Meet Amy

I have struggled with the answer when asked, "What do you do?" and it isn't work-related. Ultimately, we settled on that I find things and untangle things. But I also read (a lot), pretend to wake surf, and watch Hallmark films.

Amy's bookshelf: 2024

The Weekend Away
it was amazing
So so good! Orla and Kate are long-time best friends off on a girls' weekend away. Kate is a bit of a player who is trying to get back at her soon-to-be-ex, causing her to spend frivolously and do drugs and hook-ups. Orla is a new mom ex...
tagged: 2024, audible-books, five-stars, thriller, and thoughtful
Written Off
really liked it
tagged: 2024, cozy, easy, and four-stars
Maybe Next Time
really liked it
Parts were a screaming 5 and parts were like “what?” And just irritated me. It is a Groundhog Day premise about a family of four - the mom is caught up in her own life and missing all that is going on around her with her kids and then he...
tagged: 2024, audible-books, fiction, four-stars, and thoughtful

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Pretty is as pretty does…

Raising two little girls presents some challenges. I think my girls are both beautiful, but there are times that they (okay, one of them) doesn’t think that she is. There are times when she’ll hang her head a cry because she doesn’t think she’s pretty because she doesn’t have brown […]

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Red, White, Blue and Chocolate

Today I decided to enter the L.E.N.S Photo Challenge…

The theme is Red, White and Blue. I took this picture of the desserts at my nephew’s graduation party. The front one is the Costco Chocolate Cake and then the Strawberry Trifle by my mom’s close friend. Last is Dan’s Chocolate Cake […]

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Oh what a week we’ve had

The week of the 4th of July is always very busy, but this year seemed even more so. I don’t know if it was because the 4th fell on a Sunday so the holiday seemed to be spread out through 3 full days or if it was simply because we had a number […]

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Oh the Fourth of July, how my family loves you

The other day, I mentioned that my family SOOOO overdoes the 4th of July. But this year we actually scaled it down a bit. By scaled down, I mean we didn’t have a fierce competition with assigned teams and a trophy. Instead we watched some of the World Cup, did a craft, had […]

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Swimming, it is rare…

… that I get to be the one playing in the pool with my little girls. Typically I arrive dressed from work to pick them up, or I sit on the deck with my camera in tow. But over the holiday weekend, I didn’t go dressed from work and I put my camera […]

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