Thankful, for this

Amy and Caleb and I hit the fall and barely saw each other enough to sit down and say:

Here's where my heart is these days.

And, since saying such things is crucial to how we have defined our little family, we decided to take the opportunity afforded us by a holiday week to make some food, to sit ourselves down, to have a sincere chat.

I arrived in the evening of a rather long day, and we put ourselves to work, enjoying the busyness of preparing a feast, enjoying the catching up that was spoken over the work.

We did our best to remain on task in our catching up, but found ourselves starving, waiting for everything to be complete.  

[We may have snitched...]

Soon enough, however, we were ready to go,

ready to indulge.

Then, stuffed, we retreated to the couches,

 to finish up our catching up,

to just enjoy the peace of being us, once again.