This year was gone in a flash – I can’t believe today is day 365 of 2016. Looking back, it feels like we didn’t do much but I guess not much can add up to a whole lot. So here’s our 2016 year-in-review / holiday card…
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Best Surprise Gift EVER
There was a package waiting in the mailbox when I got home last night. After I ripped off the outside, I found a little gift card: What was in the package you wonder? Only the BEST SURPRISE GIFT EVER. Ever. EVER. (And proof that my dad reads my blog and has a great sense of […]
Happy Belated Birthday to Us!!
The Hayley family (The Boy’s parents) gave us a great birthday present – a gift certificate to a restaurant owned by one of our favorite chefs. But it’s a sign that we’ve been living life a little on the too busy side when we weren’t able to enjoy our birthday present until October. Ahem. We’re […]
Upon Reflection
It’s now been a week since I last looked at Facebook and, other than a couple of times that I felt a desire to check up on friends and family, I honestly didn’t miss it that much. What this tells me is that I rely on Facebook more as a time waster – when I’m […]
One Of The Craziest Things We’ve Ever Done (Lately)
The Boy’s brother called him last month and asked if he’d like to have his grandmother’s piano. The Boy asked me what I thought – mentioning all of the wonderful features of the piano, as well as noting that it was his grandmother’s piano (three times). Of course, I said, we want the piano. The […]
On the Level
Whew. Another big we-needed-to-do-but-hadn’t-done item checked off the list: We now have the proper amount of life insurance. (What’s the proper amount? 10x your annual income.) Getting insurance isn’t hard, but it does take time – and bodily fluid contributions, paperwork and a meeting with an insurance health reviewer.
Filled to the Tip Top and Flowing Over
…that was my schedule last week. It’s amazing I’m still standing, let alone not laying down with a cold compress over my eyes, having a case of the vapors. {Having the vapors just sounds so lady-like. I love that phrase. Moving on.} Here’s what a too-full schedule looks like. Feel free to share your personal […]
Starting Off Organized and Other-Focused
I want to be more people-focused. Scratch that – I need to be more people-focused. Yet I’m still a very goal-oriented girl. God just made me that way. So I decided to help my goal-loving self think about other people by transferring important birthdays and anniversaries from my somewhat neglected paper calendar files into my […]
Since We Last Wrote…
I have no recollection of what all has happened since my last post nearly a week ago. That’s not entirely true. In the last five days: The Boy has had his surgical bandages removed and a cast installed – more security, but less mobility. We found out that we narrowly missed an electrical fire from […]
The Cotton Bowl
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, we took my parents to the Cotton Bowl last week. We had lots and lots of fun, even though we didn’t win the game. But this post isn’t about all of the people that were there. Nor is about the purple overload that surrounded us during the K-State pep rally. Nor the crazy […]