January 2026 Randoms

An overcast late winter afternoon with the lights of my library aglow. I love it!

Speaking of the library, I think the title of this book is funny. 😆

Hola! Just another selfie.

I started teaching Sam how to drive! Our first few sessions were in a nearby church parking lot. He's more cautious and careful than John was, which is a relief. 😅

I like it when things randomly match. Check out my One Line a Day journal and the tissue box!

A funny text from Sam...

FaceTiming with John on P-Day. I miss him!

 A nicely cropped picture of my mom that I did for her because she needed it for something. It was from one of my wedding pictures.

I got this "Celestial Owl" puzzle at a bookstore. 

Owls, books, and flowers; these are a few of my favorite things!

With my favorite cousin Kassy at our cousin Becky's surprise 50th birthday party.

I watched a guy free-climb to the top of a skyscraper live on Netflix. It was cool!

Do you see him?

He made it to the top, and he made it look pretty easy. Amazing!

Yeahhh!

The Patriots were going to the Super Bowl again after a many-year drought! (We won't talk about how they did at it. 😄)

More matching! This time with the puzzle box and my water bottle.

David took this nice picture of the temple from across the highway on our way home. 

This is a special place.

Meanwhile, back at the library, this was the endcap display I put together at the end of the month for February. The theme was "Love Stories." These are so fun to put together!

At my friend Darby's graduation party

January was a fun month!

Pretty Winter Scenes While Out and About

The sunrise was beautiful one morning when Sam and I got back from seminary.

I think David took this nice picture of a cardinal in the snow-laden tree outside the apartment.

More snowy views from our balcony.

I love how the branches were snow-lined so perfectly.

A sunset sky on the drive to the Boston Temple. David was driving and I took the pictures through the windshield.

Around the House in January 2026

Bright, fresh flowers are especially nice to have in winter. 😍

David and I hanging out on a Sunday 

I love my big owl basket from Target, and it holds so much stuff!

Winter decorations

My winter owls

Cozy!

About mid-January, I added the Valentine's Day decorations, so the V-Day cupid owls mixed with the winter ones. It was an owl party! 

A delicious salad for lunch

The castle in Germany that the Disney World castle is modeled on was on my laptop. Pretty!  

Oh hi. It's just me and my snowy owl painting hanging out. 😆

I like our dining area.

A yellow lunch. There was even a yellow lemon slice in my drink. 💛

This is the upstairs queen bed at the Cape house. It's a nice, spacious, cozy bedroom up there. I'm starting to like it better than my room downstairs.

Girls' Weekend 2026!

 My core group of high school best friends gets together a few times a year, and we try to do a "Girls' Weekend" every year, but it hadn't happened in two years, until the last weekend of January thankfully brought that particular drought to a close. We spent it at the Cape (we stayed at my house because it's free!), and as always, it was really fun to get away together. I love these friends of mine who have known me since I was 13, when I moved to Massachusetts, and they've known each other since they were little kids. There's something very special about lifelong friends, and I'm grateful to have a group of my own. I love them like sisters. 

Dinner at the 99

I'm so glad "mocktails" have become increasingly popular. For non-alcohol drinkers like me, they're really fun!

Shopping in Chatham. They'd never been shopping there, so I was happy to show them!

Cute little kid sweaters

We got pedicures

We stopped at Jen's stepmom's house for a visit. She does interior design, and her house was beautifully decorated. I took some pictures to give me ideas for the Cape house. Someday, I hope to do things like renovate the kitchen into something more like this:

Look at that backsplash! 😍

Cute whale tail coat hooks

I love my glassed-in shower at the Cape, and if/when it gets re-done, I'd love to do something like this with the walls and floor.

Dinner at Captain Parker's

My Shirley Temple is in the back 😋

Jen and I both liked this fun, luxe sweatshirt at one of the Chatham shops, so we each got one!

I got this cute set of whale measuring cups at a consignment shop. Bonnie found them but didn't get them, so I did! They're perfect for the Cape house.

It was a really fun weekend away together, and I hope we'll be able to do it again next year. 

I love my friends!