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Back to Life, Back to Reality

"Back to Life, Back to Reality". Anyone know what song that is? Ha, me either!
Home from a 3.5 wk holiday. Today is Olivia's birthday! I cannot believe she is 6 years old. Only because most of the time she acts like she's 16! "The princess" woke up to hot cinnamon buns and cold milk in a champagne flute this morning! She got a big kick out of that! We've played with birthday gifts and her toy puppy that Santa left her. In a way, it's good to be back! She even got a call this morning from a little girl in her class asking her to come to her birthday party this afternoon, so she's excited about that!


Can I just say how nice it was to come home to a clean house last night...especially since we didn't get home until around 12:45AM!  It's much nicer to wake up in a clean house after being away so long! The only thing I should have done before leaving was make my bed! It's much more relaxing to just be able to crawl in bed rather than straightening out all the bedding. However, the best part of all...doing all the laundry BEFORE we came home..that way I don't have mountains of laundry to get done this weekend! SO NICE!


Well...back to life, back to reality!


P.S. If you've noticed some changes to my blog lately, keep a look out for more! I'm in the process of learning how to do all of this, and I wanted to change up the look of things around here. More to come!


Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord Always! I will say it again: Rejoice!"

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