Hheeellloooooo!!!!
Sweet little ole blog of mine!!
It has been SO LONG since I have been in this space here.
Sorry about that!!
Sometimes there is a place for hobbies in your life and sometimes there is not.
I am thankful for the full life we live here!!
Hoping to get caught up with my memory keeping in this space this week – we will see how it goes!
Even with all of the illness in December there were still many other normal things.
Photos of the normal day-to-day things in life are some of my all time favorite ones!
Are you all tired of food and grocery shopping photos yet?
Ha, ha, hang on tight – here are some more!!
These food photos motivate me!
To make those things again!
When we were at our sickest, wow did I struggle to eat.
I had to eat to take the antibiotic three times a day, but the struggle was still real!
I made some grain-free waffles because they sounded good.
They ended up being one of the only things I ate most days.
Except when I had a few days of craving cauliflower – what in the world!
Crazy illness!!
When we were well enough, we did fit in school and piano.
We would find places to do school where we weren’t disturbing the ones who were sick!
I am always thankful for our home, Twin Oaks, and its beauty here.
We have a lot of windows and a lot of beautiful things to look at outside!
Even though I do not think we left the house for weeks (except to see the doctor and get meds), it was nice to have a bright home full of sunshine on the sunny days and to watch the snow fall on the snowy days.
As always, the kiddos found ways to keep themselves busy!
They are the BIGGEST TROUPERS I KNOW!!
And we are all each other’s best friends who love spending time together!!
We watched waaayyyy too many Hallmark movies in December.
That must be what Hallmark movies are for – when you are sick – am I right?
It was a distraction and SO funny when the kids would call the plot of the whole movie in the first five minutes, ha, ha!
Of course we also watched all of our favorite cooking and baking shows!
I spent one whole afternoon, literally days before Christmas, wrapping all the presents!
It was a BIG job that I loved very much!
Do you love my very sneaky hiding place for those wrapped gifts??
Small house problems!
The week after Christmas we headed to town one afternoon JUST TO GET OUT.
It was a fun outing with my crew!
Addie helped me with some organizational projects in December too.
It seems to be a constant need!
Going through room by room here HAS to be a yearly thing.
We did the whole kitchen in one afternoon and it was a good thing!!
And then we went through a box of old photos and found those photos of Blake.
I had to send Kayla a picture of them because Clyde looks SO much like Blake at that age!!
Blake bought me a new phone in December and I almost did not survive the change.
Do you not like change either?!
Thank you for understanding then!
I went from a google pixel to an Iphone and it was not easy to learn how to use that thing, ha, ha!
At the end of December I was MORE than happy to finally put our nebulizer machine away.
That thing had run so much in the month of December with how sick we were.
Seeing these photos of December makes me miss having our Christmas tree and the beautiful lights!
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it??
Keeping our memories has always been fun for me!
December, you were a doozy!
Still grateful to remember you though!
We will always look back at December of 2022 with grateful hearts.
God was so faithful and kind to us!
Next up – 2023!!!!
