Well let me be one of the first to those who celebrate, Happy Easter! I feel like I say this a lot, but I honestly feel like time is flying by quickly this year. Where is it going? How do you celebrate the holiday? We are going to be going to church and enjoying a breakfast afterwards as a congregation and then we will be spending time with our family at a restaurant we’ve been going to since we were little. It’s in an old schoolhouse and they use the main classroom space as the dining room, and it’s filled with large round tables and red and white checked tablecloths and in the middle is a large lazy Susan to put food since the sides are all served family style. It is some good home cooking too! Fried chicken, fritters, mashed potatoes you name it, and they have it.

We typically only make it to the schoolhouse once a year, and that really needs to change, but one thing I love about it is there are still familiar faces from when I was young. They make you feel so welcomed and they’re happy to be there all while being away from their own family on Easter.

Don’t you love feeling welcomed? Often, we find ourselves being forced to enter into something new such as a classroom where the class we signed up for is held, a new place of employment, or possibly a new group of teammates. Stepping into new situations where you aren’t sure how you’ll fit in or who you will talk to can be really intimidating.

When we moved out here to the middle, I was very aware that we were entering into a well-established community. I wasn’t sure how we would be received or if anyone would even really acknowledge us. It’s somewhat of a perception I carried out here and probably spend too much of my time thinking about but unfortunately, I think that perception will be staying with me for a little bit longer all because of what someone said to me a couple of weeks ago.

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