1. The past two weeks were crazy hectic. In addition to work and class, I had a parade last Saturday and then an event on Saturday night. Now, we’re on the downhill side to Christmas break. 2. We finally put up our Christmas tree. Purrburger is a fan. 3. I have one final, and then…
Lisa
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A year of home ownership
A year ago today, I boarded a plane at 5:30 am to buy a house. Things didn’t go as planned, and I wound up in Colorado 14 hours later and an hour after we were supposed to close. The Lord was good, as always, and we were able to close after hours. I signed my…
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Honoring Officer Swasey
As most of you know, a police officer at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs was killed in the line of duty last week responding to a shooting off-campus. I work and am a student at UCCS, so our campus has spent the week grieving as a community. Yesterday, Officer Garrett Swasey was laid to…
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Marital stress
Y’all, I have a confession. 90% of our fights as a married couple stem from arguing about where we want to go out to eat. A friend posted this E-card, and it really spoke to my soul. When we were in Augusta, I made a date book for us to try new restaurants since we…
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Favorite easy freezer meals
I don’t know why, but doing super housewifey things is really fun to me. Except cleaning, that all around sucks. We bought a deep freeze when we moved to Colorado, and we’ve been slowing filling it up. I can prep these meals in large batches and then pop them in the deep freeze for later…
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The new 9 to 5
So I’m in grad school. I have a weird schedule because I work part-time during the week and go to class on Saturday. I was going to bed between 10 pm and midnight and waking up anywhere from 6 am to 9 am. I set two alarms to get my going but always woke up…