It's the Weekly Recap!

* Last Sunday I was forced to do the last minute cleaning before the house showing on Monday. (There comes a point when you run out of time to even procrastinate!) The house looks amazing, but I hope I find all my hiding places for paperwork and other nonsense I didn't have time to properly deal with! I won't tell you what I hid - or where; you'll think less of me.

* Monday morning I drove to work IN DAYLIGHT!! Seriously when did that happen? Last week it wasn't light until I was almost to work! I was panicked that I was late, but no - it was really just brilliant outside!

After work, I went to the Y again to try to get the membership thing figured out. I did...and halfway through my walk/run I heard my name being paged! Talk about being freaked out! Turns out they'd typed my name in the system incorrectly and needed my card to fix it. LOL!!

* Tuesday was, of course, Valentine's Day, and I have to say, in the grand scale of Valentine's Days gone by, this was one of my least cried-over. That day always hurts (because I have never once been in a relationship on Valentine's Day, so it has always been lost to me) but God was very gracious. I tried to soak up the joy of sharing with others, and my dear, wonderful Lynne brought me flowers. (I had been bracing myself for days leading up to this to NOT have flowers and to make myself be okay with that, and then...surprise!!!)
* Wednesday night I went to the gym, and then...oh, be still my beating heart: Hobby Lobby. I needed to pick up a few things...and I thought, you know, as long as I was there...I should probably just wander (every) aisle to make sure everything was in order. It was. Then I made my St. Joseph Statue purchase...but you already read about that.
* Thursday evening, Bekah's B&B was open for business! The lovely Julie Crandall came for dinner (where she willingly agreed to be my guinea pig for my first ever Parmesan chicken attempt) and then we sat around catching up on life and eating almost caramel surprise brownies. With whipped cream. :) And since she's having a baby in a few weeks, I figured it wasn't nice to make her sleep on the air mattress, so I gave her my bed and I got to do one of my favorite things: living room slumber party!!!

* Friday morning I posted on Twitter "Lesson learned today: adding product doesn't fix bad hair. It only makes me a bigger fire hazard with bad hair." And so my day began. LOL. The day wasn't a total loss - especially when at the end of it, I got to run outside and it was GORGEOUS. And surely wearing 14 shirts to keep warm adds enough weight to count as weight training...right???

* Saturday I had a beautiful day at home. Got an entire scrapbook done! Granted it's an itty bitty one, but it's still DONE!!! Did some reading...some journaling...some napping...some grocery shopping. Loved it.

One Thousand Gifts. There were so many this week but most of my favorites had to do with weather. We had everything this week. Fog, rain, snow, ice, sun, warmth. WELCOME TO INDIANA. This was one of my favorite pictures that made it into the 1000 Gifts list: raindrops clinging to branches:
Organization confessions: FAIL FAIL FAIL on the calendar. But I did a good job (for the most part) of keeping the house clean post-showing!

Pinterest Inspiration: This week it came in the form of my Valentines! I saw this on Pinterest:

Source: familyfun.go.com via Rebekah on Pinterest

...And I altered it slightly to make my own version!

Pretty happy with it! :)