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A friend of the family gave me, my sister, and my mom this book after my dad died a year ago tomorrow. I‘ve been reading a page a day, as it is organized by calendar days. I do think it helped. There were some common themes that resurfaced throughout the year. It at least regularly gave me the space once a day to work through my grief. As the book mentioned, there is no set time for when it will feel better. A year later doesn‘t stop the hurt.

I was looking forward to something like Grace Notes in Living A Beautiful Life. The practical things like setting a pretty table and making your bath your own private oasis. This was more meditations and deep thoughts. I ended up using it as an On This Day quote journal. Because of that I will keep and refer back to. The actual book bored me. I've already finish up the year of writing holiday quotes and yearly reminders in it. 😒 #myyearinbooks

December 8th #ChristmasCheer Advent #WinterGames24 #HolidayBookDragons @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @StayCurious

2024 #DailyRead. Stumbled across Grace Notes while searching for replacement books on eBay. I read Living A Beautiful Life years ago and had a battered copy marked with favorite things. It was one of the first books to teach me about making a house a home. Published in 1986 I'm sure it's dated but I want to revisit.

Grace Notes has Daily Quotes and Rituals. It to may be dated but we're going to give it a try.🫖

The world is a sad place today. We lost our sweet, spunky, mischievous boy Froedrick last night. He‘d been sick for a little over a week, and last night the Drs finally determined he had cancer either in a major organ or his bone marrow. We had to let him go.

I‘m a little broken today. The world will never be quite the same. 😢💔

Hug your pets and loved ones.

My bedside table 📚 What bookish treasures are on yours?

Books: The Lover‘s Dictionary (so good), Daily Meditations (not just for those going through the changes in the title), Ellie and the Harpmaker, The Quotable Book Lover and The Hobo Handbook 📚 #booksbrewsandbooze #theloversdictionary #davidlevithan #dailymeditations #ellieandtheharpmaker #thequotablebooklover #thehobohandbook

#2018GoodreadsReadingChallenge

This is how I did on my reading challenge. The last book I read in 2018 was Angel Wisdom by Terry Lynn Taylor.

I enjoyed using this devotional this year. I didn‘t always read it every day but when I did, it always gave me something to think about.