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I kicked off my Friday the best way I knew how, with a Caramel Brulee Latte and a Cranberry Bliss bar from Starbucks!

Laura had to cancel our burger date for lunch, totally lame Laura!!! (It’s ok, we are going today instead!!!) So I decided to grab some Chick Fila and run some errands for lunch.

Friday evening, Chris and I headed to World of Beer to meet with his new hire for awhile. I guess it was our last hurrah? I stayed out way past my bedtime, we were out after 10pm!!!! It was fun though and I was proud of myself for hanging.

Saturday morning was operation do all the things. I cleaned the house, organized some baby stuff and then Chris and I put together a shelf for her closet and I got to finishing her closet as well. Hopefully her dresser will be in our house this week and I can finish setting up everything…well except the curtains. I forgot we haven’t gotten curtains yet. Always something, am I right??? The rest of the day was about football so we ordered some Landmark BBQ and enjoyed the games.

We were also able to squeeze in a quick viewing of Elf before the Alabama game came on!!! That is one of my favorite Christmas movies and I am trying to get in to the November/December spirit since it was still hot. Here is proof, the radio station is playing Baby, It’s Cold Outside but clearly my car had to squash that dream by telling me it was 73 degrees. Better than 83 I suppose…but still!!!!

That Alabama game was something. I found myself yelling at Kiffin several times. As in “RUN THE BALL!!!!!” I can’t tell you how happy I was when Hurts finally ran one in the end zone and Griffith made a field goal. There were so many mistakes in that game and it was intense all four quarters! I thought I might put myself in to labor.

Sunday I started putting together the pack and play and then ran to the grocery store and got all that taken care of because Sunday afternoon I had a sweet little one year old birthday party to attend!!! After I got home, we caught up on a few of our TV shows and called it a weekend.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Linking up with Biana.

For Alyssa’s prompt, “one thing about today you wish you knew one year ago,” so many things swam through my mind. The one that really stuck out for me though? The fact that no matter how good your intentions are to keep friendships going, if you don’t continue to cultivate them….you will lose them quickly. Cultivating relationships of any kind is so important for happiness.

It is hard to make friends as an adult, can we all agree on that? There are so many different “life stages” to go through and we all hit them at different times. I am 33 and some of my friends had kids ten years ago and are immersed in football games, cheerleading competitions and hosting sleep overs at their house. Other friends had babies in the last year or two and don’t really get out much because babies are a lot of work! So they really only hang out with other friends that have kids around the same age and understand. Then there is the group of friends that are wild and free and are out partying it up every weekend and that just sounds exhausting. We all have work, family or personal obligations, organizations we belong to and really just our own shit to deal with.

What I have learned is, if you don’t continue to make the effort to hang out….then you never will. Sure, you might get that reminder on Facebook that so-and-so’s birthday is today so you leave a message on their wall telling them that you miss them and you should get together soon. You never do. Or while you are standing in line to check out at a fast-casual restaurant, you run in to an old co-worker you used to hang out with all the time and you mention that you guys should grab lunch soon, but don’t set concrete plans.

This is how we lose our friends. You need to do more than just have good intentions, you need to have follow through. I very much regret not keeping in regular contact with a few people that I was very close to when I lived in Atlanta. I regret very much not making actual plans with a girlfriend that I ran into grabbing lunch one day last year. Because you know what, I haven’t seen or spoken to any of them since. And that makes me sad.

I can sit here and say, well they never reached out to me either. But how does that make it better?

So what I wish I could have told myself one year ago, is to keep cultivating the relationships with those that I enjoy having in my life. Life gets busy, but it isn’t an excuse to not make the time to grab a drink or get the kids together for a play date.

What is something you wish you knew a year ago?

One of my favorite memories from when I was younger, is playing games with my family. My mom, sister and I would sit for hours playing board games and card games. I still have plenty of those games and have since added some but we never seem to play them. One of my goals is to play them more often, especially at family get togethers. For my mom’s 50th birthday last year, my sister and I set up an entire day filled with food and board games for my mom. It was so much fun and my nephews still talk about how they want to do it again.

Enter Punderdome. If you have a corny sense of humor or like bad jokes, this game is for you! Here is how you play.

Who does’t like a good pun??? Here are some examples…

While I don’t think Punderdome “will replace Cards Against Humanity,” I do think it is a fun game to play at a get together. Especially if you are trying to keep it cleaner, as the game is 12 and up. We came up with some pretty funny and pretty terrible puns. I just think you have to have the right group of people to make the game fun and it sure can pass the time.

What is your favorite game?

**I received Punderdome from Blogging for Books for an honest review. All opinions are of my own.**