Life & All The Things In Between
Welcome to Rose and Thorns. A monthly round-up of the highs and lows, good and the bad, and all things in-between. Thorn: Scout I have been dreading this post all month long. After the last few months of struggling with health issues, Scout sadly passed away this month. He was my companion for thirteen years, [...]
Thorn: Aaron's Move to California As a way to grow and connect with others, I want to share not everything is perfect all the time. I wish I could say April few by, but in fact, each day seemed longer than the last. Dates were circled on the calendar for Aaron’s anticipated move. All month [...]
This month my Google Photo’s timeline has been filled with memories of the beginning stages of life in lockdown 2020. It was crazy then, and looking back through the photos was a sobering reminder of how uncertain and quiet life was last year. This month has been a difficult one. There is a lot of [...]
The shortest month of the year has come and gone. I honestly was so distracted by the anticipation of going on vacation I don’t know where the time went. Hopefully, when this post goes live I’ll be returning from my vacation to Hawaii. Next month’s post will be covering how we navigated traveling during Covid [...]
We have officially made it through the first month of 2021! I spend most of the month scratching the number one through zeros when I write the wrong date. January is a month of purgatory. I try to look forward to the new year while trying to move on from the previous year. As my [...]
It’s the last day of 2020! Although this has been a challenging year, I am proud of how resilient people have become. Each month was a new challenge, and each month we came out the other side better than we started. To be honest, the future feels uncertain, which is not comforting for a planner [...]
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday! I'm still recovering from all the delectable food (and leftovers) I've eaten this past week. I spent the majority of the month settling into a routine in my new home. In such a short period of time I was able to change some minor details of the [...]
Rose - I’m officially a homeowner! I just unpacked my last box yesterday. It’s really starting to feel like it’s mine. Now, I have an ever-growing list of things I need to purchase over the next few months to make this place feel like a home; like a couch, new mattress, pots and pans, plates, [...]
Rose - It’s that time of year when the grocery store isles turn orange with pumpkin spiced flavored everything. While I haven’t taken a deep dive into buying everything in pumpkin spice; I have bought every pumpkin spiced coffee creamer available. I know this is excessive. The eye-rolling cashier made me think I may have [...]
For most of the month of August, I didn’t know what day it was. At one point, I wrote September as the current month. Just like the stores, I think subconsciously, my mind is already prepping for fall. Just like every other basic girl on the planet, I’m pumped for the change in weather and [...]