Busy busy day today! We leave tomorrow for vacation! Woohoo!! TO DO LIST: ✅ Get up early and pound out some WORK! (check. Was typing away and responding to emails by ~6 am). ✅ 8:30 a.m. super quick bang trim appointment. (done) 🔲 More work!! Data deadline met early (as of Wednesday p.m!)- yay! That's… Continue reading Day-before-vacation list
My reading has been quite mediocre lately. Things have just been busy. I know, it's not an excuse, but the reality is, there is only so much time in a day. And while it's always about choices, I've been finding I either need (or want) to do some other things with little windows of time… Continue reading Current reads
A pretty red winged blackbird on my walk yesterday morning 🙂 The last few weeks, I have noticed that my "toughest" days of the week are Tuesday and Wednesday. Probably not surprising, I guess- I feel like this might be the case for other people, too. Mondays I tend to feel fresh, ready to get… Continue reading Days of the week
In no particular order, a random list on a Friday of happenings. I feel a little...tired. Not really sleepy tired, just kind of "end-of-the-week" tired, maybe? Like, I'm not in the mood to try to come up with exactly 5 things to do a cute Friday 5 post. 😉 1- Ethan is scheduled for the… Continue reading Friday List
Currently= 37, High= 70. Just a modest 43 degree spread....:) Seems a little crazy, but bring on 70! I love my calendar quote from today. The gratitude thing is always easy when everything goes your way, so I especially like the reminders that point out that the ultimate goal is to be grateful always- highs… Continue reading Monday: gratitude goals, family time and kids’ books
Last night felt like a busy, but fun, start to the weekend. Asher had received an invite to play laser tag right after school at a local bowling alley with the 5 other boys in his school cohort (same boys that are together all day, every day- plus masked). He was really happy to get… Continue reading A fun start to the weekend
I think I mentioned earlier this year that I decided for 2021 to try out the method of "assigning" myself a few books to read each quarter. The main reason for this is that I wanted to finally actually tackle some of the books on my "Want to Read" shelf in goodreads.com (the main place… Continue reading Trying assigned reading
Walking home On Monday I took a break to walk to meet the boys after school. They generally ride the bus home, but the stop is quite a ways from our house. I used to always meet them (or more often in cold weather, drive to pick them up), but now they are old enough… Continue reading Walking, talking and reading
Happy Friday. This was nice, solid week- fairly uneventful- and leading into a pretty open, probably fairly uneventful weekend. That's cool with me. 🙂 Asher pre-weekending on early release Thursday after school. He is my hot tub kid. He loves it! Went in by himself because I just couldn't really break from work right then....… Continue reading Reading speed, running and volcanoes
Sorry I didn't hop on here yesterday. I woke up and decided that this was going to win for how I wanted to spend my little morning time: Hot tub at 6:30 a.m. with tea + audiobook again 🙂 By the time I was done, I didn't feel like blogging and all of that. It's… Continue reading February books
GRATEFUL KAE 