When?

Lots of heavy stuff going on these days, and I began to wonder at which point I became a grown-up. Life as an adult is TOUGH. You hear that as a kid, "enjoy it while you can!" but you think it's a lie adults tell kids to keep them in line or something.

Was it when I got married and moved into our own place?

When I turned 18 or 21?

My first 'real' job? Or my second real job where I've actually flourished and stayed for going on ten years?

When we bought our first house? When we sold our first house because we were trying to reduce expenses?

When I began to get excited talking about debt-reduction and Dave Ramsey?

When we got out of debt and now can get excited talking about saving?

When a friend had infertility and I walked with her through that? When death touched my family once again and my beloved grandmother passed away?

When miracles happened and the Lord blessed us?

When I get excited every week if I get all of the laundry done in a single day?

When we paid taxes yet again and finally had figured out our numbers so we didn't owe for the first time in our marriage?

When another sweet friend discovered a mass requiring surgery with a very high mortality rate?

When I'm driving down the road and I see BABIES driving too? Or, when I walk through the mall and see teenage girls with low shirts and too-short shorts on?

When did I grow up?

It's crazy how true it is that as you get older, you still feel like the same younger version on the inside.

Sometimes I wish I could stop time and just stay in that one particular happy phase of life. But as we all know, that doesn't happen.

Oh well... I feel a sudden urge to go color in my coloring book now... if you're looking for me, you might find me swinging on the swing-set outside today.

Waiting Is The Hardest

Waiting is all we seem to be doing lately and it's driving me nuts. We have some major decisions we are in the midst of researching, gathering counsel, looking into, and hopefully in the future acting on. But in the meantime, all this waiting is driving me nuts!

On our list includes a new bed, new furniture in general (our couches need replacing and our kitchen chairs are pretty crappy), the iPad situation we're still waiting on- whether to get them or not, vacation plans, and on and on.

Now don't get me wrong. I am not here crying oh poor us, we have money and don't know what to do with it. NOT AT ALL. In fact, the great fallacy with being out of debt is you think you are now in possession of all this extra money. It's a LIE, people! If anything you have less because you're saving more and too cheap to spend what you do have.

But the money we do have (and are saving) we're trying to be extra wise about spending, which explains all the decision-making we're facing.

What do you do while you're in the midst of the limbo time where all you seem to be doing is waiting? What do you do to help you decide something?

Target Does It Again!

So this past weekend was fun but very much did not go as planned. Because of this, we didn't quite get the rest and relaxation in as much as we were hoping for.

Defenses were down, people!

Yesterday after lunch we went to Target to get groceries for the week. Supposedly pretty uneventful, right? Wrong!

I don't usually check the weekly ad but something made me stop and check it out. Turns out iPads and iPad minis are on sale this week! Add in the 5% off we save by paying with our Target debit card, it was kind of a no-brainer.

So guess who now owns her very own iPad mini?! ME!!! I'm loving it so far, too; I'm really glad all our research has finally paid off.

CC has decided to still wait to get his own new iPad for now, since he's got the one from his job to play with in the meantime. He sure does spoil me so!

There You Go!

Today will be a much better day than yesterday. I've got Starbucks, a date with a good friend for lunch at Chipotle, and it's Thursday!

Thursdays are currently one of my favorite days of the week- it's the end of my workweek and officially begins my weekend (My weekends are typically Friday-Saturday.).

This weekend, I hope to bake something (CC, be warned!) and we have lots of fun things planned.

Tonight I am holding out for Gonza but might settle for Chubby's or other Mexican food. Tomorrow night, we're going to our friend, Betsy's, place for the first bust-out-the-grill session of the season! We'll play cards, eat yummy food (GRILLED PINEAPPLE), and laugh lots. Saturday, our friend Norah, turns one year old, and her parents are grilling out then too for a little mini-party for her.

I love grilled food. Especially now that we're in the apartment and can't have our own grill again, I tend to appreciate it that much more. (And we did renew our lease for the apartment for another year, so no house-hunting or grill-hunting for us yet. Hopefully one more year, but we'll see.)

I know this is a pretty random post, but as you might have guessed, I'm pretty stoked about it!

Oh, and Sunday I'm off work again- so three day weekend! Woohoo!

See? Already a much better day today. Praise Jesus, because yesterday stunk!

On another random note, we're trying to figure out what to do for our next mini-vacay. We could take a whole week off but right now we just have a few days off at the very beginning of June. Where would you suggest we go? Or rather, what should we do?

We were hoping to go to California then, but it doesn't look like it's going to work (which I'm super bummed about). My high school small group leader/matron of honor/really good friend is moving to Switzerland in July, so we were hoping to go see her before she left. That and she only lives about 30 minutes away from several bloggie friends. It was a win-win until we figured out how much it'd cost to go. I'm kinda not over it, but trying to be, you know?

So what do you think? What should we do?

Pfft.

Today is one of those days...

• When you feel like nobody's telling you anything you actually need to know
• When you're in a funky and miserable mood
• When you need closure for a situation and aren't able to see the person to resolve it
• When everything on the to-do list seems difficult to get done and takes twice as much time
• When it seems there's not enough prayer or coffee or chocolate on the planet
• When you call or text to talk to someone and nobody's answering or responding right away
• When you don't want to be around people and you're surrounded by them
• When every sweet kindness, however tiny and minute, means the world to you and makes you want to bawl your eyes out
• When even the dreary weather seems depressed along with you

... Yep, it's one of those days... 

This day is making me look very forward to the weekend though. We have fun planned all weekend and hopefully it'll be sunny and a complete 180 from this moment.

Happy 4!

Happy birthday, Scouty! Today you are four! Or 28, but I prefer four. Let's stick with four.

Remember back when you were zero years old? Happy sigh...

I love this picture of Scouty! I fell in love with her right away after seeing this.

And here you are, chubby and fabulous and oh so grown-looking, four years later.

Sweet Diva

How on earth were we entertained before you came along?!

So It's Monday.

Blah for Monday. No happy thoughts for Monday. Except I had the best mocha ever this morning. And killed my to-do list today. And have dinner out tonight with my volunteer tech team. So it's shaping up to be quite a fun day.

And then I came back from doing the prayer requests to find this under my desk...

The mouse I don't care about, but the cat?! Come on people.

I have my suspicions for who's responsible, but in the meantime- there's a CAT under my desk. I  am so not a cat person, even if it's a fake cat. (I still keep thinking the thing's pawing at my leg.) Bring on the puppy party anytime!

This kid kills me. Melts my heart into a puddle of goo. Especially when I see her giggling and playing with my (HOT) hubby.