MAY 2022!

 QUOTE OF THE MONTH:

"You are not the darkness you endured;

You are the LIGHT that refused to surrender."

~John Mark Green

MAY MEMORABLE MOMENTS

• Watching the weather on possible tornado days and talking about storm memories over family dinner
• Fun swim days playing sharks and minnows or just shark (aka water tag) with the kids
• Lunch and a courthouse tour with Kristin and the twins! 
• Mother's Day Cheesecake Factory brunch (just me and Mom) after we singlehandedly finished packing my entire house!
• Writing a 522 memories post
• Our pay raise being approved (goes into effect in July)
• Catching up on life and work at our various courthouses over Napoli's dinner with Laura!
• Catching up with Sarah over phone calls + Facetiming with Kate!
• Finally meeting baby Amelia when Al came to pick up my washer
• Having All My Sons move all my stuff into storage - yay!
• A memorable dinner conversation at Upper Crust with Holly and co.
• Lots of fun golf course walks and neighborhood walks with all the kids... and a few fun Planet Fitness workouts with T-man thanks to their high school summer pass!
• Theater movies making a delightful comeback for me (four this month!)
• Jace having me look through his notebooks with him to reminisce about the schoolyear
• Watching Kyndal get a character award at the assembly on their last day!
• A potluck "Welcome Lunch" at work for me and Desiree (a bailiff who started around the same time as me) where I finally tried H-Tea-O (yum!)
• Booking a few extra days on the Vegas trip so Tman can join me and experience my favorite city! lol
• More cooking - making veggie bars with Mom, making pancakes for dinner with the kids, and making soup + chili + pasta to divide and freeze for future lunches!
• Sifting through Babah's pictures and memorabilia with Mom... reminiscing and narrowing down what we need to scan in someday soon!
• A fun Cheesecake Factory brunch with my cousin, Kristin!
• Two buyers in a row changing course (it's been a hot mess), but I'm finally under contract again now and praying all goes smoothly!
• Our fam taking Babah for a belated birthday dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse last night!
• LIFE-GIVING:  Time with all the family.  Being DONE with packing and moving and getting more time to rest since then.  Theater movies.  And planning for a Vegas trip!
• LIFE-DRAINING:  Stressing over things outside my control - it's been a lot of internal work in that department lately - on prayerfully giving things to God and trusting His timing rather than complaining, stressing, or scrambling to redirect things on my own. #workinprogress

HAPPY LISTS

I Listened To:

• How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
• Acts, Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
• The usual favorite podcasts + Triston's Apple Music playlists

I Watched:  

• Top Gun: Maverick -- really great! (Saw it with Dad and Charlene, then again with T-man)
• Downton Abbey: A New Era -- predictable, but lovely!  (Saw it with Chet and Karli)
• Dr. Strange: Multiverse of Madness -- pretty dark for a Marvel movie, and I was sad about the villain character, but appreciated the ending! (Saw it with T-man)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 -- a fun sequel, and a memorable movie experience with Jace's consistent narration! lol  (Saw it with Jace and Kyndal)
• New episodes of Grey's Anatomy and A Million Little Things, both of which are a woke hot mess, but I'm trying to stick with them to the finish line. lol

I'm Celebrating:  

• God's kindness!
• An upcoming pay raise!
• Making it through my first full month at the new job!
• Them finally breaking ground on my new house today!  It has begun!!

That's all I've got for today, friends.  Back to working on my transcript so I can get it done and filed before Vegas!  Hope you have a lovely short work week!! ❤

When people fail or abandon you,
May the Lord stand with you and strengthen you!