august in review, and my weekend ahead...

a new little blog tradition i'm going to start: posting a "month in review" post at each month's end. my blog is supposed to be a record and journal of sorts, so if the day-to-day blogging continues to suck as it has beem at least i'll have some sort of life summary to show for my time.

so, then - on with the show.

august in review

1. celebrated our 3rd anniversary.
   
2. took a mini-vacation to sequim.
   
3. saw hairspray, the movie. i'm in love.
   
4. kids ministry: went to the zoo.
   
5. set some goals.
   
6. didn't make a ton of progress on said goals (i'm asking for an extension, to see what i can accomplish tomorrow!!)
   
7. kids ministry: took a few of our boys bowling.
   
8. had a few photo sessions.
   
9. kids ministry: ended our Summer Olympics program, and celebrated with an awards ceremony.
   
10. relished the last month of my best friend's summer vacation at home, and said goodbye to her for the 6th time as she leaves to start a new school year.
    

and i'm super excited about some downtime this weekend (sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it?) sunday is "family service sunday", so our kids will be in the "big service" (you know, the one with "big people" in it) - which means kate will be in the big service, which means kate has very little prep work to do this weekend. so if i run my church-related errands today, i can have tomorrow to do whatever i want. compound that with monday being a holiday, and i have the makings for a very nice little stretch of time off.

matt's going fishing bright and early (dark and early?) tomorrow morning, and i'll be stranded at home sans vehicle. i've got a couple of projects on my mind (hint: i'm already thinking halloween, but i have to buy some orange crepe paper.) and might even go for a walk.

speaking of walks (wow, when it rains, it pours, huh? i'm practically rambling.) - i found the perfect thing to coerce me into exercise. since matt started his new job, we've been carpooling, which means i don't listen to my mp3 player, which means i'm seriously behind on my podcasts. the other day, i decided to take a little walk at lunch, and got 15 minutes into this really long, really great podcast. since i wanted to keep listening, and walking seems to be the best way to do that without trying to "multi-task" and missing half of it, i've decided that i'll use my podcasts specifically for walking. i've walked three days this week. so far, so good. and there's always more where "that" came from, so it's not like i'm in danger of running out of listening material!

ok, that's it for me. off to do something productive. happy end-of-august!