July 14, 2024 - Sunday

We went to the early service at church today and, unfortunately, the sermon kind of sucked. For me, it feels like no big deal. Everybody has off days. But, since I'm so worried about what Ben will think and whether or not Ben will become unhappy in DE, and on and on, I was frustrated about it. The pastor was teaching on taking a sabbath day every week, which I feel like is a common topic lately, but the examples he gave of rest were not things that would necessarily honor God...and isn't that the point of the sabbath? 

After the service, we went to another house we decided to check out and it was awesome. Two great houses, connected at the exterior walls. One was a little smaller, but so nice. The bigger one was kind of a mess, and, of course, that's the one we would be in. I think we'd fit fine, but it's priced at the very top of our combined budget and, knowing we'd have to do a lot of work on it to get it ready, we just couldn't afford it. We're considering putting in a low-ball offer, just to see, but Ben is really nervous about getting a super expensive house while we still have this Ohio house. We all loved it, but I just don't know what we'll do. For now, our realtor is going to put out feelers and see if the owner is open to low offers or not. 

We headed to Patrick's after that and then we all went over to Autumn Arch brewing to hang out for a couple of hours. We played cards while the kids played Life and it was just a nice, relaxing time together. 

We finally went back to dad and MJ's for Ben's bday celebration and ate crabs for hours! It was great. Zach, Skyla, Brandon, and Zayden were there and we had a really nice time. Zach dropped one comment that made me feel guilty. Something like, "Maybe next time you come out, you'll actually hang out with me." 😢 Yeah, I definitely failed him this trip. I was just so darn tired and, honestly, I'm not young anymore! There is nothing appealing to me about going out to a bar and watching Zach get drunk.