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    Memories, Dreams, and Reflections 2022

    December 31, 2022 - By 

    Happy New Year, Yall! Here we are another year down. No truer words were said than the days are long, but the years are fast. This post shares my memories, dreams, and reflections from this year. I got the idea from Ashley’s blog, which is no longer updated. See the bottom of the post for the ‘rules.’ 1. Me!   2. I Love You My family at Thanksgiving. 3. Still Laughing… Lots of laughs this year, which is never a bad thing! The Dolphin experience in Blue Lagoon Island near Nassau Bahamas was so fun. This made us laugh! Caitlyn’s face…

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    Monthly Digest – November 2022

    December 2, 2022 - By 

    November was actually a long month for me, but then again I still can’t believe it’s almost December. It’s the Christmas season and I’m just not sure I’m ready for that. LIFE Happenings We had our yearly crawl space inspection and its a good thing because the pipe coming from our kitchen sink had a huge hole in it. Perhaps professionals, who may know the cost to jet sewer line, can fix that. This meant that everything from the sink including all the stuff from the disposal was emptying out into the crawl space. Yuck! Luckily we were able to…

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    Double Date in Atlanta

    November 21, 2022 - By 

    This past weekend Drew had planned a date day for he and Caitlyn. We ended up tagging along as we thought we were going to be doing some wedding stuff that day up in Atlanta, but ended up not having to. It was a surprise for me and Caitlyn. All we knew was dress comfy-cute, having brunch before the main ‘thing’ and just seeing where the day took us after that. Caitlyn chose Egg Harbor Cafe for brunch. There was a wait, but our food came out super fast and it was delicious. They have a good gluten free menu.…

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    A Sad Goodbye

    November 16, 2022 - By 

    I mentioned we had to go out of town for a funeral. I had started writing details about what happened, but really this isn’t my story to share. What I will share is that Drew’s fiance’s mom passed away. At 47… It wasn’t a surprise. She’s been sick for years. It was still the saddest thing. During our time down in Florida, I had 2 new experiences. 1. I witnessed someone on their death bed. That is hard. The beautiful thing that I witnessed, however, was getting to see Drew comfort Caitlyn as she sat there and watched her mom…

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    Monthly Digest – October 2022

    October 26, 2022 - By 

    How is it almost November?!?! It is just crazy to think how quickly time goes by even though the days often drag by. Anyone else feel that? LIFE Happenings Rob and I watched Drew’s dog, Bigsby for an extended weekend earlier in the month, when he and Caitlyn had to go to Florida. We took Bigsby and Kayleigh for a walk. Loving I am trying hard to love exercising. Right now, Kayleigh and I are walking 5 days a week. I’m also doing some arm exercises 3 times a week. I’m kind of at a stand still already with my…

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    Watching & Listening – Sept/Oct 2022

    October 25, 2022 - By 

    Time for another Watching & Listening post. And as always remember, this post does not include anything I watch on YouTube. That gets it’s own post. Jump to:  TV Shows  |  Podcasts  |  Music I thought I’d start out by updating shows I watched over the summer and letting you know what I thought about those. New Shows This Summer – Did not finish either of these. Not to say I won’t go back and finish at some point, but just not feeling either of these still. Breaking Bad (Netflix) Surviving Summer (Netflix) New Seasons – Summer Virgin River –…

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    A Day in the Life::a Tuesday in October 2022

    October 20, 2022 - By 

    I always have such great intentions of keeping up with a day so I can write a day in the life post and at some point I forget so I only have half day recorded. I actually did it this time! I love reading these type posts and it’s always fun to look back remember. Here’s what a Tuesday is like for me… 6:30am Every morning I drag myself out of bed, but seeing Kayleigh laying in all the different way she lays never gets old. Here she is on a different morning. I’m a pretty low maintenance kind of…

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    Monthly Digest – September 2022

    September 28, 2022 - By 

    Another month has flown by. Here’s my Monthly Digest for September 2022! LIFE Happenings We had a great Labor Day weekend. Rob went to Atlanta one Friday morning and instead of driving he took the Groom Transportation which takes people from Auburn to the Atlanta airport. He did this because he was meeting some vendors he works with that were in Atlanta for conference earlier in the week. They were going to talk business for the afternoon and take in a Braves game. One of the guys, Jeff is from the Boston area. He and Rob have bonded over zoom…

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    Labor Day Weekend 2022

    September 21, 2022 - By 

    We had a really good Labor Day weekend, so I thought I’d share about it. On Saturday, it was the 1st Auburn football game of the season. Rob had to get to the stadium early for work, so I rode with Drew & Caitlyn to campus. It was a fun game. In the 2nd half there was lightening, which we couldn’t see. It ended up getting closer, so the game was delayed. We hung out in the corridors of the stadium, but we kept seeing lots of lightening. We elected to wait for the rain to slow down and then…

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    Monthly Digest – August 2022

    August 31, 2022 - By 

    How is it almost September? Life flies by in blink doesn’t it? Anyone else using the BeReal app? If you are, add me>> lysha00 Everyday at a different time, everyone is notified simultaneously to capture and share a Photo in 2 Minutes. A new and unique way to discover who your friends really are in their daily life. Only you can see this your “Memories” LIFE Happenings Lots of wedding planning. Loving that I’m working on getting my house clean. Here are some before pics. Happy I love owls and I saw this while shopping in Cozumel on our cruise.…

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    Watching & Listening – Summer 2022

    August 16, 2022 - By 

    As mentioned back in April, we were behind on all our DVR TV watching then and so we spent all summer trying to catch up! We are just now wrapping up the last show. Jump to:  TV Shows  |  Podcasts  |  Music TV Shows New Shows This Summer Breaking Bad (Netflix) Surviving Summer (Netflix) Breaking Bad – I’m only a few episodes in. While I don’t enjoy portions of (murder and drug use), there seems to be less of that now and the plot is really starting to get interesting. Surviving Summer (Netflix) started off and I was really enjoying,…

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    Monthly Digest – July 2022

    August 9, 2022 - By 

    Here’s another monthly digest. LIFE Happenings lots and lots of traveling and wedding planning. Loving Virgin River Season 4. Happy All the travels Excited that Drew & Caitlyn have a date and the venue booked for their wedding! Reminiscing about our first trip to the mountains for the 4th. Read about that here. Social I honestly think we were just too busy to be social. Work Memories Interviews the day after being gone for two weeks, but gotta get students hired. Lesson Learned in the Bahamas you drive on the right side of the road in the normal American driver’s…

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    Monthly Digest – June 2022

    June 30, 2022 - By 

    Here we are again….another monthly digest. How was June for you? If I had to sum it up in one word I would says Sweaty! It is just so hot and humid. LIFE Happenings Rob and I along with his brother Nick took a road trip to Omaha for the College World Series. Going through pics for that post now. I babysat for 2 full weekends over at my sis-in-law’s house. Here I am with the youngest this past weekend. Loving all my new Apple Watch bands. I need to take some pics of the new ones. I’m kind of…

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    Monthly Digest – May 2022

    June 6, 2022 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Basically we’ve been party animals in May, and I’m exhausted! haha Our good family friend’s son (who is also a good friend of our son, Drew) got married. Alex graduated! Drew bought a house and we threw him a housewarming party. Loving that May is over! Ha! Happy it’s summer. Excited to hopefully be done with year end performance reviews in the next week. Writing these are tedious and a bit aggravating with the new form we have to use this year. Dreading Alex possibly having his wisdom teeth out this month. Reminiscing about our Drew’s epic graduation…

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    Big News!!

    June 3, 2022 - By 

    I’ve hinted around that my older son, Drew, has been doing some major ‘adulting’ lately. He bought a house! So exciting! He finally got the keys the Sunday before Memorial Day. We decided that since family would in town for Alex’s graduation that this would be great timing to go ahead and throw a housewarming party. Read along to find out how it went… We had quite the spread of food Lots of family and friends After allowing time to make sure everyone was there, we had the 3 grandfathers come up one by one and give advice and a…

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    Monthly Digest – April 2022

    May 8, 2022 - By 

    Traveling at the end of the month really messes me up when it comes to blogging! Here we are for another Monthly Digest! LIFE Happenings Why is that at the end of every month I can’t remember all that went on!?!?! That’s the exact reason I write these posts. Haha! -Saw Toto & Journey in concert in New Orleans -Bridal shower for our friend’s finance -Easter -Watched my nephew play LaX Loving when we get to eat lunch with Drew. Happy for safe and fun travels we had in April. Excited for a crazy busy month. Dreading change. I’ll just…

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    Watching & Listening – April 2022

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    In April, we kind of just held steady with all the same shows. We are trying to catch up on our DVR from being gone 2+ weeks in March and April. Here is my previous posts to show what we’re catching up on… January 2022 – February 2022 – March 2022 I have started watching some new YouTube channels, but I’ll share those in a YouTube post at some point. In case you missed my Spring YouTube watching post. Music In April I listed to a lot more of Journey. I already listen to them quite a bit on the…

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    Monthly Digest – March 2022

    April 11, 2022 - By 

    Here we are nearly halfway through April and I realized I hadn’t written my monthly digest for March. So here we are… LIFE Happenings We celebrated Alex’s birthday. Still can’t believe my baby is 18! Did a few rounds of physical therapy for my right shoulder and arm. https://acameraandacookbook.com/week-8-9-2022/ Week 10 Loving the weather right now. Not ready for it to get really hot though. Happy I’ve started listening to Audio books. I’ve got a couple from March I still need to write about. Excited that Auburn baseball is doing so well. Dreading nothing in April that I can think…

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    Watching & Listening – March 2022

    March 31, 2022 - By 

    WOW! Here we are wrapping up another month. Here’s what I watched this month. Jump to: Movies  |  TV Shows  |  Music Movies Begin Again – (Netflix) Not really sure how I feel about this movie. I watched it on the plane coming back from Miami and while I fell asleep for a bit, I went back and watched the bit I missed. It stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, and James Corden. Anyone else watched this one? TV Shows New Shows This Month True Detective – Season 3 (HBOMax) Pieces of Her (Netflix) The Thing about Pam (NBC)…

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    Monthly Digest – February 2022

    February 24, 2022 - By 

    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 use a straw since I drink unsweet tea that is making my teeth less white. I got this Ello Beacon Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Tumbler. I ordered Senneny Set of 6 Straws straws separately and really like them as well. Happy Happy to be finished…