This is my first ever “Currently” and I’m excited to be linking up with the Oh Boy 4th Grade blog, the original currently queen for this fun little blogger get-to-know-you game! I started my blog many years ago but never really joined bloglovin’ so keeping up with posts was hit and miss–now that I have the bloglovin’ feed on my phone I feel more in the “loop” with all my favorite bloggers—and I keep learning about new amazing authors all the time.
So, without further ado, here is my First eeeever Currently for September 2014.
Listening: When I put the music on I almost always put on the Van Morrison Pandora station. Something about Van the Man makes me feel like home, maybe because my dad loved his music…who knows? I also find that on that station they play a lot of reggae music…and that get’s my two year old dancing so it’s a win-win for me and her. The other station I love is Regina Spektor Pandora station because I always hear new music that I like over there.
Loving: The addition on our home. My brother graduated with a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Arizona a few years ago. So after graduation he was anxious to work on a house. We just so happened to have space on our property for him to build said house. Soooo my brother designed a kick butt modern “tiny” addition to our home. We submitted plans to the city on Christmas Eve of last year (2013) and now coming in for the home stretch. We will probably be finished by November. My husband and father have both given countless hours to this project. My brother works full-time at his firm and then comes over every day (yes EVER day) and works on his masterpiece. He is quite talented and very hard working. The results are stunning. Here are a few pictures.
(Left: my brother looking at original plans, middle: northwest corner of structure, right: cabinets built by my father).
Thinking: I drove the extra 10 minutes this morning to take my daughter to a grocery store where the carts have little cars on the front of them. She loves to “drive” and I love to shop in peace. After our grocery store shopping I took her to get breakfast. As I was sitting with her I just looked at her with tears in my eyes thinking “I just wish I could be with her all day, every day.” Some day I hope! Here she is…
(We’ve been doing “girly” things lately like putting pink in our hair and painting our nails!)
Wanting & Needing: These two go hand-in-hand because I am always wanting for more time and stealing it away from the time I should be sleeping. I have so many ideas and ambitions that I can’t ever seem to get my to-do list shortened. Once my daughter goes to bed I have a few hours to myself to work, create, blog etc. This is when I should also cut the night off at a normal time and sleep but usually I stay up too late working. I’m a big of a work-aholic and always have been. I don’t watch television so that helps but still there is never enough time or sleep!
3 trips: My father turns 60 this month so my sisters and I are planning some thing fun for him but the location hasn’t exactly been nailed down yet. Most likely it will be in a cabin somewhere in AZ. Over fall break my husband and I like to try and get to San Diego for a few days. Last fall break we were in San Diego “dreaming” about Teachers Pay Teachers and brainstorming all the fun things we could do. Never did we think our store would have been as successful as it is today. My dream last year was to earn money on TPT to save for my daugthers college…and we have been so blessed to be able to do that. I might even make enough one day to pay off my own crazy college loans. The third trip will most likely be for Christmas but I’m not sure where that will be yet either! We took a huge, 3 week trip to Virginia over the summer and so that is most of our “trip” funds for the year!
Well, that was fun! thanks for reading