- Mechanical Aptitude
- Easy Style
- Resilient
- Extra Punny
- Delightfully Kind
- Intelligent
- Terribly Creative
- Half Twin
- And also Beautiful but I couldn’t work a B into the acronym!
Our birthday – June 18, 1982
- He is deeply empathetic and genuinely cares about people
- He’s a super involved father
- He understands science and math and the world on a conceptual level
- He isn’t afraid to speak up for someone who needs it
- He accepts everyone exactly as they are
- He is married to his highschool sweetheart
- He always says sweet things about her when she isn’t around
- He is adventerous
- There isn’t a food he won’t try
- While visiting somewhere new, he refuses to eat at any restaurant he could go to at home
- He’s an excellent cook
- He reads to his daughters
- He loves his grandparents and communicates with them regularly
- He’s calm under pressure
- He never went through a “my parents embarrass me” phase
- On a group outing at the age of 10, he saved his sack lunch to give to the homeless man we’d passed on the way there
- He’s always been my video game buddy
- He is super creative
- His skills as a D&D DM rival those of any fiction novelist
- He is musical
- He has a freaky good ear for sounds and tones and can hear things nobody else can hear
- For example, if he hears loose change drop on the ground, he can tell you exactly how much it is
- He can fix things
- His sense of humor cracks me up
- He is kind
- He has the ability to look beyond the surface level of any given situation
- He has a broad perspective of life in general
- He loves his family with everything in him
- He memorizes random and ridiculous things
- He is the best kid ever (except for Jesus)
- What is one new thing you’d like to accomplish over the next year?
- Where is somewhere you’ve never been that you would like to go?
- When you are feeling overwhelmed or sad, where is the place you would like to retreat to?
- What is the last song that made you cry?
- What is a cherished childhood memory?
- What is something you have done that was out of your comfort zone but you’re glad you did it?
- What is the last thing you tried and completely failed at?
- How many times have you been “in love”?
- What is the difference between loving someone and being in love?
- What is one thing you try to do every day?
- If you were to write a book about your life, what would this chapter be called?
- What would your favorite chapter be called?
- When was the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe, and what caused it?
- When your mind wanders, who do you think of?
- What is something you’ve done recently that you’re proud of?
- How do you know when it is enough?
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- Home Sweet Home
- Home for the Holidays
- You Can Always Come Home
- Welcome Home
- Home on the Range
- Hearth and Home
- Home Safe
- Homestead
- Home Alone
- Turn Your Heart Toward Home
- Homeward Bound
- Home is Where the Heart Is
- There’s No Place Like Home
- Love Brings You Home
- We Have Food At Home
- Home Before Nightfall
- “It was like coming home…”
- Game Night
- Shopping x 2 (or more!)
- Pool Time
- Family visits
- Eagle Point Park
- George Curtis Mansion
- Bike riding along the Clinton riverfront
- Music on the Avenue
- Website collab for her new business
- Relaxation & Reading
- Cheering on the Phoenix Suns in playoff games
- Birthday Party Game Night celebrating with family & friends
- Road Trip to Colorado
- Birthday Balloon Breakfast at my friend’s house with her son/my birthday twin
- Saw bison, deer, and ground hogs at a nature reserve
- Visit to the candy factory
- Shopped Manitou Springs
- Traipsed around Red Rocks
- Birthday dinner on the patio in Denver
- Pleasant conversation for hours
- Free sopapillas for dessert
- Co-worker luncheon at Candlelight Inn
- LesleysLists.com
- Trivia Chick
- KateyBWriting
- Visit Clinton, Iowa
- Love For LAllemand
- Dawetselbee Family
- Candlelight Town Manor
- Team Wendy
- Camp Tishomingo Alumni
- Clinton RAGBRAI
- East Moline Water Aerobics at UTHS
- Yard Sale for Haiti
- Condo HOA meeting
- Felix Adler Fest at Children’s Discovery Center, Clinton, Iowa
- Father’s Day
- Graduations
- Road Trip
- Birthday parties
- Multiple doctor’s appointments
- Women’s Club luncheon at George Curtis Mansion
- 149th Annual Chamber of Commerce meeting & awards, Clinton, Iowa
- New washing machine
- RAGBRAI meetings & route inspection
- My sister’s birthday
- My birthday
Our birthday – June 18, 1982
- Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
- Missions trip to Haiti
- Three “airports” in one day
- Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
- Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
- Ate goat for the first time
- Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
- Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
- Started packing up to move again
- Attended nephew’s high school graduation
- Vacation to San Diego
- Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
- Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
- Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
- Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
- Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
- Read 29 books
- Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
- Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
- Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
- Applied for 66 jobs
- Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
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