January 2026
JAN 2: January, a not so insignificant of a month this year, began with a rousing game of Zombicide. Reed and Valerie hosted. Ron mastered and showed off his painted figurines. Liz organized figurines. We beat the zombies.
and when we get home…time for a walk! It’s cold out there.
JAN 3: A walk around the neighborhood.
JAN 9: Take my car in for its annual physical, admire a gorgeous V90.
JANUARY 7-9: Around the house and outside the house.
JANUARY 10: Gets off to a nice start taking graduation and mission photos for niece Lizzie.
And THEN we spent a life-altering afternoon looking at a few houses we had seen on the internet. If you know us then you probably know which one we made an offer on three days later but if you really know us you may know which one we almost made an offer on that night. And if you were there, you know which one we wish we could have changed our whole lifestyle to live in. Oh and if you were at the post-touring late lunch debrief at Chuy’s you know the excitement over possibilities was palpable.
JANUARY 13: Jeff blows through town again on his annual Californa-and-Back roadtrip. He is one of the first to hear me say “Dude, we made an offer on a house.”
JANUARY 15: Well, that was quick! Really the purchasing of this home was miraculously smooth and, writing this on March 1st, the coming together of the new home is also going very very smooth.
JANUARY THE REST: And honestly, from there everything was a blur of driving to work, going to the OSU vs Michigan swim meet, looking at vintage toys, seeing a movie or two, going to a friend’s dad’s viewing, a couple of temple trips, and a big heavy snow while we gathered the paperwork and money to buy our new dang house! But also … something else was a brewing the scenes, much not to Liz’s knowledge. I’ll tell you all about that in the February post.
