Sentence a Day 04.2025

Good morning, good evening, good night, my friends.  Thanks for joining me for Sentence a Day 04.2025 – a long-winded review of my April coming to you in one run-on sentence a day.  Wouldn’t my former English teachers would be mortified with my liberal use of the semicolon and colon?

I am posting this from our cabin on the Holland America Westerdam on our first day of an Alaskan cruise.  I cut this month’s SaD post short so I can write a separate SaD post for our cruise adventures.  It will run from 04.27-05.04.2025.  The cruise and that post.  So that explains why I just abruptly stopped writing my April sentences days before the month was over.

Before We Jump In

As I have always said, I write these sentences for me.  As a way of keeping track of what all has happened and when.  I know this is really a lot of gibberish.  A bunch of stuff I really don’t expect anyone to wade through!!  But it helps me to reflect on each day, and record the important things so I can keep them straight, if not in my mind, on ‘paper’ at least.  Would never dream that anyone would read this bunch of hooey word for word!!

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Sentence a Day & LMNOP

Every month I try very hard to get my SaD post together once the month is over, in order to make the What’s Been on Your Calendar?- WBOYC – link-up with Deb at Deb’s World, Sue who blogs at Women Living Well After 50, Donna from Retirement Reflections and Jo who can be found at And Anyways. The link-up opens on the last Friday of each month and is only open a few days.  So I am not always successful in joining the gals.  Hope to link up this post with for Jennifer’s Thankful Thursday series over at Overflowing with Thankfulness, too.  My OGT after each sentence is ‘one good thing’ – something I am especially thankful for.  Also try to incorporate thoughts and experiences around my WOTY = word of the year into my SaD posts.  And when I have had occasion to get dressed for the day, I like to share a few OOTDs = outfits of the day.  That’s a lot of ABCs and LMNOPs.

Sentence a Day 04.2025

I don’t think I am ever really sad to say goodbye to a month.  To the contrary, I am usually hopeful and optimistic going into a new month.  We had some fun lined up for April so I was happy to welcome it in.

Making the Money

• Hello, April…up early and across the mountain to substitute teach for KA at Lundy, which put me in a classroom across the hall from Miss Cami Jean; saw her in the stairwell and she gave me a huge hug, jumped into my arms and said, “I’ve missed you so much!”; the kinder kids were pretty good and their teacher, my friend Kathy, left good lesson plans; picked up the girls after school from Cami’s classroom and took them home, we colored and told April Fool’s jokes for about 20 minutes before I headed home; leftover hamburger, pork chops, pasta and soup for supper; we have a new sprinkler problem; more wind tonight; listened to the Reds game on the radio; very tired tonight and my foot is really stiff; 7,436 steps.  04.01.2025  OGT:  opportunities to make extra money, opportunities to see my babies

Bad Feeling

• Up early and headed downtown for jury duty; have had a bad feeling about this for a month, which was compounded when the jury duty request actually ‘made’ today and wasn’t cancelled; elevators were slow as Christmas and I was 2 minutes late so I took the 9 flights of stairs to the courtroom; 90 potential jurors sat before the prosecution and defense attornies and the man on trial for 3 hours, answering questions, responding to the DA and the defense; at 1:30 we were released for a break while the attornies pored over the jury questionaires; in the lobby area where we waited to see if we were selected, a group of 20 or more men – possibly members of the same gang, filed in off the elevators, one after another for another trial; one of them asked me why I was there and I was relieved we were there for different trials; several of the ‘gang’ members had workbooks entitled “How to Escape Your Prison” that they were completing; scary; around 3:00 pm the 12 jurors and 1 alternate were called, and I was the fifth juror to be called; we met with the judge, attornies and defendent then were released to go home; all we know is this is a ‘serious, important’ murder trial and it will potentially last a little over a week, and the death penalty is not on the table, thank goodness; I am nervous and worried and anxious; dinner at Casita Linda’s, home to watch “Dexter”; 6,410 steps.  04.02.2025  OGT:  our juridicial system, no death penalty in this case

Made the Cut

• Downtown for jury duty before 8:30, enjoyed a cake doughnut from the baliff, Rashad; we weren’t called into court until after 9:00 am; began with opening statements and then into the first witnesses; morning break and lunch break both ran long; by afternoon we were all worn out; listened to testimony of at least 8 police officers and then the first witness at the scene of the crime who was very hard of hearing, and apparently had trouble thinking, too; the other 12 jurors all seem nice; enjoyed getting to know them on breaks and lunch; watched video from the security cameras around the scene of the crime and then quit for the day at 5:30; asked around about the posse of gangsters yesterday and they were all at the court house for a drug court program – good for them!!; enjoyed watching the clouds move across the cityscape sky during breaks today; PC ‘cooked’ sub sandwiches, ate only part of mine; he got our taxes ready to submit; watched the Reds game and “Dexter” before bed, 3,302 steps.  04.03.2025  OGT:  people in El Paso are good souls

More Trial

• Fri-YAY!!  Awakened in the night to the pitter-patter of a gentle and very MUCH needed rain – thank You, God; up again at 6:30 to try to get to the courthouse earlier but still barely slipped in in time only to sit for an hour before we were called into the courtroom; heard from 5 or 6 members of the police force, an FBI digital forensic analyst, the Medical Examiner; there was a lot of going back and forth between the DA and defense attorney; on breaks, I enjoy looking out the 9th floor window watching the city below and the clouds above; finally about 1:30ish we were told that we could go home until Monday; Facetimed with Bren and Dec, who is sick again; just collapse when I get home; ate a bite of lunch, put away laundry, then laid down for a cat nap before starting supper; had another little rain shower late in the afternoon; we have a few seedlings coming up in our garden that are going to love this rain; watched another Reds loss and “Dexter” before bed, hope to get to the gym, get more steps and accomplish something at home tomorrow; 4,333 steps.  04.04.2025  OGT:  coming home early; anticipation of the weekend

Weekending

• PC was off to baseball early this morning despite the RAIN!!! and cooler temps; I had breakfast then did some blog reading and writing, set a timer to go upstairs and work on spring cleaning our room but instead stretched out in bed and watched TV – WHO AM I?; Paul got home from the game, another loss, we had lunch then crawled back under the covers for a nap; met Lauren, Francisco, Cia and Cami at Olive Garden for an early birthday dinner; everyone seemed stressed, Lauren leaves tomorrow for a week of work meetings in Chicago and Francisco will have the girls to care for and I am stuck on jury duty; watched Valerie on live stream in the Mrs. Senior Tennessee pageant – she was beautiful in her red dress and blue gown, Metra and Mark, Kevin and Leeann went to watch her; watched a recap of the Reds game – a win!! and more “Dexter”; 3,984 steps.  04.05.2025  OGT:  my clever, funny, lovely little sister

My Birth-Day

• Happy birthday to me.  So cold in the night and the rooftops were frost-covered this morning so we piled back under the covers and stayed there for an hour longer; went to the gym after breakfast, it felt good to move again: stairstepper, leg weight machines, treadmill; started laundry; Paul watched the Reds game and I scrapbooked with my sister most of the afternoon; had messages, texts, Facebook notes from so many friends and loved ones for my birthday – I felt loved; talked to my brother on the phone, Lauren at the airport, Brennyn at work and then again when she got home, Declan sang happy birthday to me, Cady texted, Lucia and Cami made me cards; PC was especially snuggly, too; fixed manicotti for dinner and while it baked, we took a quick walk around the neighborhood; supper tasted good, hoping to cook more this week with a number of recipes planned; worked on Where Bloggers Live birthday post while I watched “1923” before bed; 9,511 steps.  04.06.2025  OGT:  being loved and remembered

• Back to the courthouse today; made a chicken noodle soup in the crockpot first thing this morningso we would have something ready for dinner; we were called into the courtroom to hear a couple of things from the attorneys then released again for the rest of the morning while the judge drew up the official charge; walked around the courthouse in the sunshine then went with a majority of the jurors to Bang Bang Pizza – delicious!! – around the corner from the courthouse; returned to hear closing arguments and to be released to deliberate starting about 2:20; by 4:45 we had a verdict – manslaugher; we went back into the courtroom for the announcement of the verdict and then were released for the day but will return tomorrow for sentencing; I am exhausted; need to do so many things but no energy; 6,112 steps.  04.07.2025  OGT:  I felt like our verdict was fair and just

Jury Duty Free

• Well, dadgum it, I still tossed and turned all night, thinking about the trial, about Kyle Lopez, his children and grandchild;  fixed a good breakfast since I’ve been slipping out to jury duty before PC gets up; did some work on my Tell Us About post for the month; we returned library books, stopped at Lowe’s where I bought an English lavender – praying it grows; Walgreens to pick up a prescription for Paul and then a 90-minute workout at the gym: stairstepper, arm weight machines, treadmill – and I RAN!! – slowly, just a few minutes, but I RAN!!; watched the Reds game with PC while working on blog posts; planted my lavender; took a short walk with Paul around the neighborhood; fixed this new-to-us chicken salad recipe that is practically zero WW points and quite tasty; Supernatural workout; watched an episode of “Dexter” and “The Floor”; it is so good to be home; 10, 374 steps.  04.09.2025  OGT:  being in my very own home again
• Still having nightmares about the trial; after breakfast, published my”Tell Us About” post; we decided to walk to the gym and then do just an easy workout:  ab machines – before walking home;  we ate lunch then jumped back into spring cleaning our bedroom, I dusted all of the furniture, art work, blinds, windows, while PC vacuumed and steam cleaned the carpet and area rugs; then we moved into the bathroom and sorted through the cabinets and drawers, will get the bathroom finished this weekend; we soaked in the hot tub then came in for leftover manicotti; worked on blog posts while watching “Dexter”, 9,270 steps.  04.10.2025  OGT:  beautiful spring day with lots of sunshine

Earned my Keep

• Over the mountain to sub for the art teacher at Lundy; waited in the car loop to see my baby girls and got hugs before they went to class; the lesson plans were good, upper grades played Pictionary and the lower grades were to draw 4 suns with different eyes, noses, and mouths, I added a guided drawing of the Easter bunny; the kids were fun and in the first class a little girl made me a picture that said ‘best teacher ever’ – I think I subbed in her second grade class 2 years ago; the last 2 classes were crazy because one class came 15 minutes early and all of a sudden I had 40 3rd graders without enough chairs or tables – things got very out of control; Lucia and Cami came to my class after school and drew Easter bunny pictures; took them home, got hugs from Lauren who was just home from Chicago; glad to get home to my house; PC was busy cleaning up the deck and hot tub area – looks so nice; leftover chicekn salad for dinner; “Dexter” before bed; published my “Where Bloggers Live” post – have got to get ahead on my posting and blog reading; TGIF; 9,268 steps.  04.11.2025  OGT:  have a number of teachers interested in having me sub for them, might get this Amazon paid off once and for all; safe travels home for Lauren, seeing my her and my babies

• I liked this Saturday; slept like a champ, woke up about 8:00 am, we decided to try walking up McKelligon Canyon Road for the first time since I broke my heel and we even climbed up the big hill!!, it was a beautiful morning for a walk; home to shower and then off to do our drop-in visit with Pebbles; watched “The Drop” at the theater with popcorn for lunch, the movie was interesting, kept our attention; home to clean our bathroom and closet, built my new shoe rack, cleaned the baseboards and shelves in the closet, vacuumed the closet, scrubbed the lavatories, now to finish up tomorrow; PC made fish sticks for supper; watched the Reds get a win and then more of “Dexter”, very tired tonight but a good tired; Facetimed with Declan and Brennyn, Cadence is having a hard time, and Dec won’t poop on the potty; 11,814 steps.  04.12.205  OGT:  we made it all the way up McKelligon Canyon

My House is Clean!!

• Planned to get up and go to church, but couldn’t get motivated to go; went to the gym instead which took a lot of motivation, too but first we had iHop for breakfast; I watched a little of the Reds game with PC before going upstairs to finish cleaning the bathroom – scrubbed the shower on hands and knees and our closet – oh, it looks so nice now that it is all spic and span; met up with my sister to scrapbook but Snickitty laid across the pages and photos I was working on and my motivation for that went out the window; fixed tilapia tacos for dinner – not bad – with this mango broccoli slaw; got a headstart on the laundry since I will be subbing tomorrow; we watched “Dexter” and then read in bed, “What Happened to the McCrays” by Tracey Lange, which was on the book club’s April consideration list; 4,589 steps. 04.13.2025  OGT:  the fall-winter spring cleaning is done!!

Grateful for Opportunities

• I like half-day sub jobs; started the day with a 1.5 mile walk with PC while it was still coolish; breakfast then mixed up this cheeseburger soup for dinner tonight; changed the sheets on the bed; did more laundry and then it was time to get ready to sub; over the mountain to Lundy, the girls’ school; very chatty, busy 5 year olds but we got our work done; hugs from Cami at lunch; home to finish up the soup and the laundry; our garden is springing to life with pumpkin, squash and watermelon, a struggling cilantro and maybe some basil, I planted more seeds yesterday; blog reading and writing tonight while watching “Dexter”; 9,621 steps.  04.14.2025  OGT:  half-day subbing jobs to help pay off my Amazon card
• Nice to be home again…I say that a lot, huh? Showered, fed the kitties, had breakfast and then did some blog reading before we headed to the gym:  stairstepper, ab weight machines, treadmill then off to do our drop-in visit with Pebbles who is always ecstatic to see us; Taco Bell – PC’s idea – for lunch but my burrito was really no bueno; came home and we both tried on things we have ordered for the cruise; finished the book club’s book of the month, “Broken Country” by Clare Leslie Hall – riveting; settled on 2 jumpsuits for our fancier dinners after PC took lots of pictures and he, my daughters and sister gave me a thumbs up on them; cleaned the wrought iron banister and rails in the upstairs hall, and the baseboards, mopped, and then ironed for about 2 hours while watching the “Burned and Beaten Murder Trial” on YouTube; preparing for Easter; grilled steak, scalloped potatoes and creamed corn for dinner; Reds got a win; watched “Dexter” and read blogs; 9,374 steps.  04.15.2025  OGT:  the house is officially clean!!

• hUmP dAy; slept in a few minutes as we are both tired; showered, breakfast, fed kitties, cleaned litter boxes, banking and emails then off to the gym:  stationary bike, arm weight machines, treadmill, red light therapy; ran to do our Pebbles visit – she is always so glad to see us; leftover fish tacos for lunch; scrapbooked with my sister for a bit then had another life counseling Zoom meeting with Christie and was so happy to report my progress on figuring in ME-time each day, tackling a only 2-3 ‘to-dos’ a day – NURTURING ME!!; took a walk in the wind around the neighborhood; finished up the cheeseburger soup for supper; watched the Reds, and “Dexter” while I finished my Ageless Style post for the month; the wind is back – BOO!; 6,469 steps.  04.16.2025  OGT:  taking care of myself

AWOL

• Not sure what happened to this day.  I forgot to write.  Looking back over my pictures, we didn’t miss much; our last visit with Pebbles, more wind.  04.17.2025  OGT:  Rover and subbing opportunities
• Good Friday and good Friday.  I have mentioned we are both kind of ‘off’ church lately.  Not sure if we will attend Easter services.  The whole conversation over several Sundays of speaking in tongues was a little disturbing.  I know that God can be found in our church but also in our backyard, so maybe we will just have Easter service on our patio.  I am not pulling away from God but pulling away from MAN’s interpretation of all the things.  Anyway…today we did a little banking, emailing then headed to the gym:  stairstepper, leg weight machines, arm machine, treadmill; stopped by Lowe’s to get eyebolts to hang our new solar lanterns around the pergola; picked up groceries; Cici’s for lunch (oh, the carbs); the wind was dreadful but we fished out leaves from the water to try to stay ahead of it all; set up new printer; scrapbooked all by myself; mish-mash for dinner; watched the Reds win, “Dexter” and bedtime; trying to get caught up on blog reading, 6,455 steps – need to get MOVING.  04.18.2025  OGT:  peaceful days 

Boo Brrrrr

• Cold this morning with a forecasted high of 62*; fixed a good breakfast; PC had a ballgame at 1:00 way out in Socorro; Lauren asked me to watch the girls for a couple of hours while she ran errands; Cami Jean came flying out of the house when I pulled up and Cia and Pumpkin greeted me from the door, we had a good time playing YouTube videos of Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Mariah Carey while the girls danced on the coffee table; got them dressed, their beds made and we went to the park to fly Cia’s kite which we got in the air a time or two but the wind picked up and the temperature dropped so we went home; fixed the girls sandwiches for lunch and watched them play Fashion Forward on their blah-blahs (tablets); Lauren got home about 2:00, nice to get hugs from all my girls; ran by Uptown Cheapskate to sell a few things, found a darling black faux leather jacket with a peplum to wear with my jumpsuit on the cruise – got it with store credit; scrapbooked with my sister for an hour; Facetimed with Dec and Brennyn twice; PC’s team lost their game but their uniforms sure look snazzy; enjoyed dinner at Casita Linda, have to get back to eating better but no interest in cooking; watched YouTube cruise videos and “Dexter” and tornadoes near Ft. Worth on “Ryan Hall, Y’all” on YouTube; kids are safe, thank God; 5,045 steps.  04.19.2025  OGT:  being able to help Lauren have a little time away

Second Easter Celebration

• Happy Easter.  Thankful for the peace that comes that knowing God is on my side and I am never alone.  Quick breakfast and then got started making our Easter meal, made these cute birds’ nests and a pumpkin pie, potatoes my mom called Potatoes Lorette (I think they had them at their wedding) using Mom’s recipe which was amazingly vague, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes and a really good little ham from Walmart; Lauren, Pumpkin and the girls came about 2:00, we visited a few minutes then got in the hot tub where the girls played and Lauren and I chatted some more; finished up dinner and got the girls bathed and in their pjs before we ate; dinner was tasty, if I do say so myself and easy cleanup; talked about our upcoming cruise – getting so excited!!; watched “Young Sheldon” and more “Dexter” before bed, 6,129 steps.  04.20.2025  OGT:  family times

• So nice to awake to quiet – NO WIND!! PC changed our departure flight from Sunday, the day of our cruise, to Saturday so we are sure to be there in time; headed to the gym after breakfast: stairstepper, leg weight machines, treadmill; Lowe’s run for new sprinkler heads – what an ongoing disaster the sprinklers have been; leftover Easter dinner for lunch; added potting soil to potted plants, cleaned off the front entrance which was covered in red sand, fed the birds; fixed a version of these WW chicken enchiladas with leftover rotisserie chick; watched more Alaskan cruise YouTube videos and a trial; took a short walk; got PC’s mom’s Walmart order placed; met the Rover sitter who will be watching the kitties while we are gone; worked on blog posts; watched “Dexter” and read “What Happened to the McCrays”; 10,241 steps.  04.21.2025  OGT:  despite some objection, PC changed our flight to Seattle from the day OF our cruise to the day BEFORE our cruise

Pleasantly Productive

• Slept like the dead, woke up with a story idea about Cami and a lotion that removes wrinkles and sun spots; beautiful sunny, still, cool-ish morning – need to take advantage of these and eat outside, write some before starting my day; got laundry gathered and started, spent another 30 minutes (third time) trying to cancel this week’s drop-in visits with Pebbles as her ‘dad’ has returned home; arm weights and 2 miles on the treadmill at the gym where I finished “Before the Ever After” by Jacqueline Woodson; lunch, put together more of the outfits I want to pack for the trip; scrapbooked with Valerie – really like my pages but my Cricut was being very disagreeable; showered and dressed for writing group in… a graphic tee and my white blazer; PC taught tonight’s lesson on the fantasy genre and had us write to 1 0f 4 illustrations; Denise fixed a delicious chicken Alfredo; home for pumpkin pie and “Dexter”; 7,534 steps.  04.22.2025  OGT:  writing group, enjoying my scrapbooking today.

• Woke up earlier than usual on my own; shower, breakfast, fed the kitties, and then we started working on packing; couldn’t believe it when PC suggested he go buy a larger suitcase for our bulkiest clothes combined; he came home with a gigantic one…now we are afraid it is too BIG!!; took photos of each of my outfits, paired earrings with each outfit; put together a carry-on with things I will need the first night; finished my scrapbook page while visiting with my sister and brother; leftover enchiladas for dinner; blog reading and organizing posts before bed; Purrcy disappeared for about 5 hours but we finally found him hiding beneath the neighbor’s truck at 11:00 pm; 5,904 steps – no gym today.  04.23.2025  OGT:  a whole day at home

Busy

• Hectic day; Lauren had her second oral surgery – cadaver skin grafts on her lower gums, was worred about her all morning; put last of the laundry away, unpacked our too large suitcase but decided to keep it; breakfast on the patio – so nice; picked up another medium-sized suitcase at Ross, and a few last minute things at Dollar Tree for our trip; gym: staristepper, ab weight machines, treadmill; library to pick up 2 books; lunch; repacked the bulky things into our new suitcase; I tried on all of my new wraps with my jumpsuit – which one is best?; did a conference call with my sister and SIL about the menu for our upcoming Colorado trip; picked up the girls at school; took them to McD’s for dinner and they played up a storm, we had ice cream for dessert; took them home and made some videos of Lucia and Cami using a database Valerie sells so she can use it in her presentations; helped get the girls ready for bed; Lauren was beginning to swell and had pain on the left side of her little face; home to watch “Dexter” before bed; 10,368 steps.  04.24.2025  OGT:  Lauren’s oral surgery is behind her, let the healing begin

Winding Down April

• We slept until after 8:00 am; breakfast on the patio; watched a trial on TV then fast-forwarded to the announcement of the guilty verdict, justice was served; PC swept and mopped downstairs, I cleaned the kitchen, bathroom, and dusted; Lauren asked if we could pick up the girls so we headed out about 1:30 to run errands beforehand – had my eyebrows threaded, ran to the bank to get some cash, dropped off 2 wraps to return to Amazon, took a short walk around the girls’ school before picking them up; picked up Panda food (Express) and ate with the girls at their house then took Pumpkin for a short walk; FaceTimed Bren and Declan – he loves his new police officer kit; Lauren is quite swollen and her gums look black with bruising; home to water plants, paint my nails and watch the Reds; feel so prepared for our trip; sent out book summaries so the book club can vote for our May read; 7,981 steps.  04.25.2025  OGT:  feeling ready for our trip, all the well wishes from so many
• Awake off and on all night going over what I had packed, what I still needed to do before we took off; up at 5:20 and jumped in the shower to Nair my legs!! – special occasions call for special measures; got the kitties situated and everything out for the sitter; off to the airport by 6:30, on the plane at 8:00, Phoenix by 8:30 and Seattle by 2:00 pm; took a shuttle to our hotel – driver was on oxygen and apparently does nothing but sit in a shuttle van all day, was glad she is working but wish she would move more; took a short walk in the sunshine; ordered and ate pizza in bed for dinner; checked in with Bren and Lauren; watched “Dexter” in bed; anxious to see what exciting experiences tomorrow brings; 7,843 steps.  04.26.2025  OGT:  safe travels, opportunities, adventures

Going to call it a day with the post above.  Then will write a separate Sentence a Day post for the week of our Alaskan cruise.  Can’t wait to share my adventures with you.

1 Second Each Day

Here’s a quick video review of April in pictures.

Yeah, unable to upload that from the cruise ship so stay tuned.  Will probably just make May’s 1 Second Each Day a two-fer.

2025 Word of the Year (WOTY)

My word of the year is nurture.  And I originally planned to try to nurture a little better those I love most.  But somewhere early in the year, I realized that in order for me to love others better, I need to love myself better first.  And boy, howdy I have been!!

I have been working with my friend Christie at So What? Now What? for several months now with 30-minute life counseling sessions every two weeks.  This has been a great way to nurture myself.  During our first visits together, I have focused on finding more me-time each week.  I’ve come quite a ways from the gal who would look for things to do to keep from having fun!!  And a couple of times lately, I have had fun first before I got busy tackling my chores.  Like having dessert before dinner.

Over the coming sessions Christie is going to help me focus on recognizing the things I have been successful or good at in my life.  Before we get together again, I am supposed to create two lists:

• My achievements and/or good decisions I’ve made and the skills or characteristics that helped me achieve them.
• Things I perceive as failures or mistakes and what came out of those; for example, lessons learned or surprisingly good outcomes in the long run.

I have always struggled with low self-esteem so asked Christie to help me try to build up my confidence.  The one thing I can say I was pretty good at was being a librarian.  I worked very hard at my career and received recognition for that hard work.  Being a wife, mom, grandmother, housekeeper, cook, laundress, and responsible pet owner don’t come with much recognition.  And I have made a mess of trying to perform each of those duties.  Will spend some time on the cruise thinking about good decisions and mistakes I have made.

Your Turn

Overall, I would give our April a good solid 8.  Serving on jury duty was tough.  More to come on that.  But we had a number of good days and fun experiences to balance the week I served on the jury.

Hope whatever you are up to this coming week, you find a little ME time (YOU time) to do the things you like doing best.  Thank you for poppin’ round!!

Hugs and kisses,