Untold Moments and Adventures

The day to day grind is very real for my household and my best friends household as well. We work hard in both our family roles as well as our careers. Dedicated parents (respectively ours are adults now, and best friend has 11, 10, 5 year olds currently) and friends who show up for our village. You get the idea… just as so many of you, the schedule is BUSY.

“Just make time” is such a hard and difficult sentence to make reality in my opinion. However when the opportunity presents itself and there is a choice to make … take a moment and think “is it necessary?”

Let me share my view as example:

My husband works a high stress job. He gives 110% to our household, homestead, and me when he isn’t at that high stress job or fielding calls for it. He loves his career and what he does everyday. He loves our home and me with no doubt. It’s very easy to oversee a partners needs when they give so freely and fully with a smile while asking verbally for nothing in return.

Saturday morning we started in to finish a project on our land that had been put on the back burner during the growing season for our gardens, it was time to finish making our lean too off our back garage. Coffee ✅ tools ✅ plan ✅

Start ✅

Off to a rough start with tools cooperating and then pivot 3x, make a tool run to Home Depot

Proper tool ✅ proper blade ✅

Progress ✅

📲 *bestie : hey! Kids have plans with Mawmaw, we have an open afternoon and the weather is amazing ((amazing for October 19th , 70 degrees, sunny, slight breeze)) Do you guys wanna go golfing??

🤔 I had to take the moment and think, and my eyes landed on my husband physically busting ass on a beautiful October morning and I knew this was a time to say YES.

We have an hour left to work before we need to clean up, wash up, and meet our friends at the course. My husband is in full focus mode on this lean too project, and the man’s focus is not to be rifled with trust me.

As he walks past and I hang up 📲.

I sweetly say to him “Do you trust me?”

“Well of course” he responds

I give him a love tap and tell him “it was bestie, we are gonna work another hour then wash up and meet up”

We continued working, legit I am the luckiest partner as he barely pushes and questions, just pure trust and happiness with whatever I have up my sleeve.

I tell him we are going golfing (he hasn’t been able to play all year, and even has new shoes to wear!) and he smiles.

That kind of smile that you know your partner is really happy about the sentence you just finished saying. That young, yet rugged and knowing smile that makes my heart skip a beat.

The moment was right.

When an opportunity presents itself, take the moment to evaluate is it necessary while not over thinking as the reasons, just a surface eval of “is it necessary” and then if your moment is right load up your gear and get to your adventure.

A sunny afternoon still spent together but a shift in the focus of projects vs friends and golf, and a smile on my husbands face that made the moment of thought so worth it.

We work hard so we can play harder.

** and the project was waiting for us on Sunday, and we finished it together just the same.

** thanks bestie for the call, the laughs, the love, and the eighteen holes of golf he has longed for all season 🫶🏼 we love you!