Friday’s Fave Five

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Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share five of our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s to read others’ faves and link up your own.

Last week I had to search a little for five faves — not this week!

1. Jeremy (my oldest son) is home! His flight was delayed and didn’t get in til 1:30 this morning, so we’re all a little bleary-eyed, but happy.

2. Surprising friends at a wedding. The daughter of some of our oldest and dearest friends was getting married, not in her home town about three hours from us, but way up in northern Ohio. We were so sad that we couldn’t go…but then the week before my husband looked on the map, saw it was only eight hours away, and as we didn’t have anything else planned for the weekend — we decided to go and surprise them. We left early Saturday morning, got to the hotel with a little time to rest and eat, went to the wedding, slept, and then zipped (ha!) back here Sunday. You have to understand, I am not very spontaneous and I don’t usually travel well, but I thoroughly enjoyed this trip! My “travel issues” were at a minimum, and it was such a joy to see our friends and celebrate this special time of the first wedding among their children. The change in routine was very refreshing instead of stressful (for me — my poor dear hubby had to drive another six hours the next day). And I got two books read during the drive! (I could just about have made a whole FFF just from this trip!)

3. Seeing old friends. Besides the friends I mentioned, about seven other friends from early married days in SC were there whom we hadn’t known were coming, and it was fun to catch up with them.

4. French Silk Pie at Perkins, not a place we go often, but I love that place! We stopped there for lunch on our way home as a break from fast food. I couldn’t eat it at lunch time, but we had a cooler to keep on the way home. Not so good for the diet, but a wonderful occasional splurge.

5. A master packing list. I created one on the computer some time ago, and that helps so much!

We’re looking forward to a weekend with the whole family together and celebrating Jeremy’s birthday on Monday. Hope you have a great weekend, too!

13 thoughts on “Friday’s Fave Five”

  1. That is so cool you went to the wedding…I am not spontaneous either…Have a nice weekend…

  2. I like spontaneous mini trips but not 8 hour ones. That is a lot of traveling in one day for anyone…..I keep a kit packed so I don’t have to think of everything at the last moment. I started doing that when I was traveling so much with Jim. I can be ready pretty quick. Sometimes I borrow from it if I run out of something at home so I have a list in there to check off. We usually avoid the fast food places and take fruit, crackers and cheese to eat for lunch, have breakfast courtesy of the hotel and dine out at dinner.
    Oh, and I envy you being able to read while riding in the car.
    Happy for you that all of you are together…that rarely happens here with son so far away even when he isn’t in the sand pit. He is coming back to the states in a few weeks and I hope to see all of them in the Fall.
    Have a great weekend.
    Mama Bear

  4. That was a nice week ! I love surprises especially when it comes to travel to a wedding ! I would hesitate if it would have been a funeral, lol !

  6. A surprise weekend trip – definitely a favorite!

    I love Perkins restaurant’s too – especially their chimichanga’s. We go there when we go to Florida.

  7. Spontaneous trips can be so fun especially when you have a master packing list. That is half the stress.

    That pie sounds wonderful. Too bad we don’t have a Perkin’s around here that I know of.

    Enjoy your visit with your son!

  9. That is so great that you could make that surprise trip. And extra nice that spontaneity worked for you this time 😉 I like the idea of a master packing list — sounds very practical.

  10. Sounds like a wonderful week! How nice that you got to go to the wedding and see old friends. Even more wonderful is your son visiting. Our son will be leaving Sunday after a three week visit. We will miss him

  12. My husband loves Perkin’s French Silk Pie, too! He asks for it for his birthday instead of cake!
    It’s wonderful that your trip turned out so well. It’s so good when we can be there to mark the special moments in the lives of the people we love – and a mini reunion too!
    I’m happy your son is home safely with you. I hope you have a great time catching up.

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