It's been quite a while since I've actually written something here. I'm not really sure where to start, or what to write, but you have to start somewhere, right?

Drew is out for his last sailing excursion of the year with our friend, Tom, from work. Drew has been sailing with him once a week this past summer (except for right after his hand injury), and has learned a lot about sailing. I know he's really enjoyed his time out on the big lake with the guys, and it has been a good opportunity for him. This weekend we have been blessed with near 90-degree temperatures, so they really have an awesome setting for their 'last hurrah'.

Friday night I went out to the Curragh Irish Pub in downtown Holland after work with my team. It felt like a summer's evening sitting and sipping out there, talking about work, and (better) not about work. After the team disbanded, my friend Jen and I decided to keep walking around beautiful downtown Holland. We visited my favorite shoe boutique (in Jen's words, "the shoe store made just for Ember" - I can't really argue), and I did not leave empty-handed Friday night. So many people were out that night, especially Hope College students, and I witnessed what a different vibe Holland can have after hours. Jen and I ended the evening sitting outside Ben and Jerry's with some ice cream, again talking about work and all of the upcoming organizational changes, etc. It seems that every year at this time our worlds are turned upside down, wondering what the future will hold. Will there be more layoffs? Will this current re-org really bring us the breadth of opportunities we've been waiting for? Time will tell, as always, but October and November are notorious for being unsettling this way.

Yesterday, Saturday, was a great day. Andrew and I were spontaneous (gasp)! We ventured down to downtown Grand Haven for lunch at the Dee-Lite and sat outside in the shade people- and baby-watching. We then walked along the channel for a while, test drove a Subaru B9 Tribeca (drool), and stopped in at the Traverse City Pie Company to share dessert before heading back home to feed the girls and let them out to romp in the backyard.

Today I'm attending to the laundry and meal-planning for the week. I should get up the motivation to do some de-cluttering in the office, and all my crafting supplies that I moved from the would-be nursery upstairs to one of the guest rooms in the basement still need to be organized and put away, too. I should put away the items that didn't sell in Gail's garage sale--they're still sitting on the table downstairs in the family room. I should go through that last stack of junk mail and do a bunch of shredding. But I'm not sure I'll do any of that. It'll all be there waiting for me again next weekend, right? Isn't it always?

I think I'll call Kate instead.

-Em