For those of you who were here early this morning and found no blog...I apologize! We got home about 9:00 last night but
someone was running about 8000 steps short for the day and had to finish those before she could do anything else. By the time everything else was finished, editing pictures felt too daunting a task.
But here I am with a few for you this morning!
Hope you had a good Valentine's Day! Hey, before I get started, I do have a prayer request for those of you who are praying people. I have a friend named Michelle who is from my hometown. She's 31, so we have a bit of an age gap, but I know her best from the many years of our childhood when we participated together in the Easter Pageant. Her family and mine spent a lot of time together in that play! Michelle is married now and has four daughters, the youngest of which is not quite two months old. A couple of nights ago, while at home, her heart rate skyrocketed over 200 and she called 911. They rushed her to the hospital and stabilized her. They did a heart cath and it came back clear, but yesterday she coded five times and had to be shocked back each of those times. She had a heart biopsy and has been transferred to a different hospital with a more specialized heart unit. Obviously this is really scary, and last I heard, they were talking the possibility of even needing a transplant. If you happen to think of her, her husband, her daughters, and her whole family, they're asking for prayer! Thank you so much!!
And now...Valentine's Day 2018 in Shafferland!
I adore roses and look forward to Valentine's Day each year so I can enjoy a bouquet of them. Ryan laughs at me because I literally carry them from room to room with me so they're always in view and I can fully appreciate their beauty.
I had planned to make a special lunch for us on Valentine's Day, but Ryan ended up having a meeting at work and couldn't come home. Womp womp. So I made the dessert for the dinner the night before and shared it with our small group, too! White chocolate raspberry cake. Pretty yummy!!
We did go out for dinner last night. Last year was the first year we dared to venture forth on Valentine's Day, because we're not really a fan of crowds. We tried Ruby Tuesday last year, and it wasn't too busy. This year we did Red Robin and it was also blissfully calm. (Red Robin is one of our favorite places, but we don't have one in town, so we don't go often.)
(I'm not sure what happened to me. I was all put together when we left home, but all the pictures taken out, I look bedraggled and sad. It was a bit misty, so I think my hair was growing and I just could not get a good smile and bright eyes going to save my life.)
After dinner, I thought we were just heading home to watch the Olympics, but Ryan had a surprise up his sleeve!
The Cake Bake Shop is this darling little tea-room feeling shop down near Indianapolis. I'd read about it and one of Ryan's co-workers loves to go there. It's pretty fancy and definitely a splurge for our budget. I'd been dying to try it, and he treated me to it!
My favorite thing was that they were all gussied up for spring in there. YES!!!!
I ordered a piece of millionaire cake and Ryan ordered a cherry cheesecake. Both were huge and delicious. I couldn't finish even half of mine. Carryout!!!
(We had our own little coffee pot!)
We retook this three times and I'm still all hunched over and weird looking. But I got tired of trying.
The display case. See the huge cakes on top? See what I mean?
Goodbye, Cake Bake Shop! We loved you!
And Happy Valentine's Day from Shafferland!
7 comments:
(: I'm waiting for it!
Praying for your friend, her family, and all of the medical staff providing her care.
What a fun Valentine's celebration!
Can you explain how the insurance and the step goals work? Just curious how it works when you meet the step goals and when you don't.
Blessings!
Karen
Tamar - there you go!
Jenni - Thanks for joining with them/us in prayer for her!
Karen - Well I confess that the whole step thing from yesterday was just my own Type A kicking in. I have a hard and fast personal rule that I must reach 10,000 steps six days a week. I give myself Sundays off as a day of rest. If I get 10,000 that day, fine. If not, fine. If I miss a day during the week, I make it up on Sunday and I HATE doing that. So since I was behind yesterday, I made myself finish when I got home.
The challenges, though, for insurance (as best I understand) work as follows. The insurance company issues challenges, and people who meet them get points. Challenges can be things like going to your well checkups, dentist, eye doctor, etc. And they can also be gaining a certain amount of steps per day in a certain time frame. If you achieve that, then you get the points and I believe it lowers the cost over the long haul. I hope I explained that right! (Ryan keeps track of all that. I just walk what he tells me to. HA!)
Where's the broccoli??
Karen - See I knew I would get it wrong if I tried to answer before asking Ryan. Clarification: the incentives are issued by his workplace, not the insurance company. If the challenges are met, we get money toward our health savings account. (Isn't it so great I don't work in any of these fields? It is all completely foreign to me.)
Lori - They made special broccoli that looked like fries! Isn't that so neat?
Mmm hmmm....
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