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The Weekend Log: Take 5

The Weekend Log: Take 5

Help me pack for Paris and my son's wedding like a responsible adult.

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Amy Byrnes
Apr 25, 2025
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Guys, these lilacs are my new best friends. I pass them twice a day on my walks about town and always stop to breathe them in and they bring me JOY.

Hi friends!

Yesterday, I got a text from my son’s fiancee announcing that her sister’s water had just broke and my immediate reaction was concern. I had just spent the day before with another young woman at work telling me the whole story about how she’d been put on bed rest in the hospital for a few weeks when her water broke super early with her first baby*.

So, I guess that story was top of mind for me when I got that text and thought how the fiancee’s sister’s early-May due date (I know I am making this so confusing) was still a month off.

AND THEN I REMEMBERED THAT MAY WAS NEXT WEEK.

That means that my youngest’s graduation weekend is in TWO WEEKS. And my oldest’s nuptials in Paris is in FOUR WEEKS.

The countdown is on.

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