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Friday, January 1, 2021

2020's books: A goal exceeded!

My goal for 2020 was to read 24 books... two per month... and I was able to do better than that! I read 31 books in 2020. HURRAY ME!! I am actually pretty proud of myself for the number of books I read in 2020. A global pandemic certainly changed a lot of things about our lives in 2020, but despite that, I was able to read more than the goal I had set for myself! 

My full list of books in 2020:
Wuthering Heights*
There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
The Heretics Daughter*
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology*
The Giver of Stars*
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society*
Everyday Holy
The Greatest Generation
Homebody
Breakshot: My First 21 Years
Whiskey in a Teacup
Rhythms of Renewal
Boy Mom
Christy
The Hideaway*
One Perfect Summer*
Open Book*
American Dirt*
American Royals
Miss Mayhem
Sanditon
In Cold Blood*
They Came for Freedom
Americanah*
Lady Renegades
The Distant Hours
Parenting
The Dyslexic Advantage
Royal Holiday
The Great Alone
One Day in December*

*=books I read with Chapters

Actual books read per year for the last decade:
2011 = 31
2012 = 27
2013 = 23
2014 = 24
2015 = 12
2016 = 24
2017 = 18
2018 = 23
2019 = 22
2020 = 31

My goal for 2021 is 36 books. That's 3 per month. Fingers crossed!

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

2019's books plus a review of nearly a decade

One of my goals for 2020 is to blog more. Another goal is to read more. In trying to get organized for a year involving more of both, I got to thinking about how well (or not well) I've have done at these recently. Blogging and Reading are two of my favorite hobbies and yet, life has gotten so full that I've not been able to find the time to make either a priority in the last three or so years. That is almost painful to type because it feels like I've let someone or something down. That I've not held up my end of a bargain or something. Though in reality, it's only myself that I've let down.

So, in the process of getting organized to start towards these goals, I got to looking back at the last (nearly) decade and decided to track the history of my reading progress/achievement here.

Actual books read per year:
2011 = 31
2012 = 27
2013 = 23
2014 = 24
2015 = 12
2016 = 24
2017 = 18
2018 = 23
2019 = 22

2020 Goal = 24

My blogging goal is the same. 24 posts over the course of 2020.

What goals do you have for 2020?

Friday, March 1, 2019

Cute Pic Post -- February 2019

February 2019 was filled with lots of sleeping and wrestling, apparently. Plus a little bit of Valentines and Braces thrown in for good measure.
An old fashioned walkman for the win!


My friend Monek' starts her cookie biz.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable place to lay!

The birthday gift that keeps on giving.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Cute Pic Post -- February 2016

After January's Sick Month, I was excited for February's Busy Month. We must have had 326 things we were hosting and/or participating in and it kept life full and exciting, but I was a little glad when it was all over. All awesome things, just a lot of things. Enjoy our month in cute pictures!

Kindergarten Round Up. Be still my heart!
Doing a livestream test for IF.
This one likes to touch someone at all times.
Can't sit on the couch without physical contact.
This one likes to grab my shirt and hang on.
Always sitting on someone.
And this is a snuggler baby. Loving on Nonnie.
Someone around here must be a little OCD like Momma.
I caught Carson all laid out flat like this one day and it shattered my heart. He just seems so grown up in this sleep position! And look at that puddle of drool. I'm always washing sheets for drool spots.
He smiles 98% of the time. A big toothy smile.
I asked AM for the diagnosis code. This wasn't even all of them!
"The trash is here!"
Working on valentines for our friends.
A sorta heart-shaped pizza for our valentines night in.
I love Cyndi's sense of humor.
cutest fireman you ever did see
I thought this was a banner. It was two halves of a banner. ??
I love when babies sit on their feet like this.
My Birthday... Seth started it off on the PERFECT foot.
I loved getting to see presents sitting up there for me. 
Where did I go on my birthday? Target, of course!
Officially in the Getting Into Stuff Stage
2nd Grumpy Picture Ever
It's really just him busy watching his brothers.
Outfit Picture
I love our morning snuggle bottle sessions. They'll soon be gone.
Isn't that what you look like when you eat food at the table?
Graham LOVES his Daddy.
Teamwork!
My birthday dinner with Anne Marie in town. LOVED THE NIGHT!!!!
Some pictures with Anne Marie before she left. The visit was too quick!
Next time, remember not to sit in front of her so I look twice as big.
Outfit Picture
We cleaned out the garage and I purged boxes I'd been hanging onto forever.
I also love a slouchy baby sitting.
peek-a-boo!

I've been trying to teach him the toys are inside the bin
and he did a good job this day of pulling them out.
more slouchiness
When it's raining and you're out of groceries and have to take the kids along for the trip, make them each carry a basket. Helps curb the wandering off!
We started praying over Christmas cards.
Finally got a haircut after months!
A little tracing and writing practice. I had him only do a few numbers here and there.
We decided that I would start taking the boys on a Mother:Son Date every so often, a one on one situation. The idea had been something we wanted for them for a long time but they finally seem at the age where it's appropriate to get started. The Dallas Children's Theater was showing a Frog and Toad play and Graham has been particularly a fan of the book since I got it for the boys, so we decided that I would start off by taking Graham to this, just he and I and then we would find an activity for me to do with Austin in a few weeks.
Brothers
Time to switch closets over since we had found the other box of 18 month clothes that had been missing. We ended up with too much stuff! We also took down the 24 months stuff and the next bag of shoes since Carson had outgrown everything! Anne Marie went home with a stuffed suitcase and I still have another box of stuff to send to her.
Chapters read The Royal We this month. I absolutely loved it!!! I couldn't put it down! It's a story of an American college student falling for the prince of England. I was on duties so I got college meets royalty stuff for the event. My Grandma LaPean's china, Arbor Mist, Shiner, cucumber sandwiches, brownies, Cheetos, fancy pastries from Tom Thumb. It was a great night and a good way to end the month.
The ladies posed for me with their tea cups.