Weakly Tribune (Headlines Edition)

WEAKLY TRIBUNE

(HEADLINES Edition)

1-30-23    Cancelled on taking Miss Smith to Pensacola on her birthday. Stayed home. Tried to recover. Ham & Beans and cornbread.

1-31-23    Clarity Planner Planning Sesh at Rhonda's with Karma. Home Day rest of day. Planned Heart Sister Reveal Party. Chicken Tacos.

2-1-23    Welcome February! Desk work. Kristin here. Finished Danielle's Room Redo! Atmore to take Audi back to Tedder's. Hunt Brother's gas station pizza.

2-2-23    Set up for Heart Sister Party at church. Pace Publix for adderall. 100th Day Pizza Party at School. Fried ham steaks, box mac n cheese, canned corn.

2-3-23    Lovely Heart Sister Reveal Party! Floki to K9 Kleaners for boarding. Packed for MS. Hopped in with Rhonda and Neil. Wearhouse Market & Bakery for food and snacks for the road. Great traveling. Taco Bell/KFC. Met a blog reader! 

2-4-23    Wonderful haze of a day of coffee and sweets at Oakwood. Listened to Zach's funeral in Aunt Sue's room. Magnolia Market. Met another blog reader! (I feel famous! Not really, but it's fun to meet readers I don't personally know.) Lunch at Ole Country Bakery.  Breves from the Front Porch Coffee House located inside the bakery. Words of wisdom from Grandma Smith. Pizza Party with Grandma and Aunt Sue in the Country Kitchen.

2-5-23    Inspiring Sunday School and church at Oakwood. Doctrine Dinner. Road trip home. Left all our coats at the Oasis. On pins and needles over the Ordination at Walnut Hill. At last, alerted of breaking news of Anthony's for deacon and Ben's for minister!

2-6-23    Made comforting congos. Lunch at church with other family of the ordinees. (that should be a word! IMO) Ordination Service at Walnut Hill.

2-7-23    Desk work. Lunch to Danl at Morgan Road SFF job. Housework & laundry. Felt like Monday. Grilled London broil.

2-8-23    Desk work till noon.  Kristin here to Home Edit the Living Room bookcase. Atmore to get Audi. Piggly for food. Larisa here for supper too. Baked chicken, cooked carrots, gourmet taters.

2-9-23    Took Miss Smith to Pensacola. Stopped at upholstery shop in Cantonment. Bed, Bath & Beyond. Olde East Hill Grille. (HIGHLY recommend!)  Sam's Club. Walmart Pickup. McD's iced coffees. No record of supper. Certain something was consumed.

2-10-23   Edited and typed Ordination Service Impressions. Attacked book pile and bedroom book case. Tara brought King Cake by. Chicken gravy over biscuits. King cake. YUM. Did not discover the baby.

2-11-23    Raining. Started chocolate mousse dessert. Lunch at David's Catfish with DaddyWayne. Wave's closed. Finished chocolate dessert, started cheesecake bars. Ran to chocolate dessert to school. Sadly skipped the Supper. Steak and box mac n cheese at home.

2-12-23   Eat (King) Cake for Breakfast! Danielle discovered the baby. Peace & Prosperity to follow! Morgan & Leah! Loveliest wedding. Recorded impressions from 1C. Delicious lunch. Watched over Annabelle and Noah at the kid's table. Afternoon & evening at David and Tara's. Food>Football. LOL

2-13-23    9:00 apt. with NP Connie in Pace. Returned Honda to Mamalisa. Set up for Sewing. Venison gravy over rice. 

2-14-23    Happy Valentine's Day! Attended to 3 FLS duties before Sewing. Festive fellowship with the ladies. Made chocolate chip cookies with heart sprinkles with Danielle. Daniel surprised his girls with red roses and chocolates! Jace's here for fried crappie, cheese grits, pickles, tater tots, and curly fries. And cookies.

2-15-23    Desk work. Housework. DG after school for birthday gifts. Bank, gas, Wave's, Chen's. 

2-16-23    Half Day of school. Nerf Gun birthday lunch for Dillon at Karma's with Roz and her kiddos. Altitude Trampoline Park next for birthday/Winter Break celebration. Cold Snap Frozen Yogurt next. Great Yogurt, not great service. (Do not recommend due to not being allowed to self-serve due to humans being regarded as dirty beings.) New Yorker pizza from the Hut. 

2-17-23    Floki to vet for another round of shots. 35#!!!! Stopped by Mel's. Housework, deskwork, bank, Wave's. Danl ill with unknown illness. IBS flareup? Food poisoning? Just Danielle and I to Pensacola to meet Glendon's for sushi at Sake. DELICIOUS. Becca with us for ride home. Coffee Guy. Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a breve and brownies! 

2-18-23    Made double batch of party mix. Met Danl at the Dyck property. Hiked and rode side-by-side. Packed Danielle for staying overnight at Nana's. Attended 50th Anniversary Celebration of Durwin & Shirley Unruh. Delightful. Jalisco's with David and Tara. 

2-19-23    Inspiring Sunday School and church service, although I was spunky. Blackened Grouper and Shrimp Tacos, cheese grits, coleslaw, and smoked tri-tip at Durwin's. Great laughs over the good ole days. Pace to pick up Danielle. Socio's Pizza.

the Weakly Tribune Vol. 2 Issue 2

 Monday - 1.23

    Did not type up the Weakly for last week. (Therefore it never made it to print.) Danl made his famous English muffin breakfast sandwiches for David and I. I struggled to feel motivated but tried to remember that most people don't feel super motivated to do the things they need/want to do. You just have to power through and DO THE NEXT THING and then the thing after that. Neither Danielle nor I remembered to make sure she had her "Show-n-Tell" for school, so I ran that to school and stayed for the Presentation. It was well worth it and added good humor to my day! Then I got some groceries from our local Walnut Hill Dollar General. Love that place. Back home to put things away and get Floki before picking Danielle up and meeting Karma and her kids for an impromptu romp at the Ruritan Park. Floki loved his first park walk and I loved walking & talking with Karma. We wore him out though; he finally just flopped down on the path DONE. Danl got home good time and took Danielle squirrel hunting. They are trying to get 6 which would be enough for Squirrel Stew! I decided to light the back porch fire table and enjoy a hot mocha before the hunters returned. We had air-fried prebattered Tyson chickens strips (meh) fresh white gravy and green beans for supper. Early to bed. Yay. 

Tuesday - 1.24

    It had been too long since I stayed for Tuesday Morning Singing at school. So that was fun! Stuck to my schedule quite well and did Monday and Tuesday Cleaning. This week I'm spending less time per room which is the goal. I want our house to be clean enough, but I don't want to ever fall in the ditch of OverCleaning! Horror of Horrors! (Insert the poem which I identify as my "Spirit Poem," Dust if You Must.) Worked at my desk. After school, Danielle and I went to ride around at the property where Danl was mulching. I had a taste for popcorn balls like Mom used to make. Yummers! Took me back to my childhood. Danielle was not impressed and much preferred her usual plain salted popcorn. She and I made a batch of snickerdoodles together. Erica Lynn invited us to eat with them, so we were happy about that! Added the big pot of refried beans I had made from dry beans to their delicious fajitas. Enjoyed visiting while sipping some amazing double cream Earl Grey tea. 

Wednesday 1.25

    Worked at my desk until Kristin arrived around 10:30. We got to work in Danielle's room again. Since y'all never got to read last week's Weakly that never got written, you don't know that we started the tremendous project of going through everything, rearranging, and organizing ALL. THE. STUFF. last week! Having a creative, crafty child who receives lots of presents yet lives with her parents in a small house has become a major issue. I am attempting to implement Dana K. White's Container Concept. Anyway, Kristin and I made terrific progress! The Home Edit gals would be as pleased as we are with the newly ROYGBIVed book nook! I'm also immensely pleased with the growing pile in Campy of which Danielle has not yet missed anything. Fingers crossed. She is loving having more space to play with the labeled bins of toys! After school, we stopped by to see Noah and Annabelle's new puppy Bailey. She's a fat little cutie pie! Black Lab and St. Bernard mix. Worked more in Danielle's room. In a cooking slump, so decided to order pizza from the Hut. Also, I started feeling very under the weather in short order! A sore throat, headache, congestion, and low grade fever hit me with a wham! I soon went to bed while the rest hung out. Kristin slept over since she had tomorrow off work as well.

Thursday - 1.26

    So thankful for Kristin here to help with Floki and Danielle. She did the morning school run and I relaxed in bed, trying to get to feeling better! Since I was just taking it easy, I wrote and posted the HUMOR blog post that had been brewing in my head all month. Got up around noon and we both had ramen noodles. I felt good enough that we went back at it in the bedroom! Revamped the art desk corner; Kristin put out tons of elbow grease and scraped off years' worth of paint, glue, and tape! Wow. Doesn't even look like the same desk! Following my SMART goals, I amazingly filed all the annual and quarterly tax filings that were due BEFORE the deadline of the 31st! Kristin picked Danielle up from school and got stuff for Frito Pie for supper from DG to go along with her famous Cinnamon Red Hot Baked Apples. Super yum. David ate supper here too since he and Daniel went back up and worked at Johnson Ford after business hours, which makes that job a whole lot easier. Kristin and I talked and read before she headed home and I headed to bed. 

Friday - 1.27

    Thankful for a "normal day" of feeling good again! Tackle my MR, and deskwork before heading to Atmore to drop stuff at WeCare. Of course I had to do a quick dashabout. (Why is dashabout not a word?!) I decided not to buy the cute fox sweater and denim shirt I found for Danielle and walked out with nothing! Got gas, groceries at Piggly, and ice for the wild pig we ended up with and a cookbook for Leah at Southern Harbor Church. Picked up Danielle. Painted with watercolors together; she a heart display for her Art Wall in the Hall and I the "Miss to Mrs." coffee cup sketch I had drawn on a card for Leah's shower. Got my gift wrapped and ready to go. I've decided my Decide Once gift for bridal showers for 2023 will be a copy of The Five Love Languages, a cookbook, and a set of bookends! Picked up Mom and Miss Smith, and attended Leah's shower which Katie hosted. It was the most laidback and lovely coffeeshop-themed shower! We all had the best time chatting over lattes, playing "Find the Guest" bingo, listening to Leah's love story, and of course eating sandwiches and pastries.

Saturday - 1.28

    Sleep-In Saturday! Danielle's proclaimed favorite day of the week! Danl was working, so she and I puttered around the house all morning. I was on my phone way too much, so decided to have an Old-Fashioned Afternoon and put my phone up for hours. It was blissful. Danielle and I made another batch of snickerdoodle cookies. We still aren't totally satisfied with how they are turning out. Then we rode with Daniel to pick up a load of freshly milled lumber from Vernon Hiebert's place. I helped Danl stack it in the haybarn to dry while Danielle dinked around in the woods nearby. After our backs were almost done in from toting heavy green pine and red oak slabs, we all walked down to the creek for a bit. It was running pretty good; the bright green moss covered rocks are so stunning against the bleak brown background of January woods. Anthony's invited the Royce Schneider Family over for an impromptu hamburger fry which amazingly we were all able to attend! Usually we have so much stress trying to find an open evening when we try to plan ahead! As usual, life is a juxtaposition of pain and happiness as we found out almost simultaneously of the tragic death of our cousin Zachary and the happy engagement of our cousin Rebecca! What an evening. 

Sunday - 1.29

    Danielle and I were happy to be in Sunday School again. But my head wasn't happy as it had started hurting again with lots of congestion! Ugh. I thought I was well and over my illness. Danielle told me in the bathroom before the service that she was going to find us a seat in the sanctuary and I was to come find HER this time! LOL. She selected the soft pink chair in the back corner. Which I was pleased about, because by then I was feeling like I shouldn't be breathing on anyone. I always love a wedding announcement; it was wonderful to hear, "Rebecca Schneider has promised to marry Dylan Yost!" Danl was cooking the wild pig over at David's; so we took applesauce and snickerdoodles and headed over there to enjoy that, David's brisket, and delicious Georgia salad, green bean casserole, artisan sourdough bread, and best fudgy sourdough brownies! I was feeling pretty raunchy and even fell asleep in the chair! NOT my normal. Everyone seems to have or to have had this bug though. I Covid tested earlier in the week and it was negative. Feels like a bad sinus infection; I hardly ever get them since having had allergy shots! Oh well, we aren't promised life without sickness on this side of Heaven!