What's Up Wednesday in September (2025)

It's the last Wednesday of the month and that means it's time for What's Up Wednesday. I feel like I have been struggling to play catch up ever since we went on vacation at the beginning of the month. It's been quite busy but I am not complaining. 

What We're Eating: I've been trying to be SO good ever since we got back from our trip (it's worked too as I've shed 4 lbs!). I've been eating lots of meals like this:

I made and egg sandwich with lettuce and tomato for a late breakfast one day and didn't even need to eat lunch; I was still full!
 
I've been eating lots of veggie and hummus plates; sometimes with pretzels, sometimes with almond crackers, sometimes with homemade pita chips. 

I tend to have fruit/yogurt/granola at least once a day; but I happily eat it for any of the 3 main meals. It's often my "go to" dinner when I don't like what the rest of the family is eating... like sloppy joes. 

I made a dairy free stuffed pepper dish for dinner one night. I ate one pepper with a side salad and it kept me full until morning. 

I also made our amped up version of egg roll in a bowl. I like to add pineapple and pea pods, mushrooms or even carrots... it's delicious! 

What I'm Reminiscing About: And just like that my youngest turned 18! No more babies, no more kids.. I am now the parent of 3 young adults. And yet sometimes I feel like these days were just yesterday!

 Evan as a baby and with this 2 older brothers..



 
 

What I'm Loving: I am still just in awe of all the beautiful photos I took in Glacier; now that is not tooting my own horn. Glacier is just SO beautiful it's actually isn't that hard to get great photos. And yet oddly the photos hardly do it justice! I'm sure regular readers are getting sick of them by now but I just don't care. LOL
 




















 
What We've Been Up To: Other than our trip I don't feel like we've done much this month. Evan and I started school, we've been on a few hikes, we celebrated his 18th birthday. 
 


 




What I'm Dreading: Since Alec has the boys' car at school Evan and will be sharing a car.. I'm not dreading it much but I know there will be times when it's going to be tough sharing one. 

What I'm Working On: Evan and I spent a week filling out job application and now we've turned our attention to filling out college applications! 

What I'm Excited About:  We have so much fun stuff on our calendar these next few months. I can't wait! 

What I'm Watching/Reading: Limitless with Chris Hemsworth (Hulu), We Were Liars (Prime)-- I really enjoyed this one, Find Me Falling (Netflix), The Wilds (Prime),  Thunderbolts (Disney), Thursday Murder Club (Netflix)-- This one was a lot of fun!, The Ledge (I have no idea what we watched this one; my husband started it), Longmire (Paramount +), The Descendants (HBO Max), Moving On (Netflix)-- It felt vaguely familiar the whole time so I think I've seen this before, latest season of Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), Great British Baking Show Season 16 (Netflix), High Potential (season 2 on Hulu), No Hard Feelings (regular TV in Montana), MIB International (regular TV in Montana), I'm sure there was more but that's all I can remember. 

 
I barely managed to read/listen to 10 books this month! 
 

 
What I'm Listening to: The 21 Pilots latest album; Breach. So far my favorite is Robot Voices. We're heading to the concert soon and I hope to have some/most of the songs memorized by then. 
 

What I'm Wearing: Lots of lightweight pants/capri pants with mostly short sleeves as our weather is cool in the mornings and quite warm by the afternoon. 
 










What I'm Doing This Weekend: Possibly heading to our library's tag sale; townspeople donate books, puzzles and moves then they're sold for just a few dollars each to raise money for the library. 

What I'm Looking Forward to Next Month: Alec and I have tickets to both the musical Six and to an immersive Monet Exhibit. 
 


What Else is New: Evan went on his first job interview and got a job offer working at Michael's craft store. 

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Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM

    Your food photos always look delicious, and I love your outfits. I’ve been playing catch-up for ages and failing completely. I definitely need to go back and read your trip recap to Glacier. Your photos look incredible!
    Ruth@playworkeatrepeat

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  2. Maria RineerSeptember 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM

    It sounds like a good and memorable month. Welcome to the young adult parents club :). Great throwback pics and current pictures of your trip to Glacier. I´m sure your photos convinced someone to make a trip out there! Sometimes you never really know how pretty a place is- you hear about it but you don´t until you encounter someone who has been there with pictures, it´s just a vague notion.

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