The Shafferland Shuffle

We have shuffled all the way through the first week of 2018, and I confess that last Sunday (New Year's Eve) feels like it was about 1000 years ago now! Maybe my brain is so frozen from our sub-zero temperatures this week that I just can't remember that long ago! :)

* Like I said, last Sunday was New Year's Eve, and we spent the evening at a party with our new Sunday School class friends. We took a fruit tray and joined in an evening of treats and games. (And a midnight kiss!) On our way home from the party, we stopped to pick up Miss Phoebe, who spent the rest of the night with us.

* Ryan had Monday off work (woot woot!) and we enjoyed the most wonderful, low-key day at home. We had planned to go see a movie, but since Ryan was mid-cold and exhausted, we scrapped that idea and went to Plan B! We played with Phoebe, binge-watched shows on TV, went on our very last alphabetically inspired date (in which we zipped up the year) and welcomed a new year with all the rest we could possibly muster!

* And then it was Tuesday morning, and we were back to hard core work outs. :) This was also our 61st monthiversary, and we celebrated with cupcakes and candlelit dinners. (All this, of course, after returning to our respective day jobs and reality in general.)

* Ryan got a new Bible on Wednesday, and he's really enjoyed using it as we've plunged into our read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year project. I was supposed to have lunch with my college roommate that day, but she had a death in the family, so we had to cancel our plans. I did get to have coffee with one of my other friends, though, and we had a really lovely hour out together! Ryan helped one of his co-workers with a home project that evening, so I stayed home to read and drink hot chocolate - all under a blanket of course. SO COLD!

* On Thursday, our niece job-shadowed Ryan for the day, which meant we got to have her over to our house for lunch, and that was so much fun! I was busy working on school newsletters and other forms of work, and while we went on a quick shopping trip that evening, Ryan found a new costume to try...ha!

* School was actually canceled here on Friday because of the extreme cold, so I had a great day at home, and then we went out for an errand-running evening. Ryan got the squeegee he's been wanting to clean the winter-yuck laden garage floor. We kept warm with Starbucks and threw in some free Rural King popcorn on top for an evening snack. (We are the classiest!!)

* And that brings us to yesterday! Ryan was supposed to work, but they ended up not needing him, so we slept in (WHAT?!?!?) and he made breakfast. Because he was supposed to work, I already had plans to have lunch with my mom, aunt, and cousin, so I went ahead and joined them and had much fun. We were pretty lazy the rest of the day, but I did manage to make a batch of peanut butter muffins so we could have something to snack on!

A solid start to the new year, I would say! My favorite part? So many extra hours with Ryan! I don't take those for granted!