Sunday, November 17, 2019

The Shafferland Shuffle

Good morning! Happy Sunday to you! Hope you've had a good week; ours had a lot of plot twists and schedule changes, but it was still good!

* I was so happy to be home last Sunday morning! During our morning services, they officially relaunched the small group program, so Ryan and I staffed the little booth to collect surveys after church. When we came home, I took the longest nap. I was so tired from my days away! When I woke up, I dove into editing pictures from our Georgia trip. Had some help with that. :)

* Monday was supposed to be my dentist appointment day in Fort Wayne, but as you can see, we had our first significant snowfall of the season, so I scrapped that plane and stayed home to work on catching up from so many days of being gone. It really was a pretty snow - once I didn't have to drive in it. In other plot twists of Monday, someone showed up in the living room all clean shaven!

* Tuesday morning's sunrise was so pretty over the snow!!! You already read about my Tuesday adventures - the rescheduled visit to the dentist, which turned into my graduation day from that particular dentist! We scurried home in time to meet with some of Ryan's family to celebrate his grandma's birthday. She's 92!

* I cannot wait to show you all our Christmas decorations (which are now underway) and Wednesday brought one of our newest additions. I did a whole new theme in one of the rooms this year and turned it into a mini Christmas tree farm. I bought a sign from Etsy for the room, and WE LOVE IT!!! I also conquered a run on the treadmill that day - right before Ryan made me a latte. My friend Amber came over that evening and the two of us designed and ordered our respective Christmas cards!

* I made Mexican pizzas on Thursday; they were delicious!! Ryan started coming down with a cold on Wednesday, so I ramped up the diffuser in hopes that we could end that before it began. Even though he felt terrible and went to sleep super early, he did crawl into the attic and brought me all the Christmas tubs so I could be ready to decorate! 

* While Ryan was at work on Friday, I started decorating. We have some gatherings coming up next week, so it was easier to go ahead and get the decorating done rather than try to scramble later when I didn't have time. Braeya stayed right at my feet and "helped" the whole time. Both of us felt pretty lousy after he got home from work, but I think we caught it in time. We felt much better by yesterday!

* Ryan didn't have to work yesterday, so he did one of his favorite things: made breakfast for me! We resumed decorating and almost got it knocked out. (Kept running into obstacles that took more time to fix than we planned.) Yesterday also would have been Ryan's mom and step-dad's anniversary, so we met the family for dinner.


3 comments:

Tamar SB said...

Yay for decorating! Hope the colds stay away.

Tracy Gayer said...

Thanks for the shout out on Spill the Beans!
I think a lot of groups will be using the “Vision” theme for 2020! I know my department at work is!
I’m usually able to fend off colds, but I’ve been sick for five weeks now. Had a bad cough that has made me get short of breath. Then last week it started all over again with drainage and now a cough.

Bekah said...

Tamar - I think we nipped them in the bud!

Tracy - You're welcome! And you're probably right about the vision theme! :) I hope you feel better very soon! How miserable!