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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Santa's Visit

When I was a little girl, Santa came to visit us on Christmas Eve. He would bring us our Christmas PJ’s and we’d all get to sit on his lap. It was always a wonderful time and we were always so excited when he’d show up. Some years it would […]

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My girls and a baby

In our house there won’t be any more babies, unless they come to visit with their mom and dad. So my girls don’t have very many opportunities to hold a baby and I have to capture the moment when they do. We welcomed our new niece into the world on Friday.

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Winter has arrived

Tonight we are curled up in blankets eating popcorn while we watch The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Outside the wind is howling and snow is falling. We’ve had a blizzard warning in affect for the whole evening and it expires at 8 in the morning. So far, it has been snowing and howling […]

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Yummy Treats

I finally got my camera out this weekend. It is so unlike me to not take pictures nearly every day, but going from bronchitis to croup has left me a little under the weather and low on energy. Hopefully the latest round of medications will knock it out of my system.

This weekend I took […]

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Memories of Halloween - with a child or two

I absolutely LOVE Halloween. I don’t love the scary part of Halloween. I love the cute ghosts and witches part of Halloween. Right, I know witches and ghosts aren’t supposed to be cute, but I like to think of them as friends – so therefore they are cute. Plus you can decorate with […]

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