Building A Healthier Relationship With Food: The Home Edition

By | March 8, 2022

Your relationship with food is important for many reasons. And while you should take a comprehensive approach that looks at your diet in all situations, improvements at home from Palatine, Illinois should be the priority. It’s easy to fall into poor eating habits, but often very difficult to put things right. First and foremost, you… Read More »

Week 8 & 9 [2022]

By | March 7, 2022

2 weeks ago started out with a trip to the orthopedic for my shoulder. It hurts kind of all the time now, but especially when I lift my arm out. I ended up getting a steroid injection and am now doing a few appointments of physical therapy and my favorite place. It has just been… Read More »

iSpy #61

By | March 5, 2022

Window View – Quarterly Topped off There’s a dead tree leaning that has been “topped off.” On time It’s about the time for bugs to start appearing. The other day after my walk, I looked down and saw this little one on my shoulder. Starts with P P is for poinsettia. I can’t believe I’ve… Read More »

Currently::March 2022

By | March 2, 2022

Hello March! Here we are for another Currently post. collecting Hmmm…new clothing items for the cruise at the end of the month. craving a vacation. So excited to have a couple trips planned this month and next! picturing myself in a tropical place with a fruity drink enjoying being away from all the hustle and… Read More »

Prime Purchases – Jan/Feb 2022

By | March 1, 2022

Today I decided to link up with Tanya at The Other Side of the Road. This is my purchases from Amazon for January and February. Clothes I have a couple shirts with long spaces between buttons and if you’re not sitting perfectly straight it can gap. Another one that when I lift my arm up… Read More »

iSpy #60

By | February 26, 2022

backyard – Quarterly across the street Corner view of the President’s mansion on campus ‘across the street’ starts with L L is for Lysha! (With my new hair cut) next This one was a struggle, so I took this pic of my tiered tray for Mardi Gra. Not a huge fan of it. It’s missing… Read More »

Monthly Digest – February 2022

By | February 24, 2022

LIFE Happenings February has FLOWN by, especially because January was like an entire year. You can read my weekly summaries here: Week 5 & 6 Week 7 Loving Decided to try a different cup. I’ve been using several Auburn Tervis cups that I love, but they don’t keep ice for long. I also want to… Read More »

Week 7 [2022]

By | February 22, 2022

Another year flying by and here we are talking about the 7th week of this year already. Is it me or is time flying by faster the older I get? Scary! Last week started off with Valentine’s Day. Rob and I aren’t big into that holiday. We usually go out to eat around that day… Read More »

iSpy #59

By | February 19, 2022

– the sun shown Snapped this pic of Bigsby and didn’t even realize how good the sun was showing in this. Love it when that happens. plugged I have to have this adapter because I have so many USBs plugged in. rock walking I was walking on campus towards Haley Center. your choice Sign of… Read More »

Valentine’s Survey

By | February 17, 2022

Hope everyone had a lovely Valentine’s Day! Rob and I went to the AU women’s basketball game and then to a new-ish restaurant that we’ve been wanting to try called Yummy Crab. I was so excited that I dove into it before taking a picture. As I reading through my Feedly feed today, I saw… Read More »

Week 5 & 6 [2022]

By | February 14, 2022

Here’s what’s been happening in life for Jan. 31st-Feb. 13, 2022. Not much too exciting! Just trucking along… This is one of Alex’s new cubes that he put into a cool design. Caitlyn (Drew’s girlfriend) started her career today as an Academic Advisor just across campus from me. So proud of her. I’m supposed to… Read More »

iSpy #58

By | February 12, 2022

Spot in Town – Quarterly This is taken from the corner of campus called Toomer’s corner, which faces Toomer’s Drugs. Starts with Y I’ve been racking my brain for a “Y” shot and then I saw this one. Well, duh! Last weekend was our church’s Youth Winter Retreat. Here’s a picture of Alex and his… Read More »

Monthly Digest – January 2022

By | February 10, 2022

LIFE Happenings Hiking Read more in my weekly posts: Week 1 & 2 Week 3 Loving This season of The Amazing Race. Happy that Alex is back to enjoying his Rubix cubes and such again. This is the new one he got with some Christmas money. Excited Auburn’s Men Basketball team ranked #1. Disappointments Upsetting… Read More »

Watching & Listening – January 2022

By | February 9, 2022

I have always just included a list of shows/movies/podcasts/music that we enjoy on my end of month summary posts. However, this year I decided to break it out into its own post like many other bloggers do. This post took WAY too long to put together, that’s why its so late getting posted. I’m not… Read More »

Currently::Feb 2022

By | February 8, 2022

loving this Lantana Avocado Hummus, which I get at Publix. It’s a bit spicy and so so good! making plans for a trip to St. Louis in April with Rob as he will be attending a conference there. taking hmm…this one’s hard. I’ve been taking forever to write my “Watching and Listening” post for Jan.… Read More »

iSpy #57

By | February 5, 2022

plant – quarterly chaos – This is NOT how this drawer normally looks. That could be dangerous! No this is what I sometimes do when I’m unloading the dishwasher. I take the 2 silverware baskets and dump them into my silverware drawer and then organize from there. In my mind, I think its faster, but… Read More »

Hosting a Healthy Dinner Party: Menu Ideas

By | February 2, 2022

The time has come for you to host a dinner party with all of your closest friends. However, they are all currently on a health kick and you need to cater for their dietary requirements. How do you cook a delicious and impressive meal that doesn’t just consist of spinach and arugula? Well, there are… Read More »

3 Ways to Find More Time to Travel

By | February 1, 2022

When you’re old and looking back on your life, what are the things you’ll remember most fondly? It won’t be the expensive jewelry you owned like the pink diamond jewelry by Rare Colors or your fancy clothes. Instead it’ll be the memories you made and the relationships you built. You will reminisce about the time… Read More »

Week 4 [2022]

By | January 31, 2022

Here’s a few pics from this last week…January 24-30, 2022 One day this week, I got to work early and snapped this shot as I walked in. I got a text from Drew saying he wanted a poster of the mock up Sports Illustrated cover that has been circulating on social media since we went… Read More »