Banana Bread
Today was Addie’s return to school after a long winter break, and she had a great day!
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New Year, New Notebook
Although we’re not quite back to our regular schedule, since school hasn’t started yet, I did unfortunately have to go back to work today. To start the new year, I pulled out this cute new notebook I got at Five Below a few months back, and was waiting until the new year to start it. I log/tally all of my phone calls and emails at work every day, keep track of how many assignments I give each of my staff, and use this for emergency calculations and notes and daily reminders.
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Happy Herd
Jeff went to church early this morning to serve on the tech team. I had the day off though, so the girls and I just breezed into church about 10 minutes before service started. But these girls were looking so cute today! Emmie was wearing an entirely thrifted outfit (sweater, dress and sandals), and Addie was wearing an entirely hand-me-down outfit from big sister (dress and boots), and both just so adorable.
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Rotating Clothes
The morning started off with Addie coming into my room saying, “Mama, I can’t find Emmer?!” I had to remind her she was having her sleepover with Grammy and wasn’t at home… Emmie helped Grammy work on organizing and prepping some things she’s gotten on clearance lately, for next year’s Operation Christmas Child boxes.
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Our Family is So Weird
Today for breakfast, we had very buttery grits, plus cheese of course, and little maple sausage links. My tiny girl wanted to help out, so she was in charge of the sausage.
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Hello, 2026!
The girls actually let us sleep until about 9am today, which was very much needed. Not because we had a wild New Year’s Eve last night or anything, since I personally fell asleep in the recliner before midnight even hit 😉 We had some cereal for breakfast, then turned on a Jonas Brothers playlist on YouTube on the tv, and did some cleaning around the house.
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Jonas Brothers Concert!!!
Tuesday
We’ve had a whirlwind 48 hours, and we’ve also had the time of our lives! I actually started out the day working half a day, and was given a nice little Starbucks gift card! Then I got off at noon, packed as fast as possible, got Emmie, ran inside Walmart, ordered us road trip drinks with my Starbucks card, and we finally hit the road around 2pm, on our way to Jacksonville!
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Lights & Lego’s
Unfortunately, I had to go back to work today, but the sky on the way there was absolutely insane! It was just barely misting, but it was so. orange.
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Yardbirds
Hey, I’m back! I took a much-needed two whole days to rest and reset after all the chaos of Christmas day, and the days leading up to it. Most of Friday and Saturday was spent on the couch, with very little else going on. The girls spent those two days playing in the backyard, just like wildlings back in the 90’s. But then Saturday night, we finally saw Nana & PopPop for the first time in over a month, and did Christmas with them at their house! Oh also, one of Jeff’s twin boys, Gabe, is here with us for a few days!
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Christmas Day 2025
Unfortunately, Jeff and I are always procrastinators when it comes to all the Christmas prep. So even though we did quite a bit on Tuesday, we still had a lot to finish up last night, so it was past midnight when we finally checked off all the boxes. But everything looked so great when we finally made it to bed! (And although the boys weren’t with us this year, and we didn’t put anything in their stockings, we still wanted to lay them out with the family!)
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