Month: November 2018

Since we are coming up on the end of the year, I have really been thinking a lot about 2018 and how it went down (not too bad, actually) and how I want 2019 to look. I used to do New Year's resolutions and would crush it for the first week or so and then...crash [...]

Just kidding on the drama. Everyone is showing off all their Christmas decoratin' bling on social media and I am over here at Smith Abbey stepping over boxes and having to push chairs out-of-the-way and digging through an over-stuffed fridge looking for my heavy whipping cream for my coffee and maybe even looking at a [...]

I don't know about y'all, but we had a houseful yesterday. And it was glorious. And loud. And there was some drama. And there were tons of sweet moments. And there was Way. Too. Much. Food. And I had to lie down for 40 minutes during the midst of it. Because let's be real for [...]

Well, it is around here, anyway. Today we are pulling out Christmas dishes and lights to start decorating. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and Friday is Christmas Tree Farm day. To be honest, it's been a struggle not to decorate before now this year. Seeing all of the decorating happening out in Instagram land has not helped. [...]

Sorry, yesterday was kind of a downer. But if I continued on...you'd still be sitting there reading that post today instead of this one. Remember yesterday when I said From my quiet time, bible study, random people, and even social media, to what is happening in my actual life, I’m being shaken. Sifted. Set aside? All [...]

Not only are we in the last half of the month, but there are only 45 days until the New Year. Twenty-nineteen will see me twenty years into my job, my husband completes his last year in his 50's, and we will celebrate 25 years in our home. This time of year has my thoughts, [...]

Yesterday was an awesome snow day. Shawn cooked stuff and then we ate it. Disclaimer: I was at work all day. And I also feel like crap today from all the stuff I ate yesterday. Which brings me to habits and all the junk. Good habit or bad, it takes a while to build. Getting [...]

My alarm went off at 6 this morning, per usual if I'm not going to the gym. I started to get up and then remembered we had a two-hour delay this morning (which turned into an actual school canceling SNOW DAY!) So I rolled over and went back to sleep. My children are 28, 27, [...]