This month went really fast. How is it December?!?!? But then I look at pictures and realize I started this month picking flowers from my backyard and gasping, more than one morning, at how many BLUE morning glories I had blooming. I'm ending it in full Christmas mode with chilly days and a tree in my house. I RAN this month which was only a few weeks ago but also feels like a really long time ago.
There was a lot of Christmas prep and some crazy weeks but also, a lot of goodness. Thanksgiving weekend was wonderful and now I'm back to Christmas nearly all the time which brings me, mostly, joy. BUT...how is 2023 in less than a month?!?!?!?
Looking back:
1 year ago: {12} Cozy December Reads for Grown-Ups
2 years ago: The Holidays Will Look Different This Years
3 years ago: The Best Target Black Friday Deal (they no longer do this and I lament that every year)
4 years ago: Viva Las Vegas! (look at me with a baby and getting travel posts up quick!)
5 years ago: {7} Favorite Kitchen Gadgets (I still use all these items, other than a few having been replaced for an upgraded version.)
6 years ago: Beauty in the Morning (I still miss this, all the time, darn school start times.)
7 years ago: Sew Me a Tote Bag (in 30 minutes of less) - I still use these all the time!
8 years ago: {4} Ingredient Home-Style Potato Soup (I still eat this, so much, in the winter. Including 45 minutes ago.)
9 years ago: Helpful Hints: Make New Candles, Get Rid of the Old (I still do this, burning one of the consolidated ones right now!)
10 years ago: It's Almost the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
11 years ago: Kitchen Project
12 years ago: Guess What We Did This Weekend? (every time I see pictures from this project I remember how we got infertility news while we were in the middle of this and it was HORRIBLE to have that heartbreak on top of our house being a disaster)
13 years ago: On Vacation!
1) Picking flowers, many of them, from my yard in November. That is crazy.
2) Still some gorgeous trees earlier this month!
3) My shirt almost matched the morning glories.
4) Seriously, so many BLUE morning glories at the start of the month. It was AMAZING. The most I've ever had, by far.
5) I decided to stop using the stroller when we just walk to pickup (we did run to pickup a few times still and used one) and it's lovely that he'll still hold my hand.
6) Date with Matt to start on the will process AND try a new coffee place. One of those was much cheaper than the other.
7) Rode our bikes downtown in November to see Santa going up! It's not always it's still warm enough to do that by the time they are working on Santa!
8) Same bike ride, had a very tight schedule to make this happy, sun setting over the river!
9) Some rare and brief quiet time to read.
10) Photo by Sam. I was probably working on my to-do list OR my secondary to-do list. Never enough lists.
11) I WON Memory again both boys. I document this every time it happens.
12) Making first 2 batches of chex mix of the season! I just made the second double batch this morning!
13) Night of Lights downtown!
14) Addressing my Christmas cards while watching The Family Stone and this is one of my favorite solo evenings of the entire year. I LOVE IT.
15) Black Friday and getting out all my bottle brush and other trees. I honestly had fewer than I thought.
16) Occasional 50° day means we got to decorate outside without freezing! Some years I can't feel my fingers when I do this!
Books finished: 13, respectable but still my worst reading year (quantity wise) since 2016!
Miles ran: 12.5, made it my 3rd most miles since I've been tracking! (8 years!)
Currently watching: We just finished The Book Of Boba Fett (which really should have been called The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian and Grogu) so I think we start Kenobi this weekend but we've also been sprinkling in Christmas episodes, I just finished the last of the Friends Christmas episodes last night!
Most read post this month: It's Stripping: Laundry Style, again! So many people have read that post that it's making me think I should strip my laundry again.
Luke's current favorite song: "All Star" by Smash Mouth. He sings this CONSTANTLY. It's very much high school era for Matt & I!
Sam's current favorite song: "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" by Andy Williams
December brings ALL THE CHRISTMAS ALL THE TIME. I am not ready to think about what happens when Christmas ends!
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