…feelings I loved this week.
To preface where I’m going with this, Fridays are all about fun and fabulousness and festivities (and Craig’s famous homemade pizzas and a family movie).
Fridays are naturally gorgeous. The week is over. Responsibility feels less important because it’s coming to an end (car lines and homework and school events are a thing of the past for 48 glorious hours).
And that’s the vibe I want to keep in line with. Friday is fun. Friday is a favorite. Friday is fucking fabulous. Which is why I’m introducing the Friday Four. Same concept, same vibe, different journey each week. I don’t know what the topic will be from week to week, but I do know that I’m going to make it a point to spend Fridays sharing my favorite four things from the week for two reasons.
Number one – why wouldn’t I want to share the best parts of my week for inspiration or simply because I love something and want other people to have the opportunity to love it, too?
Number two – how much do you think purposefully looking for four amazing things I love each week is going to affect my mindset as a whole? Hello, positivity and focus.
That said, this week was very ‘feelings’ focused for me, so here we go.
Feeling One: Waking up to rain on a Sunday morning = COZY
It should actually be a law. Every Sunday morning should begin dark, dreary, and with the sound of rain from bed. Mandatory cozy vibes. I cannot tell you a feeling I love more than waking up to rain on a Sunday morning knowing that it automatically cancels all productivity. It’s basically nature’s way of saying, “Comfy clothes, cozy meals, zero regrets.”
Feeling Two: A simply Saturday evening with friends = HAPPY
Let me set the scene for you: Dippy shrimp, homemade rosemary bread, and the fireplace warm, football on television, all of our kids together while we share a meal and wear comfy clothes at our friends’ house down the street.
There was a moment during dinner when it was just the adults left at the table. The teens were sitting on the couch watching a football game, the little kids were running around outside, and the dogs were giving us the side eye because they were hoping for more time with the kids at the table seeing as how there’s more of a chance they’ll get a bite or two. In that moment, I felt absolute happiness.
I think I even mentioned it out loud. That I just felt genuinely happy. Life is good, I am fortunate, and I loved that moment.
Feeling Three: A lot of simple moments = CONTENT
It was a weekend of simplicity, and I really loved it. Card games, books, movies, and spending time with the kids and their friends. I can’t explain it, but those moments are just the best moments for me. I think the older I get, the more I look forward to the littlest things because they seem so few and far between with the constant state of hectic busy-ness in which we currently live. The big things are constant, but it’s those little things I feel that I don’t get enough of anymore.
Feeling Four: Realizing my husband’s upcoming 43rd birthday is our 25th birthday together = LOVED
Twenty-five years of birthdays spent together. That’s a long time. A quarter century. I’ve spent significantly more of my life with this man than without him. I’ve spent more of my life living with him than my parents. Which is insanely crazy because it feels like five minutes, yet here we are all these years later still together and still celebrating one another.
The feeling I had when I realized that? Loved. I can’t explain the feeling of knowing that someone loves me enough to want to spend that kind of time with me. Not because he has to…because he wants to. He chose me, he likes me, and he still wants to celebrate with me. That’s kind of a big deal, and it makes me feel so exceptionally loved.
….this is not a weekend of rest or relaxation, so I feel like appreciating these feelings going into a busy weekend makes them that much better. I can’t wait to see what four things I’m inspired by next Friday!
Tiffany Raiford 