Can you believe we're headed into the final week of January?? It has been a full and rich month here in Shafferland, but I can't quite believe we're already to the end of it!
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I've already told you about last Sunday, so I won't go on and on about it here.
It was our new pastor's first Sunday at our church, and we enjoyed a wonderful service! We appreciated his sermon and the music was amazing...an all around great day. We were able to be home and rest the remainder of the day, and that was a great thing, because the week ahead of us was busy!
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I worked all day Monday and then stayed around for a meeting with the leadership team for women's ministry. Here's what my desk looks like when I'm prepping for a meeting. (I ran out of desk space, actually!) We had a good meeting and at the end of it, we practiced painting a canvas for a church painting party at the end of the week. We (the leadership team) hosted the party, so we all tried our hand at the painting, so we could be helpful hosts later! I didn't get home until almost 10:00 that night - a very long day! Ryan did an amazing job of helping me out with things at home - that night and all week - to keep us afloat.
* Part of it was from being tired from Monday and part of it was just life, I'm sure, but Tuesday was one of those terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad days. Nothing major or life altering. Just a rough day. I made it through the day (not without crying) and that night, Ryan got me a 4 for 4 from Wendy's, because that is the best thing for a bad day.
We canceled our plans for the evening and stayed home so I could rest and get my thoughts in order. It absolutely helped, and the rest of the week went very well.
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Wednesday night Ryan and I showed up at the gym in the same outfit. Cracked ourselves up! It was my next 5K for January, and it ended up being my best one yet in time and inside my head, too. I was so busy that evening, trying to get ready for the canvas painting party, that Ryan helped me out by making a pot of chili for us to carry us through the end of the week!
* Thursday was a busy day at work, including working on writing the women's ministry newsletter! I always love it when work includes writing!
Ryan taught a gym class on Thursday, and I did my own workout at home. My workouts this month get progressively longer as the month goes along. The planks and wall sits are getting rough!
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Friday was the big canvas painting day! We had about forty ladies come to church and paint together, and they seemed to have a really great time! Ryan came at the beginning and end to help us set up and cleanup, but the leadership team did all the rest of the work, and they were so diligent! I walked 18,000 steps in boots, and by the time I got home, my feet were screaming! A huge shout-out to Ryan again for helping make this entire week go smoothly. Looking forward to a week where I can be more present with him!
* So yesterday I sat on the couch and scrapbooked alllllll day long. I am almost done with the second of three scrapbooks I'd hoped to complete this week. The third one won't get done, but that's okay!
Ryan took me on a date last night! We had a gift card to Applebee's, and Ryan really wanted to enjoy the bottomless wings, so that's where we headed!
6 comments:
Such a busy week!! The painting event sounds great and a very well deserved Saturday on the couch (:
I started wearing tennis shoes to work this week and my feet are loving it. You should try it on long days.
"Terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad days"!!! I love that description for those kind of days. Glad you got through it alright.
The rest of the week sounds like it was busy with some fun times as well, so that's good!
Mmmm chili!!! I keep trying different recipes, trying to find myself a "This is the one!!!" go-to so that I can STOP searching. Sigh.
Hope the last week of January treats you nice!
I'll have to tell Jason about the bottomless wings!
Tamar - thank you! The couch day paid off - I ordered three scrapbooks tonight!
Gerri - I should have! My feet felt great until I sat down when I got home. THEN they notified me that they hurt.
Jinjer - Maybe I should have read the Alexander book to myself on that day! :) We use Ryan's chili recipe - it's under the recipe tab at the top of the blog if you want to try it. We like it! :) It was great to hear from you!
Heather - Yes! Tell him! Ryan didn't put away as many as Nick did when he went. I believe he had 40 (plus several orders of fries). Ryan stopped at 25 (and not as many fries). There are also bottomless ribs if Jason prefers - and something else. The only bottomless thing I had was water.
I love following a day of many thousands of steps with a couch sitting day! I hope your week this week included a lot of at home time to make up for the busy-ness of last week.
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