Hey all you beautiful people and welcome to the glorious in the mundane podcast I'm

your host Kristi Knuckles. Happy June to you and that means happy summer. It is upon us. It has

taken me a little bit to get this last episode in the works and that is just because our family

is living in a little bit of a concentrated season. I told my patrons this in a little check-in that

I did with them several days ago but it just feels a bit like something I described to a friend

a few years ago about a season she had found herself in that it feels a little bit like a can

of condensed orange juice or concentrated orange juice. If you consume it by itself it's awfully

sour and pungent but if you simply add water it changes everything. Not to be cheesy but it's just

a season that we are finding that we need to douse everything with the living water especially the

water that is the word of God and in doing so it causes even what's bitter to be sweet somehow.

I won't tell you all the things I'm making little quotation marks with my fingers as I say all

the things but our precious middle child as many of you know Eliana just graduated from high school

and that means that we are about to have two of our little birdies who are not so little anymore

not living in the nest at least for long periods of time. We did make much of marking the season

for our sweet Ellie. We had a lovely party here at our home and by a lovely party here at our home

I mean that we cleared out our basement mostly Nathan did but we cleared out our basement and we hung

up a disco ball. It was epic. We put most of the furniture that resides in our basement

out onto the back deck and we brought out lamps and candles and flowers and rugs and it was

absolutely magical. It actually felt like heaven on earth. We gathered with friends and family

and my parents were even able to be there. It was such a precious night and the next day

I wasn't quick to take any of the decorations down. We sort of just had the stay of rest and

remembering what a sweet night we had and I just couldn't bring myself to take any of the sweet

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