Well, friends, we’ve made it to the
last day of September. How different everything seems today from Labor Day
weekend that ushered us into this month!
I
wanted to take this day to share some updates on how things went in the land of
my dreams and goals from this month!
ONE. Take new
headshots for my website. If anything ever squeaked
in under the wire, it was this one. Ryan snapped a few photos of me yesterday
morning as we hurried out the door for church. In the rain. With my hair
already going flat. They aren’t perfect. We’ll need to make more attempts, for
sure. But we have something usable in the meantime, and I am grateful.
TWO. Do some end-of-season
hosting. I so wish we could
have just taken the month of September off work and done nonstop hosting. Alas,
time and budget didn’t allow for all that we wanted to do, but we were able to
host small group here a couple of times this month – and some of the Swiss
Village residents. We also had our godson and his mom and another former
WillowBridge tenant over for dinner. I felt good about those things and hope we
can squeeze in a few more before the weather turns for good.
THREE. Finalize plans
for our anniversary trip. I think we’ve
accomplished this – minus the lodging. That remains a question. But I think the
itinerary is set. I’m excited!
FOUR. Work on wardrobe
tweaks for fall. I’ve enjoyed the
return to wearing a little bit of everything from the whole year throughout
this month. The weather has certainly allowed for a little bit of everything –
from flannels to sleeveless!!
FIVE. Do four video
workouts at home each week. Fail. Some of the failure
came from my weird foot injury earlier in the month. Some came from not feeling
grate in fighting colds. And some came from plain laziness. It wasn’t the wild
success I hoped for. We did some. We did not do four every week.
SIX. Decorate for
fall. Done! Inside and out, fall has come
to Shafferland, and I love how it looks.
And
then, of course, there were the unnamed dreams and goals that came to pass even
though I didn’t set out to identify them at the start of September.
I learned how to crush tomatoes and
ended up getting to preserve a big part of our tomato harvest.
I made a big batch of seasoned salt
that will probably last us a couple of years.
I started co-leading another round
of Bible study through church. Learning so much and loving it!
I also started working through a
Bible study on the book of James (on my own).
Ryan and I served at a church one Sunday
this month and enjoyed seeing that congregation again.
We put our kitchen island up on
riser blocks, and it has been one of the BEST decisions we made recently!
We went to the WillowBridge birthday
party, as I wrote about yesterday!
Stay tuned for some new goals coming
tomorrow – with the welcome of another new month!
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