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Friday Favorites!

Happy Friday!!! Let me tell you, I am SO GLAD it’s Friday! Yesterday morning was crazy–we were under a tornado warning and in the hallway for about an hour starting at 8:15 am. Now we’re expecting snow today LOL.

I don’t have many FAVORITES because I’ve been reading my #1 FAVORITE this week, but let’s get to it!!

ONE

I CANNOT PUT THIS DOWN!!! I am trying to read in every spare minute I have (and that’s not very many haha!). I am loving reading this story from Harry’s point of view. It makes me feel sad for how he grew up, but it also makes me happy that he’s now enjoying a little bit of freedom away from the UK media. I’m only halfway through Part 2, but right now the media is the villain. I’m also over all of the people talking about how Harry should be ashamed of telling so much information about the Royal Family when they never talk–except they do….ALL THE TIME. I follow some great journalists online who have taught me how to really read news articles with a critical eye and discern that I’m reading. Anything there’s an unnamed source, it’s coming from a Palace spokesperson or from the family member himself.

TWO

I shared Wednesday a little Day in the Life post. These are probably my most favorite posts to read from other people. It might also explain why I like reality tv shows that aren’t competition based, but are the ones where cameras follow the people around. I love peeking into other people’s lives…..hope that isn’t weird :).

THREE

The weather was nice enough one afternoon so we were able to swing by the park for a little bit for Harrison to play. I snapped a quick picture of him and love that he radiates complete joy in this picture. He was so happy to just be at the park–we’ve missed our park days! We are ready for warmer weather so we can go all the time.

FOUR

I ordered a “nicer” sweatshirt with some Christmas money and it came in this week! I really like how it feels and I’m wearing it with my most favorite leggings ever!

I hope y’all have a great weekend!

A Day in the Life (1/9/23)

Woohoo! This might be my favorite type of blog post to read, and because I haven’t done one in a very long time, I decided Monday would be the best day!

A few things…

-I feel like I can never get into a routine because Dustin’s work schedule is so crazy that I can’t say that every Monday I’ll do this at around this time and on Tuesday’s I’ll do this and so on. With the personality type that I have, I thrive in routines. THRIVE. So you’ll see that Dustin worked on this day which means that he won’t the next week.

-Like I said above, he worked on Monday and then he came home to watch the National Championship, so we barely spent any time together because I did not care to watch the National Championship this year.

Here’s a look at my Monday!

I didn’t get out of bed until 5:13. I set my alarm earlier than that but I had a slight headache when I woke up, so I wanted to sleep a little bit longer! And you can see my reminder that Siri picked up so well haha!

Joke was on me because Harrison literally woke up and ran into my room 2 minutes later. **Also, he has been waking up at 5-5:30 since October!! Help! I don’t know how to get him back to sleeping like he used to, which was to 6:30ish. Nothing has changed, so I don’t understand why his sleep has??

I made my coffee after I turned on the tv for Harrison. Dustin got me the Ember mug for Christmas and I love having warm coffee the entire time I’m drinking it–I am a slow coffee drinker, so it makes a huge difference!

I went back to my room to do my quiet time. About 10ish days before Christmas, we had a leak in our master bath and leaked under the walls and into our room and the closet under the stairs. You can see where the leak was based on where they’ve cut out carpet and tore off base boards. We’ve got a few more quotes to get for insurance before they can do their thing and we can get the ball rolling. Living in this mess is not fun, but I keep telling myself it’s temporary and will be over soon……I hope.

Started on my quiet time. PS–these Bible highlighters are the best!

We snapped a quick picture in the driveway before heading to school!

This is the podcast I had started earlier that morning and then a certain 3 year old kept running in and out of the bathroom either telling me something or asking me to come and do something. Needless to say, I didn’t get far in this podcast, so I turned it back on after I dropped him off.

Ready for the day!!!

I’m starting a new novel with my students so during my break, I started numbering books to distribute to students later in the week.

I jumped in the car after school and was welcomed with this :). I blame Dustin because he drove my car twice on Sunday for a long time and never got me any gas. And I need to dust that dash–oops!

The library was our next stop because it had been since before Christmas when we last went. Harrison’s first stop is always the legos table.

And then we can look for books! He was looking for a specific train book that must have been checked out to someone else because we could not find it (nor remember the name ha)

I forgot to take a picture of my outfit!!! It was a cute dress I got for my birthday and a pair of riding boots. (linking similar dress here)

I had gotten a present from one of the librarians when we were at the library–it made my day!

I ate a little snack and started a new book!

I started cooking dinner. Sometimes Harrison will pull up a chair and help me cook, but he didn’t this time.

I love cooking in an apron!

Grabbed a quick picture once Dustin got home and Harrison wanted in the picture, too–I laughed so hard when I saw the end result haha!

I’ve been doing the BBG workout since the day after Christmas. I am not an early morning exerciser, so on school days I have to wait until after school. We spent a little more time after school running errands that I couldn’t do my workout as soon as I got home, so I had to cook dinner first. Dustin and Harrison sat down to eat and I changed clothes and ran upstairs to get my workout in. I had a guest join my during the last circuit and talk my ear off while I was working so hard just to breathe ha!

We always do bedtime as a family, but since it was the National Championship, I read to Harrison by myself after his bath. We read one library book and then one section in his Bible. Dustin joined us for bedtime prayers.

I did a few of my chores after H went to bed.

After I showered, I went upstairs to see if I could find something to watch. I watched a little of the game with Dustin, but the score was so terrible that it was boring. I ended up not staying upstairs for more than 20 minutes because then it was time for bed!

As you can see, I was still working on listening to that podcast Monday night haha! I finished it and then we hopped in bed at 10 to go to sleep!

The Big Debate: Steamer Vs. Iron

Happy Monday, y’all! The idea for this post came to me in the strangest way–I was steaming my dress for church yesterday. While I was steaming it, I was thinking about how easy steaming my dress was and how I could never use an iron again.

And I wondered how many people would agree with me….or disagree with me 🙂

I used to use an iron when I was younger and lived at home, but I never really wore clothes that required ironing. My clothes were more delicate and needed to be steamed, and I didn’t like (or trust myself) using the steam feature on the iron.

I don’t even think I registered for an iron when Dustin and I got married. Instead, I registered for a steamer. I think Dustin probably had pushback at the beginning, but once I let him know I wouldn’t be ironing his clothes but would steam them instead, I think he quickly came over to the steamer side LOL

This is not the one I have, but it is very similar!

I love having this steamer. This stays in my laundry room, and we steam our clothes as needed while they hang on a hanger. Even Harrison’s clothes get steamed!! So very easy. But here’s the key–you must use distilled water in your steamer if you want it to last. Otherwise minerals will clog up your steamer over time. I have had our steamer for almost 9 years and it’s still working great because I take care of it and only use distilled water.

I have this exact steamer!

This handy little steamer is perfect for traveling!! I packed it for my trip last summer to a women’s conference and it was great to have to straighten our clothes each morning. I also keep this one in our closet to do a quick steam if something needs it instead of walking it to our laundry room.

So, are you Team Steamer or Team Iron? I’d love to know!