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  What’s Up Wednesday {January 2022} This is a fun monthly link-up for bloggers to "catch up" with one another or, if you are not a blogger, for you to catch up with us when you have a little time.  Sheaffer and Shay put this together each month (click on the links to go to their blogs) and you can find other people connect with too :) This kind of takes place of "Life Lately" posts since I don't have much to report regularly on a day-to-day basis.  Those are fun to look back on though! 1: WHAT WE’RE EATING THIS WEEK Margaret wanted meatloaf one night -- it's been a long time since I've made it!  Has anyone noticed how much the price of meat has gone up??  Needless to say, it isn't the "cheapest" dish to make anymore but this one turned out great: And we also made potato soup (this is an image from the website) which was a hit And Uncle Brian sent home some of his delicious pot roast dinner from last time I was in Ohio and we ate that ri

Friday Favorites 01.21.22

  This is supposed to be a regular weekly feature but nothing has been "regular" about my blogging ;). I'm taking the approach of a step is still a step. . .even if it's a little late or a little wobbly.   I have enjoyed participating in Friday Favorites over the years and linking up with Andrea and Erika -- two of my favorite mom bloggers.  Although a decade younger than me and 10 years behind me in parenting years, I remember those times well (I did the majority of my blogging through them!) and enjoy watching these mommas navigate family and motherhood and their outside jobs too.   I've missed blogging but rarely miss reading the link-ups at the end. . .in fact, I've "found" many of the bloggers I now follow on my sidebar through Friday Favorites.   Here we go! These sinful little treats.  Marie brought them home and I told her "never again".  Truly. . .so, so good.   Another Marie purchase -- she bought this for her Aunt for Christma

What to Live By in 2022

This is the quote that I put on the back of our 2021 Family Album - my life has been full of blessings and exciting days and milestones and yet I believe that there is more ahead!  I have been told that I am an optimistic person -- if people can see that in me, then I am who I want to be.  When I first started teaching in the mid-90's there was a quote that I lived by and still do - " Be the most positive and enthusiastic person you know" .  There are bad times, for sure, and HARD times. . .but there is a blessing and miracle in each day, even each hour, of our lives.  I think it was Edie Wadsworth who may have said it last week when I was listening to her New Years Eve's live message -- "I want to look for and see God's miracles every day" (not an exact quote but how I remember it).   To think that the above quote is attributed to Anne Frank gives one pause because we know that when she wrote that there weren't any "best days" ahead for he