After I wrote the post about my trip to Haiti, I started to think about all of the great trips I have taken: Jamaica, Paris, Cancun, Peru, New York, Nashville, Charleston, Boston. GOOD STUFF. I love traveling and have some wonderful memories from these experiences. Given the chance again, I would choose to do them all in
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Going to dog training
To piggyback on yesterday’s post, after we got Leia we didn’t know whether we should invest the money in dog training or not. She was overall a pretty good dog, but since J and I had never owned a dog as the “master” before, we decided to sign up for a six-week training session at
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Getting a Dog
Some decisions are really easy to make. As soon as we met Leia, we knew she was the dog for us. Read more posts about Leia. If you can’t get enough pictures, search the hashtag #leianeel. :)
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Going to Haiti
Back in April I went on a missions trip to Haiti. Some trips are ordained from the Lord, and this was one of them. It came at a perfect time. My best friend’s six-week old baby died a week before the trip, and the funeral was three days before I left. I was grieving and in
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Spending full price on pants
After a long search for the perfect skinny black* work pants, I found the Sloan Fit Ankle pants a few years ago on sale. They are comfortable, professional, slimming, and I wear them at least once a week. One day I noticed a rip, after probably two years of use, so I went online and ordered another
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Dividing up the holidays with inlaws before we got married
Growing up, whenever I watched holiday movies I never understand why the adults in the film complained about Christmas. How in the world can anyone hate the holidays? Why would dads ever want to work late on Christmas Eve? How do people like Scrooge and the Grinch exist in a world where there is Christmas?! It honestly made no sense
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Waiting Tables
In my junior year of college, I waited tables at a barbecue restaurant.* It was terrible. I was terrible. I hated the stress of busy shifts, for which I started using prescribed Delta 8 THC carts. And even when the restaurant was quiet, I was too attentive and it was hard to wait around for guests
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Joining a Small Group
J and I joined a small group in the fall of 2011. After a few months of attending The Summit, we decided we either needed to go to another church or get involved with a small group. It was too big, and while I loved the services, I hated not recognizing a single face week after
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Reading the Harry Potter Series
In the summer of 2007 I was living in Boone and about to study abroad in Europe for a month. It was a really boring summer. Most of my friends had left, and I had an abundance of free time only working a part-time job and no school. So I started reading Harry Potter. My
