Loving Life

So apparently I haven't posted for awhile. For all you faithful blog readers (Mom), I apologize. I hadn't meant to let it go this long, but I did. I got caught up in several big projects and didn't get them off my plate until recently. One of the biggest things I did was to transition myself out of a job at our church. I've been the church administrator since we started and as we've grown, it has taken up more and more of my time. Juggling the demands of homeschooling, church work, motherhood with a newborn was just too much. My replacement is doing quite awesome and she has learned quickly, so now I'm only on call as needed which will be less and less as the weeks go by. That transition time took a lot of time as we were also in the process of getting an official church office so Aaron could have a place other than our bedroom/nursery/office room to work in. It's been an all around good thing.  The other major project we did was to put our house on the...

It was cold out this morning. 3 degrees. And windy. Windchill readings were down to -15 degrees. This is how I looked this morning when I went out for my run.  Kind of scary. 3 layers of pants, 5 layers on my top, plus a hat, scarf, and gloves. The skin you see in this picture was the only skin exposed. When the wind was to my back, I actually felt almost a little too warm. Nice. I got a good weight workout in too with all the layers I was wearing. We definitely didn't run very fast, but we stayed outside and shuffled around for 31 minutes. :)  It's the season where your eyelashes get frozen together from your breath as you run.  My running partner Julie and I always enjoy laughing at each other as the "eyesicles" form on our lashes and eyebrows and any exposed hair on our heads. I also have decided to rework my daily schedule as I've been getting lax/frustrated/discouraged.  Mainly I've been trying to multi-task too much and instead of doing many things at...