• I meant to share the front of our holiday card last RTT and forgot! Here it is (I shared the back here)! Happy New Year!

• I’m doing a Crucial Conversations training at work this week and it’s resonating with me so much that I dreamt about it last night.
• Steven really likes highland cow artwork and we picked some out for him to put up at his office and at home on Monday. I couldn’t believe how many there were to choose from!





• I decided to make all of my YouTube videos private this weekend, and during the process, I saw that Steven did a discovery flight (the first flight you do in private pilot training) in 2012. I had forgotten about this, so yay for this blog serving its purpose of documenting my life. A few comments:
  • At the end of the post I wrote “We did not sign up for additional lessons for Steven (yet?), but would like to someday! It would be awesome to fly to Guttenberg, IA, in the summers, to see my family!” It’s very rewarding to see that and know we can do that now (12 years later).
  • This comment on the post cracked me up “Kim, as a private pilot with and instrument rating, I highly recommend running as fast as you can away from flying lessons. It is a really fast way to blow a lot of money and accomplish nothing. A flight here and there is fun, but getting a licence is not all it’s cracked up to be. Email me back or ask Pete how great (not) it is. Sorry to be a downer, but I’m sure you would like honesty.” I wonder what that was all about, especially the accomplishing nothing comment. Was their training not going well? Was it not the right time in their life to pay for lessons with other financial responsibilities? Was this person not realistic or knowledgeable about the amount of time it would take and how much it would cost? So many questions. Yet I don’t remember who they are (I do know the Pete they referenced though).
  • Steven has flown a low wing plane. And I’ve ridden in one. Huh. Sometimes we look at buying a low wing (vs the high wing style we fly now) and I’m always thinking “I wonder what that’s like” Apparently some part of our brain knows.

Link to Random Thoughts Thursday 479