Mandy

Finally 💙🎓

I’ll be back here in exactly one year getting my masters hood.

Happy Easter 💙

I did a thing

These two are my world. 👭

Oh, hi. Hello. Hey. I'm alive. I'm good. I've just been doing the whole mom/wife/school/jobs thing. Life has been so real lately. I've also been super sick, some nasty germ thought it would be fun to hang out and party in my lungs for a couple months. So yeah. I took my last part of my last final today for this session so I'm homework free until Monday. I'm going to spend some much needed time with the girls and Brad on Saturday. Maybe I'll plant some peas. I ordered my books from Amazon with that old school no rush shipping so even though my assignments have already been posted for my upcoming classes I can't start because I won't get my books until Tuesday. I've taken on more responsibilities at church, I'm helping lead a huge youth art project between now and Easter. Abstract spiritual art from kids is freaking off the charts awesome. I don't even have words to describe it! Along with Sunday school, we (the youth teachers) are hosting a Wednesday night all ages youth group supper, it has been a massive undertaking. I have been stress knitting. And not well. I made a handful of dishcloths before Brad made me see I can't fit more in the dishcloth drawer. So I thought I could make a simple sweater, nope, wrong, it is so messed up I can't fix it. I'll wind the yarn back up and make it again someday when I can concentrate on not making a mess of pretty yarn, until then I'm back to plain squares or triangles. Nothing even remotely complicated. Umm yeah, I'm pretty boring. I parent, study, work at the church or hospital, knit squares, and sleep. Sometimes I bake things. I hope you are all doing good, I miss ya. I really wish there were more hours in the day so I could keep up. xoxo

#wisewords #wisewoman

I may be sick and feel like I'm dying...but my hair is on freaking point today! A wee bit of work left to do then back to bed I go.

My girls celebrated hard today. I love these two rag-a-muffins with every bit of my being! Ten and seven...how did they get so old?! 👩🏼‍🎨👱🏼‍♀️

Just popping in to say hey. I am so slammed with school and stuff I am spending less time here...I miss my people and friends. 

i a reading 500ish pages a week and doing the homework stuff on top of it. Hopefully next semester won’t be so intense. 

I’ve been keeping anxiety at bay, I am trying to make a little time for me at least one hour a week to do something with local friends. If you haven’t heard from me and you live near give me a holla when you have time to grab a quick beer. 

I am taking on more responsibilities at church. Tuesday-Thursday are spent in the classroom or with youth and/or young adult group...it is taking up most of what used to be free time. It’s cool though...I love these people.

so...hey. I miss you all. I’ll try to pop in more often.

New week. New set of assignments. This is shaping up to be one tough semester, probably the most difficult I've faced so far, and that is saying a lot. I'm doing my best. My best has to be good enough. I'm thankful for the people who have been holding me up and continue to do so. 💙

Dinner is in the oven. I'm working on accounting homework. Brad is making music.

This is the perfect study podcast. Soft piano music. Each podcast is about 30 minutes, study -- when the music stops it is time to get a new cup of tea and walk around for a bit. Maybe with this I won't get so buried and forget to move...

I am halfway done with my accounting homework and have read Genesis. Not bad for a Monday with kids home and craziness about. Tomorrow is jam packed two photo shoots, CATS, with studying stuck in the nooks and crannies of it all. Focus is the name of the game, I still have quizzes, a lecture, a class (for fun), and an essay to get done by Saturday. If you see me without a camera, a calculator, or a bible in my hand you have my permission to give me a good kick. 🤓📚

The roads are so horrible they cancelled church. It has been pouring down ice chunks most of the night. This is a perfect day to knit, drink tea, and watch accounting lectures. Sigh.