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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My Favorite Reads from 2023

25 books received a “favorites of 2023” label in my Goodreads. But there were, of course, a few that stood out as Outstanding.

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt is one of those standout stories from 2023. I hesitated to read it because I was told it was a story about an […]

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Things might get crazy over here!

It s very possible that life at the Sanford home is going to drastically change. In August, Jade auditioned for a reality show. As it turned out, I was part of the audition too.

Rewind to the audition. Jade and Ivy both attended the audition and were faced with a tough decision. The producer said […]

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Winter Fun

For Christmas this year, we found a great deal on a cabin in Bear Lake. So that is what we decided to give our siblings and parents. So far we’ve redeemed one of the weekends and couldn’t be happier about how things turned out.

The cabin was much better than we expected (based on the […]

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Cake Boss Birthday Party

Ivy is eight years old. And in our family we get to have a friend birthday party every even year and a family party on the odd years. Lucky for me it means that I only have to plan a birthday party once a year.

This year Ivy picked a “Cake Boss” theme. She […]

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A Beautiful Saturday

For Christmas, the girls and I got Scott a snowmobile. It is one of those things that he has wanted for as long as I have known him. But he has always said that a snowmobile is hard to justify because the season is so short. After nearly 12 years of marriage, it was finally […]

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