Archery lessons and caramel apples

I'm back!  I haven't been too active online lately...mainly because nothing too interesting has been happening.  Brian and I went to his cousin's wedding in June.  It was incredibly lovely and romantic.  Also, it was great to visit with his family.  In normal life, I have been cleaning and reorganizing my home.  Again, not too exciting, but it keeps me busy.  For the most part, I have been enjoying being present in my life and spending time with my very wonderful husband.

Yesterday, I had a wonderful mother-daughter day with my mom.  We began by going to South Park mall and walking around, window shopping, and catching up.  We ate lunch in the food court (the most AMAZING Greek salad wraps) and grabbed a caramel/chocolate/nut covered apple (also AMAZING) before going to the main event of the day: an archery lesson.

At this point, you might be thinking, "Well, that's a bit random."  And perhaps it was.  Learning how to shoot a bow and arrow is always something I've wanted to do, so that's what we did on our special day together.  It turned out to be a lot of fun.  My arm is slightly sore today, but I am really glad that I did it.

How I thought I looked

How I actually looked

After our lesson, we came back home and played some games with Brian and visited some more.  Eventually, it was time for my mom to leave, so we said our good-byes.  Yesterday made me realize how very lucky I am.  I'm lucky to have such an awesome mother, one who will take an archery lesson with me and wants to spend time with me.  I'm lucky to have a husband who is not threatened by my closeness with my family and actually encourages me to spend time with them.  I'm lucky in thousands of ways, even when I don't think my life is "interesting" enough to blog about.