Today was a fun day. The kids went to play with their cousins (Thanks again Ehren and Lindsay!) so Shaun and I could go out to eat for our anniversary, which is tomorrow. We ate way too much shrimp at Red Lobster and spent a couple of hours doing some home shopping. We bought a…
1. When you’re feeling down, what do you do to pick yourself up? When I am feeling stressed out, I’ll often just drop everything I need to do and spend some time in my craft room by myself. That usually happens when I have TONS of stuff to get done, and then I end up…
We always try to write down the funny things Juniper says, and after last month’s post we’ve been getting a little better at it. I still haven’t written them down IN the notebook I bought specifically for writing them down… We’ll get to that eventually. BUT here are some more of my recent favorites. This…
My name is Crystalyn, but you already know that. What you MIGHT not know is that I really like my name. I’ve never met another Crystalyn. I know they are out there, and I’m sure they are amazing people, but I hope I never meet one. I once had a dream that I ALMOST…
SOOOOOO TIRED. It is 12:17am right now, and I am just wrapping up some work for an old client. I had some plans for tonight, but instead I foundnd myself staying up way too late working on some freelance project or another. And now I’m sitting here rambling on about how tired I am while…
August has just flown by. In fact, it’s already a few days into September and I’m still forgetting that it is a new month. August was SO hot and SO dry! But we still had a lot of fun. We went on lots of family bike rides and geocaching adventures, spent the weekend in Kansas…
It’s hard to believe it has been a year since we left Florida and moved to Missouri. One year ago today we pulled into Jane’s driveway, exhausted from the long drive and excited to start this new chapter of our lives. We really love living in Columbia, our house is amazing and we are close…
Last week my boss told us “By the way, next weekend there is a conference in Kansas City that you can all go to. Oh and we’ll pay for gas and food, AND you can take a day off this week if you go.” Ummm… Do you really need more incentive than that?? I know,…
Hey, remember this list? Yeah me too. I had forgotten about for a little while there, but it’s back now. I found it collecting dust on top of our refrigerator with a random assortment of other things my husband put out of reach. Still though, even without thinking about it for a few months I’ve…
With both the kids and my husband in bed for the night, I found myself once again trying to clean up our house. Its like a battle that can’t be won, but we keep trying to fight. (Like the movie 300, only with 299 less hot guys.) It is so frustrating to spend all of…