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A Year of Words
Written: March 16, 2021 I started my blog almost a year ago, toward the start of the coronavirus pandemic. It was years in the making in my head, but I never could get motivated to design the website and officially post my writing. In hindsight, it seems very fitting that I started this blog in a year where we were mostly only able to speak words and could not do much else. Maybe it wasn’t my laziness that caused the delay, but God’s plan (It’s a nice thought anyway). I love written word and I love spoken word too. I use lots of words every day and never seem to…
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2021 Word of the Year: Grace
Written: January 12, 2021 My 2020 word of the year was faith and it was remarkable how fitting that word was for the year. We took huge leaps of faith on where we live, where we work, with our finances and with Hannah’s daycare situation. Being the planner that I am, it was only early summer of 2020 when I thought ‘I wonder what 2021’s word will be.’ And to my surprise, it was almost an instant ‘Grace.’ Then about a month later, I bought a new journal to write in that said Faith on it. It came with two other journals; one that said “Grace” and one that said…
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2020 Year in Review
Written December 30, 2020 When I first thought about this post, I was going to write a little about 2020, then focus on 2021. Because who isn’t ready for a new year after this one. I feel like that would be a great disservice to myself and anyone reading this, though. As much as none of us want to relive 2020, we should all take some time to reflect on this year and what we learned. I’ll do another post with some optimism for 2021 soon J So first, I’m going to reflect on my memorable events and general thoughts of this year. I started the year working full-time, then…
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Christmas in 2020
Written December 22, 2020 Christmas is weird this year. Huge understatement, I know. I truly believed coronavirus would be either gone or not a big deal by now. The cases slowed down in the fall and I thought I might be right. But things have gotten worse and it has definitely put a damper on most people’s Christmas spirit. So I’ll give you a little background on my grinchy feelings and how I am trying to counter them, in hopes that maybe it will help someone reading this. If you have read my previous blogs, you know we moved a couple months. It was an exhausting and tiring move, especially…
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An Hour and a Half Later
Written 11/10/2020 Woah. Where do I begin on what all has taken place since I announced we were moving an hour and a half away? It has been a whirlwind. It feels like it’s been many months ago, but it has only been two months. Soon after we announced we were moving, we started looking for places to rent. This search took a little bit longer than we expected. We even looked at a couple houses to buy because finding a rental was becoming a daunting task, but buying in the middle of all this chaos was just too much right now. We thankfully found a rental to move into…
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Two Weeks’ Notice: Take Two!
Written August 29, 2020 I posted a week ago about the waiting season almost being over on a big decision. And WOAH. This week resulted in a lot of doors opening and closing. First let me give you some back story. In our last big waiting season a year ago, in 2019, we both were looking for jobs. We had went back and forth for a while on whether we should move closer to my family, especially with Andy being gone quite a few weekends in the Summer for fishing tournaments. We decided to apply to jobs near there and jobs near our current home in Columbus. We heard back…
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Bridge Builder
Written June 17, 2020 I want to build bridges not walls. No I am not going into construction. I know I have a lot of career ambitions, but building actual bridges is not on my bucket list. What I am referring to is the metaphorical bridge between two opposing ideas. I can see both sides really well in most situations. It can make me seem indecisive or flighty at times, but I truly see value in different perspectives. Most things are not where one side is clearly right and one side is clearly wrong. Even when something is clear, we are never going to educate people by telling them they…
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The New Normal: From someone who has been cautiously exploring the world
Written June 6, 2020 Earlier today, I met up with my parents for them to get Hannah for the night. The last time we met up at this restaurant was before the stay at home order, 13 weeks ago. I can barely comprehend how much things have changed since then. In my personal life 3 months ago, Hannah was much smaller and said fewer words and I was working full time in an office. We had no idea what was coming in a couple weeks. At that particular time, we were kind of laughing about coronavirus because it seemed to just be the next thing the news was focused on…
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Hello: My first week at my new job during quarantine
Written: May 24, 2020 Starting a new job has some similarities everywhere, at least in the jobs I have had so far. The first day is usually orientation to help you get familiar with the company, its values and guidelines. This one went surprisingly similar. There were 3 of us starting on Monday May 18th, which is very exciting considering many companies are on a hiring freeze or have had to furlough some employees. We wore a mask into the room and in any common areas, but they spread us out so we did not have to wear them all day. I also learned that the tie masks are worse…
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Goodbye: My last day at my full-time job during quarantine
If you are reading this in real time, you know life is weird all around right now. People are wearing masks out and about, people are awkwardly trying to avoid each other when they cross paths and a lot of places still are not open. So throw a normally weird situation like leaving a job in the mix and it is even stranger. My last day of my full-time job was Friday May 15th. I worked at home like usual until around 2:30pm and then left to meet my manager to turn in my badge and desk keys. A few people sent me an instant message saying goodbye and people…
