Do you have any big Labor Day plans? We're spending the day playing family board games, going swimming, and then later this evening we hope to watch a movie all snuggled up on our couches. My father-in-law passed on Saturday. While the last year had been particularly rough on him, and we knew we didn't … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/6/2021 #imwayr

It's time for a #MustReadin2021 community update. While we've had an unusually crazy summer, I've squeezed in just a little reading each week. I originally listed 49 books on my must-read list. Here’s an updated visual of my progress showing the 22 books I've finished (as well as the 27 I haven't yet finished): And … Continue reading #MustReadin2021 8/31/21

It’s been quite an interesting summer of traveling, of worrying over sick family (including Delta), watching our skies darken due to forest fires all around us, and believe it or not, we're still continuing to settle into our new home (even though it's been a year since our closing date). My goal was to at … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/30/2021 #imwayr

We're currently on vacation to Glacier National Park, so I thought I'd try using the WordPress app on my phone to publish a simple post. This week I brought just a few books along, just in case I catch a few moments to read in the car. So briefly, I brought: And while I have … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/21/2021 #imwayr

We are going into our last five days at home before heading to Glacier National Park next weekend. It's super exciting preparing to go with all our long lists of packing supplies and fun new hiking purchases like rain ponchos, backpacks, knives, a 6-pack of connected walkie talkies, etc. But it's also been nerve-wracking. For … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/14/2021 #imwayr

As I mentioned last week, April and May were pretty unusual months for our family between home sale, vacation, and serious family illness. So I'm finally trying to inch my way back into a workable blogging routine. YAY, I made it to the second week! 😂  Outside of a planned vacation to Glacier National Park later … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/7/2021 #imwayr

It's been an unusual last two months between the sale of our house, our vacation to Terry Peak (where we nearly slid right off a steep road and into a gulch during a surprise snow storm), and a severe illness in the family that meant an unexpected 1,000 mile trip across the country (Northwestern Nebraska … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/31/2021 #imwayr

The Adventure Is Now Jess Redman May 4, 2021 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Milton P. Greene is having the Most Totally, Terribly, Horribly, Heinously Rotten Year of All Time. He appears to have lost his best friend, he’s being bullied at school, his parents are getting a divorce, and now Milton must go spend the … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: The Adventure is Now

I've taken an unexpected blogging sabbatical for most of the month of April, so I'm running a tad late for our first update. While I regularly read/review around 350 to 400 books per year, there isn’t always an absolute plan on what I pick up next. Often it’s what’s available at the moment. So I … Continue reading #MustReadin2021 4/29/2021

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie(The Great Peach Experiment #1)Erin Soderberg DowningApril 6, 2021Pixel+Ink/Holiday House This new middle grade novel by Erin Soderberg Downing sure packs an emotional punch for being only 256 pages. Three Peach family children, 12-year-old Lucy, 10-year-old Freddy, and 8-year-old Herb, are left grieving the loss of their mother … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie