Adventures in La La Land

1. Birthday week for Lucy! I have a teenager now, which hardly seems possible, since I was just a teenager last week. I honestly can't even think about how my first baby is 13 years old. It makes me unspeakably sad, so I just don't dwell on it! Justin took her out for dinner on her actual birthday, then she celebrated with a sleepover with 5 of her school friends last night.  Books, Legos, room decor, and journaling supplies. She's been tearing through the Christy Miller  series, so I bought her all the Sierra Jensen  books from Thriftbooks to read next.  Around 10:00 pm 9:00 this morning. Haha. A sure sign of a good "sleep"over. Lucy and one other girl stayed up for 24 hours. The other 4 dozed for a couple hours in the middle of the night. Crazy kids. 2. The weather finally got warm enough this week for our first swim of the year! The water was only 65 degrees, which is cold for our spoiled kids, but they swam for a while and had a blast. My sisters and I have st...

1. My exciting news for the week is that I finished reading the entire Bible in 90 days. I didn't post about it ahead of time because of my penchant for quitting things I brag about. Lol. A group of people from church decided to read through the whole Bible in 90 days starting February 1st, and I warily joined in. I've read the Bible in a year a couple of times, but never in three short months. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to handle that much, but it wasn't as hard as I expected! One of our pastors made a reading schedule so that each day we read a big chunk of the Old Testament, two Psalms, and one chapter of one of the gospels. (Once we finished the OT and the Psalms, we moved on to large sections of the NT and two Proverbs a day.) It usually took me around half an hour every day, but I'm a fast reader. Because of the volume of Scripture we were supposed to read every day, it was very motivating not to get behind, so I stayed on track pretty well. I skipped a ...