Faithful Footprints: weather

I've honestly had a pretty fabulous week! Thank God! I admit that I was a bit nervous when Monday rolled around, especially after such a long Thanksgiving holiday weekend! But, the week flew by fairly quickly and was pretty awesome, even in the midst of some not so awesome news. So, we’ll just start with that, shall we?

My dear, sweet husband has walking pneumonia. Yuck! He’s been fighting bronchitis for the past few weeks {almost a month}, and now it’s turned into full blown pneumonia. L However, he is now fully stocked and owns his own pharmacy {we joke} – several maximum strength antibiotics, a nasal spray that he must use religiously, and an inhaler that will be his BFF for the next two months! Praying that this all will kick it in the butt and he’ll be back to his happy, goofy self in no time! God willing…

And now, on to the greatness that was this week:

+ THIS WEATHER! Is it really shocking that I’m in love with the current 30 degree temps?! No, no it’s not.

+ My super new and fresh blog design! Seriously, I’m so in love with it! I know I only redid it 9 months ago, but I wanted something professional and have been thinking of doing so for a while now. Well, when Jana's BLACK FRIDAY sale ad went up, I was hooked! I saw it on Monday, filled out the questionnaire, emailed her back and forth all week long, and ta-da! Blog design by Friday! She’s seriously fast and seriously awesome! Seriously! Check out her design site and let her make you a masterpiece! Click here for her design site. This is the color inspiration I chose, and she ran with it:

She did such a great job, and I truly enjoyed working with her! She was so quick to respond to each and every email, and she had the design up and running within a week, y’all! That’s even with a toddler running around… super impressive, Jana!

Here’s what my blog looked like previously, just to have it out there:

I absolutely love the change – thanks Jana! She captured what I wanted perfectly and I’m so excited that this is my little corner of the Internet! We have a few glitches to work out, but I know when everything is all said and done, it'll be nothing short of greatness. :)

Here's to a weekend full of cleaning, taking care of my sick hunny, and loving on my new design!

Umm, isn't it NOVEMBER?! The last time I checked, it was. So will someone please tell me why it was 90 degrees yesterday?! Seriously, y'all. The A/C was cranked down low, and I was clad in shorts and flip flops. No joke!

Just a few days ago, it was close to freezing - 40 degrees! And then, out of nowhere, BAM! Upper eighties/low nineties. Which, if you know me at all, you know that I was sad, sad, sad! Praying the next few days cool off! Bring back the sweater weather!

I'm bound and determined to bring back the cooler temps {and so far, it's working...it's 63 this morning!}. I know there are pros and cons to every type of weather, because those that live in cold temperatures where it snows every day tell me to enjoy the heat because having everything wet and shoveling snow is just no fun. Well, neither is sweating to death! Ha! But seriously, I need to contemplate this whole living in Texas thing. It's for the birds!

Fellow Texans always look at me like I'm crazy when I'm loving the cooler weather without a jacket and exclaiming that the weather is just perfect, all while they're freezing and can't add enough layers to warm up! It's true, I'm not a stereotypical Texan. I run away from the sun and I love me some cold weather! It's no surprise. I keep telling my family I'm going to move to Alaska - so I hope they're not surprised when the day comes I actually do! {it's not something serious right now, but you never know!}

I long for a 'White Christmas' and to have those memories attached to holidays of snow, cold, big puffy jackets, mittens...the whole nine yards! One day {most likely once we have kids, so they can experience it too!}, we'll have to take a trip to somewhere snowy and have our own white Christmas! Doesn't this look magical?! {it's also no surprise that this beauty that I loved at first site is of Central Park in New York *sigh*}

I'm willing the cold weather to come back to Texas today by listening to some instrumental Christmas music in my office. Yes, I'm that girl. And proud of it! You can also bet that I have a snowy, wintery scene as my desktop. I'm not ashamed!

Are you a cold-weather loving person like myself or do you love the heat? I'd love to hear from you!

Also, be on the lookout for my Carabox reveal tomorrow! :)