Happy February and the final weeks of winter (according to me and only me). I am writing this though with the porch door open, it's 50° outside, and Matt WALKED to school pick-up, the first time either of us have done that since November. However, I am fully expecting some more snow before March. And probably in March too.
I just watched a story on Jenna Fischer's Instagram where she was talking about how she expected this new year to be less hectic than the Christmas season but that has not been the case. I can completely relate to that. We are deep into our first wrestling season with an intense 4 weeks ahead of us. I am on FOUR committees at church/school (had 4 meetings for those in January). One is wrapping up very soon for the year although maybe not soon enough for my sanity (there was a day this week I just texted Matt: "I am so stressed. I am so stressed."). Life is BUSY but looking forward to about March when many things will settle down...other than birthdays and the parties that come with those and you know, general life. There is value to our kids doing sports, just didn't realize the stress it would give me!
Anyways, life is good but full.
Looking back:
1 year ago: Author Love: Sara Ackerman
2 years ago: Things I Like - January (I still wear #1 all the time)
3 years ago: Book Love: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4 years ago: {18} Winter Picture Books (solid list, we've read or have on hold all of these for this winter too)
5 years ago: Book Love: The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (I've actually thought about this book A LOT lately)
6 years ago: Basement Pantry - Organized
7 years ago: Book Love: Big Magic (and why I think you should blog)
8 years ago: A big project: Photography organizing (I still do this almost identical to what I outline here!)
9 years ago: Office renovations
10 years ago: Things I Like - January (I actually still have 4 of these! I reference one below!)
1) Puzzling! A lot of puzzling in January. Happy to have my puzzle table back for now. (It is taken down in the summer and fall, no time!)
2) Family fun day before Luke went back to school after Christmas. It's an adventure!
3) Checking out Electric Works downtown and even the bathrooms were nice and redone!
4) Electric Works food hall, this whole place was cool and it feels like Fort Wayne will be getting some recognition for this.
5) My annual Christmas break frozen coke. Mmmmm. I used to get one every week but now it's only a handful a year and I treasure each one.
6) The saddest part of Christmas - taking it all down. This isn't even all the bottle brush trees I had just in our bedroom...
7) Scone and reading on a Friday. It's delightful.
8) I hate taking down Christmas but I appreciated the simplcity of this view once it was done!
9) January date with Matt. Delicious tacos that fed me for 2 days.
10) More puzzles with Waitress. I watch this movie every January and this was my first time watching it since I saw the musical last spring!
11) A snow day with e-learning. This was cup of tea number 2 for the day. It was A DAY.
12) The snow just kept coming. There was a lot of it.
13) Headed out on a walk in the snow with the family. My moon snow boots are ridiculous but I've had them 14 years or something and have never regretted that purchase.
14) Coming home from somewhere...I don't often see this view in heavy snow because I am trying to leave my house as little as possible...
15) Blue skies and snow! I love when this happens. Also because it helps clear up the streets.
16) I bought these plate hangers from my sister a year ago, at least. Finally used them to hang the plate Luke colored me in kindergarten and the plate Matt colored his mom when he was in kindergarten. And then also an Alamo plate our goddaughter gave us for Christmas.
Books finished: 14, a respectable start to the year!
Miles ran: 0.0 Too cold and snowy/icy!
Currently watching: I've started Valentine's episodes and am still trying to catch up with The Office Ladies podcast. Matt & I are back to the Marvel tv shows on Disney+ after catching up with Star Wars. She-Hulk isn't great.
Most read post this month: Still Stripping: Laundry Style and then {9} Things Saving Me This Winter
Luke's current favorite song: "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n Roses. This one is fully thanks to our Guitar Hero 3 for PS2 that we have in the basement that Luke really loves getting to play sometimes.
Sam's current favorite song: "Bad Boys" as in, the theme from Cops. A show he's definitely never seen. But he's dancing to it next to me right now as I play the Youtube video.
February brings the end of winter, SO MUCH wrestling, and Valentine's Day!
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