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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Life is Fragile and so is blogging

I love my life. I love my family. I love blogging. I wish that they weren’t so darn fragile.

Today has brought my family some bad news. My sister-in-law is in the hospital. We are waiting to hear more following additional tests and likely surgery. We don’t know much and […]

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Relationships take nurturing

Relationships take work, no matter what the relationship is.

When I was young, my mom invested a lot of time building and strengthening the relationship that I had with my cousins. My mom would put together family hikes, she and my aunt put together a quick trip to Capital Reef in Southern Utah, we always […]

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Mother’s guilt – No way, not for this mom

Oh how I wish I were the mom with no “mother’s guilt” but I do suffer from mom guilt. While I think about some of my wonderful guilt-free mom moments, I would like to share with you a mom that doesn’t ever seem to suffer from “mother’s guilt”.

Her name is Stephanie and […]

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You can only do something if you are willing to try it

I grew up swimming, hiking, biking, camping and just playing outside. We didn’t have four-wheelers, or snow mobiles. There were a few occasions that we would join our friends on their boat. For my family, our summer fun was found as inexpensively as possible and was typically powered by our own energy.

When I married […]

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Oh to change one thing, what would it be?

There is only one thing in my life that I would change. I’m guessing it will shock many people when they read this, because it is not something that is very well known.

I worked for 5 years to complete this one thing. Actually, it was probably longer. See, I was not awesome at it. […]

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