Week In the Life: Monday

Welcome to Week in the Life Ali Edwards style! She does this project usually twice a year and I think this is the first time for 2020.  I LOVE this project.  This is a project where we look a little deeper into our lives on a daily view for a week. I have been doing this project almost every year for the past 10-all in different ways.  This year I will be using This Simple Stories album-it is 6x8 and the yellow just makes me HAPPY!!!!! I think we could all use a little happy right now. It'll be interesting to see how we all document this year since we are living a completely different lifestyle than we have before in our time. With all that said, I will share Monday pictures and stories with you! 

I decided to use my current TN for a list of things that need to be done.  I've been carrying this one around with me and writing down things as I think of them.  This is a list of things I want to clean out or straighten up-that I've been too busy with school with to do.  It's also just a list of daily things that have been neglected.  When I made the list this morning-I had high hopes-by the end of the day, most everything on this list will just move to tomorrow. 

Morning coffee+Dog.  I love everything in this picture.  This coffee mug the kids gave me Sunday for Mothers day and it is spot on.  Leopard print and mama life-that is me in a nutshell and my kids did good.  My dog sleeping in the background-he snores and is extremely loud! I often think he and hubby are competing to see who can make the most noise when they are asleep. 

This photo just makes me smile.  It's not the norm.  These days we are sleeping in and spending lots of time together.  I want to capture these moments of my family sleeping as often as I can.  These moments will go by way to fast and I am going to drown myself in these times.  That is one thing I can say since this Covid-19 has hit.  I have ENJOYED the slowing down of life, the family time and just being together without an overrun schedule.  

Middle kid syndrome.  Just kidding-this was a project he had to do for school-make a tower. He originally had the smaller, original legos and when he announced he was done it was the bigger legos.  Whatever works kid. I like that he thought about it all on his own and made it work. 

I saw this and it made me smile too.  My oldest is getting really good at cleaning and organizing and when she did her chores today she made this colorful bowl of drink fillers.  These are flavors the kids use in their water and I like the rainbow.  

I put on a pot of beans this morning-we are really trying to work on our budgeting, saving and buying a house.  Tonight I made homemade cornbread and we took it over to my in laws to eat.  I like feeding everyone and not having leftovers.  I am working on meal planning and prepping so that we are better at this.  This bowl is a set of 3 that I received for my birthday last week from my mother in law and I just absolutely LOVE this set.  I am so thankful that she listens to the little things I want and she has been working on them for 2 Christmases and 2 birthdays! 

I have been applying for jobs the last two days.  I graduated last week from college.  The job hunt begins.  I have decided I will start studying for the praxis so that I can work on my certification for teaching.  I thought when I graduated I would be done-not so much.  My calendar filled up this week with job interviews and appointments.  I'm pretty excited about it all though.  A new journey for me and my family and a step into where I want to be going. 

I took way more pictures than in this post-but not nearly as many as I normally do on day 1.  I don't want to post them ALL on here but I am willing to share a glimpse into our day here.  I hope you all enjoy it! Leave some love and your blog if you are participating and I'd love to come leave you some love and add your blog to my reading list! Thanks for hanging out a bit here today!