Category: Spring

Wednesday Wonders 🌸🌺🌼 {Day 51}

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listening to ♥️🌿 ~

I’m taking a Booktube watching break/Instagram break and a few days in, it’s already been nice. I’ve mostly been listening to the birds on my deck early in the morning. Starlings are loud and strange sounding birds. 🤣 Recently, I got to hear two owls (Barred?) chattering because I went out there at 4:00 am. I did get in the Agatha Christie audiobook of Dumb Witness, Poirot and Hastings make me laugh! 😂 I also got the audiobook Ruby Holler in, but we’ll see if I get to it. I decided to soft quit Calculated, my last audiobook, because I have to be in the right mood for revenge stories. I do like the main female character, though, and setting, so I will probably finish it.

Watching ♥️🌿~ my hubby, three younger kids, and I traveled to see the biggest steam train recently. It was used during WWII to haul big loads over Utah mountains?! We had a fun Tookish adventure together! 😅♥️ I read almost a whole book there and back! 😂 Otherwise, I haven’t been watching much? I hope to watch the movie ‘Summer of Monkeys’ with my kids as we are almost finished with the book. 🥰♥️

Reading ♥️🌿~ I talk nonstop here 😂😏 about my reading, but I’m currently most enjoying The Mysterious Magic of Lighthouse Lane, What you are looking for is in the library, and The Bride of Fallen Stars is intriguing me on my Kindle.

Noticing ♥️🌿~ I’m mostly noticing flowers, trees, and seedlings. 🌱 🥰 It’s a wonderful time of year!

What are you listening to, watching, reading, noticing? ♥️🌿~

May Reading Journal 📖📓 {Day 50}

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My cat May decorations ended up being fun!🤩

Reading and journaling bring me so much joy 🥹 so the marriage of the two is a double dose! I don’t really plan, but just go with whatever is inspiring me in my sticker/washi stash. I had a kind of slow start to my reading in the beginning of May, my reading mood was changing, had some meh/ok-ish reads at the start. I pretty much hated Date with Danger! 🤣 The end of the month reading though was amazing! I loved all the Middle Grade reads for a small readathon on Booktube called Middle Grade May! Especially, Secrets of Shakespeare’s Grave and its sequel, Tower of the Five Orders by Deron R. Hicks. I really enjoyed the Christian historical light fantasy, The Huntress, also. Honorable mention goes to The Little House in the Highlands which is based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ancestors. It was a slow start but SO cute! I made some good progress on my newest bingo boards I printed off from Pinterest, also. Georgette Heyer is hit or miss for me, but I loved two of her Regency romances, Arabella and Sylvester. Overall, a great reading month.

What are you reading or creating? 😍♥️

Monday Ponderings ~ Happy June~ 🌲🌿🌱🍃 {Day 49}

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Starting a bit of a June challenge for myself! June is my birthday month so I want to gift myself health, beauty, relationships, and simple routines. I’m putting this here for additional accountability and encouragement! It’s never too late to start again.

♥️🌲🌿🌱🍃♥️

Preparation {Day 48} 🌸

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Moonshine 🌖

Every day is a preparation for death. By realizing this, it helps somehow, because we each have to die a little each day. Death is nothing except going back to Him, where He is and where we belong. ♥️

~ Mother Teresa, Do Something Beautiful for God

Finishing & Anticipating Reads 📚{Day 47}

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What a fuzzy book! 😻

Now that summer is close at hand, my TBR stacks are exploding!

Here is what I’m currently finishing on my Kindle ‘stack’! My reading mood is pretty light as we have a heavy, busier season with remodeling:

A bit slow? May try the next in series?
I got this one for Mother’s Day, begins a teeny bit draggy, but cute, light fantasy middle grade about Bee, who can bake a wee bit of feelings into her baked goods. I love the tulip bulb smuggling pirates and the second half has been fantastic!
Sequel to a wonderful children’s mystery story about a brother and sister saving their father’s place in the family’s publishing company! (The Secret of Shakespeare’s Grave) This one has Shakespeare, Marlowe, other bookish nods, hidden messages, and just a lot of delight! I enjoyed the first, the best, but this one is great, too.

I think my mood? is still a bit on the lighter side but shifting to historical fiction, especially American Revolution possibilities to honor the 250th birthday this year.

Lighter maybes on my stack!

A Booktuber I like to watch wrote this and I want to dive in! I’ve tried about 10% and I like her writing style!
Sign me up for anything lighthouse! It’s one of my reading buzzwords. Do you have any favorite lighthouse fiction recommendations? I love this cover and can’t wait to try it!
Banned books and ancient Korean Pride & Prejudice retelling? Yes, please. I’ve enjoyed some of Hur’s historical fiction in the past.
I’ve heard great things about this, like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None vibes?

A few historical fiction I’d like to try!

Fictionalization of Deborah Samson’s story. A woman who joined the Patriot army in disguise during American Revolution.
Boston Tea Party and modern day, hard-hitting topics in a dual timeline with thread woven between eras.

There’s a lot more in my stack, but these are catching my eye! Are you a mood reader or make a list and stick to it reader? Do you read more than one book at a time?

Happy Saturday! ❤️🌻

Deck Delights {Day 46} 🌼🌸🌺

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Idlewild season {the name of my deck garden😅} is officially started! I read my Bible with my coffee out there this morning. 😍 Bliss! Have some seeds planted in those big tubs, too! ❣️ We also have four tomato plants and a fern.

I was hoping to plant a huge patch of sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos, but it may not happen with wedding planning and remodeling. It’s so lovely to have this bit of cheer to enjoy. Grateful. ☺️

Are you planting or growing anything? 😍🌻

Moments {Day 44} ✨

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•Barnes & Noble meandering• grottos with gorgeous color • THREE delicious coffees in 2 days• baby robin on my hubby’s knee•flowers everywhere•warm sunshine•turquoise earrings, red bandanna, and jean jacket•succulents in crevices•deep purple everywhere• flat and rolling fields, endless sky•

Paper Pile Peek {Day 43} 📜📝📓🔖

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✨•what are you working on?•✨ Eeek, books and journals, pens and stickers, lists and scribbles, total bliss! ✨😁🥰

…at the close of the day… {Day 42} 🌅

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…gratitudes…

•thankful for the laundry blowing on the line •the killdeers and geese•the smell of pine in the sun•delicious chicken and veggie kebobs•talking with Ricci and many others at graduation parties•for a hot shower •new gratitude journal•for a hubby who works hard•for remodeling •for gorgeous storm clouds•

Just around the corner…{Day 41} 🩷💜🤍🧚

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A few fun readathons!

I had so much fun 🤩 setting up my June reading pages and I’m looking forward to filling the pages with mini reviews and book covers from my reading. It was nice to sit and just rest in a teeny bit of creativity!

How are you!? Have you been creating anything or reading/watching anything great? 💜

Joy of loving 💜🤍💚 {Day 40}

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We should ask ourselves, Have I really experienced the joy of loving? True love is love that causes pain, that hurts, and yet brings joy. This is why we pray asking for courage to love, and love more deeply than ever before.

~ Mother Teresa, Do Something Beautiful for God