Monday Stuff and Things

Happy Monday, my friends! I hope your week begins well!

Today I bring you a hodge-podge of news from my head!

* I skipped RIGHT OVER all my manners last week and forgot to offer a hearty thank you for the kind words on our fall photos! I'm so glad you liked them, too! Thanks for the encouraging words!

* One of my goals for this week is to choose the photos from that shoot that I want to put in our 8x10 frames in our living room. Decisions, decisions!

* I also wanted to report that yesterday, despite its plot twist to our plans turned out to be the biggest delight! (Karen...your comment about "blessed are the flexible" made me giggle and probably needs to be wall art in our home.) We were helping out at a church, representing Gateway, and I got to meet some of YOU!!! It was seriously so much fun to get to meet in real life some people I've known only through the world of blogs and social media! Thank you for your kindness to us!

* It snowed here yesterday - as I think it did in many areas in our section of the Midwest. Ryan thought it was hilarious that my favorite thing about our job is that we don't have to travel in bad weather, and we had to drive on the first snowfall of the year. Ha! Hey, I was just grateful he was driving and I didn't have to!

* Guess what I'm doing today? DECORATING FOR CHRISTMAS!! We are off work today and tomorrow for our weekend, and it's really the only practical stretch of time I have to make a mess as large as the Christmas transformation makes! I'm so excited to watch Hallmark movies and drink coffee and deck the halls. YAY!!!! 

* Do any of you change out your bedding for the holidays? I have never done it, but I have to say I'm tempted to do it while we live at WillowBridge. Our master bedroom is completely adequate in space...until it's time to put up a tree! LOL! Unless I get the most pencil-y of pencil trees, there just isn't room to squeeze a tree in there. Last year I put all our little "tree farm" trees up on top of the headboard and actually really loved how it looked. I'll probably do that again this year. But when I think about the whole decoration that a Christmas-colored bedding set would add to the room, I'm tempted. 

* I'm also thinking of switching up some of our trees this year. For those of you who put up multiple trees...do you ever do that? I might have to set up all the trees first before decorating any, and see where I might want to put them and go from there. (Maybe that's how you do it anyway, but I'm such a creature of habit that I always put the same trees in the same rooms with the same decorations on them. #predictable.)

* Oh! And another Christmassy thing! Our cards arrived on Saturday. I'm so excited! They're very simple this year, but I loved how they look. And I'm glad they arrived in plenty of time for addressing. I hate rushing through that. I'm pretty sure last year we were addressing them on our anniversary trip. 

I think that might be it for random thoughts from Bekah's head on this Monday! Have a fantastic day, friends. :)