Well, another three months have come and gone and no blogging from me 🙂 What else is new?!
It’s January 6, 2014. It will take me a while to get used to writing 2014, I had just gotten used to 2013 and now it’s in the books.
My favorite time of the year has come and gone, seemingly in the blink of an eye. My birthday in October (Tim took me shopping all day the day after and bought me every piece of clothing I could find that I liked, so half a new wardrobe!), Halloween (mostly rained out, but Gail was here, and Kathryn and the kids came), Thanksgiving (Gail and clan were at Disney, so Tim and I went to Mount Olive at Aunt Becky’s, while Daddy stayed at Ridgeland Pointe, as he was not feeling well), and then our 3 Christmases have all come and gone. The regular football season is over (Saints were 11-5 in regular season and have won the first wildcard playoff game, Seattle is next) and that is always so sad for me. Football season is hands down, my most favorite time of the year. Christmas is packed and put away, all the lights from the tree, my garland and my Snow Village are gone and I’m just about over missing them.
Let’s see, I accomplished my goal for 2013 (I never set goals!), which was to read through the entire Bible. I’d tried in the past and never made it through the early parts of the Old Testament. In 2013, I used the YouVersion Bible app on my ipad and read through the One Year Bible, which uses the format of a section from the OT, a section from Psalms, a section from Proverbs, and a section from the New Testament. It was very doable for me, and I was able to accomplish my goal, yippee! Now, I’m going to make that a goal every year, and try to read through it yearly. I need to spend more time reading Scripture and less time watching tv and playing computer games 🙂 I bought the MacArthur Study Bible and a chronological one called Reading God’s Story, and I’ve decided to do the MacArthur one this year.
Let’s see… we’re currently having quite a cold snap, so I’m happy to stay inside and enjoy winter! Today’s high was supposed to hit 26, not sure if it made it. Tonight should set a record, 12 degrees. As Siri says on our iphones, Brrr! Needless to say, we’re not walking. It’s harder for me to get out and walk without Beau, and convincing Tim to go, so when it’s cold, we just don’t go.
Tim has now successfully figured out a way for me to wish for spring and golf season to get here faster (whether he realizes it or not!). Normally, I enjoy winter and having him home more (which I still do), and being able to spend more time together. However, he’s making me do P90X with him, and now every day that we do that, I secretly wish for winter to be over, so he can go to the golf course and I do NOT have to do that stupid exercise program. I don’t like anything about it. He did it last winter and lost 30 or 35 pounds. Me, I’ve been doing it since October and maybe I’ve lost 2 pounds. Sigh.
Last year was all about my dad, since he fell in mid-February and we moved him here shortly after. We lost Beau in March, and I’ve missed him every day since. I’m hoping this year is going to be more focused on us. We have some plans for this year (including a dog, hopefully), that I hope will come to fruition.
I don’t know if I’ll get back into blogging or not, but I’m going to try a bit. I’m not cooking much (so no new recipes to share and no food photos) and I don’t have Beau (so no cute Beau photos or videos). I’m not posting much on Facebook because of those things, and because Tim doesn’t like me to post when we go places (movies, out to eat, etc). Sigh. Hard to come up with things to blog about 😀
Ok, not much of a catch-up post, but a start. I always want to look back on my blog and see what we are doing, that’s hard to do with these 2-4 month gaps I’ve been having, LOL!
I used the Reading God’s Story Bible this past year and enjoyed it. My favorite Bible reading plan is the genres plan where you read a different genre each day of the week, such as history on one day (Genesis, etc.), Gospels another day, etc.
I have read through the Bible before but never completed it in a year. I did the Bible in 90 Days in 2012 and that changed my reading habits so this past year, 2013, was the first year I actually finished the Bible in the year. The goal is to read it, not necessarily within a time frame, but it was a nice sense of accomplishment! 🙂
I did the Bible in 90 days too a couple years back, hardest one I’ve done! And I did NOT finish in 90 days :). It says 12 pages a day which didn’t sound like much but it was!
Sitting in hall at hotel trying to find a spot to connect! Should work out but haven’t!
hey stacy – always good to read a new post from you, no matter how often they come! i hope your new year is off to a good start.
Re: posting . . . not sure why Tim doesn’t like you to post about when you go places. if it’s because he’s not a fan of you posting your current whereabouts, perhaps you could post a wrap-up post after the fact. i.e. Good eats . . . good places you ate in recent weeks. Or movies you’ve seen. 🙂
Hope a new dog is in the works for you soon. I don’t know where I’d be without my boys – as much work as they are! we have worked out having radar kenneled so we can go away with Gyver, or someone to stay with both of them as an option!
I almost never post where I am when I’m not at home, for several reasons, but I feel fine sharing it after the fact! I don’t care if people know where I’ve *been*. I just don’t want them to know I’m not at home or where they can currently track me down. (I watch way too many crime shows on tv. LOL!)
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