Revolution of Love

Revolution of Love

Do small things with great love.

tl;dr – The Cliff Notes Version of August 2014

Linking up with Jenna over at Call Her Happy.

August has been super busy at home and super slow on the blog. I think I only posted 4 or 5 times this whole month. Since I haven’t been around much, here is the rundown the happenings.

Aug 1 – I get a little dizzy at how fast the summer is going!

Aug 3 – For the first time I made a set of goals I wanted to accomplish for the  month of August. I blog about it here. (Next I’ll blog about how it went!)

Aug 6 – My baby Matthew starts his first day of pre-school! I’m still getting used to not having a little guy by my side a couple days out of the week.

Aug 12 – For my Pinterest Party I made homemade granola bars. Brian and the kids really liked them. (BTW, Elena, yes they were more chewy than crunchy.)

Aug 15 – We celebrate the feast of the Assumption and Niki tags me for a blog hop about writing. (I promise I’ll answer next week, Niki!)

Aug 18 – I celebrate another year of life. 🙂 My mom called and asked if I was stressing out that I am another year older. I was happy to say that I wasn’t. Nowadays I am just happy to be alive another year! I also posted my Online Daybook and talk about cleaning projects (like my disastrous laundry room), prayer, and TV, particularly with Kendra’s Answer Me This.

Aug 24 – John-Paul turns 5 years old. 🙂 He is such a little man.

Aug 25 –  The bigger kids start their first day of school – a 7th grade, 1st grade and Pre-K.

Yet I can’t stop thinking about when they looked like this just a few short years ago!

Aug 26 – For the Pinterest Party I work on my daily schedule and offer a free printable – Daily Goal Sheet.

Aug 27 – My sister arrives for a visit and I am giddy with excitement.

Aug 28 – Sweet Bella has surgery to remove five baby teeth that weren’t coming out then she gets the rest of her braces on. She is a trooper!

Aug 29 -Brian leaves for a Catholic conference in SoCal. I’m glad he will have some time away after all he’s been through but I don’t like being separated from him!

Aug 31 – Brian returned home and the following day we went out on a date. It was seriously one of the best dates we’ve had in years. We jokingly decided that he should go away for a few days more often. 😉

There were a lot of other things but these are the highlights. 🙂 What have you been up to lately?

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tl;dr – The Cliff Notes Version of May 2014

Jenna over at Call Her Happy hit it out of the park when she came up with the monthly link-up tl;dr (as in “too long; didn’t read”). She explains:

You know how sometimes you have blogs that you love and blog authors that you love even more, but you also have a family and laundry and meals to cook and etcetera and so forth? So, you end up missing out on parts of your favorite virtual friends’ lives – not by choice, but just by life?

And then you feel terrible when you find out that she is pregnant or going back to work or moving, and you had no idea. Wouldn’t it be nice if bloggers put out a cliff notes version of their lives every once in a while? I thought so.

Yes, yes and yes. I have nearly 500 posts in my Bloglovin reader and I can’t delete them all because the last time I did that I missed major pieces of news from blogging friends. This way, when life is busy and we can’t catchup, we can get a monthly condensed version of the happenings. So if you are a blogger, go link up. For the sake of my overflowing blog reader, please.

If you haven’t been around to catch up on the RoL news, here’s my condensed version for the month of May.

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May 1, 2014 – We returned from a trip to So Cal to visit my family and celebrate my bro’s graduation, my bro-in-laws departure for training before deploying to Afghanistan and we went to Disneyland. Matthew saw Darth Maul in action and has been obsessed with his Jedi jumping moves ever since. Every night he asked me when we are going back to see the Star Wars show and every night I have to tell him not until Thanksgiving. 😉

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May 4, 2014 – Brian and I go out on a last minute lunch date. He still manages to make me swoon.

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May 5, 2014 – Brian starts round 3 of chemo, I share a little of my struggle here and later how I try to be a bit of Mary Poppins to make this cross easier on him.

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May 12, 2014 – I celebrate Mother’s Day and cry over Brian’s love letter to me and the kids’ homemade gifts. I wonder how I could be so blessed.

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May 15, 2014 – It is a day of saying goodbye and hello. Andrew’s pet fish Rocky passes away. He got a new fish (that looks just like him…Rocky, not Andrew) and names him Anakin Fishwalker. Best name ever. Meanwhile, we put our old computer out of it’s misery and get a new one. The screen is so big I can play Matthew’s Spider Man cartoon on one half and type my post on the other half. Yeah, baby.

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May 16 – I join Jen’s #SOTG photo contest and although I don’t win, Jen does post my photo of Super Matthew on her website as one of her favorites. I geek out a little. 😉

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May 22, 2014 – My shy Bella surprises me by trying out for the school musical, gets a part and does a great job as one of the Indians in Peter Pan. Bravo, Bella!

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May 26, 2014 – I get rid of my fancy Pinterest menu board and opt for a simpler version.

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May 26, 2014 – I get dolled up (relatively speaking) for my second date with Brian in one month. Two in one month! I’ll say one thing for this cancer, it has brought us closer and has made dating a priority again.

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May 27, 2014 – Brian starts round 4 of chemo and fights his cancer like a champ.

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 May 29, 2014 –  I stop comparing myself to other moms, particularly my sister, and instead I embrace my own mama abilities.

Well, that was May in a nutshell. What have you been up to?? Thanks again to Fräulein Jenna for hosting!

Have a great evening. 🙂

PS – You can follow RoL on Bloglovin, Feedly or another news feed. If you are a social media fan like me, we can stay in touch through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, Letterboxd or Instagram (It’s set to private but I’ll approve you.) 😉

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