having a generous friend who agreed to come over on short notice and pet sit

spending the day with my mother’s sister, nineteen years since my mother passed

watching my cousin’s daughter play on a really good girl’s high school soccer team (they tied, but ended up “bracket champion”)

discovering Nate Bergotze (yeah, just now) and laughing with my husband until we cried over a marital fight about chocolate milk

turning off the game when the other team loads the bases in the bottom of the ninth