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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Monthly Digest – November 2021

    December 7, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Monthly Digest – October 2021

    October 28, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Monthly Digest – September 2021

    October 1, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Monthly Digest – August 2021

    August 25, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Monthly Digest – July 2021

    July 28, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Memories of the Month {6.2021}

    July 2, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Memories of the Month {5.2021}

    June 7, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Memories of the Month {4.2021}

    April 30, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Memories of the Month {3.2021}

    April 4, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    Memories of the Month {2.2021}

    February 26, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    I hadn’t thought of you today…

    December 26, 2020 - By 

    Frank Zappa…a name I heard as Rob read from book that he got for Christmas. As he read he said the name “Frank Zappa”…in my head “Dad loved the Zappa family and their music.” Then I remembered what today was… 2013 the family and I were in the air on an airplane. You can read about that here. This combination of days. Christmas and the day after. Christmas such joy and elation. Soaking in the family moments. Yesterday on my Timehop app a cropped pic of this popped up. It was Dad’s last Christmas (which we knew would be the…

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    Memories of the Month {11.2020}

    December 1, 2020 - By 

    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! – ♥…

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    Memories of the Month {10.2020}

    October 31, 2020 - By 

    This month I was happy about: continuing to get to work from home at least for a little longer. Getting a negative cancer result of my Endoscopy. Getting work done to the house. Refinancing our house with a much lower interest rate. This month I was sad about: more house issues that we have to have looked at. 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…