Life these days...

I've been feeling such an excitement for this new season of life that I'm in. I've absolutely loved being home with Asher. Somedays I don't leave the house and other days are a whirlwind of activity, but I like it that way.

I just feel like I actually have something more to offer the world (or more the people that are in my world) now that I'm not feeling so burnt out on life. Not that life was horrible before, but now that I'm not coming home from work every day exhausted I feel like I actually have something give to others rather than feel like I was operating out of emptiness.

I've been spending a lot of time hanging out with girlfriends during the daytime and then Steve and I have been having people over a lot in the evenings. I hesitate to word this incorrectly, but there have been so many times in the past where our hearts desires were to spend time with friends, but we were just so tired that it sometimes almost felt more like a chore. Now, even though I feel really tired from life with a newborn, it's a different kind of tired than I felt before. I feel like I actually have something to offer people other than feeling like I'm giving my time but not able to give all of my heart.

All that to say that I'm really excited for this season of life and all that it holds. I love being able to feel like I can actually invest in people again and do it without feeling burnt out. I've been loving spending one on one time with some of the different girls from our church community group and just being able to chat about life. I'm excited for what the fall holds for when our groups start up again. I feel like Steve and I (or at least me, since I'm not so stressed with work anymore) actually have something that we'll be able to now offer our group that we just unfortunately weren't able to give before. I'm excited to grow together as a group and do life together.

I'm also excited for all of the new friends I've been making in the recent months. We've been here in Madison for almost 2 years now and we're finally at the point where I feel like we can say we have a pretty large circle of friends, with most of them being actually very meaningful relationships. I've also loved having diversity in those friendships - whether it be friends from church or random people we've met that are completely different from us in every way, but we somehow just seem to click with anyway.

Life is good and my heart is so, so happy!