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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 that the Erasure concert I got tickets to for Christmas was completely cancelled due to some band member family issues. Dreading I hate making decisions. It stresses me out and there was a lot of that and still a lot more of that to come.…
LIFE Happenings its been a crazy month! Week 48 & 49 [2021] Loving time off work. Happy for this time of year to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Excited about leaving for the cruise on Christmas Day. Disappointments cancelling our cruise. Dreading getting back to real life after the holidays. Reminiscing about our Christmas Cruise 2016. Social had a ‘normal’ Christmas minus Rob’s sister and her family due to the C-word. Work Memories hardly any applications for student worker positions for Spring semester, which is bad since I have 170 hours to get covered. Will have to do another round…
I’m really behind with this post, but I didn’t just not want to post it. LIFE Happenings Week 44 Week 45 Week 46 & 47 Loving that we got the shelving done in our kitchen! Happy with the way Auburn played against Bama. What an epic game! We still didn’t win, but we played our hearts out. Excited that we’re in the holiday season. Although, it can be stressful and there are parts I could do without, I always look forward to time off. Reminiscing About previous Thanksgivings… This is from 2013 in Florida. Social Not sure I’ve talked about…
LIFE Happenings Rob and Drew went to the Braves vs Dodgers NLCS Game Loving the cooler temps lately! Happy that Auburn beat LSU! Excited that the Braves are playing in the World Series! Reminiscing With Alex going to homecoming his senior year just last week, I’ve been thinking back to Drew’s senior year homecoming. Social Nothing much except hanging out with folks while helping with the homecoming dinner. Work Memories Vaccines being required to keep job! Click to read the article Lesson Learned Life is full of surprises. Current Project I haven’t accomplished much this month, but I did try…
This isn’t the typical Monthly Digest, but instead I’m just including the happy things and I’m just going to leave it at that! ♥️ LIFE Happenings Went to an Auburn Game And a Braves Game Happy on my birthday, despite being sung to and having the waitress put whip cream on my nose and chin. Reminiscing back to just good times. This is from a soccer trip for a tournament that Drew had in Greenville, SC back in 2010. Work Memories missing a lot of it and hiring 2 new students. I’ve had so many people needing to change their…
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…
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…
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…
This month I was happy about: my hip pain is better. Hoping it stays that way. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies I watched were: no movies TV Shows I watched were: Good Girls (NBC App) Season 4 ✓ For Life (ABC App) Season 2 ✓ Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) ✓ ✓ – Finished Season 1 This is Us (NBC App) ♥ ♥ New Amsterdam…
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 pain (sciatica) coming back. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies…
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. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies I watched were: No movies TV Shows I watched were: Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) ✓ Can watch here and there. No a show I’m able…
This month I was happy about: Just still loving being able to work from home the majority of the time. I know this will end in the coming months, so I’m relishing in it while I can. This month I was sad about: This month has been pretty stressful. My anxiety has been probably as worse as it’s ever been. I’m finding it harder to be out in public or in certain situations and I know it’s because of COVID. I’m not sure I want to try some anxiety meds, but I might ask my doctor. Here’s my rating system…
This month I was happy about: good medical news. This month I was sad about: family members getting COVID. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies I watched were: Don’t think I watched any movies TV Shows I watched were: Brothers and Sisters (ABC App) ♥ ♥ finished the show. So sad it’s over. Southern Charm (Bravo App) finished Season 7 ♥ ♥ The Good…
This month I was happy about: Christmas of course! Time off work. More time with Drew & Caitlyn. This month I was sad about: just trying not to be sad this month. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies I watched were: Fred Claus ✓ ✓ Elf ♥ Babes in Toyland ✓ ✓ Christmas Vacation ♥ ♥ TV Shows I watched were: Brothers and Sisters (ABC…
This month I was happy about: having a little break for Thanksgiving. This month I was sad about: just been kind of in the dumps here and there throughout this month. Not for any other reason that just tired and stressed, I guess. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies I watched were: Alex and I watched a bunch of movies. Happy Death Day! – ♥…