Hiiiiii friends! Wow, can you believe that tomorrow is already Christmas Eve? Time is flowing by crazy-fast! This past week has I think been one of the busiest weeks of my entire life. One of those weeks where every day feels packed-to-the-brim with important, meaningful stuff.
I’ve been able to meet up with a number of dear friends for coffee dates and dinner dates and hiking dates … special time to talk-talk-talk and catch up with people I love and don’t get to see nearly enough. The fam and I watched some of our favorite holiday movies: Serendipity, Love Actually, and It’s a Wonderful Life. {<– my all-time favorite movie EVER.} I was honored to teach writing workshops at three separate schools {one elementary school, one middle school, and my alma mater high school} in addition to my Winter Writing Camp on Saturday. Nothing inspires me quite like being in a room full of young writers writing!
In addition to all of this, we celebrated my brother’s birthday yesterday {happy 24 Gregburn! I love you!} and threw an absolutely lovely and fun bridal shower for my cousin Julie. Plus the typical holiday cookie-baking, card-writing, present-wrapping, etc! Here are some photos from my week:
The girls with Gramps before Julie’s bridal shower.
I made two dozen cupcakes for Julie’s shower … a dozen chocolate with peanut butter frosting, and a dozen red velvet with cream cheese frosting!
Murray lovin’!
Brothers!
And now … on to my goals!
Here’s how I did on my goals for the week of 12/15:
– write 10 pages of new material {yeah, this didn’t even come close to happening this week…}
– take cookies & cards to the nursing home {doing this tomorrow!}
– exercise at least twice
– finish reading The Tea Rose {less than 100 pages left}
– order holiday cards
– teach a fantastic Winter Writing Camp
– throw a wonderful bridal shower for my cousin Julie
– connect with two friends
And here are my goals for this week:
– soak up time with my family and friends!
– journal/reflect on this past year
– set my goals for 2014, wooooohoooo!
I’ll be back tomorrow with the week 51 year of kindness challenge!
This post is linked up with Menu-Plan Monday.
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Dallas, I love the “work” you are doing! You show so much passion in life alone; a rare quality to find. I was thinking just a few minutes ago before getting on your website how I needed to make a trip to Goodwill to make a donation…..I followed your link to your Year of Kindness Challenge website and low and behold…..Week 1 – Donate Items to those in need!!!! I may be a little behind on the weekly challenges, but I am going to work on getting all those things together this week and take them to Goodwill on Saturday! You are an inspiration! I will let you know how it goes! If you don’t mind, I will be sharing your challenge links with my followers! Love & Light, Cindy Ortiz
Cindy, your kind words made my whole day!! Thank you so much. I’m so glad that we’ve connected via our blogs and I really appreciate your support … you likewise inspire me very much! Please keep me posted and thank you again for your sweet encouragement!