12 on the 12th--December Edition

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1. I watched part of The Tonight Show (recorded from the night before) while eating breakfast before work.
2. Family selfie before I left the house (there were various levels of cooperation for this).
3. It's nice we have a Christmas tree in the office at work, this is the view from my desk.
4. This is what I gave my Secret Pal.
5. I read while eating lunch in my car.
6. I'm a bit spastic when I park my car, no matter how hard I try I can't seem to angle correctly in a slanted space.
7. Whitney and I went to Michael's after school.
8. She shocked me by saying she wants this poster for Christmas (what the?!).
9. We got a couple more Christmas cards in the mail (I'm frustrated we don't have a usable family photo for ours this year).
10. This was the beautiful set up for our Book Club dinner at Collette's house.
11. The fabulous pile of gifts I got from our book and gift exchange!
12. Late-night selfie of the 6 of us.

12 on the 12th--March Edition

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1. I record The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon every night and then watch the first 25 minutes in the morning while I eat breakfast, which means I start my day laughing.
2. We read scriptures as family, but couldn't get a decent photo of it happening.
3. Car lunch reading time, glorious but those 30 minutes go way too fast.
4. My Girl Scout Cookie delivery from one of the students.
5. Our Crocus are in bloom.
6. The Great Landini emptying his backpack.
7. Whitney on the phone about a babysitting job...she hasn't caught the vision yet.
8. Glorious weather!
9. I went outside to read for a bit but I was over zealous because the breeze made it a tad chilly.
10. Landon cacked out on the couch.
11. I went to our Relief Society Birthday dinner (it fell on the 12th last year too).
12. Randy and I watched Survivor.

Car Lunch A Go Go

My mom texted me this morning at work to say she could pick up some Cafe Rio for me and meet at school for a car lunch.  This was a nice surprise both for the company and the good food. Randy had packed a lunch for me this morning so I ended up giving it to a boy who often comes into the office in need of food. I sometimes give him a small snack (from home) so he was surprised and happy to get an entire lunch today. His situation makes me sad, and giving him that lunch today felt heart-burstingly good (I just don't know what to do about all the future days though).

My mom brought her own plate of grilled chicken, brown rice and green beans for lunch, while I had a Cafe Rio kids meal ($3.50 and delightful) of a pork quesadilla, chips and salsa and beans.  

This is the snowy mess I had to trudge through to get to her car! The sidewalk was clear but the street is buried from all the plows. I had to step in the footprints that were already there and hope for the best...ugh!

Miscellaneous Monday

1. Way back on Friday the 14th Michelle brought Cafe Rio and we had a marvelous car lunch. We see each other so rarely these days that we had to cram a lot of talking into the 30 minutes!

Oh glorious Cafe Rio goodness!

2. Whitney and Madison found out they both didn't win the student council election (12 kids won out of 37). They took their defeat gracefully and I took them to Sonic for Happy Hour slushies.

3. Landon's football team all decided to dress up last Tuesday in honor of their Tuesday Night Lights game. I happened to see him walk past the office in-between classes and snagged this photo of him in his new red shirt.

4. We helped Lori move into her new Townhouse over the weekend and then went over yesterday to try out the "girl cave". She has a big room with a ginormous tv and sectional where we could all lie down and watch "Mall Cop" together. We'll probably be visiting her often in her new place.

5. This display currently resides on our dining room table, just a couple of dinosaurs out on the town.

6. Landon had a morning game on Saturday.

Whitney had been wandering around with my camera and took this photo of me fixing Landon's shirt at half-time.

6. This is the very pleasing inside papers of next' month's book club book...I like it already!

First Car Lunch of the New Year

Michelle texted me last week and offered to bring me lunch but it was just too crazy during the first week of school so we opted for Tuesday of the second week of school instead. I was so looking forward to having a good lunch and time to catch-up with her.

She brought turkey, avacado, bacon sandwiches from Kneaders!

 And chocolate mousse domes (my new favorite) for dessert! She even brought one for Wendy (the other secretary), which was super nice.

We spent 45 minutes catching up on life but the time went way too fast. It was definitely a boost for my spirits and a nice break from the craziness of the front office.