Happy Friday

This is my 1201st post!

Since I've been at home with morning sickness most of the week I've been reading and finished this one in about a day.


You can find it here.  I've read the first 3 books in the series in TX and this is the 4th. 
Setting is in Africa...easy read...loved it.

In other news Zofran is working and making me feel better.  Here we are before bed last night without a stomach ache....yay!

Reading

I just got through reading The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews.
It was a long book!
412 pages



I liked it so I went and checked out another book by Mary Kay.

Here's a synopsis:
Stuck in a tiny town where everyone seems to know her business, Dempsey grits her teeth and rolls up her sleeves, and begins her journey back to the last place she ever expected: home.

You can find the book here.

Reading Lately

You can find it here
I just finished this book. 
I find time to read on the weekend and at night before bed. 
It was pretty interesting...set in Ireland.
I like the pretty cover.
It also had a gold bookmark attached.


I also read this one.
You can find it here.
It was good just like every other Nicholas Sparks book I've read :)

Just some things with pictures

 Late night book reading with Dad. Goodnight Moon & Are You My Mother?

 This might be his 3rd birthday present. 

 Walking with Dad to church - so cute holding one finger!

Dancing in the high chair :)

I made Austin a book.

Because all I had to pay was shipping.

And I love pictures.
I put simple sentences so he can start reading with us and recognize loved ones in the pictures.
Thanks Walgreens!

Here's a peek:
**You can click on the pictures for a better look**

 Cover

 Inside

 Back Cover

Reading

I just finished reading this book.
You can find it here.
I found it at a garage sale for .50.

I loved it!

Library Day

 

 Black Swan for K...The rest for me.

 

2 for A - This one's really cute.

 

 

A is reading his Dad's Philosophy book.  Classic.

Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

You can find it here.
I read Queen of Babble In the Big City a few weeks ago.
I just finished this one.  I read it in 48 hours.
It was good and look forward to reading more of Meg Cabot's books.

Queen of Babble: In the Big City

You can find it here
I just finished it.
It's cute.  About a girl trying to make it in NYC.
Already checked out the next one.

The Penny Pinchers Club

 You can find it here.
Finished this book last week.
It's a book about marriage, being honest, and friends who help you out.

Thursday a.m.

Our day so far:

clothes to thrift store

recycling bin

Library for reading log

free fries in reading log goody bag

color activity we haven't gotten to yet

Potluck

you can find it here
This was another cute book in the Potluck Club Series.
It has some great recipes in the back.
I'm on the waiting list for the next one.

Thursday

A & I tried to go to the $2 movie today, but Holy Moly at the people and kids.  How to Train Your Dragon was showing, we have already watched it with A, and he liked it.  We got there 10 minutes early and there were about 100 people waiting to get in.  We'll try again next week.

We drove to the library, A played happily with the train and we checked out two new board books.  That's more our style anyway.

When bigger kids (train hogs) got to the library we decided to leave and go see whats going on at the ROC.  They are having winshape camp there right now.  We watched from the top of the gym and it was sensory overload but A sat in my lap and watched for 30 minutes. They had 10 stations and everybody was going everywhere, playing all kinds of games, flashing lights, you name it.

We got home and had lunch - fixed a smoothie and chicken nuggets, but A didn't want the chicken.  He also had some pnut butter and milk.

Little Man went down for a nap and I have been looking at the Pioneer Woman cookbook from the library.  I think I might make chicken parmesean soon.

Makes me hungry just thinking about it!

Here's Little Man after his long nap!

The Potluck Club

I just finished this book.  You can find it here.
The Potluck Club by Linda Evans Shepherd and Eva Marie Everson
It's another book about a group of ladies meeting together.
There's a theme here in all these books I've been reading this summer.
Maybe I need to start a ladies club - I miss my group of friends.
Could that be my theme for this year?  Start every sentence with "I miss..."
Or "The year of frustration".  This too shall pass.  It will get better.
On to the book...
It was fun and funny and I loved reading it!

I went to the library this morning and got another one of her books!

I have a lot of things on my mind these days with applying for jobs, mostly about the future.  This is a great way to stop thinking about all of that by diving into a book.

Good Night Gorilla

A really loves this book.

He was looking at it today in his high chair as I was making tacos for dinner.

I asked him to point to the gorilla.

He did.

I asked him to point to the giraffe.

He did!

I asked him to point to the elephant.

He did!

Smart boy!


You can find it here.

Thank you Grandma Mac for this book!

Stand By Me

Before I read Saturday Morning I read:

You can find it here.

It's about a group of college students in Chicago who start going to a church
called Souled Out and all the drama thats involved with that.

Saturday Morning

I just finished this book.

It was really good.



I didn't read the Kindle Edition.
We don't have a Kindle.
We are old school and go to the library and check books out.

It's about a group of ladies who all - in different ways - end up in San Fransisco together.

A lap & a book

We thought we were going to Troy Saturday morning just to go somewhere new, but we chickened out and went downtown to the farmer's market instead.  We met a couple who just moved here from Austin and got their number.  We walked over to the art museum and let A play in their basement.  We walked back and found this couple.  Looks like they would have some great conversations!

Weekend

We have my brother's brisket in the crock pot.
Rudy's BBQ Sause is waiting on us.
Potato salad, baked beans, and white bread to sop up all the sause.
I read Message In a Bottle a few weeks ago. 
Got the DVD from our library and we are going to watch it tonight. sometime soon.

Tomorrow we are cooking out with friends.
Maybe going on a walk early before it gets hot.
Scrambled eggs might be in our future.

Sunday one of our friends is teaching our Life Connection Class.
No plans after that...

Souvenier from TX

What I'm Reading

What I've been reading lately:

Ron Clark's No More Molasses Classes - keeps me inspired to keep being a great teacher even though I'm not getting paid for it. 


You can see his website here.  He has started a school in Atlanta, GA.

I always love getting this magazine in the mail.



K got me Message In a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks so that's the one I'm reading next.