Project 365, Week 16

It felt like a week of extremes. We marked the last day of a very difficult and accomplished tax season, followed up by a day in New York for chemo and by the end of the week we were sitting on a beach in warm, sunny Florida.

In every situation [no matter what the circumstances] be thankful and continually give thanks to God.

April 15

The. End. To varying degrees, we all pitched in this year. Avery was a champ, preparing tax returns for the first year, covering front desk at various offices for her 5th season. She was truly vital to helping  everything run. Amanda and Aiden jumped in midway when some staffing changes caused us to be short-staffed. Aiden started learning front desk and also did building maintenance every week and Amanda covered front desk at another office and helped with maintenance. A time that was so hard was made sweeter by the fact that we were together in it. Family business for the win. :)

April 15th is also Shaun's birthday. By the time we gathered together with our takeout dinner and store-bought cake, it was 9 PM and we were a very subdued crowd. Happy to be done, yes but in a what-just-happened kind of way.

Goodness, we're so thankful for this guy. He is strong and steady. He tirelessly loves and gives. With patience and intentionality he parents and leads his family. He cares for me so capably and lovingly. He's not about appearances, in fact he is at his very best behind closed doors with us. We have one of the good ones!

April 16

After a brief stop at the office, I went out with the kids for the morning. We have this boy who keeps growing and he needed some summer clothes before our trip. Within 6-8 minutes of walking into the store, he'd picked a couple items that would work and then we were out of there. My kind of shopping! And for every reason, we stopped for milkshakes. :)

And then Shaun and I were off to that bad place where they do bad things to me. But I sure did enjoy the spring sunshine while we waited for labs....

...and later, the sunset view.

April 17

No picture.

April 18

Our company-wide, end-of-season dinner and this was the cool people table.

April 19

The first lawnmower sound of the season...yay!!

We buttoned things up, packed things up and about 10 PM after Friday night youth group, we set off on our annual pilgrimage to Florida (I'll include Sat and Sun with next week).