Today I’m sharing an amazing new product just in time for summer! Tesalate makes both beach and workout towels. I was sent a beach towel to try out and share with you. Over the Memorial Day weekend, I had my son Drew try it out. Things we really liked about it: folds down for a… Read More »
Week 19 is May 10-16, 2021. Last week started off with our church having a “Welcome Home” event to bring every one back to reintroduce church activities and celebrate church reopening. There was a petting zoo with lots of cute animals. In the garden I planted some tomatoes using the no dig method, where you… Read More »
Week 18 was May 3-9, 2021. Another week of being in the office. I’m not missing being at home as much. Honestly too busy to have much time to ponder on it. 🙂 Here’s a few highlights from the week. Muddy girl! This girl loves to dig and stick her nose down the chipmunk holes.… Read More »
How is everyone doing? I am just trying to keep my head above water right now and unfortunately my blogging life is and might continue suffering for a bit. I’m hoping to find a rhythm with being back in the office full time and trying to continue being on top of house work, family life,… Read More »
1 / Thursday – Started trying to clean up garden area on the deck. Need to get pots ready to plant stuff in and have the place looking better for company on Easter. 2 / Friday – Rob in pieces about MLB moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta for political reasons. He had purchased… Read More »
Week 17 was April 26-May 2, 2021, which happened to be my week in the office. Getting home every afternoon, I collapsed in exhaustion at least for a bit. Then it’s up to cook dinner or do work in the garden. I still have so much to do in the garden. I’m actually way behind… Read More »
I’m on the blogging struggle bus, but I’m working hard to try and stay on top of things or at least get posts out as I can. This month I was happy about: getting to go to church in person and life being a little more ‘normal.’ This month I was sad about: my hip… Read More »
I’m late getting this post up, but here it is. I’m linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What’s Up Wednesday. What We’re Eating nothing exciting really. Still haven’t felt motivated to cook or menu plan. I need to start menu planning again. What I’m Reminiscing About 10 years ago around this time that we… Read More »
Week 15 was April 12-18, 2021. I’m enjoying every day that I can while still working from home as I suspect that will be changing soon. Here’s some highlights of the week. Tuesday I brought Rob lunch at work and we sat outside near the pond behind his office. After work, I went outside to… Read More »
Here’s a quick drop of a few photos from this last week. Kayleigh’s eyes looked different when she was taking a nap. On Saturday, we went to watch some of Rob’s D-group guys play lacross. It was an exciting game against Homewood and Auburn won! It was such a beautiful day. After the game, Rob… Read More »
Welcome back to another week of iSpy! I heard from some of you that some of these prompts seemed kind of difficult. If you participated did they end up being as hard as you thought? I found a couple of them to be a little challenging, but that’s what makes me think more about those.… Read More »
Here’s my March Sentence a Day…maybe more like a paragraph a day depending on the day! 1 / Monday – In the office this week. Pretty chill day. Rob sent me flowers “just because” which was really sweet. Being that I’ve just been mentally exhausted and just really emotionally over so many things. It was… Read More »
/arranging/ We are still working on re-arranging some stuff in our closet. I mentioned before that when we got new carpet upstairs it forced us to remove and pack up everything in the 3 bedrooms upstairs. This helped us to get a fresh start. We have an extra closet in the master that will become… Read More »
Here’s this last weeks summary in pics. Week 13 is March 29-April 4, 2021. I was looking at my seedlings and saw this little curly Q and just couldn’t help but take a picture of it. Nature is amazing! And Kayleigh just has the funniest expressions. She tilts her head sometimes when she’s listening intently.… Read More »
This Easter was quite a bit more ‘normal’ than 2020! Hallelujah! Rob got up early to be at church by 6:30. Our church is one of the only churches that I know of still requiring you to sign up online. Of course, Easter is a very popular church going day, so all 3 in person… Read More »
This month I was happy about: Spring break was great! This month I was sad about: After we visited Rob’s Gramma while we were down in Florida, she has a hospice nurse coming in. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓… Read More »
Another month over with and I’m racing to get my end of the month posts done. I’m in the office this week, which means I’m exhausted when I get home, so I don’t feel like blogging after work, and last week was crazy so I’m a bit behind. Such is life! Today I’m linking up… Read More »
I’ve seen several blogger friends (Tanya/Shelly) do this post “10 Questions To Mark One Year of the Pandemic” from Laura Tremaine’s Podcast. I thought it was a really good idea to look back at the last year of going through a pandemic. What was life like in early 2020? Life was normal. We celebrated Drew’s… Read More »
So one of my lovely coworkers, Mrs. Deb, was mentioning that her dryer wasn’t working right. I, while listening to her was also concentrating on something else, and so my response? “Oh your hair dryer?” She laughed so hard and responded sweetly with, “No, my clothes dryer. It just needs a new heating element. You… Read More »
/choosing/ Joy or at least trying really hard for it! I’ll never forget the post from Ashley about Choosing Joy that has stuck with me>>>Choose Joy. /imagining/ Dare I say, a world without COVID?!?! Life around here, is in some ways are returning to ‘normal.’ My work place is almost entirely back to normal. In… Read More »