Skip to main content

Ups and Downs

Over the past few days, I have been navigating the ups and downs of some major lack of husband loneliness.  Some of the days have been successful.  Some have not.  Here's a peek:

UP:  Going to Lagoon with Keeley.  I was so happy that Keeley was willing to take a day off from being a mom and hang out with me.  We went to Lagoon and had a blast.  It was super hot, but we kept ourselves cool by going on water rides throughout the day.  Our luck at the beginning of the day wasn't so great, but eventually we got into the swing of things and walked on almost every ride!  We did every ride we wanted to several times and just enjoyed girl time.   Observe:


DOWN:  Dinner for 1.  To keep myself busy, I sometimes try to cook myself nice meals.  This one did not work out so well.  I tried to broil salmon.  I love salmon, so I was way excited about this dinner.  The salmon, while it was cooked and tasted fine, it did not LOOK fine.  I'm not sure what happened, and everything literally fell apart when I tried to flip the thing and, well, just look:



Can we say epic fail?  I think we can.  This has to be the ugliest thing I've ever cooked.  I also tried to make a glaze to go on it...mega epic fail.  Overall, this was just awful.  I'm done talking about it.

UP:  Hanging out with my sisters.  Last night (after crying over the salmon) I decided I needed to get out of the house and do something, so I drove down to Provo to have a sleepover with my sisters.  Unfortunately, none of my pictures of this event turned out.  Boo.  We went to our friend Paige's softball game and then hung out back at Kim & Kristy's apartment.  It was a blast just to lounge and, you know, be with people and not by myself.  My sisiters are so dang awesome.  Kristy just got back from Uganda so it was especially great to see her again.   Hopefully I will get to hang out with them again soon!

UP:  Going to breakfast this morning with Andrea et al.  Andrea turned 24 today (on the 24th), so she is having a 24-hour bash!  I participated in event #1: Breakfast at Gurus in Provo.  I had cream cheese stuffed french toasts, which was pretty dang good.  Here we are basking in the glow of fun and friendship:


DOWN:  Lounging around with my three "best" friends: the couch, my laptop and no-egg cookie dough:

I don't know if you can see it...but there is definitely a couch butt-imprint in this picture:

Yummy.

What happens when you spend hours sitting around on your butt by yourself?  You eat.  A lot.  To combat this (and to leave the apartment at least once in the day) I have been going to the gym every day, but I'm going to have to do some SERIOUS work to make up for this evening's cookie dough binge.  Gross.

So, moral of this story is I'm having some ups and downs this week, but who doesn't I guess.  I'm counting down the days until I can see Daniel again, and I'm working on not turning into a bump on a log...but it's hard.  

21 DAYS UNTIL DANIEL COMES HOME!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My Birth Story--Riley James Faulk

 A warning in advance--this is really long and detailed, so if you don't want to read a detailed birth story (with pictures), then stop now!  This was an important record for me to make and I didn't want to spare any details. :) Technically the story of my labor begins on Riley’s due date: July 24, 2013.   Because I have to go back to school as a teacher very soon (my first meeting is August 14), I was desperate to see if I could use some “natural” methods to get the labor going.   So, on Wednesday, July 24 around ten in the morning I took about 1.5 ounces of castor oil, which is known to get labor kick started occasionally by basically freaking out your bowels so you have the runs—lovely.   I waited for a few hours but nothing happened at all.   Bummer.   My mother and sister came to Salt Lake and we celebrated Pioneer Day by going to temple square and having lunch at the Lion House.   After lunch I started to have some horrible pains in my stomach.   They didn’t feel l
5 comments
Read more

Faulk Family Task List

Yup, that's just a dang fancy phrase for "chore chart." I decided this needed to happen.  I am so tired at the end of the day from working a full time teaching job plus three part-time theatre jobs that the LAST thing I want to do is clean.  So, I end up letting everything pile up until I literally dread coming home.  This results in a totally massive, totally random meltdown that usually ends with me scrubbing the whole apartment clean for hours.  I'm then in a MUCH better mood for a couple weeks until the cycle repeats itself. This had to stop. So, I created the Faulk Family Task List.  It lists the basic chores that need to be done around the house.  Some need to be done just once a week while others need to be done every day.  That's why I LOVE this cute chore chart template I found through Microsoft Office Online.  You can download the template HERE .  After I personalized it for what worked for our family, it looked like this:   I love how this temp
2 comments
Read more

Cedar's Blessing Day

In our church, it is common practice for a baby to be be given a name and a blessing in church during their first few months of life.  This blessing is usually done by the baby's father.  (For more info on what a baby blessing entails, click  HERE ). Cedar Jane Faulk was blessed by her father on July 1, 2018.  We wanted her to be blessed when my parents could be there (my dad flew in from Shanghai), and as an added bonus, Daniel's parents were given permission to come home from their LDS mission in Orlando for a long weekend to attend the blessing!  It was very special for her to have both sets of grandparents there, as well as most of my aunts and uncles, sisters, and other friends. I will admit that Daniel and I felt a little bit of added pressure over this blessing as compared to our other kids' blessings.  It is common to hear babies blessed with things like health, marrying in the temple, etc.  For Cedar, all the "normal" things like that suddenly felt i
Post a Comment
Read more