friday feels like monday

This is Josh’s working weekend. So while everyone else is excited it’s Friday, we’re bummin’ because it feels like a Monday. As usual, I just keep telling myself “only three nights”. Then tomorrow I’ll be saying “only two more nights”. It’s the only way I get through it.

New favorite word: quagmire. Fun word, right? Also curmudgeon.

I came up with an awesome playlist on Spotify and turned it up loud on Wednesday to motivate some cleaning. It worked! I spent an hour cleaning my kitchen which of course led to other rooms in the house. Maybe it’s just me but when I do a really deep cleaning or organizing, I always come back to the room and stare at it. Like numerous times a day… And then I will have Josh come look at it. Thankfully he humors me.

Here are my hott shoes that I wore on Sunday. Yes, that’s right, hot with two t’s. They are so not shoes I would normally buy but I pretty much love them. So worth the giant blister on my left foot!

I had Josh drag out all of the Christmas boxes from the crawl space the other night. My intention was to sort through things and see what I need to get rid of or replace. (What I always want to do after Christmas but never do.) Unfortunately it just made me want to put the decorations up.

Speaking of Christmas decorations, I realized that I didn’t have a tree for upstairs anymore. After the crawl space flood fiasco earlier this year, we got rid of our little tree for the upstairs window. Thankfully I’ve had a lot of sessions and was able to buy a replacement yesterday. I put it together to make sure it was the one I wanted. That led to putting the lights on it. As of now it’s sitting in the middle of my living room. Guess I better go forward with the Christmas decorations.

You may have already seen this video floating around this week…a murmuration of starlings. Just incredible. I think I need to add seeing one to my life list.

Jasper’s common phrases right now are: “You talkin’ to me?” and “What you say?”.

My parents watched Jasper for us on Sunday while we went on our date. When we dropped him off, the first thing my mom said to me was “Whoa, Kimberly!”. I hadn’t safety pinned my dress yet so it was a little low. I love that at 31 years old my mom can still make sure I’m dressed appropriately.

During my session yesterday I got hailed on. That was a first. Definitely one session I won’t forget!

Saw this on Pinterest and had to laugh. This is so me. I would say that at least 95% of all rude things I’ve ever said to Josh have been out of hunger.

Which reminds me, I’m having a mad craving for my husband’s lasagna. He’s a darn good cook and I’m happy to share some of the cooking responsibilities with him.

I’m making a Santa countdown (something like this) for Jasper to start on December 1st. I distinctly remember this one that 7up put out in the early 90′s. So I’m designing my own. Each day we’ll put a cotton ball on the circle until his beard is full. We already had planned on doing The Elf on the Shelf which we got awhile back. Our elf, Franklin, will be here on December 1st to keep an eye on Jasper. I had never heard of this book until I saw it on Pinterest a hundred times. I think Jasper will get a kick out of it.

I always get in crafty mode this time of year. Being indoors more makes me want to bake and craft. If I get really ambitious I might make some little winter village houses (via Martha Stewart). Much cheaper than the ones you can buy in the store…I would just need to raid my recycle bin.

Now if I could just get caught up on my work so I can do some of this stuff. This is the one time of year I need to hire someone to help me process/edit sessions or someone to babysit my kid. I think it’s going to be some late nights and a lot of coffee for me in the next two weeks.

Hope you all have a great weekend! And remember, “Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good”. -Dr. Minor Myers, Jr.