It’s the Planet!
When we walked into the school this morning, Addison said, “Mommy look, it’s the planet!” And she wanted to take her morning pictures right there.
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When we walked into the school this morning, Addison said, “Mommy look, it’s the planet!” And she wanted to take her morning pictures right there.
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Every year, I set a challenge goal for how many books I want to read for that year, on my Goodreads account. Goodreads is a website/app that allows you to track books you’ve read, or want to read, and see what your friends are reading as well. I’ve been using it obsessively for 10 years now, so I’ve tracked a lot of books there at this point.
This past year, my goal was 100 books. And by 10pm on New Year’s Eve, I finished 105 books! Goodreads always does a little reading wrap-up, which I love seeing, so here are some stats from my reading recap of 2024:
And according to my Kindle reading app, I read 359 days out of the 365 days in year. That means, there were only 6 days all year that I didn’t read! (My longest streak was from 1/1/24 – 5/11/24, when we went to a wedding that day, and I was just out of town and out of my routine.)
Some of my favorites of the year are, in no particular order:
A few interesting memoirs (I have a thing for celebrity memoirs for some reason, but I wanna try to find more “regular people” ones next year):
For this coming year’s challenge, I want to give myself a little more space to slow down on my reading and maybe tackle a few larger/longer books that would usually scare me off. So, I’m setting my goal at only 75 books, instead of 100. And we’ll see how that goes!
And obviously, I love the my girlies are turning into tiny little bookworms as well. Obviously, Addison isn’t actually reading yet, but she loves to be read to. And Emerson is truly into books just as much as I am, reading a new book every single day.
Here are some of my past years’ reading recaps too: 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2023. Apparently, I didn’t do the reading recap post in 2021 or 2022, or else I just can’t find those posts tonight…
Reading Recap of 2024 Read More »
Addie Pie went back to school again today (she’s pretty much back in regular schedule now), and Emmie girl went to hang out with Grandmommie again today.
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We slept in a little bit this morning, then just had some cereal for breakfast. Jeff and the boys went to borrow PopPop’s truck to pick up some furniture Nana’s friend gave us, for free! (I’ll share more about that later once we get everything settled, but we gotta move beds around and sell the baby crib finally…) The girls and I went over to Nana’s house to drop a couple pork loins in the crock-pot, to cook all day for us to all go back over for dinner tonight. Also, please look closely, and you can see they’re both wearing cute little stick-on earrings.
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Emerson had her sleepover with Grammy last night, so we only had little Addison at home this morning. She went on to school though, to play with her friends for most of the day.
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Addison headed back to school today, and Emerson spent the day with Grammy and Grandmommie, while Jeff and I had to go back to work…
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Everyone was very sleepy this morning, after a long day and a late night. So we were all slow and sleepy this morning, especially with the crazy stormy, rainy weather outside. I was asked to fill in as the GC Kids Jr. check-in lead this morning, with Meg out of town, and her back-up lead in charge, so I went to church by myself early, and Jeff got all four kids up and moving and dressed for church. We only had child-care for preschool and under, so Emmie went into big church with her brothers, and you can see she was clearly comfy cozy with them!
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Brothers & Oranges Read More »
(Post for Saturday, 12/28/24.)
For the girls’ Christmas this year, we got them tickets to Wild Adventures! One of my employees told me about it when they were on a super cheap deal (half off, so only $30 each), and she also told me how to get Addie in for free, with a season pass for pre-school kids. Jeff and I actually used to get season passes every year when we were first dating and newly married, but we hadn’t been in years and years, and this was the first time for both girls.
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Baby Sister went back to school today, sporting a warm new jacket she got for Christmas. She was very excited to be back with her friends and to get to play on the playground!
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Yesterday was a very busy, very loud, very chaotic Christmas, spent with about 20 other people. Today, Jeff had to go back to work, so it was just me and the girls at home all day, with just us, super chill, hanging out. A quiet day for three girls. We had a very slow, very lazy morning, with leftover casserole for breakfast from the other day, then I just let the girls play and do whatever they wanted, pretty much. And I got the kitchen cleaned up, which had been a cluttered, untidy mess before this.
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Quiet Day for Three Read More »