Hello and Happy Monday! ☀️
I hope your new week is starting out with sunshine and happy thoughts. I was busy cleaning and doing some home projects this AM. I'm still working on organizing things around here one room at a time. I have been feeling really good and I've been back to some good workouts each day and it feels wonderful! I also had both of my kiddos around for lunch today and caught up with them. Now I'm finally getting me time and working on this post.
It was such a fun weekend because my daughter and I went and saw Taylor Swift in concert - and it was AMAZING!! I always really liked her and her music....but I have a whole new appreciation after seeing her perform in person. Holy moly does that girl put on a show! She is unbelievably talented. (sorry for any picture overload I'll share in this post. Lol) She does serious cardio during her show dancing & performing. Then she'll run and play piano or guitar and sing like an angel. She played for over 3 hours straight with only tiny disappearing moments for costume changes. Her backup dancers and singers and staging folks are incredible too. Truly a show of a lifetime and I got to enjoy it with my sweet girlie and with one of Annie's besties - whose Mom is a good gf of mine. So the 4 of us went on a road trip to see her. We saw her concert at US Bank stadium in Minneapolis. We had a stop at my cousin's house, first, to change and leave my car and catch an uber from there. The whole thing was amazing until the concert was over and it was pouring rain and thundering and lightening and we had to walk to get to an uber spot. So it kinda felt like I took a shower with my clothes on...I was that soaked. Lol But it was just part of the adventure and it was an epic day!
Now on to this week ahead....
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:
ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:
wasa cracker with some avocado, everything bagel seasoning & drizzle of hot honey. iced coffee with protein salted caramel creamer cold foam
ON MY TO DO LIST THIS WEEK:
figure out grocery list for later in the week, errands, Annie's summer hockey scrimmages, bereavement calls for hospice work, hospice work at the facility, home projects, visit my Mom
THINKING ABOUT:
how wonderful it feels to have my back & rib feeling more like itself (I've been putting in a lot of work to strengthen everything)
AS I LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE
It was gray all morning but sunbeams shining in now. My daughter was just needing my help to find something (why can Mom always find things that are right in front of other family members faces?? Lol). Listening to music - currently Coldplay singing
CURRENTLY READING
I have yet to start the new book I'm planning to dive into - been too busy working on home projects
ON THE TV TODAY:
HGTV shows (currently loving Vacation House Rules), AGT, Outlander, And Just Like That, Younger episodes I didn't finish, old movies taped (I just love the old black & whites)
*Matt and I watched a movie yesterday and I made us each a bowl of popcorn using my my micro popper tool. I then melted butter to pour on top and we put on different seasonings and had some sour patch kids & a few peanut m&m's on top too. We sometimes like to splurge on calories that way and then we don't eat dinner. Do you ever do that? I just love that it feels like we're at the movies but snuggly in my comfy chair. ;)
ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:
MONDAY - Cheddar bay biscuits, creamy tomato soup, veggie tray
TUESDAY - pasta with marinara & my fresh garden basil, roasted lemon parm broccoli
WEDNESDAY - parmesean chicken, salad
THURSDAY - need to get groceries - maybe make steak bites on the grill (i have grill baskets), corn on the cob, roasted red potatoes with ranch, melon
FRIDAY - out for dinner?
TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:
visit with my Mom, play with my flowers & garden
TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:
*does anyone know if this works?
FROM THE CAMERA:
showing Matt what we were doing while waiting in the merch line
and he answered back how he was home bonding with Ruby ;)
at one point I took a shot of Annie & I could see she was wiping away a tear - my sweet girl was so happy to be seeing one of her fave artists that she really admires. 💗
*sorry if some of the quality of pics isn't great as a lot of these I screen shotted from videos I took
*I had to share some video with you too. I took quite a bit but I thought the 1st one really shows her showmanship and the 2nd one is one of the songs she played from her folklore era - which is my favorite era. 💕
PRAYER LIST:
For an end to the conflict in the Ukraine and other areas of the world living in war & fear. For peace and unity in this country, especially from hate and shootings or violence. For anyone sick, suffering, in pain or fear... that God bring them comfort and peace. For His Light and Love to cast out the dark everywhere. 🙏