Time Out

The Monday morning after our big family weekend, we took the kids to school and then Todd and I headed to Gatlinburg for a couple nights. Mom and dad were AWESOME!! They negotiated schedules to accommodate school bus pick-ups and drop-offs, helped with homework, and took very good care of the grandkids. :) That was a great time for Todd and me just to talk and spend some time together. There was so much that I found out about Todd and the MAF/Haiti situation and so many things that I had forgotten to mention to him, too. We also had time to talk about deeper concerns, joys, expectations, anticipations, plans.... all of the things that get pushed aside as you deal with daily life.
Tuesday we woke up late and drove through the mountains and trees on the winding Blue Ridge Parkway on back roads that I am almost certain we took one time on Todd's motorcycle when we lived in East TN. We hiked a while on some beautiful trails, saw waterfalls....
Wed. we woke up EARLY and drove to our former home in Elizabethton, something we had not planned to do until we saw that it was only about another hr. and a half from where we were. Of course we wished that we would have had more time, but we did see both of our former land-ladies and several other friends in the few hrs we were there and made it back before the kids' bedtime that night. :)