We were very excited to receive the game Settlers of Catan for Christmas this year. My husband and I have been playing this game with a group of friends for over 5 years. We last played over New Year’s at our friends’ parents’ place (and missed the turning of the new year at midnight). Settlers is a fun strategy game. I enjoy playing it, but up until now I’ve never […] Read More
As I’ve mentioned, since returning to work in September, I have been drowning in work. I had a nice break of 10 days off over Christmas where I was able to get some much needed R & R. Today, my husband graciously manned the fort, while I went back to work to try to get my desk in order before the next wave of conferences. I was able to clean […] Read More
Every Christmas, I create a calendar for members of my family with pictures of our family. I’ll create little icons for people’s birthdays, the first day of spring, etc. It’s a lot of work and its a lot of fun. Here is the Tebay family calendar for 2008 (the pictures, anyway): January February March April May June […] Read More
Oh my goodness! Has it really been since October 21 that I actually blogged something? (I’m amazed Leighton hasn’t kicked me off his blogroll) Some of you may be wondering what happened to me. WORK is what happened to me. I like my job and the company I work for, but looking back at the last 3 1/2 months I realize that I came back to work under the worst […] Read More
We have two hobbits in the house. (hobbit: a member of a fictitious peaceful and genial race of small humanlike creatures that dwell underground) Matthew Underfoot and Lynae Wigglebum. Matthew gained his nickname due to the fact that he seems to get under (or directly in front of) one’s feet at the most inopportune moments. Lynae is crawling all over the place and in order to crawl she has to […] Read More
Well I’ve been back to the hotel for two weeks and I am swamped! Jumping right into the ‘conference season’ means I have a lot of work ahead of me. And there are things that should have been addressed a while ago, but there was no catering manager so I’m dealing with it now. Despite all that I feel good about being back. It’s nice to come back in a […] Read More
It is a time of new beginnings for me. My husband and I are entering into a new ministry opportunity and I will be starting work as a catering manager next week. I’ve been spending some time with God and this is what He’s been saying to me: “‘What does God want us to do?’ Jesus told them, ‘This is what God wants you to do: Believe (emphasis mine) in […] Read More
School has begun for another year. The boys are getting back into a routine and so am I. It’s nice. The summer was fun; we were pretty loosey-goosey about a schedule of any kind. Now it’s nice to function in something more ordered. In anticipation of going back to work, I’ve been trying to sort some of the critical housekeeping areas into a schedule so I’m not doing laundry when […] Read More
After 8 hours of work, the rebuilding the play yard project is mostly done…mostly. I have no pictures yet but will take some when its all completed. There were a few things that caused delays, like screwing in 4 braises only to realize the bolt holes on one side didn’t match up and so I had to take out the screws, put the bolts on and then screw the braises […] Read More
Yesterday I organized the office. Yay! For some of you, it may not seem like a big deal to get rooms organized. Maybe your rooms are always organized or maybe it doesn’t really matter to you. But I FEEL much much better when things are organized. When I know where everything is and where everything has a place to go. In our household I am the person everyone goes to […] Read More