Learning to be a Wife

Friday, November 15, 2024

Life Lately: Week 45

This is what the past week looked like.

With the time change I'm up at 5am without an alarm clock!

I started my new role this week, Happy November!

November rain.

Headed into the office to meet my new team.

I still work at the same company, but I work in a new building now (just a block away from HQ).

My new desk is awesome!

I jokingly refer to it as my corner office...

Because this is the view to the left of my desk.

Insert all the heart eyes for that natural light.

I picked up Mexican food on my way home to celebrate a fantastic first day in the office.

Obsessed with my new water bottle.

Repurposed my leftovers into tacos.

Call with my besties is always good for the soul.

My new role is actually kind of a career change (eek!).

I have been a buyer for 17 years and my new role is in project management and I'm loving it.

Four days into being a project manager and I got to celebrate PM day with my new team.

Good timing, huh? :)

Did you catch the bathroom remodel update?

I grabbed this piece of art for the bathroom and it just makes me so happy.

G picked up sushi to celebrate a successful first week in my new role.

The paws crossed though.

Treated myself to a coffee after a doctor's appointment.

In all the excitement of my new role I missed Advent Calendar Day at Aldi.

I was able to snag this tea calendar over the weekend though.

My new boss gave me a bag of Kellanova goodies and SOMEBODY got into that bag and ate some of the food.

We went to my parents' house and celebrated my first week in my new role.

G picked this bottle of wine because it's from South Africa and the label is cute, but it wasn't a favorite (though I enjoyed it).

Coffee snuggles.

G made our favorite pasta and it hit the spot on a cool, rainy, lazy Sunday afternoon.

I wanted to switch up our card playing so we tried Monopoly Deal and we like it!

It took a minute to catch on, but it's fun (except when G steals a set of properties from me).

I finished this book in the hot tub and it was really cute.

Fave quotes:

"I don't want to miss our first kiss, our first fight, our first anything. And I'll take the heartache and the horror and the losses too, the fear of not knowing how it will all come to be, because that is life, in all its glorious, messy Technicolor. And I know I am so lucky to be here, and that every breath I take is the good part."

"...Unexpected things are going to happen and change is inevitable. The sooner you accept that, the better equipped you'll be to roll with things when they crop up... All the things that scared me at twenty-six ended up making my life a thousand times better."

"'Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.' If you believe in yourself, and then just keep going, and every time you get knocked flat on your back, get up, dust yourself down, and try again. If you want something that badly, one day you will get it."

"Those worries that seem so enormous right now, they'll be footnotes soon - then not even that. Relax. You're doing great. And there's so much joy ahead of you."

"You'll never regret a vacation, a night out, a night in, or buying the flowers."

November skies.

Comfy cozy are we.

A gem from James Clear's newsletter.

Wise words from my devotional.

This resonated with me as I get out of my comfort zone and try something new at work.

Practice gratitude.

Good reminder.

Powerful.

It's funny because it's true.

We are officially in cozy season.

Yep!

Ha!

Thank goodness.

I'm trying to get better at this.

For more life lately:

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Bathroom Remodel

We had our upstairs bathroom redone this summer and I was waiting until we completed the finishing touches, but then I realized I may never share.

Without further ado, here is the bathroom renovation process!

This is what the bathroom looked like when we bought the house.

We took down the curtains and updated the shower curtain.

Demo day!

Demo only took a day and the whole project was done in just over two weeks.

The after!

I'm obsessed with that vanity, and the floors...

And the bathtub, and the tile...

I love the niche!

I'm so glad I talked to friends (hi Kary!) who had gone through a bathroom remodel and took their advice on getting the largest niche I could because it filled up fast.

We hung up art last weekend and it's finally feeling complete, though I still need to update the window treatment, get new towels (white?), and a new rug (too much gray right now!) so I'll update this post once completed.

We love it so much and I still get giddy every time I walk in.

Now I'm ready to renovate everything (lol), but can't decide what to tackle next.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Life Lately: Week 44

This is what the past week looked like.

Cute pupper.

Golden hour.

Birthday walk with the neighbors.

Manny was in a festive spirit as well. ;)

I made one of my favorite fall recipes for dinner.

We hosted a sweet premarital couple that is now married.

I helped host a Fall Flannel Fun Day at work and we had games, cider and donuts...

And we ended the event with a pizza party.

We had a little summer weather which I am always here for.

It's been windy though so the leaves are almost all off the trees.

I made another fall favorite that hit the spot.

I caught him laying on my fleece, lol.

Happy Halloween!

We missed this sunset since we passing out candy, but my neighbor took this spooky sunset pic.

Towards the end of trick-or-treating my neighbor came over to chat and she left some Dots (my fave!).

Sushi date night.

Late to the party, but obsessed with this sleepy girl mocktail (I use sparkling water instead of soda).

Fall on fire.

G brought home breakfast sandwiches from Biggby.

We dropped off our ballots.

Then we walked M in a subdivision we have never been in before.

Is it just me who likes to walk in new subs and look at the houses?

Sweater weather.

Curry chicken tacos were just as good as I remember.

Center is becoming one of my favorite chick lit authors.

Fave quotes (so many!!):

"Whatever story you tell yourself about your life, that's the one that'll be true."

"...Happiness is always better with a little bit of sadness."

"You had to maximize joy when it fluttered into your life. You had to honor it. And savor it. And not stomp it to death by reminding everyone of everything you'd lost."

"I had a theory that we gravitate toward the stories we need in life. Whatever we're longing for - adventure, excitement, emotion, connection - we turn to stories that help us find it. Whatever questions we're struggling with - sometimes questions so deep, we don't even really know we're asking them - we look for answers in stories."

"If you wait for other people to light you up, then I guess you're at the mercy of darkness."

"People say 'marriage is hard' all the time...But I disagree. I don't think marriage is hard. I think, in fact, if you do it right, marriage is the thing that makes everything else easier."

"Love is something you can practice. It's something you can choose to get good at. And here's how you do it... Appreciate your person... Be sure to choose a good person...Train yourself to see their best, most delightful, most charming qualities. Focus on everything they're getting right. Be grateful - all the time - and laugh the rest off... There it is. The whole trick to life. Be aggressively, loudly, unapologetically grateful."

"It's all about the details you notice. And the joys you savor. And the hope you refuse to give up on. It's all about writing the very best story of your life. Not just how you live it - but how you choose to tell it."