Thursday, March 6, 2025

Looking Back at February 2025

February was a month.  It was cold at times but got a little warmer towards the end of the month.  There's been a lot going on but also sometimes not.  I still try to get in all my reading, as you can see below, that means I need to read when and where I can. The boys had an extra long weekend mid-month which was nice.  February isn't my least favorite month (that's January) but it doesn't always have a lot going for it. 

Looking back:
1 year ago: Losing SAHM Status
2 years ago: Author Love: Katherine Center
3 years ago: {12} STEM {ish} Picture Books Series
4 years ago: The Molly Murphy Series by Rhys Bowen
5 years ago: Book Love: Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar
6 years ago: {11} Picture Books Featuring Food
7 years ago:
Book Love: How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids by Jancee Dunn
8 years ago:
Homemade Goo Gone
9 years ago: Photography part 3 - Back That Up
10 years ago:
Attacking the Problem Areas: Painting the Craft/Office Cupboard (finally)
11 years ago: Kool-Aid Cookies
12 years ago: Things I Like - February
13 years ago:
Intake



1) Reading during swim lessons.
2) Really weird hail, it sounded weird.
3) Reading at the dentist while both boys were back for their cleanings.
4) Lots of hearts!  We've been making Valentines for years and I hate wasting the edges of the paper from cutting hearts so I've been cutting lots of increasingly tinier hearts from the scraps.  For years.  So now we have a lot but also have lots of options for making Valentines!
5) Reading at home, I did do that too.
6) The bathroom, I rearrange these shelves with some regularity but a few of those pieces have been there for nearly 11 years!
7) Reading at swim lessons (that was the best part of swim lessons, a guaranteed 35 minutes to read in my week, also the pool room was very warm which was nice when outside was not).
8) Finally hung a planter my Dad made us for Christmas over a year ago! Plant is still alive!
9) Kool-Aid cookies which we ate much faster than we should have.
10) Also have a disco ball planter which got hung as well.  That plant is also still alive.
11) Reading at the orthodontist office. 
12) Finishing a puzzle I had been working on for awhile! 

Books finished: 15!
Miles ran: 2.0 and it was terrible
Currently watching: Matt & I have actually been watching movies!  Pretty much what we can find streaming.  For Valentine's weekend we rewatched Crazy Stupid Love where we sat through Hulu commercials because neither of us wanted to walk all the way down to the basement to get the DVD...(it's not that far)
Most read post this month: Things Saving my Winter and then DIY Strawberries & Cream Oatmeal
Sam's favorite song: I've stopped asking the boys this but Sam volunteered "If you are doing that survey where you want to know my favorite song...it's 'Everybody Wants to be a Cat'".  We recently watched The Aristocats.

March is a birthday for each of the boys, lent, a joint birthday party, making it over halfway through the semester, our second niece wedding of the year, and hopefully some warmer weather!