It's been an amazingly wild couple of weeks in the Facini household. I started my new job two weeks ago and we moved into the new house this past weekend. Our weekend was filled with cardboard boxes, family, friends and 200 trips up and down my new stairs.
While the house is 90% unpacked, the walls are still bare and lacking our touch. Soon enough. I have the next 30+ years to get this house exactly the way I want it. I'm just enjoying having my own space again.
I have thought of a millions topics to post about in the last two weeks but life has just been so crazy I haven't had a chance to put them into anything.
Pictures and better posts forthcoming. But for now, the Facini's have leaped into their new home and couldn't be happier. Okay, maybe slightly happier if the Peanut would sleep through the night but ya know, one thing at a time.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
It's Almost Christmas
Where has the time gone? This year has FLOWN by, faster than last year I think. How am I Christmas shopping? Slowly, I'm checking each person off our list (thank you, Amazon!). Saving a portion of it for Black Friday shopping. I LOVE Black Friday shopping.
In years past, we've wanted something particular that caused us to stand in line like fools, fighting amongst the other crazies. However, the past year or two, I've just gone for fun. I think we did score a TV last year and this year I'll be checking out toys for the Peanut but we don't really need anything. Especially anything worth buying at 2am. I will be scouting a new Christmas tree this year so... But hey, middle of the night shopping is half the fun.
Afterwards, we usually have a French Toast breakfast at my Grandma's. This year, I believe I will be working so a cup of coffee will have to replace my usually grandiose breakfast.
Christmas, holy crap, it's almost here!
In years past, we've wanted something particular that caused us to stand in line like fools, fighting amongst the other crazies. However, the past year or two, I've just gone for fun. I think we did score a TV last year and this year I'll be checking out toys for the Peanut but we don't really need anything. Especially anything worth buying at 2am. I will be scouting a new Christmas tree this year so... But hey, middle of the night shopping is half the fun.
Afterwards, we usually have a French Toast breakfast at my Grandma's. This year, I believe I will be working so a cup of coffee will have to replace my usually grandiose breakfast.
Christmas, holy crap, it's almost here!
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Hindsight
If I could write a letter to my 18 year old self I would highlight:
- don't take your car out the night mom told you not to and you complained to dad and he let you. It will cost you three weeks in the shop and a running joke about mailboxes for the next decade.
- trust mom and dad when they tell you you're going to hate the cold, depressing weather of frostburg. It will save you a 2am phone call and two college switches. And even though they didn't say it right away, you will hear the words I told you so.
-always be true to your high school sweetheart. One day you're going to marry him and have his little girl. Those "games" you two played as teenagers will be for naught. He is the one. Always was. Always will be.
- have more patience with your boyfriends mom, your future mother in law. One day you will wish you could see her eyes roll at you.
- don't gossip and don't hold a grudge. Forgive and forget and move on. Life is easier this way.
-say you're sorry when you've wronged someone. And you will. Learn from those moments and don't repeat the same mistakes.
- find your faith earlier. You will rely heavily on it. Trust in God. You may never know why. It doesn't matter. There is a bigger plan you are apart of.
-stay out of the tanning bed. Stay. Out.
- put your best foot forward in every situation. This way you won't look back and say I wish I would have done it differently.
- don't let the orthodontist talk you in to taking your braces off early. You will spend almost three grand 6 years later.
-have the awkward conversation you hate so much. Silence is worse in the long run. Trust me.
-family is family. Always, always put them first.
-soak up the moments you love so much. They will be gone before you know it and make great memories. Live life in the moment not behind a phone screen.
-you are only going to regret what you do not do or say.
-you are going to stumble and fall. You are going to make mistakes. Get back up and hold your head high. Don't let those moments define you. One day your going to grow up. Life is still going to be hard but you have an amazing husband, supportive family and great friends. Enjoy the ride.
- don't take your car out the night mom told you not to and you complained to dad and he let you. It will cost you three weeks in the shop and a running joke about mailboxes for the next decade.
- trust mom and dad when they tell you you're going to hate the cold, depressing weather of frostburg. It will save you a 2am phone call and two college switches. And even though they didn't say it right away, you will hear the words I told you so.
-always be true to your high school sweetheart. One day you're going to marry him and have his little girl. Those "games" you two played as teenagers will be for naught. He is the one. Always was. Always will be.
- have more patience with your boyfriends mom, your future mother in law. One day you will wish you could see her eyes roll at you.
- don't gossip and don't hold a grudge. Forgive and forget and move on. Life is easier this way.
-say you're sorry when you've wronged someone. And you will. Learn from those moments and don't repeat the same mistakes.
- find your faith earlier. You will rely heavily on it. Trust in God. You may never know why. It doesn't matter. There is a bigger plan you are apart of.
-stay out of the tanning bed. Stay. Out.
- put your best foot forward in every situation. This way you won't look back and say I wish I would have done it differently.
- don't let the orthodontist talk you in to taking your braces off early. You will spend almost three grand 6 years later.
-have the awkward conversation you hate so much. Silence is worse in the long run. Trust me.
-family is family. Always, always put them first.
-soak up the moments you love so much. They will be gone before you know it and make great memories. Live life in the moment not behind a phone screen.
-you are only going to regret what you do not do or say.
-you are going to stumble and fall. You are going to make mistakes. Get back up and hold your head high. Don't let those moments define you. One day your going to grow up. Life is still going to be hard but you have an amazing husband, supportive family and great friends. Enjoy the ride.
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