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    Week 37 [2021]

    September 20, 2021 - By 

    Here’s another wrap up from September 13-19, 2021. I know this blog has become very stale with just boring updates of my life. However, that’s all I can muster up right now. Thank you to those of you who continue to stick with me. I mentioned last week that life has been pretty hard lately. I’ve had several nights that looked like this… I am thankful for friends who call and text me and pray for me and my family. Thanks to all of you who have been praying. We have really felt the prayers. With all that’s been going…

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    Week 36 [2021]

    September 16, 2021 - By 

    Week 36 September 6-12, 2021 Hey yall! Last week was rough and its continuing on into this week. Unfortunately, I can’t go into details. I would covet your prayers for my family during this time. All this goes back to May when we had a family emergency and last week ended up having another emergency of sorts. My brain is full. Running thoughts. Uneasy stomach. Fear of the unknown. Worry. We are all consumed by what’s going on in the family. However, for my own sanity I have to take breaks from it and distract myself with TV or doing…

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    Week 35 [2021]

    September 6, 2021 - By 

    Here we are for another week review post. Week 35 covers August 30-September 5, 2021. On August 30th, Rob and I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary. We went out to lunch at Amsterdam. The next day we ended up going out to eat for dinner and called that our anniversary dinner. We ate at Bow & Arrow. So yummy! I got a couple new house plants that are kind of different. Auburn University street signs downtown Got my Bath & Body Work order! Yellow Pear Tomatoes in the in-ground garden. Love her frog legs!

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    Currently – September 2021

    September 1, 2021 - By 

    Happy September, yall! Here’s my Currently post for this month. beginning to look forward to Fall and football! I’m really hoping we have an early onset of cooler temperatures, which usually tease us a time or 2 in September or October. However, real cooler temps don’t show up till November here. ending I’m ready to end this stressful part of the semester. August is a busy time for me at work hiring and training. This year during this time I got COVID so that meant leaving my job to others, which I always hate doing. I am having to hire…

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    Week 34 [2021]

    August 30, 2021 - By 

    This post is a quick highlights for Week 34 (August 23-29, 2021), which was my week two of COVID. Even though I spent probably about half of everyday in bed, I still tried to get up and sit up in the living room and go outside to check on the garden. There have been so many spiders and their monstrous webs. They seem to find every walk way or pass through. These are some of the tomato plants that are planted in the in-ground overflow garden area. Look at my baby! These are his senior picture proofs.

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    Monthly Digest – August 2021

    August 25, 2021 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Honestly right now all I can think about is this dang COVID that I have and I could probably make every answer to these COVID related. I don’t want that though. This month hasn’t been only about COVID, so I’ll write a post about that later. Loving Rob for taking care of me through all this. Happy that September is almost here and hopefully we might get some hints of cooler weather…probably not, but I’m always hopeful for it. Reminiscing Thinking back to September 2012 Carnival Dream Cruise when we went on a family cruise and took the…

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    Week 33 [2021]

    August 23, 2021 - By 

    So this is how Week 33 (August 16-22, 2021) got started…a parking ticket while at work! Lovely! Let me back up and just say this last week was…Wow so many ways to describe this last week. The weekend going into last week, I wasn’t feeling well and with the week being super important, I had no time to have this sinus infection. I had a scratchy throat, congestion, headache (face felt swollen like when you have a sinus infection), terrible body aches. Sunday night I found a bottle of antibiotics that I never took, so I decided that I would…

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    Week 32 [2021]

    August 16, 2021 - By 

    Today’s post is showing a few quick highlights from August 9-15, 2021. This week was intercession at work, which means we’re in between semesters. Here is my work family minus our newest staff member, Cedric. Alex started his senior year! Rob and I went to eat at the new Whataburger in Opelika. It was so good! This Texas girl was so happy. It was a very full week of preparing for the new semester for me at work. Friday was my big day of training. Although only 9 of my 14 new hires were able to come due to Rush…

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    Week 31 [2021] Caitlyn Grad Week

    August 9, 2021 - By 

    Today I’m talking about Week 31 and boy what a week it was! August 2nd-8th, 2021. Still can’t believe its August already! This week most of what I’m sharing is about Drew’s girlfriend, Caitlyn. Tuesday – August 3rd Tuesday morning, I got up and met Caitlyn so we could take her grad pics. We got out there I pulled out my big camera and started to take a shot. “no SD card” popped up on the screen! AHGHGH! I hardly ever take my SD card out, but I did recently help Rob figure something out with another SD card and…

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    Currently – August 2021

    August 4, 2021 - By 

    admiring I’m admiring Drew’s girlfriend, Caitlyn. So proud of her for finishing her Masters in Mental Health Counseling. She graduates this Friday! anticipating a busy weekend celebrating Caitlyn. Graduation on Friday; Party on Saturday; Church and lunch at the Hound on Sunday. I’m excited that she’s returning to my department as temporary employee until she finds a full time job. enjoying this new to me playlist called Dance Pop Hits on Apple Music spending some money on Amazon. I’ll share a list of Amazon purchases soon. I get lots of great ideas from Laura & Moriah as well as some…

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    Week 30 [2021]

    August 2, 2021 - By 

    Week 30 was July 26, 2021 through August 1, 2021. Happy August everyone! Wednesday – July 28th Caitlyn finished off her last day at the library working as Graduate Assistant. What a blessing to get to work and have your grad school paid for as well as have a stipend to pay bills with. Thursday – July 29th We have been enjoying the new Chick-fil-a. Trying to go as much as possible before the craziness that happens when all the college students move back into town. Friday – July 30th Friday, Drew called the U-Haul place to make sure everything…

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    Monthly Digest – July 2021

    July 28, 2021 - By 

    WOW! We are over half way done with 2021! How can it be?!?! I have wanted to revamp some of my posts and consolidate, so I’m starting with the WUW (What’s Up Wednesday) and my Monthly Memories posts that I have done off and on for years. I’ve decided to kind of consolidate the 2 posts and call them Monthly Digest. Let me know what ya’ll think! LIFE Happenings Started the month off with our summer vacation. Loving This playlist: Happy Hits on Apple Music Happy Our Chick-fil-a closest to our house has been closed for a couple years while…

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    Week 29 [2021]

    July 26, 2021 - By 

    I had discontinued doing these Weekly update posts because since I was doing the Sentence-A-Day posts at the end of month, I felt like it was kind of repetitive. However, I have a hard time keeping up with the sentences and just felt that wasn’t the best way to share what goes on. I’m going to be going through an catching up with my weekly posts, because I like to be able to refer back to them. So today I’m starting with last week’s post which was for July 19-25, 2021. Monday – July 19th Drew actually started his job…

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    Week 28 [2021]

    July 19, 2021 - By 

    Every week that flies by I just can’t believe how fast time seems to go by. I saw this quote recently and just loved it. It was a bit of comfort for those time when I feel like time is just slipping though my fingers so quickly. Today I’m sharing life’s happenings for Week 28, which is July 12-18, 2021 Monday – July 12th This bar area in the kitchen is such a clutter magnet. Tuesday – July 13th Rob and I ate lunch downtown. While I walking back to work this guy was eating lunch as I came around…

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    Week 27 [2021]

    July 12, 2021 - By 

    Week 27 started with us finishing off our vacation on July 5, 2021 and ended July 11, 2021 Monday – July 5th When we got back into town from vacation, we unloaded the car and drove out to Beauregard to see Rob’s sister, Jill and her fam. Here’s a pic of the Grandparents (Rob’s Mom and Step Dad) with all the Grands! 2 + 6 + 1 Free piggy back rides? Saturday – July 7th Little tomato harvest Look at this really cool squash that I will use for fall decor if it doesn’t go bad before then. Sunday –…

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    Currently – July 2021

    July 9, 2021 - By 

    I kept seeing everyone’s Currently post and I was like “Yeah, I did that post already. Turns out I was thinking of my June Currently post” *eye roll* /eating/ I have mentioned numerous time over the last several months that I’m just in a food slump. Not in the mood to cook or really eat for that matter. I just get tired of always thinking about what to eat and I’m never really in the mood to cook. So I decided to give Blue Apron a try. I get my first shipment next Friday. I hope to share the meals…

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    Week 26 [2021]

    July 5, 2021 - By 

    Week 26, which means we’re officially half way done with the year! This week is June 28-July 4, 2021. Early in the week there wasn’t too much excitement, well except for Tuesday night when Drew and Caitlyn showed up at like 8pm or something to tell us the good news. Drew got a big boy job! So exciting. No pics to show of that occasion. Wednesday we headed out for vacation>>>North Georgia Mountain Trip Sunday – July 4th While we were still out of town Drew and Caitlyn who couldn’t come with us due to conflicting schedule, they were able…

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    Sentence a Day – June 2021

    July 4, 2021 - By 

    1 / Tuesday – Met Rob and Alex for lunch at Beyond the Wok. Neighborhood turkey – Not sure where this turkey lives or if he just hangs out in our neighborhood. He shows up every few weeks and just struts around. 2 / Wednesday – First time PT for Alex this morning. 3 / Thursday – This morning while heading into work, I noticed this squirrel had a huge piece of food. Looked like a piece of a bun. This picture doesn’t do this justice. I couldn’t get close enough. 4 / Friday – Alex got his 1st vaccine.…

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    Memories of the Month {6.2021}

    July 2, 2021 - By 

    This month I was happy about: good new from Drew, which I talk about later in the post! This month I was sad about: I have been sad about a family member that is going through a tough time, but things seem to be a bit better as of now. I decided to change my rating system to the simple stars rating that are pretty self explanatory. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Movies I watched were: 2 Hearts (Netflix) – ★ ★ ★ – really slow moving Safe Haven (Netflix) – rewatched ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ TV Shows I…

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    What’s Up Wednesday ~ June 2021

    June 30, 2021 - By 

    Today I’m linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What’s Up Wednesday. What We’re Eating Still not a lot of cooking, but I made a Chicken and Broccoli One Pot Pasta meal while Rob was out of town and it was so good! What I’m Reminiscing About Just thinking back to all the great travels that usually happen end of June most years, like our trip to the West Coast back in 2016. What I’m Loving Drew, Alex, and I played