hard to make yummy dishes that people will enjoy. Oh well.

We head home tomorrow. It’s going to be a very long day.



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