PLAYTIME

So, funny story today involving Tyler and I as nursery leaders and this white clock against cinder blocks. Nursery is roughly two hours, right? We usually have playtime for about an hour, then we clean up and have the lesson, singing time, snack time, coloring and then bubbles until the parents come to pick up their children. So we are in the midst of playtime and it feels like it has been dragging on forever. I mean, kids were throwing toys across the room, ripping toys from other kids' hands and being all around rowdy. Finally, it was time to clean up and get ready for the lesson. Just as the lesson was beginning, parents began sneaking in wondering why we were still in the thick of our usual routine. Long story short (too late), nobody changed the clock from daylight savings and none of the kids got snacks, water or a colored picture. We laughed all the rest of the day as we Skyped with my sisters and shared our hilarious event from the day.

CONTENT

This morning we woke up to mounds of snow and a sad day ahead of us. In the morning, I drove over to Stephanie's house to practice 'Peace Be With You'; they wrangled a group of us from our high school madrigal group, Vocal Ensemble, to sing at Josh's funeral. It was good to see so many of my old singing buddies, it was just sad to see them under the circumstances and minus Josh. They had us wear red and provided red ribbons because that was Josh's favorite color. It was a very uplifting service: people spoke of his kindness, his chivalry, his selflessness and friendliness to all. Everyone was so positive and I was extremely impressed by how well his wife spoke; I would have been a rambling mess. In fact, I was: I bawled, a lot, but I also laughed and felt a reaffirmation of the gospel and that we truly can see our loved ones again.

FIRST FALLEN

I scrambled to get ready for work today: so. tired. I threw on my birthday sneakers, Tyler's sweatshirt and grabbed a breakfast bar only to open the door to see this. While driving on the freeway to work, my partially loose driver's side windshield wiper grip flew off making it almost impossible to see the road. Work was long and gloom and the snow never let up. I drove home slowly on backstreets and come home to a night in while my husbandry works late into the darkness. Long week, but I am sure glad it's over.

SIMPLY MISSED

Day three of straight shooting and man, am I beat. We wrapped early with only a few more battle wounds to add to our belt. I was home early to get changed to attend Josh's viewing, but fell asleep on the couch waiting for Tyler to get home. The night ended watching Project Runway All Stars and a tasty diet meal.

FLOWERS

Homemade flowers thanks to a kit made by Martha Stewart. A couple of weeks ago Caroline, Heidi and I sat for a couple of hours on a Friday and the weekend after making all of these delicate tissue paper flowers (Tyler even stayed up late one night to finish them up; he's the greatest). At the studio, today, we built a wall of flowers and it definitely turned out better than I had imagined. While at the shoot I received the details of Josh Hooper's services via his obituary. It is still feels so strange that he is gone, that his wife is a widow, and he was my age.

TWO

Today was the first day of shooting for our Spring Catalogue. It felt so good to see everything come together, with all the hiccups and blindsides we managed to make it all work out. Seeing all those fun outfits with the great patterns, fabrics and shoes makes me so stoked for a whole new, skinnier, wardrobe in the spring. Speaking of skinnier… I lost two pounds today and completely blew through the 190s, for now I weigh 190.25. Bam bam jelly on ham!

MIX-N-MATCH

After a weekend of shopping for the photo shoot—which starts tomorrow—we spent the entire last half of our day pairing outfits with bags and shoes, taking photos and tagging models to each look. It was long and it became apparent more than ever that I desperately lack in the style department (Caroline is an amazing stylist). We feel confident, yet so much could go wrong this week… I guess we'll just have to see.