September absolutely flew by at our house. I cannot
believe how quickly it came and went! I know we still have a couple of days
left in the month, but since the month changes over the weekend, I’ll do my
goal update today. Here’s how things went for us this month.
ONE. Put the house back in order from the refrigerator debacle
of 2023. I am so thankful to be able to say we have done this. After
being pushed to choose a different model than our original pick and two failed
delivery attempts, we finally have a working refrigerator in our kitchen!
Warranty replacement processes are no joke, and this was quite a test of
patience for us, but about halfway through September, the new refrigerator arrived,
and we were able to start using it and put the garage fridge back in the garage.
Our living room is once again a living room, and it makes my heart so happy!
TWO. Close out the garden and change up the flowers. Also
done! Ryan pulled all the dead and dying plants from the garden, added more
soil and some mulch, and with that, our garden is put to rest for this year. I
pulled the dead and dying summer flowers from our planters and added some mums
for extra color and beauty. (We did have some summer flowers who kept going
strong, so this month was actually a mix of the two. We didn’t pull out the
plants that were still vibrant. They’re little warriors out there!)
THREE. Enjoy some good celebrations. We went
to a special family lunch to celebrate Ryan’s dad’s retirement, and we spent
some time with my mom for her birthday, and both of those were good moments. We
hosted our small group this month, which was a lot of fun, but it was also a
special time for all of us, because one of the couples we’ve spent the last
year and a half with is about to move out of state for ministry.
We are so sad to lose them and so excited to see what God does through them in
Florida!
FOUR. Become more proficient with milling and breadmaking. We sure
did give it our all this month! We tried all kinds of new recipes, including
pizza crust, breadsticks, biscuits, hamburger and hot dog buns, dinner rolls, and
pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls. We made some mistakes along the way, but I think
overall, we’re getting better, and I know we really love having fresh bread in
the house – and healthy bread is a bonus!
FIVE. Begin preparing for my next speaking dates. Working
on it! I have two chances to speak in October and have a great start on both
sessions. Still, I have a lot of tweaking ahead of me!
SIX. Plan the anniversary trip. I have
a whole list of things I hope we can do and see while we’re gone, but I’m still
putting them in an itinerary. I would say we’re about halfway there. 😊
Other accomplishments this month included:
·
We had the rare opportunity to see two of our tenants from
WillowBridge this month! They were at a pond party near us, and we stopped to see them!
·
We finally have all our house watercolor picture frames filled.
Three of the pictures are temporary – made with the Waterlogue app – but they
are at least up on the wall, making it look completed, even if isn’t quite
done yet. It makes a huge difference in how that wall looks every day. Very happy
with it!
·
We participated in Dairy Queen’s 85 cent Blizzard promotion,
which made for a fun date night.
·
I had the opportunity to record some training videos at work,
and it was SO MUCH FUN!
·
We participated in our church’s Faith in Action Sunday and had a
good time with the team who signed up to work the same project!
Our October is filling up, and we are excited to enjoy some
proper fall fun! How did your September go? Did you accomplish anything you set
out to do?
3 comments:
Hi Bekah-
A few questions unrelated to this post!
We took a long National Park vacation this summer and I am planning to make scrapbooks for each of our kids (total of 6 books), but I want to personalize each one. I am planning to use Mixbook because of your good advertising of the company :)
Do you have any recommendations on which type of book to do (we will be using around 400 pictures probably) and is it better to order all books at the same time, or should I try to space them out and use coupons for each order? I'm hoping to give these to the kids at Christmas.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!
Kelly
Hi Kelly! I'm going to try to see if it will let me comment anonymously today. Worst it can tell me is no (again) right?
I will tell you that in recent months, Mixbook has frustrated me with their LACK of deals! I like to use free unlimited pages to make it as affordable as possible, but I haven't seen that deal with them forever. (Picaboo and Shutterfly seem to run them more, if you want to see about one of those instead!) One thing I love about any and all of these companies is that once you make a single book, you can make a copy of it and go into the copy to personalize it for each of your kids. I did this when I made my niece's wedding album. I made it for her, made a copy, and took out "our" wedding and put in "my daughter's" wedding and then it was a book for my sister. The page layouts and everything stayed the same. I just changed the words to fit the person.
Which type of book to do? I always do the 8x11 hardback books. Some people prefer layflat if they want to be able to open all the way and not have any of the middle-page pictures go into the binding. Some prefer a square book. That part is totally personal preference. Usually if you have a deal code, you can order as many as you want on the same code. If I find unlimited pages, I will order as many books as I have in the hopper while I have the best deal.
Feel free to email me readingrebekah at yahoo if you have more questions or want to talk more about it. I LOVE IT that you are doing this! And now we shall see if it will let me be anonymous today. - Bekah
Thanks Bekah! Appreciate the tips :)
Kelly
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