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    Leaving my church after 26 years

    May 10, 2023 - By 

    Today I’m sharing about why Rob and I are leaving our church after 26 years of being faithful, active members. If you are unfamiliar with the issues in the Methodist church, I’ve taken pieces of an article from The Coastland Times, which is not local to me but did a good job of explaining what’s going on. The United Methodist Church (UMC) is experiencing a major transition across the nation and the globe, resulting in a significant number of churches disaffiliating from the denomination. The central issue causing division revolves around human sexuality. The Book of Discipline, or rule book…

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    Wedding::Getting Ready

    May 9, 2023 - By 

    I’ve been trying to decide how to tackle sharing the professional wedding photos, because there’s a ton of them and I’m obsessed with them. So worth the money spent for Samantha. I decided I’m going to do weekly or maybe twice a week posts depending on the time I have and other posts I need to get done. Today’s post is many of the “getting ready” pictures. Condo -AirBnB where the Bridal party stayed Wed-Sunday. Hair & Makeup Samford Lawn – Robe and house shoe pics Bridal suite pics at Church Groom room at church The next set of pics…

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    Week 18::2023

    May 8, 2023 - By 

    How is it Monday, Again!!?? Geez… Here are week 18 happenings (May 1-7th, 2023). And how is it May already? I saw this news story, and it just hit me hard, with our mind still fresh from my son’s wedding a couple of months ago. I just cannot even imagine or fathom how terrible this would be to live through. Really last week didn’t have anything major that I’m remembering… Kayleigh just looked so cute on top of the stairs. I went with Rob to the Friday night baseball game. We ended up taking 2 out of 3 from #1 LSU!…

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    Monthly Digest – April 2023

    May 3, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another Monthly Digest. LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 & 16 Week 17 Loving Some interesting new YouTube I found recently (while sick): All very, very different, but good in their own way… Meg Hughes – college girl in Ireland Peter Santenello – videos about a world the media fails to capture Tay BeepBoop – eccentric designer and DIYer Happy I’m happy to feeling a little better. Excited Not sure I’m excited about anything right now. Reminiscing about our trip to the dessert. I’ll share about…

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    Week 17::2023

    May 1, 2023 - By 

    Happy Monday yall! Here are week 17 highlights (April 24-30, 2023). Monday Oh Monday, how I don’t want to think back to that evening. I think I’m going to write an entire post about this, because I have a lot to say. The vote didn’t go the way Rob and I wanted, which makes me very, very sad. I’ll share more later. Tuesday We’re in the last couple weeks of the semester, which means I’m ramping up and getting ready for the next semester. My current students sent in their requested summer work schedules, so I now I have to…

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    Week 15 & 16::2023

    April 27, 2023 - By 

    Week 15 was April 10th-16th and that was the week were in the desert. I was going to do a summary post, but I haven’t been able to go through the pics… Week 16 was last week (April 17th-23rd). Here’s a quick run down of happenings there. Monday Drew dropped Bigsby off Monday morning. I had taken the day off because that was the day we got back from our trip at 8:30am and I knew I would need sleep. I pulled out the big red bed for him to lay on. Instead he rolls up into a little wad…

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    23 in 2023

    April 20, 2023 - By 

    I wanted to write this post at the beginning of the year, but then life got crazy again and I was like, “Fine, I’ll write it after the wedding.” And here we are midway through April!! haha…I did start making the list earlier this year, just couldn’t get all 23 items down till more recently I got this idea of writing 23 things I want to do in 2023 from a podcast I listened to called Happier with Gretchen Rubin on How to Be a Better Human. Gretchen Rubin is one my favorite authors who has written several books about…

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    Week 14::2023

    April 19, 2023 - By 

    Hey yall! Here we are for another week of highlights (April 3rd-9th, 2023). You know me…always playing catch up when it comes this place. 🙂 Thanks to those who stick around and show me some love. Tuesday I think I mentioned it in my last weekly post, but when we were in Florida, I was having some pretty bad stomach issues. I couldn’t get into the nurse practitioner until Tuesday. They were guessing it’s my gallbladder, which is what I’ve been thinking. Friday I went in for an ultrasound and found out I have ‘sludge and possibly a small gallstone.’…

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    Monthly Digest – March 2023

    April 7, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings It’s been a month of catch-up and clean up and trying to get back to normal…if that’s a thing. Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Loving These Trader Joe’s goodies are so good…don’t jive with my healthy eating, but a good little treat here and there. Trader Joe’s Mini Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Trader Joe’s Mini Dark Chocolate Mint Stars Happy The signs of spring and the warmer weather. Excited for our upcoming trip!! Reminiscing Honestly, not thinking back to any particular time right now. Social Rob…

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    Week 13::2023

    April 6, 2023 - By 

    We left that Sunday to go down Florida to help Rob’s family in his grandparents house. With our jobs if the death in the family is so many miles away you get extra days of bereavement leave. We got 5 days off and ended up using all of it. Here’s some highlights from the week. Monday Since we were down in Florida and needed to do something besides go through stuff and pack, we took Monday to drive over to Dunedin for the last spring training game of the year there. Dunedin is our favorite Spring Training town. It was…

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    Week 12::2023

    April 3, 2023 - By 

    Happy Monday yall! Let’s jump straight in for week 12 highlights (March 20-26, 2023). Monday Not sure how many of you know what’s going on with the Methodist church. You may have heard rumblings of different churches ‘disaffiliating’ from the United Methodist church. My church is finally beginning to entertain the idea of allowing discussions and to set out all the facts. We had a meeting to share some facts. Then, we did a survey to get a feel for what people are thinking as far as entering discernment. When I find an article that sums it up in a…

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    Week 11::2023

    March 21, 2023 - By 

    Hey yall! How’s everyone today? Here we are for another week of highlights. Finally got some seeds started. These are the new seeds I got for this year. Seeing this cutie every morning never gets old. Wild hair Rob’s grandfather passed away on Thursday at his home in Florida. He was 93. It’s been a long time coming. He was Irish, so in celebration of St. Patty’s day and his life, Rob got some Irish Whiskey. Friday night we had a little of that and just spent time thinking and talking about him. We know he is happy to be…

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    Week 10::2023

    March 13, 2023 - By 

    March 6-12, 2023 Monday Wisteria on my walk – Invasive, but pretty Tuesday Killer sunset on Alex’s 19th birthday Got home from my walk and Alex and Madison were out the house. They warmed up leftovers and hung out until they left for the movies. They saw Knock at the Cabin. Wednesday Wednesday we celebrated Alex’s birthday with dinner at Mikata and presents at home beforehand. He got clothes and lined Crocs. Thursday Gloomy day Proof that pollen is thick! Beautiful blooms in front my house Spring break = kids getting outside. Sidewalk chalk makes me happy. Finally got some…

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    Monthly Digest – February 2023

    March 11, 2023 - By 

    Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a great day! I’m over here just trying to get my house back to normal and getting caught up on blogging. Hoping one day to get into a good blogging routine. I feel like I’m always saying that. Anyway, here we are for another end of month post. If you want to see last month’s post first, it’s here >>> January LIFE Happenings Such a good month…We can just label February Wedding Month! So many nitty-gritty details. Schedules. Instructions. Since Rob and I were basically the wedding planners, making sure that all of the…

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    Week 9::2023

    March 10, 2023 - By 

    Still playing catch up, because all those wedding posts took awhile! The week after the wedding (Feb. 27-March 5, 2023) was still a pretty busy week. I was so tired of my living room still looking like this: Monday I spent a good part of the day going through all the boxes and reorganizing everything. Most stuff just got thrown in boxes with no rhyme or reason. I also started washing the table clothes. Mid morning, I got a text from Rob’s mom that they were in town and wanted to stop by. So when they got to the house,…

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    Week 8::2023 – Wedding Week

    March 8, 2023 - By 

    Wedding Week!!! February 20-26, 2023 Wedding week was busy, of course. I didn’t really take pictures early in the week. However, I did share old pics of Drew on FB. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday – Read about here. Thursday – Read about here. Friday – Read about here. Saturday – Wedding Day! Pre-Wedding Wedding No rest for the weary. After the reception at the banquet room was over, we had to get everything wedding out of that room and ready for a Men’s breakfast that was taking place at 7am on Sunday. So thankful for many of our friends and…

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    Wedding

    March 7, 2023 - By 

    This post will cover the wedding ceremony, social hour, and reception. In case you missed what happened the rest of the day you can read about that here>>>Pre-Wedding Day Wedding Ceremony The ceremony was just so special. I always find it so bizarre how wedding ceremonies are often like 5 or 10 minutes. There’s was about 40 minutes. He later told me he was getting emotional with the bridal party walking down the aisle and “Marry Me” (by Train) being played by the string quartet. Sweetest moment – Drew and Caitlyn did not see each other before the wedding, so…

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    Pre-Wedding Day

    March 6, 2023 - By 

    As I worked on this wedding day post, I realized it was going to be really long with tons of pics from my and other’s cellphones. I have since divided it into 2 different posts to keep it a little shorter. I posted this pic on FB really early on Saturday morning. I had actually woke up at 3am and ended up getting up at 3:30. I just kept thinking about all I had to do and just decided to go ahead and get up to glue twine on the back of the pew flowers. I didn’t realize we had…

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    Friday – Wedding Week

    March 3, 2023 - By 

    Friday was wedding eve!! Still so much to do, but Rob and I were ready to hit the ground running. We went over to Walmart to get labels for the water bottles for social hour. I had taken all the plastic labels off, because they are just an eye sore and I had planned to have the bottles on the tables. We realized there was a little bit of the sticky stuff on the bottles and we knew we needed to cover that. We printed the wedding logo on the labels and had my mother-in-law stick the labels on. We…

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    Thursday – Wedding Week

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    Thursday, Rob and I got up and put the table seating sign together. We had it designed where the tables could be updated and switched out, because you know there is always people can’t come at the last minute. However, by Thursday there wasn’t going to be time to update and reprint the table sheets. It was going to be that way even if more people couldn’t come. After that on our schedule was to go get the tea and put it in the fridge at the church. We ended up at Kroger. From there, it was time to deliver…