Abby’s Saturday // Two Hundred And Sixty-Seven

Highlight of the Week

It has been an amazing, action-packed summer. We’ve traveled to more states, stayed in more hotels, & driven more miles than any other summer before. However, with all of our traveling, one destination that we routinely visit did not get visited – Derrick’s Parent’s house! Back at the end of spring, they sold their old house & ended up temporarily living in a camper while they bought & fixed up a new house. It’s been an exciting process, but one we could not really be a part of – I mean, there was no way we could go visit while they were living in a camper. Thankfully, their new house is (almost) completed & they officially moved in 2 weeks ago – which means we have the green light to go visit again!! It’s been 5 (!!) months since we were in the Twin Tiers last & we have missed everyone so much! Braelynn has talked about Nana & Papa & her best friend (and cousin) Cameron almost every single day. We’ve never gone this long without seeing Derrick’s family & hopefully, it never happens again!

Yes, This Happened

• Of course, it only seemed fitting to take this photo in front of our washing machine this week – since it’s broken. UGH. We have absolutely no idea what’s going on with it (and we’ve tried every fix we can find) – it just will not finish a cycle. It gets about halfway, and then it just keeps bumping the time back up & keeps going. So, it will drop to say, 23 minutes left, and then jump back up to 34 minutes left, it will count back down to the 23-minute mark, and then jump back up to 34 minutes. And it will do that endlessly. We’ve tried re-calibrating it, running a self-clean cycle, checking to make sure nothing is clogged, plus Derrick has done a bunch of “resetting” steps that he found online – nothing works. And of course, no one can come look at it for another 2 weeks – boo.
• Leander turned 10 months old this week! Time is just flying by, but for some reason, this “mile-marker” seemed even bigger & more monumental to me than ever. I don’t know, but this one made me more emotional than ever – I can’t believe how big my little man is getting!
• We have another bee-problem. A few years ago, we had bees nest in the siding of our house & we had to have an exterminator come & get rid of them (twice, they had to come back because the bees were so persistent!) Well, they’re back! Except this time, we can’t figure out where they’re coming from! Last time, it was obvious, but this time, we simply cannot figure it out. We find bees in every room of our house (upstairs & downstairs) and we’ve yet to figure out how they’re getting in! ARGH – it literally gives me the heebie-jeebies – I HATE bees!!

Feeling Blessed

I am LOVING this process of re-creating my favorite Abby’s Saturday photos! The concept of putting Abby in a laundry basket was originally Abby’s Saturday #30. Then in 2017, I put both Abby & Braelynn in a laundry basket & that was Abby’s Saturday #170! Of course, now we have Leander, so we had to squeeze him in there too – and I’m dying over this photo! No shortage of personality here!