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    My Earliest Childhood Memory

    April 12, 2024 - By 

    I write privately in a journal app called Day One. They have a lot of series that you can join in and add to your journal, which I think are a lot of fun. Gives me something else to write about besides the normal day to day happenings. I decided since I’m going to be out of commission for bit that I would share some of those entries here and schedule them now, which I’m recovering for surgery. This most recent challenge is about your Personal History. What are my earliest childhood memories? I’m not sure which are actual memories…

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    Monthly Digest::3.2024

    March 28, 2024 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 – post coming next week Loving the show The Resident. I started watching this a couple weeks ago and could totally binge it. However, I decided to slow down/stop watching it so I have something good to watch during my recovery at home. Happy to have my surgery scheduled. Excited Not sure if I’m really excited about anything in particular. Disappointments That Auburn Men’s Basketball team lost the 1st round in March Madness. Dreading surgery and the recovery. Reminiscing I’ve really been…

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    Monthly Digest::2.2024

    February 29, 2024 - By 

    Happy Leap Day, yall! Here we are for February’s Monthly Digest. Another month gone in the blink of an eye. LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Loving My new laptop set up at work Happy The weather has been pretty nice lately. Excited For Survivor and Amazing Race to be starting soon. Disappointments Bummed about having to have surgery on my left shoulder (trying to wait till May). Reminiscing Drew & Caitlyn celebrated 1 year wedding anniversary earlier this week and I just still can’t get over what…

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    Monthly Digest::1.2024

    February 1, 2024 - By 

    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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    Monthly Digest – December 2023

    January 5, 2024 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 48 Week 49 Week 50 Week 51-52 Loving the holidays Happy getting to spend so much time with the boys and their girls Excited for a new year and a new start Reminiscing about the holidays. Social Rob and I went to a NYE party with our old Sunday School class. Work Memories not much of anything special really Lesson Learned 4 grown adults can coexist in a 205 square foot cabin happily. Current Project Trying to figure out what I want to change about blogging for this new…

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    Monthly Digest – November 2023

    November 30, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 44 Week 45-46 Week 47 Loving the cooler weather. Happy for this time of year…I guess. More on that below… Excited to go on our cruise in December! Reminiscing This is the time of year to think back to previous Thanksgivings and Christmases. Social In November, we went to some friends’ house for our bible study and fellowship. Work Memories My boss is moving to another position in the library, which is a total bummer. He will still oversee our department and if I decide to apply for his…

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    Monthly Digest – October 2023

    November 1, 2023 - By 

    Happy November!! These months just continue to fly by. LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 39 Week 40 & 41 Week 42 Loving I am loving my slipper house shoes. I got these a few months ago and there just so soft and cozy. Happy that the weather is cooler. Excited to be getting back into a better workout routine since the weather is tolerable now. Reminiscing about previous Halloweens Social Bible study on Wednesday nights and Sunday school Work Memories Had to have students sign an agreement about cell phone use while at the…

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    Monthly Digest – September 2023

    September 29, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 35 & 26 Week 37 & 38 Loving that it is finally feeling a bit like fall! Happy to celebrate my birthday this weekend. Excited for the weather to continue to be pretty (hopefully). Reminiscing back to other Septembers. I found this post I wrote last year about birthdays, which was fun to look back at. Social honestly…too much social this month. Totally draining and honestly its effecting my mental health. (Bucket draining) Work Memories Our new guy started and I’m happy to have that hiring process done. Let’s…

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    Monthly Digest – August 2023

    August 30, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another end of month post. Everything from the good and the bad talked about here! LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 32 Week 32 Week 33 Week 34 Loving I’m loving the No Sugar Added Klondike Ice Cream Bars. Yummy! I try to only eat 1 or 2 a week, but it’s hard when I know they’re in the freezer. Happy to be done with the our candidate search for the position that we had open in my department. We recently made the offer and it was accepted. This person should…

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    Monthly Digest – July 2023

    July 27, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 & 29 We were on our trip. Week 30 is happening now. 🙂 Loving just having down time at home. Work is super stressful right now, so I’m NOT loving that. Happy we had a great trip to New Jersey/New York and the cruise. Excited Meh! I’m honestly not excited about anything about it right now. Reminiscing With us being in NYC part of our trip, I’ve been thinking a lot about our previous trip to NYC in 2019. We also went to New…

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    Monthly Digest – June 2023

    June 30, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 – Texas Trip Loving some new podcasts that I’ll share at some point. Happy to finally have all the details booked for our trip in July. Just finished that last night! It’s been a bit of a struggle. Excited to see tomatoes starting to ripen. Hoping the bugs don’t get to them first! Reminiscing End of June (connected with 4th of July) is often when we take a short and sometimes long family trip. Sometimes we go with extended family. I’m just…

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    Monthly Digest – May 2023

    June 8, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Loving These Jalapeno Stuffed Olives. They have these at Walmart. Happy I got a lot accomplished these last couple weeks while Rob was out of town. Excited Rob is coming home soon after being gone for 2 weeks. Reminiscing A coworker was talking about his camping trip coming up in the Pensacola area and reminded me of our trip 2013 to Pensacola, FL with the cub scouts. Social had dinner with my friend Rebecca at Hamilton’s in Ogletree. Work Memories Got word…

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    Monthly Digest – April 2023

    May 3, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another Monthly Digest. LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 & 16 Week 17 Loving Some interesting new YouTube I found recently (while sick): All very, very different, but good in their own way… Meg Hughes – college girl in Ireland Peter Santenello – videos about a world the media fails to capture Tay BeepBoop – eccentric designer and DIYer Happy I’m happy to feeling a little better. Excited Not sure I’m excited about anything right now. Reminiscing about our trip to the dessert. I’ll share about…

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    Monthly Digest – March 2023

    April 7, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings It’s been a month of catch-up and clean up and trying to get back to normal…if that’s a thing. Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Loving These Trader Joe’s goodies are so good…don’t jive with my healthy eating, but a good little treat here and there. Trader Joe’s Mini Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Trader Joe’s Mini Dark Chocolate Mint Stars Happy The signs of spring and the warmer weather. Excited for our upcoming trip!! Reminiscing Honestly, not thinking back to any particular time right now. Social Rob…

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    Monthly Digest – February 2023

    March 11, 2023 - By 

    Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a great day! I’m over here just trying to get my house back to normal and getting caught up on blogging. Hoping one day to get into a good blogging routine. I feel like I’m always saying that. Anyway, here we are for another end of month post. If you want to see last month’s post first, it’s here >>> January LIFE Happenings Such a good month…We can just label February Wedding Month! So many nitty-gritty details. Schedules. Instructions. Since Rob and I were basically the wedding planners, making sure that all of the…

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    Monthly Digest – January 2023

    February 2, 2023 - By 

    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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    Monthly Digest – December 2022

    January 7, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings So December is always a busy time, but this December was even more action packed that I would prefer. Started off with a mammogram. Love the cute, pink shirts they have instead of the typical hospital gown. We have a new branch hospital in Auburn, which is where they have the Breast Health Center. This is where they do mammograms, ultrasounds, biopsies, etc. I was very happy to get an clear letter in the mail the week after. Rob, his brother, Nick, and I went to the Gouge Performing Arts Center to see Post Modern Jukebox (PMJ). This…

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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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    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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    Granny’s House

    October 18, 2022 - By 

    This is a post I wrote on FB the morning I found out my Granny’s house had been listed for sale. I knew it was coming, so it wasn’t a complete shock. Granny is my Mom’s mom who passed away in 2015. My Granny’s house is for sale in North Richland Hills, TX. I’d love for a sweet family to make this their home and make wonderful memories like I did growing up. As I looked through the pictures of this empty house which can be sold on housereal.net, memories flood my brain. All the banana nut bread, chicken and…