A Case of the Mondays? Not Me!

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”
- Og Mandino

I knew this morning was going to be a good one. As I was driving home last night, the fog was rolling in. As night settled in, the fog gently came to rest on every branch of every tree. Slowly the sun came up, fighting through the leftover clouds. And nature left us a wonderful surprise: hoarfrost! …also known as a frosty coating of white on tree branches. I love it! It makes the ugly, brown, bare trees beautiful and glittery!

Passive Aggressive Notes

The other day I went to the lobby to grab my mail and found this beauty:

Some days...

You wake up late. And end up with shitty hair.

Some days...

Snow Day Craziness

As you might have heard... we had a blizzard here! It started snowing later Friday night and snowed hard core for about 24 hours. We received about 17-21 inches of snow (depending where you live) and have gigantic snowdrifts from all the harsh winds.

Normal people would have taken shelter in the cozy homes to make cookies and watch movies. Nope, not us.

It started with me driving down to AV Friday night to take care of my parent's dogs (Drake and Bella). They are on cruise, lucky them. Then I drove back up to St. Paul on Saturday morning around 9am. It took an hour. And visibility kinda sucked but wasn't too horrible yet. Somehow Tony and I got a grand idea to go out to lunch. I think it was mostly to cheer him up because he was really bummed about not being able to go ice fishing. We bundled up, took the car out of the garage, and headed to Roseville!

Trying so hard not to smile...

Birthday Boy

Yesterday was our dog Jaxson's 2nd birthday! He has a ton of personality, keeps us on our toes, and makes us laugh almost daily.

Color Changes

Tony and I have been hard at work chipping away at our debt snowball, per Dave Ramsey's FPU class. That being said, we have decided to go easy on the Christmas presents this year. I know it's not as fun, but this year our financial peace has been the best present of all. I know, sappy.

So... my present from Tony is to decorate our bedroom (affordably). To kick things off, Tony painted three of the five walls (yes, we have an odd-shaped room) in our bedroom on his day off last Thursday. I had narrowed it down to a bright granny apple green, a dark masculine purple, or a rich deep tiffany blue. Tony was appalled at the thought of purple. And he definitely wasn't thrilled about green. So here is the winner:

Meatballs!

I got home late, it took forever to put everything together, the house was a mess… but… Tony and I got to enjoy a nice meal together at our kitchen table instead of on the couch in front of a blaring TV. To me, eating dinner together (especially at home) is a huge part of being a family.

Easing Back In...

So I have been avoiding the blog world for a multitude of reasons. These include, but are not limited to, telling myself that we must get our thank you cards done before we can do anything else, we have to de-clutter our place and finish unpacking and decorating, my camera is dead, etc.

"The Excuse Queen" (as my husband as so kindly nicknamed me) is done! I enjoy blogging far too much to avoid it for such piddly reasons. If no one ever reads this, oh well. I am doing it to make myself happy, to de-stress, to record memories, and for a variety of other reasons I cannot quite form the words for.

And so it begins... again.