June 28, 2025 - Saturday


I went for a walk with Kylienne this morning. I need help with that friendship! I do not know what to do. I have felt like she's been upset with me since our Memorial Day party, but didn't want to make something out of nothing and ask her about it if there was actually nothing going on. She cancelled our hike two weeks ago and was very short about it. Our text exchanges since then have been really brief too. Thankfully, she didn't cancel todays walk and, while we didn't discuss anything about why she might be upset with me, things seemed pretty normal? She did mention not enjoying our bigger parties because she feels really uncomfortable at them. Was she mad? Is she just not great at text communication? Who knows?? Maybe I should read a book on friendship/evangelism situations. If there is a book on that specific dynamic? There probably is. *sigh* It's exhausting. I just want to give up sometimes. 

Our walk made me so gross and sweaty! It feels TERRIBLE outside. Absolutely disgustingly hot and muggy. And THEN we got to go straight to an outdoor birthday party for Liam! Woo! We wanted to skip so badly, but it would have been a crappy thing to do, so we suffered through that for a couple of hours. The upside was that the kids got to pet animals. The downside was that we were dripping with sweat and getting attacked by bugs. 

When we finally got home, I spent the rest of the evening getting the kiddos packed up for Blowout Camp tomorrow. Can't believe it's finally here! It feels crazy that they're going to be gone for so long. 

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