Usually I have this reflection post all ready to go and all the links done by the time April is over. Not so much this year. I really am grateful that the reason I’m a little behind schedule is because I have had a lot of transcription work. Since that’s what pays the bills, it gets priority!
If you are just visiting for the first time, my theme this year was the A to Z of Dating. I have been married for almost 38 years (May 20th) and I know it is important to keep the fun in our relationship even with having kids, a house, working, etc. I thought it might be fun to relive some of our dates and look for some new ones. Here is what I came up with:
A is for Aquarium, Arcade, Amusement Park
B is for Bowling, Baseball, Beach
C is for Concerts, Costumes, Cards
D is for Dinner, Drive-In, Dancing
E is for Explore, Errands, Exercise
F is for Fireworks, Festival, Fishing
G is for Golf, Gambling, Geocaching
H is for Helicopter, Hiking, Horse Races
I is for Ice Cream, Ice Skating, Indoor Rock Climbing
J is for Jazz, Jigsaw Puzzle, Jet Ski
K is for Kite Flying, Kayaking, Karaoke
L is for Lake, Lunch, Light Show
M is for Musical, Museum, Mini-golf
N is for Netflix, National Park, Nightclub
O is for Outdoors, Opera, Operation
P is for Picnic, Paint Night, Pool
Q is for Quizzes, Quiet Time, Quickie
R is for Road Trip, Rollerskating, Roof Top
S is for Scavenger Hunt, Sunset, Sports Bar
T is for Trivia Games, Tandem Bike, Train Trip
U is for Underwater, Unplugged, Unplanned
V is for Video Games, Volleyball, Vista Point
W is for Winery, Weekend Getaway, Whale Watching
Y is for Yard Sale, Yoga, YouTube
I want thank our hosts for the terrific job they did as usual. Arlee Bird, our founding father, John Holton, J Lenni Dorner and the rest of the gang, I salute you. Anjela Curtis came up with our new graphics after the sad passing of Jeremy Hawkins.
I am sorry to say that I wasn’t able to visit as many new folks as I would have liked. It seems to be a theme with others this year too. I know I only had a few new visitors to my site as well. I am truly grateful for all the comments I did get and I am going to do my best to get around to seeing what I missed in the weeks to come. I hope that folks found some new or remembered some old dating ideas. I know I had a great time looking through our old photos to get examples and I’ve made my own list of things I want to do and places I want to go.
Okay, that’s a wrap for the A to Z for this year. I wear my winners badge with pride.
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Congrats on finishing the challenge! What a fun theme.
Ronel visiting for A-Z Challenge Reflections 2022
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Thanks Ronel. I had a good time myself, looking back on our younger selves.
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Fantastic Theme this year. I can’t recall if I came by or not, but with your list above I can go back and revisit them all.
Congratulations on completing the challenge!
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Tim Brannan
The Other Side | The A to Z of Conspiracy Theories
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Thanks Tim! I am going to start making the rounds of other folks too, so I’ll check yours out. Sounds interesting from the title!
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Whew, what a wonderful accomplishment. I wasn’t able to get here to read much at all, but I enjoyed seeing your titles flash up on Facebook. I kept thinking, “Wow – she’s so creative!” Your hubby is one lucky guy. Congrats to you!!
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Thanks Shelley. We do try hard to keep things together. As I’m sure you know it’s not always easy.
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You’re welcome. Oh, yes, I know how hard it is. The flipside too on how rewarding it is when we overcome those challenges or admit it’s okay to be okay with whatever effort we’re able to offer! 🤗
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I really liked your theme this year. Congratulations on finishing the challenge!
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Thanks John. I am happy I could make it work. I want to be more prepared next year…which I say every year!
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Congratulations on completing the challenge. I really enjoyed your posts and the way that they invited interactions from the community.
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Thanks Joy. I was hoping to spark that.
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I really did enjoy your theme!
Glad you participated in spite of being busy with the new job and all!!!
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Thanks! I had fun doing it actually.
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Great job Janet! Love the diversity in you letters and it shows how much fun you had doing it and how much fun we had reading! 🙂
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Thanks Janie! I am glad you liked it. Now what to do for next year?
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I can’t wait to read all about it! 🙂
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celebrate all those years and all those dates – he’s a lucky man.
Reflections
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Thanks! It is a team effort for sure.
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Awesome job!
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Thanks so much, LA!
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Yay! I knew you’d make it through the alphabet. You’re an old hand at this now. Loved you ideas, btw. Now we just need the chance to go on a date.
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Agreed! I know I stretched a few of them but I’m satisfied.
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Oh and duh, your link is right there in the upper right hand corner. Thank you for making it easy.
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Oh, no problem! I really should promote a little more if I want people to look, huh?
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I’ve been checking randomly for your reflection post. (’bout time) –just kidding
As usual you outdid yourself with the awesome posts that I did visit. I will try to get them all in through the road trip which I always say I’m gonna do but then never end up actually doing it. Do I even know what the road trip is? Is there a map? I need someone to take my hand and lead me. Seriously! I love reading your posts and I also need to get some more cards from you. I think I have your link saved…gotta look. Happy Mother’s day weekend and happy early anniversary.
Cheers,
Barbie
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Yours is one of the feel good themes I came across. some of your advices were quite good. Enjoyed the posts . all the best. See u aroung
My blog – http://afshan-shaik.blogspot.com/
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Thank you Afshan! I’ve enjoyed your comments along the way.
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Another A-Z is in the books. I enjoyed visiting your posts, I think I got them all. Now I want to finally come back to SFO and do some of these things, above all visiting the hearts you introduced us to last year!
Congrats on finishing while being busy with real life!
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Thanks Tamara! Now for sure if you come to SF you need to let me know!
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Congratulations for finishing! I enjoyed reading it for my second year.
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Thanks so much! It was fun putting it together.
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I saw your title on the list, but said, “Dating???” But it seems you weren’t talking about the new kind of dating, but about that which even I could look into. lol. I will be back to check some of your posts out. I am going to try and post a hyper link to my blog here… A to Z Reflections
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Just goes to your blog! oh well.
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Hi Kristin – Thanks for stopping by! I definitely don’t know ANYTHING about new dating. I tell everyone that I definitely would not want to start over at this point! I’ll find you and check out your blog.
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This was such a lovely series. Thanks for all the fun posts!
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Thanks so much!
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