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My Blog about stuff – family, sports, travel, and cooking.
My blog is almost like my journal. I keep track of my kids’ various activities, from Taekwondo to Soccer to Band. I also spend time writing about our various travels, whether to family or one of the many soccer events we attend. You might also find a good recipe, or two!
For my next read, I chose The Inmate by Freida McFadden. Brooke Sullivan starts a new job as a nurse practitioner in a maximum-security prison, bound by three strict rules—especially never getting too close to the inmates. But Brooke has already broken them all. No one knows she shares a secret past…
Sometimes the best habits start by accident. During Spring Break in 2025, I suddenly found myself with something I rarely have: time alone. Mike took Devin and Austin to Louisiana to visit his dad and stepmom, Braden went camping with his friend Matthew, and I stayed home with the five dogs. I still…
This time, I turned to a new author to me, Kate Alice Marshall, with her book What Lies in the Woods. The description really tugged at me. Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world…
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Well, Lucinda Berry did it again. This time, I chose The Perfect Child. I’ve heard great things about it. And now I see why. I could not wait to see how this book ended! Christopher and Hannah, a successful surgeon and nurse, seem to have it all—except a child. When an abandoned six-year-old…
For my next read, I chose another Freida McFadden book titled The Tenant. There’s no place like homeOr is there? Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his…
The other night, I saw a meme on Facebook that stopped me mid-scroll. It said: “The reason why tired Moms still stay up so late sometimesThe calm feels so good, without any expectations.It’s the quietest, safest part of the day.Nobody needs us in this moment, nobody is asking for anything.We aren’t…
Up next was Hunted by Darcy Coates. Five days after Eileen vanishes into the vast, shadowed wilds of Ashlough, her camera is found washed downriver―its final, haunting images raising more questions than answers. Determined to uncover the truth, Chris and four close friends form a desperate search…
This was an easy, yummy take on chicken and rice. It’s also versatile and can be ‘dolled’ up in many ways. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! You can dress this up with so many different things. In our household, we love Tony Chachere’s Cajun seasoning, All You Need…