January felt like a mix of adventure, routine, and a whole lot of real life, good and bad! From travel days to tough days to sweet family moments, here’s how the month unfolded, one sentence at a time.
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Starting this post has been a whole journey in itself. I had most of it written, stepped away, came back…and somehow the bulk of it had vanished into thin air. Not in revisions, not hiding anywhere…just gone. So here I am, rewriting it, and you know how the second round never feels quite the same. But life has been full lately, and I still want to capture it, even if I’m piecing it back together. LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Loving two shows on Netflix: North of…
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Heading to the Tampa Area Picked up the girls from their respective homes and made our way down to Tampa. Ate lunch at Chick-fil-a on the way down, which is funny because Elly works at a CFA. The girls really wanted to go to the beach, but we were going to get their after dark. Stopped at Clearwater Beach, watched some street performers, and then found a spot for dinner. Ate at Frenchy’s for dinner Day 1 – Boarding the Carnival Miracle Had breakfast at the hotel Drove to cruise port Got acquainted with the ship and finally got to…
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Week 5: Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2026 Here’s what life looked like in a few pics from last week.
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Week 4: Jan. 19-25, 2026 Here we are again for another little weekly summary pulled straight from the snapshots on my iPhone, the small moments that ended up meaning the most.
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Week 3: Jan. 12-18, 2026 Another week wrapped up, and January is still keeping me guessing…Somehow fast and slow at the same time. How are you feeling about it?
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Week 2: Jan. 5-11, 2026 Week 2 turned into one of those weeks with plenty happening both inside and outside the house. Rob missed nearly a full week of work with this terrible sinus stuff going around, and the rest of the days were a mix of busy moments at Neville, odd little things around home, and a sweet visit from my tiniest regular.
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Hey y’all! I’m catching up on my end‑of‑year posts and travel posts from last year, but I’m also hoping to stay on top of my 2026 weekly updates. I switched to biweekly posts last year, and honestly, that made it too easy to forget and fall behind. So this year I’m going back to weekly recaps. I’m also going back to the conciseness of the collage.
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Today I’m sharing what I’ve been watching so far this year. I decided for 2025 I will do these every other month and include my YouTube watching in this post as well. Jump to: Movies | TV Shows | YouTube | Podcasts | Music Movies/Documentaries Jailbreak: Love on the Run (Netflix) American Murder: Gabby Petito (Netflix) The Forge (Netflix) Jailbreak: Love on the Run tells the story of an Alabama correction officer that falls in love with a man awaiting trial for murder and risks it all to help him escape. Really interesting, especially since its something that happened…
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Here’s another biweekly post of some of the happenings… Jan. 29 – Another gorgeous sunset Feb. 2 – We went over to the Auburn University baseball stadium. It was a beautiful day and they were having a preseason scrimmage. We also wanted to checkout the stadium renovations. Dinner at Walk-On’s and what we found out the next day was that they closed permanently that night! so sad. I’m also mad I didn’t get my favorite meal there since it was my last opportunity to do so. Feb. 5 – Visiting L.A. in the NICU in Montgomery on her birthday. Read…
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LIFE Happenings Cruise Snow days AU Basketball AU Gymnastics Week 1 & 2 Week 3 & 4 Loving The Apple TV+ show SHRINKiNG with Harrison Ford and Jason Segel. Happy that January is over?!?!? Excited for Granddaughter to be here this month! Work Memories The never ending cycle of training thanks to having to cancel our big training day because of an unnecessary snow day. Current Project Trying to get caught up with blog posts. Getting house clean and organized again. Drew is going to be a dad very soon. Alex has been coming to Sunday lunches and I just…
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Jan. 20 – MLK Day! We went to lunch with Caitlyn at Yaki Bowl. So yum! Jan. 21 – Snow Day #1! Work from home *eye roll* Over at Drew & Caitlyn’s house Meanwhile at my house… Katniss wasn’t sure what to think. So cold…this helped warm the house up. Jan. 22 – Snow Day #2! Work from home *eye roll* Jan. 23 – Snow Day#3! In office work day even though university was closed. Roads still icy in places Top of the deck at my building It was Drew’s birthday and he wanted to go to Baumhower’s. It ended…
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Here’s my weekly post. This is covering the 1st two weeks of the January. Jan. 10 – Everything was cancelled for this day, because it was a day we were supposed to have ice. This was the extent of the ice! Even though the university was closed, I still had to go to work. My boss is so awesome. He bought us pizza. Jan. 13 – Went to Rob’s office to help him move into his new space. Jan. 14 – Always love seeing rival school buses roll into the hotel across the street from my work. Rob and I…
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LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Loving I have had the calendar plugin on my blog for years, but this year I decided to make more use of it. I went through and added drafts for all the posts I want to write this month. Each week, I look at what I have drafts for, for that week and it helps me ensure I get those posts written and scheduled/posted. Happy Ugh…Not sure there’s one thing in particular I’m happy about really. Excited to plan our trips this…
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Ya’ll, I am so excited!! I am actually posting a recipe! I know, I’m about to pass out too. 😉 One of my goals this year is to post a new recipe every month. One a month, so by the end of the year there should be 12 new recipes. I would love to share more, but I need to start small. Anyway…I recently talked about the Stuffed Bell Peppers I made. I hadn’t made these in years and I was craving them a few weeks ago. This version doesn’t have any rice (low carb) and is also gluten free.…
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Wowzas, yall! Another week down. Here’s my (Jan. 31-Feb. 5, 2023) highlights… Monday I came home from work to find a bunch of packages. My neighbor across the street was like you must be Amazon’s favorite customer. I was like, well we got a wedding coming up so that’s what all this is for. Katniss hasn’t laid on my bed in awhile, but she made her way back to her spot early this week. Wednesday Alex and Madison came to hang out before they went to the basketball game. Thursday Alex and Madison came over to hang out with me.…
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Here we are for another end of month summary. LIFE Happenings It’s been a pretty good month. Since I’m doing my Weekly highlight posts again you can see all the happenings here: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Loving I have used the Collect Photo Journal Diary App keep a photo from each day to make a calendar like this at the end of each month. Happy I got to hang out with Buster right after the new year. But sad too, because Caitlyn and Drew made the difficult decision to put her 16 old dog Buster to…
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Hey yall! Here’s my (Jan. 23-30, 2023) highlights… Monday, Rob and I took a day to go to Montgomery to see my Fibromaylgia doctor. He was so happy with my how my health journey has gone since the last visit. Exercise, less sugar, less gluten, less carbs. He told me to go tell all my friends that this is key to being healthy not meds. He had them draw blood to check electrolytes and a couple other things. After my appointment we went to brunch at the Bubbly Hen I got the 3 meat Fritata with asparagus. Rob got the…
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With last week (Jan. 16-22, 2023) starting off with a holiday on Monday, those weeks often are the slowest weeks ever. I was happy that it seemed more normal and didn’t drag and drag. Our week started off with having the day off. Rob, Caitlyn, and I met at Amsterdam Cafe for our tasting. This where we’re having the rehearsal dinner. We’ve eaten there many times, but they offered this to help us determine what exactly we want to offer that night. We tried the salmon dip, fillet mignon, Rosemary fingerling potatoes, pork chop, and bread pudding. The sky one…
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I can’t decide if January is flying by or not. Here we are for Week 2 highlights (Jan. 9-15, 2023). At work we usually do a yearly department photo around Christmas, but we all had differing schedules. We ended up having to do the Monday we came back to work after being off 2 weeks. I showed up in a tshirt and sweatpants, because I forgot. At lunch I went home and got picture ready. My Sunday School class (which we joined at last fall) tries to do a monthly Women’s dinner. We went to El Ranchero. It was a…
