The Shafferland Shuffle

BEST NEWS, everyone! This is the last week before our beautiful time change!! Welcome back, real time. I will be eager to receive you.

Meanwhile, our week! I was challenged to do that daily black and white photo thing on Facebook this week, so you'll see those photos in my collections today! (Along with the explanations I ached to give on Facebook, but it wasn't part of the challenge.)

* My photo last Sunday was from our church service. It was one of those Sundays when sleeping in sounded so wonderful, but church was even better. Also fun on Sunday? Trying out my new veggie spiralizer. It worked even better than I thought it would! And we wrapped up the day by recording our 100th episode of Spill the Beans!

* On Monday, I watched our nephews and niece all day. (Ryan had to take some time to help too, since I still had carpool duties.) It was a cold, nasty, rainy day, so there was much Lego building and movie watching (in jammies) to be had throughout the day! My favorite part was when Ryan came home for lunch, got the kiddos totally wound up, and then went back to work. I gave them a few minutes to wind back down and then inside of five minutes flat, I had both boys down for a two hour nap. No snags!

* Tuesday morning, I spoke at Fairmount Wesleyan Church, for their ladies Bible study. Ryan wasn't with me, so I don't have any in-action pictures, but I did manage to get a picture with the church. Sort of. LOL! On the way home, I stopped at the Hydration Station (this little place about halfway between speaking and home) and got this frosted caramel apple drink. I will not lie: I scraped the sides with a spoon when I was done. MY WORD. What a drink!!

* Wednesday I broke in my new workout shoes! Yay for tread!! :) I had to go to the podiatrist for a follow up to my previous appointment. I wasn't nearly as nervous this time, but I was a bit unnerved at the "Beware" on the wall of the exam room. LOL!!! I posted this B&W on Facebook and that's when the caption would have come in handy. People thought I was sick!

* Thursday morning's workout was a rough one, but we survived it! There wasn't anything particularly monumental about Thursday. Just a regular chore kind of day. Ryan worked on painting boards for our porch repair project, and that night we went out on some errand runs. I end up waiting in the car while he ran into Wal-Mart (because obviously) and then I decided I couldn't figure out which was worse: going in or waiting alone in the car!

* Friday, Ryan took a half day off work to help the guy coming to work on our poor little porch. Unfortunately (as with all Shafferland projects) the removing of exterior boards uncovered much worse rot than we knew. So the project just shot into major overload, and we couldn't finish it this weekend. Sadness. Literal sadness. I cried. It was probably a good thing I already had plans to go to my friend's craft night that night. There were cute cookies there!! (Oh! And the Hallmark Christmas movies started that day. Three cheers!)

* Yesterday was a fun day! Ryan and I went to a wedding...a morning wedding! Two of our small group members were getting married and invited us to be part of their day! It was a beautiful wedding, and my date was so handsome! :) And my feet have forgotten all about boots. Whew! We gotta retrain them!