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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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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Independence Day Here We Come!!!!

My family has been known to WAY over do the 4th of July. It started out as a low key family get together. Now, it is a full blown production with games, a trophy, a special guest and ensemble numbers of little kids and grown ups. The word around the family is that this year […]

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Take me to my “happy place”

Lately I have mentioned my job, more than I typically do. That’s because it is end of quarter. End of quarter, to me, means staying up until 2:00 in the morning to track down orders from China, Singapore and Australia. Then it means getting back on my computer at 6:00 in the morning […]

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Busy Busy Busy – a tip for fitting in as much as possible

As you know, Scott and I both have full time office jobs. They are both jobs that we work more than 40 hours a week and both jobs require us to stare at our computers all day. I work in a cubical with no view. Scott works in an office with a […]

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She’s my “Mini-Me”

I don’t think there is a day that we don’t say, “Holy cow, Ivy is just like me and Jade is just like Dad!”

Tonight at bedtime, I took my pen and tried to write on the bottom of Ivy’s little foot. She giggled and pulled it away from me. Jade asked me if I […]

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