Oh bridal showers. I was the maid of honor for a friend last year, and her soon to be MIL started messaging me about how i’m “required” to throw one. I ended up hosting it at my house but the two bridesmaids and my friend’s mother also assisted. It was a brunch theme with a mimosa bar and ended up being a lot of fun.

The only ridiculousness came from her soon to be MIL who had hosted her own surprise bridal shower the weekend before mine (which she was invited to) and then brought all her leftover stuff and tried to use them at mine. We kindly asked her to stop rearranging our stuff to make room for her additions and she huffed and took her items to her car. Oh well.

That is a beautiful cake…

Now I want cake.

Beautiful cake. Husband asked me to make him a cake soon but it won’t be decorated. Ha. Or maybe I will for anniversary. I ended up getting him AirPods. He wants them, will use them and frankly while at Target today he mentioned wanting some and I just finally said “I thought about getting you those let’s just get them”. So gift pressure off. Not quite what I had in mind and i still got him a small sentimental gift but he’s happy and it’s solved. He listens to music all day at work so he will use them all the time.

He took today off after working 53 hours of overtime this last week and something like 43 last week. We had breakfast, ran some errands and he took me to a new store he heard of I might like. It is nice out finally so it was a really nice day to hang out, get some stuff done and sweet of him to want to drag me shopping. Usually it’s the other way around as he gets bored. I could tell he wanted to do something to make me happy since I do get a bit frustrated with the lack of shopping options around here. I found some much needed fleece line leggings I’ve been searching for, clearance for $10! Woohoo. He also wanted a picture frame for a pic of us on his desk at work. He’s too freaking cute. Nice day after not feeling great lately. Still don’t feel super but surely this glass of wine will solve that! I just am pushing through it at this point.

@Copa – same for me! (on keeping sugary treats to a minimum). There’s a few things I find to sweet…soda being one of them but I never really drank a lot of it to begin with. I still love sweet tea though! Being from the south it needs to be sweet (though I do actually like unsweet ice tea and I don’t like it to sweet unlike most people I know from the south).

@JD – glad he got a day off! My husband has been working 6 days a week since December. And this project is not set to be done soon so likely to continue for a few more months at least. No weekend trips in the near future and I’m itching to get out of town for at least a weekend. Guess it’ll have to wait.

Another really sentimental thing that happened was my mom. My grandma, her mother, passed over the summer. It was very sudden and unexpected. She was 93 years old, and I loved her very deeply. Mom got one of her rings that I loved since I was a kid. Mom tried to hand it off to me after her death and I refused to take it. Emotions run high and I wanted her to think hard about the decision.

She gave me that ring this weekend. I refused a couple more times, she insisted, and it’s now with me. When I think of my Grandma I think of 3 things: her love of poinsettias, her love for her grandchildren and that ring. It shocked my mom when I told her I was going to take it to be appraised so I can insure it. She said that the ring meant more to me than it did to her.

Fun ideas your husband might have. Stick your arm into this hole since it fits and see if… do not do this. Sigh. So we need some drywall repair and i need less fiberglass in my arm. We still do not have a cable line where he was attempting to bring one. I am starting to think him being busy is better. ??‍♀️