I've been doing a lot of mulling over the value of having a blog if I write on it so rarely... I considered challenging myself to blog at least once a month for 2022. I'm not sure I'm totally committed yet, but this is my start.
What to write about? My kids aren't little anymore, saying and doing such cute, funny things (not to mention that adult kids value their confidentiality). Of course, my grandchildren are the cutest and funniest kids I know, but I attempt to respect their privacy, too. One thing the pandemic has done for our household is turn us off from vomiting our personal life all over social media. 🤷 I don't excel at cooking so posts of those step-by-step recipe tutorials is out... I crochet for fun -to relax, not to collect a following for my teaching tutorials or amazing projects... Scrapbooking is an individual hobby that varies widely in styles thus it's not something I can teach or blog about (just come read my scrapbooks instead)... I enjoy reading but that doesn't make me an authority on books and sniffing out the next best great read... I'm no authority on child training or home decor or thrifting stuff... We do travel quite a bit and I post travelogues when we do... But generally speaking, we lead a rather average, unexciting life.
If "a picture is worth a thousand words", here is our January in pictures (with a few words following each in case you can't figure them out)...
Jeremy bought the Titanic Lego set for Christmas; by New Years Day we had the first 1/3 assembled.
Isn't she just the cutest little skater? Her daddy's birthday party.
Snow Day! Love that she played ice cream shop with Auntie Arianna
What goes with snow better than a fire and hot chocolate in your very own Paw Patrol mug?!
When you go to Grammie's house and it takes you 5.3 seconds to find Uncle JJ's leftover dessert 😁
By the middle of the month, the Titanic was 2/3 assembled. It will be almost as long as I am tall till it's finished.
Our favorite little girl turned 4. When I was growing up we were told coffee stunts your growth; now days kids go to coffee shops for birthday breakfasts. (She had a cotton candy milkshake though, not coffee.)😉
Lucky little girl has a daddy that decorates her amazing birthday cakes. Not bragging, just saying. 😂
More snow. Pictures don't do justice to the fact that it was a foot deep. P.S. I LOVE snow now that Richard isn't forced dispatched.
With the Titanic commandeering the puzzle table, we're not doing as many puzzles this winter. I wish I could enlarge this one enough to show the fascinating details. Unfortunately buying used puzzles from thrift stores occasionally means a piece is missing.
We really enjoyed exploring Cabela's with our grands.
"I'm a cowgirl and Colton is a cowboy sheriff" 😍
I completed 1 baby afghan so far this year. The color doesn't show up very well here; it's a pastel blue. I buy most of my yarn at thrift stores. I really need to use up what I have before buying more but the struggle is real! I also completed 1 lovey (mini security blanket) but I'm not happy with the bunny's face- it needs a little more work.
Note to self- next time don't buy birdseed with so many sunflower seeds in it!
Ok, this one gets more than a few words... Arianna is participating in the Brighter Winter reading challenge with me this winter. If you were to pop in some evening, you might find us both engrossed in a book. I'm not sure which is the best book I read this month. *For a book of the Bible, I chose Revelation. Honest confession, largely because I was teaching it in Sunday School. But hey, who doesn't love a book with a good ending?! *A book by a female missionary and set in another country, I chose new-to-me "These Strange Ashes" by Elizabeth Elliot. It's her 1st mission assignment, before she married Jim Elliot. *For a book about animals and published in 2021, I read "The Ride of Her Life" about a woman that rode horseback from the east coast to the west coast later in her life, in the 1950s. All I can say is "wow!" *I had to go digging for a book about food and selected "Lessons from an Ice Cream Truck" by Pineapple 16. It's self-published so it's not the most polished book but it has some fun stories. *The one-I-couldn't-put-down was "Stronger" by Jeff Bauman. He was the fella who was standing next to the Boston Marathon bomb and had his legs blown off. It's not written from a Christian perspective, so it has a little language and adult beverages that make me "knock a star off" my rating. *Last but not least, I chose "The Hiding Place" for a classic to re-read and thoroughly enjoyed it again.
If you have a recommendation of a book written by a pastor or pastor's wife... or a book of letters, I'm looking for these for February's challenge.
