The finished product– Our 2011 Operation Christmas Child Shoebox! Kevin and I had a great time browsing aisle after aisle at the Dollar Tree on our Annual Shoebox Filling Date. Here’s what we ended up choosing to fill our shoebox with: Sesame Street Coloring Book.3 Mini-Composition notebooks.Colored Pencils.Sparkly (regular) Pencils.A huge package of pencil sharpeners […]
The One with the Age Dilemma
With my birthday just around the corner, I have been thinking about “age” a lot lately. Or maybe it’s just on my mind because it seems to be on everyone else’s mind.* *please note–Before I get up on my little soapbox, I would like you all to know I’m not actually mad at anyone who’s ever said […]
The One with the OCC Packing
Every year I look forward to Operation Christmas Child. I have been packing shoe boxes for longer than I can remember, and each year it is just so thrilling. To know that such a small box of gifts can bring a smile to a child’s face and potentially change their life is incredible. For the […]
The One with a Quick Convo
Tonight I got to talk to these people: It was so awesome and so spur of the moment. My phone had suddenly beep beep beeped with three text messages–all from Spiritfire girls (from our former youth group) thanking me for the cookies I baked for them. (Britta was awesome enough to order them from my […]
The One with the New Favorite Book
You know that feeling you get when you’re turning page after page of a fantastic book? It’s thrilling, gripping, consuming. You just want to finish it, to find out what happens in the end? But then, as soon as you read the last word on the last page there’s a pit of sadness in your stomach. […]
The One with Her First Race
I ran my first race on Saturday. Yes, that’s right. I’ve been running for the past 6 years and never gotten up the courage to sign up for a race. It made me nervous just thinking about it. And I’d rather just run. Some of my fears included– being way too competitive. being mad at […]
The One with His Birthday Day(s)
Kevin’s birthday celebration went off just as I planned. I had a few surprises up my sleeve, and I was all but bursting at the seems with excitement in the days leading up to his birthday. For the first time ever, I actually managed to keep him totally unaware of my plans and beyond that […]
The One with My Husband’s 25th
Today is my sweet husband’s 25th birthday. He still makes me smile like this–eight birthdays together later. We still look good together (in my semi-humble opinion)–like we did in college. We still do crazy things together…. like dancing on ice skates… He still gives me kisses like this. We still give each other squeeze hugs. He […]
The One with the Real Crocheting
I am a little crocheting maniac right now. And I’m loving it! Mostly I’m loving it because I *think* I actually know what I’m doing this time around. Yeah, all those years, all those scarves, all those patterns that were far beyond my ability–all of it was thanks to my totally backwards method of crocheting. […]
The One with the Bountiful Baskets
Today is just one of those days when I have so much on my mind, I can’t seem to settle on just one topic to expound upon. My thoughts are forming a gigantic tangled web and if I don’t start talking, I might just explode, but yet I have no clue where to begin. Can anyone […]