Stress

My thoughts today are that this has been a week of stress! We don't often think about stress being "good" but for the most part, this was a week of good stress. Keeping secrets is hard. We had to keep the engagement a secret from the girls-Joshua wanted to surprise his sisters. We had to lie! That's stressful! The engagement happened, the secret was out, and then we had the fun and excitement of the engagement party. It was great, lots of fun to meet some of Joshua and Jen's friends that we have heard about but had not met. We got to help do research for the location of the wedding. And then...yesterday, Kaylee had a small surgery done in her mouth. She passed out on me in the Dr. office, had to have oxygen, all vitals checked, and a couple of hours later we were on our way home. THAT was NOT good stress. By the afternoon she was doing better and seemed to perk up at the thought of going with Jen to look at wedding dresses! We did, and that was lots of fun! Last night, Cary and I had dinner with good friends at their home. It kind of felt like a safe and quiet place carved out for us after a stressful week. My FAVORITE part of going on a Princess Cruise is that I get to have a "loveboat" every night. I do. No matter what, I have to have it. It's a crunchy chocolate crust with chocolate mousse on top. On our last cruise, I was able to get the recipe. Now, my dear friend-I call her Martha because she often bails me out of cooking issues, she made loveboats for us last night!!! Now, that was THE perfect cure to a stressful week! Cary is off today and I honestly looked at him this morning and thought "I haven't seen him all week!" We just got back from the pool and had a good visit! Tonight we have a wedding rehearsal, tomorrow two weddings! We are in the wedding mode around here! Honestly, this was a week filled with love- love from family and friends, loveboats, and lots of celebrating!