*Last night, I reached into my filing cabinet eagerly to pull out my book lists so that I could make that delicious check mark through yet another book title that I’d read. And there my highlighter sat–poised with eagerness over the columns of book titles–when I saw it: I had read the WRONG book. Apparently, …
Over the weekend, I had the chance to take some pictures for some pretty big milestones: my nephew Nicholas celebrated his first birthday (complete with fistfuls of cake that so thickly coated his hands that they looked like gloves), and I took some portraits of my nephew Logan who is about to be baptized next …
Obviously it’s been no secret (if you read Wednesday’s post) that I’ve been a little gloomy, woe-is-me lately. Then today, after a third hour that dragged as slowly as tar drips (for me anyway—I can’t speak for my students), I was just rejoicing in the fact that there’s a weekend ahead of me that involves Leatherby’s …
Matt and I wanted to take advantage of the holiday on Monday (since both of us had it off), so we decided to finally catch Frozen (so cute!) and then attempted to go on a little photo walk after. Honestly, I don’t know why I even bother going on stuff like that in January—unless it’s …
So I’m the type of person who’s always working on something, right? Pretty much I can guarantee that on any given day, if you ask me what I’m working on as far as goals or hobbies or skills go, I will have a ready answer for you. That’s just how I am. But something that’s …
All posters via Runner’s World When I first started really getting into running, I was totally a newbie to the sport–I’d never done track in middle or high school, I’d never enjoyed any time I’d spent on a treadmill, and I’d never run more than 4 miles at a time EVER before I started training for a marathon back …
(Photo taken with friends 3 years ago on New Year’s Eve 2010) Here is a great secret of adulthood: maintaining friendships sure is a lot harder when you don’t have school together every day and church activities together every week. But here is another great secret of adulthood: we all need friends beyond our spouses (and …
Back when I originally started my blog in 2007, I didn’t have any definite plans for it—in fact, I wasn’t even sure I was planning on telling anyone I even had a blog because I kind of liked the idea of just keeping it private (kind of like an easier form of journaling, but …
