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Friday is my favorite day….

Good morning, Friday!!!

Friday. A beautiful sound. Even in summer. Especially if you work all summer. Friday. Ahhhhh.

Wrapping it up for the week with Jen and friends @ Conversion Diary….check ’em out!

1. After taking the girls to their annual physical last week, it was time for “The Talk” with our oldest girl. God provided a window and it went so well. She was very attentive. Lots of good questions. Phew!

2. GREAT workout week. Gym @ lunch twice already and boot camp twice. I even managed to somehow still walk after endless varieties of lunges and squats around an entire block. (OK, maybe not a REAL block, but a HUGE parking lot!!!

3. Our garden is huge!!! Who knew Hubby had such a green thumb. We have so many tomatoes that I am making homemade salsa this weekend….I even found my recipe!!!

4. I’m mid-process of moving my old blog from apple’s iWeb over to wordpress….8 days left….2 years to go….I think I can, I think I can!!! It’s crazy to think as user-friendly as apple is (for the most part) that they didn’t give more thought to helping people move their blogs more EASILY since they weren’t going to continue their service….I’ll continue to cut and paste, cut and paste, cut and paste!!!

5. Hubby got our youngest to the eye doctor and she’ll be sporting some specs…she’s thrilled….thankfully vision insurance will foot some of the price tag….OUCH! Eyes are important though!

6. Great date night with my Hubby this week for dinner out. Something about an uninterrupted conversation and finishing a thought……interesting concept, we must explore this more often!

7. I finally managed to get my morning time adjusted to summer and made it to work ON TIME the last 2 days……phew! Hate cutting my lunch short to adjust time. GRRRR…

Happy Weekend, now head on over to Conversion Diary!! 😉

Sleepy cat!!

Mayhem, chaos and sore glutes…

All good things must come to an end….until next year!!

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Thanks to The Treasure Trove (Lynnell), Dance Mommy’s Odyssey (Laura), Sempiternal (just call me AJ), The General (MB) , Redefining Normal (Brite), The Eagle’s Nest (Amanda), and Blog it ALL (Lea) for this month’s “Blog-Every-Day-in-May”. Or most days. Or some days. Or whatever you felt like days. It was fun and all good things must (PRAISE GOD FROM THE ROOFTOPS!!!) come to an end. (I know my Hubby is happy, too!) So we will all now return to our regularly planned blog schedule or non-schedule and I thought I’d wrap it up with what I gained from this little exercise Bloggapalooza.

In no specific order:

I gained new “Followers” this month….these lucky people automatically receive an email each time I post a new blog, so they never have to worry about missing one single minute detail of my life. Lucky, right? Well, in case you want to be lucky, too…just click on the “+Follow” in the top left of the screen…..see below….other handy-dandy tools, “Like” if you enjoy the post and “Reblog” if you really like it and want that to be your post on your blog. I didn’t even know what that WAS until Sempiternal “Reblogged” me…very cool indeed!
I found several new blogs along the way, one to encourage my fitness and health journey AND encourage my Faith walk like Clare @ Peak313Fitness. The woman loves her some Jesus and keeps the workouts fresh to constantly keep that temple humming and wondering what in the heck is coming next?!?
Ellie @ Emerald Pie. Her life in Ireland is fascinating to me, a world apart and yet no different in her daily life, challenges and busy-ness as a mom and wife. Her Irish scenery is AH!MAZING!!!!
Ex-pats and their very interesting lives in Dubai @ Circles in the Sand and Three years and home in Switzerland. Witty, insight and photos into other parts of the world, customs, differences in their “normal” lives and how they adjust and roll with each day.
A gem of thoughts to teach our daughters (though us parents and sons would benefit, too) from One Joyous Heart . Witty, dry, sometimes right on the edge of cracking, raw observations on motherhood and life to two very young and very close-in-age cutie-pies, Camp Patton (I see glimpses of myself when the girls were so very young at this stage….I want to hug her and tell her, keep taking pictures, take videos…they grow up and you. will. survive!!)
I’ll be keeping my day job. The only time I want to write is first thing in the morning…that 20 extra minutes or so (the “or so” often sets me running behind!) after my Quiet Time. I don’t think I’ll get a Nobel in those 20 minutes. Probably. Apparently you need to write often and enjoy it..another strike. Soooooooooo…..just press “Follow”…you’ll know when I update.
You can get lost for VERY. LONG. PERIODS. OF. TIME. on the internet. You might think I learned this from Facebook. Child’s play. There are so many flippin’ blogs out there. Thank goodness for my Reader, but then I often get sidetracked by hyperlinks to other blogs, then add them to my reader and boom….there goes another hour. CrAzAY!!!!
Stepping out of my comfort zone to share something I feel passionate about usually brings out my best writing. Over the next couple of months as I move my old mac blog over to WordPress (an EXTREMELY time-consuming process–one would think as “user-friendly” as apple generally is, that “THEY” would have made it easier to transfer blogs once they decided to no longer support mac blogs–but that is a whole other venting blog…) I will also add a page of “The best of….according to Hubby”.

This month I’ve celebrated Mother’s Day internationally, my birthday, my sister’s birthday, the end-of-the-year chaos, enjoyed new baby pictures, witnessed the ups and downs of a NICU baby doing her best to grow big and fat and go home (and won a T-shirt!), remembered the joys of maternity leave and the heartbreak of it ending, new house pictures, great words of encouragement, learned about Broadway plays, enjoyed recipes from new gardens and a world of LIFE happening.

So, this month comes to a close, but the blogging goes on. Maybe not everyday, but it goes on. Like life. So get out there and enjoy it!! And THANKS for visiting!!

Friday and I get to play “hooky”..

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Once again, it’s Friday and I’m recapping the week with Jennifer Fulwiler @ Conversion Diary and all her peeps. It’s a good way to summarize the week and since I’m “blogging everyday in May” it fills another post! So head over to Conversion Diary and check out everyone’s week and our little group as well to see what’s happenin’:

Laura

Lynnell

Apurva

Brite

Amanda

Lea

— 1 —

There’s been a lot of cake and goodies around here this week. Mother’s Day, my birthday. YIKES! At least I’ve been staying on my workout schedule and this week I’ve integrated the app myfitnesspal on my iPhone to help keep me accountable as I head into my Clean Eating next week. Why next week? Well, my mom’s here this week and my sis and her pals come in today, so I’m just being realistic…

— 2 —

Today I’ll actually have some time to look over the Clean Eating and pre-plan the week. That really is the key, the planning. I already do it for dinners for the week, I just need to apply it to my other meals so I don’t get in a rut. That’s the problem when I don’t plan, I just get in a rut, get bored and boom–I’m done. Besides, we also have our Anniversary coming up (18 years…holy cow, how did THAT happen?!?!), Hubby’s bday, our youngest daughter’s bday, Father’s Day. Guess those will be my “cheat” days 😉

— 3 —

We were able to get our mini-tape adapter to work and watch old home videos in our VHS (remember those?) player this last week. Oh, it’s sooooo funny to see how little the kids were and how our family changed as each kiddo entered in and rearranged the dynamics. Again. And a reminder (again) of how quickly time flies. And that I just didn’t enjoy those years enough.

— 4 —

Our youngest daughter’s dance recital is this weekend. Tomorrow will be a busy day. All the more to enjoy today!! She’s excited. So are we. (happy to watch the final product and happy to be done with dance for a while!!) With our family in town, she’ll have quite the cheering section!

— 5 —

The boys finished up their Faith Formation (Religious Ed, CCD…whatever you refer to it as, I can’t keep up with all the name changes..goodness!) and it worked out pretty well to homeschool them this year. It’s been a fabulous transition year back to “normal” for all of us and as the boys are fully engaged in puberty and getting too “cool” for church, it was a help to be able to do this with them one-on-one. We haven’t broken the “coolness” factor yet, but I imagine that will be a few more years, so we’ll just continue on and pray that we’ve built the foundation for them to always return to.

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We FINALLY got some much needed rain this week. Boy is our little garden happy!! So is our lawn. Amazing how quickly the plants green up with a little rain!

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Time to get these kiddos up and rocking since they have school today (snicker, snicker) and I can get to the gym before I go visit with my Mama and my aunt and my cousin and his daughter and wait for my sister. Get all that? Have a great day and a blessed weekend!

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