May your day be bright, your hearts full and the Spirit strong.
Happy Christmas to all!
PS – Thank you so much for your friendship and support this year. It truly means the world to me.
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I don’t have a lot of time but I’ve missed you and I’ve been dying to sit down and write a quick post. But then I feel like I need to go back and share what we have been up to the past several months since I went silent. So, here it is… September – job interviews, lots of resumes, Lake Powell, Vegas and a job offer
October – started new job, first trip (of many) to Microsoft, a baptism, a hike, a new computer and a fantastic Halloween that included a lot of sewing.
November – Ivy and I rolled down a mountain into a river, walked away without a scratch but the car was totaled, second trip to Microsoft, celebrated the life of Scott’s grandpa after his passing, hosted Thanksgiving and felt overwhelmed with gratitude.
So, there you have it in a nut shell. One of these days, I’ll share more about the wreck, more about Jade’s costume and the pattern that I made up and I’ll do a better job paying tribute to Grandpa Wayne. Until then, thanks for visiting and know that I will be back. (After I complete the next 4 big work projects on my plate, finish Christmas shopping and get some sleep).
I got all choked up and held back tears. Thank you! Thank you veterans for serving our great country. Thank you for fighting for freedom and liberty. Thank you for making such huge sacrifices so that we can have agency. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. At the end of the program, the 3rd graders presented all veterans in attendance a rose of gratitude. I saw this hero and couldn’t help but take his photo. I hope he is okay with my sharing this, because I didn’t think to ask for his permission.
PS – Jade did a wonderful job on her part of the program and I am loving hearing her singing the national anthem as she’s cleaning, eating, playing or doing homework. …or rather “Blogger’s block”. I keep wanting to post about what we’ve been doing, share a recipe or two and give a sampling of the photos I’ve been taking. But instead, every time I sit down to the computer, I feel like I should be posting job applications, sharing my resume and giving a sampling of who I am and why a high tech company should hire me. So, I post, share and give but not to my blog. I’m missing my blog, I am missing the friendships that have formed from being a part of the blogging world. But, I feel like my voice is being swallowed up by the desire and need to find a job. Wednesday it will be two months. Two months of not feeling like myself. Two months of feeling guilty that I am not accomplishing enough in my day – even though I feel like I am constantly on the move. Two months of not getting great projects done because the “need to find a job” cloud is hovering close over my head and mood. On the bright side…
So, my post my remain infrequent but I promise to share when I can. And now, I’m off to apply to a position a friend told me about today. Wish me luck. In the meantime, here’s a sunset from our weekend in Lake Powell. It is one of the few pictures I have taken a minute to edit…
I’ve been a bit absent lately. I am going to do my best to do a better job of being present in my little corner of the web. It has been an interesting and fun few weeks. But the point of this post is to share something that we do each year to make the first week of school special… I can’t believe my baby is in kindergarten. She has been asking for months about her first day of kindergarten. It was a relief to finally be able to say “Next week” instead of “In THREE months!” She laid out her clothes for the first day a week before and was having pretend conversations with her friends that she knew would be in the same class. There were three days that Jade was at school and Ivy wasn’t. Those three days were filled with talk about what her first day would be like and the hugs that she would share with her friends. Then the morning of her first day came. She was a little bit more scared than I expected her to be. All of her pictures have that “deer-in-the-headlights” look. But we managed to capture one that I loved enough to welcome her home with. Each year, we take pictures in the morning before school. Then I blow my favorite up to 16×20 (Costco $5.99) and put a congratulations message on the bottom of the photo. This poster is then hung in a window on the front of the house. Then the kids are greeted with their adorable face. Here is Ivy’s from her first day of Kindergarten….
Jade started third grade, so we took her picture on the third day of third grade. (Costco had some printer issues so she wasn’t greeted by her smiling face until after dance class.)
This photos hang from their closet doors the rest of the year. They LOVE these posters. And I love having the posters documenting how much they have grown each year.  |
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