Happy Friday, loves! I am so excited for this weekend. Generally, Fridays aren't all that celebratory in the summer because school is out and our weeks flow into weekends without much notice. However, August is changing that up! This week there were some changes going on around here and some are high lighted in this post. Be sure to check out Katie's blog for the High Five Link Up and Christina's blog for Friday Five.
One - Blog Changes?
July 2016 was the biggest month ever for my blog. I haven't really made any real changes to the blog but I did write more from the heart in a lot more pieces. I deducted some topics from the month and added in a few new things. People liked it and more people read it. I also had a little spotlight on me from my wonderful friend Andrea (everybody knows her and everybody loves her as they should! If you don't know her yet go visit her blog now!) Last week she featured me at The Blended Blog. I'm very flattered she'd pick little ole me to high light. But more than anything I'm so thankful for all the ahh-mazing ladies that have became my blogger buddy squad! I'm thankful for the new readers I have too - beautiful!
Two - Let's just get active (in church)!
For two years we have been attending a fabulous church - Hillsdale UMC. I love the large but not massive church setting. When we came to HUMC I was ready to be in a church that I could just enjoy attending without any committments. However, after a couple years of doing that fighting off itches to get more involved I said - OK God I get it! I'm going to do this! This week I helped out with our fabulous Vacation Bible School. Not only did I get to lead around a couple groups of fun and silly kids but I also got to chat with people I see on Sundays but haven't ever had a reason to really chat with a.k.a. strangers? A lot of the time I feel pretty solitary though I have my kids and husband and I realize this is because I put up barriers and have ideas as to why I can't or shouldn't make the step to chat up someone. This week told me it is time to change that and start just doing it (thanks Nike). I hope to be even more involved this fall and who knows - make a new pal or two in the mix of it all!
Three - Make Over Wednesday
Well...yeah that's how I was looking all summer.
And I was tired of it. Ready for something new and different and fresh (blah, blah, blah)... So on Wednesday I went to see the fabulous Lizz and got a new look.
My hair is still blonde (whew) but it is ash blonde instead of what we have been referring to as porn star blonde. I also have bangs now because of my infatuation with Reese Witherspoon's side bang.
I like it.
I like it a lot!
Four - Date Night!
We haven't had a date night since Memorial Day. Wait, what? Yep. Even when the kids were at the beach for a week minus us we didn't have one (work schedules). So this weekend we're making up for that and going out with adults. On the agenda dinner and bowling. I wish we could go on weekly dates even if it was just for a couple hours but meh...life happens.
Five - Technology...
If you blog then you know technology is your basis for everything. Even if you don't blog and you have a Facebook, IG, Snap account you are probably looking at your phone more than you need to. This week my phone has totally frustrated me. I'm realizing how much I have it out and in my face and it really makes me mad. It takes so much of my attention and it really has no right to. I started putting the phone away more this week (I know that is hard to believe, I have posted quite a bit on my social media accounts!) to make myself more present in real life rather than real time. Now I'm just wishing other people would do the same. Its time to change my phone usage patterns and hopefully I'll be able to really work on that more starting over the course of the next two weeks.
There's my five and now here's my four....
Now go get your weekend on beautiful thang! I'll see you back here on Monday for sure! Please pop by my social media spots over the weekend!
