SEPTEMBER 2022!

 QUOTE OF THE MONTH:

"Legacies grow from one small seed planted in faith... Have faith, friends. Keep growing good things. Take steps of faith for what matters most. Know that your small steps add up over time — even with many missteps along the way. My dad’s life displayed this truth to me so clearly. The little things done in love over time were the big things in the end."

~Lara Casey, Cultivating What Matters: A New Season

SEPTEMBER MEMORABLE MOMENTS

• Fun with friends at the Wilsons' Labor Day pool party!
• Tate showing me an awesome tree bridge in their neighborhood
• The OSU game with Triston (and seeing Anthony Hill!)
• Celebrating Gus & Marilyn's 50th anniversary at The Ranch
• Touring my house with the ladies of the family
• State Fair fun with the Whitakers and Locks
• More State Fair fun with Dad and the niece and nephews
• Attending a CHA varsity volleyball game for the first time in years, then back for another one two days later!
• My first Zoom class and my first role play teletherapy counseling homework -- (taking turns counseling and then being the counselee for 20 minutes each) -- super intimidating, but undoubtedly good for me!  As Donald Miller says, "Healthy things grow, and healthy people do the same."  Must keep improving at thinking on my feet and being confident and poised!!
• LIFE-GIVING:  Audiobooks with rich and captivating stories (whether true or fictional)!  Steven Furtick's Torn but Trusting podcast on a day when I was dealing with disappointment.  Future hopes and dreams!  Pressing through fear/nerves and doing well on my first role play counseling session!  Being the promised first recipient/purchaser of Kyndal Faith's very first book!! ❤
• LIFE-DRAINING:  Self-doubt.  Waiting.  Allowing the sulky/sullen mood and disengagement of others to affect me.

HAPPY LISTS

I Listened To:

• 1 Thessalonians - Revelation

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki

• The usual favorite podcasts + worship music

I Watched:  

• Spider-Man: No Way Home (3 more times in theaters)

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (so. freaking. good.)

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (saw both in theaters)

• Man of the House (1995 Jonathan Taylor Thomas version) on Disney+

• Big Bang Theory on HBO Max

I'm Celebrating:  

• No mortgage payment this month!
• The arrival of fall (and cooler weather and football and so many fun events around the corner).
• Being committed to my goals!!
• Switching loan officers and now working with Debbie Robinson again - yay!

Me repping the autumn colors!

Happy Friday, framily! ;-)  I hope your September was lovely and peaceful.  I'm doing a fair amount of intense physical reading lately between class textbooks and transcript proofreading, so I'm LOVING lighter/comforting/rich and vibrant story audiobooks right now, which means it's about time to revisit the HP audiobooks in the remainder of 2022... yes, please!  This has been my last full month of living with my parents, possibly for the rest of my life, and it's been a really good one all around.  It's not perfect, as nothing anywhere on earth is, but I feel very aware that this season is a gift in so many ways!  And I am full of fun hopes and ideas and things to look forward to in October... and I hope you are, as well! ❤

"May the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts.  For as members of one body, we are called to live in peace.  And always be thankful!"

(Colossians 3:15)