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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Introduction of Amy and the Family Trifecta

Over at 5 Minutes for Mom, they are having a great big blog party with lots of fun prizes. They created the Blog Party 4 years ago to help bloggers get to know more about one another and their blogs. So, I thought I’d be up for a party.

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Earthworms, Buggies and Snakes

Where does the fear come from?

I was young, but not really young. We were on a family vacation to Capital Reef in Southern Utah. The trip was to include some fishing. I don’t remember even going fishing during that trip but I know we were supposed to because we had stopped on […]

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Cake, Cupcakes and Contests

The ladies at Mayhem and Moxie are doing quite the birthday giveaway. One of the ways to enter is to share your own story. Here’s mine…

Cake decorating is something that I have always enjoyed but never really embraced. Below are the two best cakes that I have done and the […]

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10 things blogging has taught me- Writing Workshop

I really enjoy the prompts that MamaKat provides each week. I love reading everyone’s posts and love the challenge to write my own. This week I am following prompt number 1.

List of 10 things blogging has taught you.

I started blogging in 2007. Our first blog was created […]

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Am I a Stage-Mom?

Did you know it is dance competition season? I am just learning the ropes of little girl dance competitions. And I had no idea that there were so many of them and that they are such a big deal.

So many of them, I’m getting to learn if […]

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