I finished this today moving my youngest home from Uni. This is the tidy storage unit holding his stuff until his next adventure. My house is not tidy 😩 I liked this audio book but I didn‘t love it

#iykyk #hashtagbrigade

#5joysfridays it‘s been a week 🤣🤣 1. I found my favourite pretzel crackers at Costco again after a too long for me hiatus 2. We move our youngest home from Uni this weekend and I have rented a storage unit and gone through multiple bins here and resorted stuff and this pile is ready to load in the car to pack him up 3. I‘m loving the #littensloveromance read this month 4. My iced peppermint mocha cold brew is life 5. I baked 1/5 cookie recipes

The holidays are almost here and I am not really ready. So I‘m hiding in a book

YA snowmageddon ‘love, actually‘ influenced story with multiple couples getting back together or finding each other in the storm of the century. Would make a great movie I think. I enjoyed some of the minor characters‘ stories much more than the main one #sundaybuddyread

This has started off with a bang ❤️❤️❤️ I love it already and I‘m going to want to inhale it #littensloveromance

Oh I loved this “book that feels like a hug” story about a children‘s book author who writes magical books about kids brave enough to make wishes. Fast forward he writes another book and turns its release into a contest that might be able to grant the wishes of grown up kids who loved his books ❤️❤️❤️

#saturdaychatterday I haven‘t had coffee yet 🤣 I‘m still lazing in bed scrolling on my phone, planning my day/weekend. I am going to bake this weekend; empire cookies, gingerbread and chocolate crackle cookies for sure. We are going to see 🎶The Sound of Music 🎶 with John‘s parents tonight. And reading 📖 what are you all up to as we get closer to Christmas and holidays ?

#5joysfridays 1. The tree was up but I finally decorated it last weekend 2. We got a lot of snow ands it‘s already almost all gone 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3. I continue to get joy from the list of books I found that feel like a hug - The Wishing Game is from that list 4. I did more art with some grade 2s and 3s that was so much fun 5. Our Honda Pilot died after 18 yrs of service - we experienced a lot of joy with it, our kids grew up while we drove it

It‘s been a Monday and a half

My take away from this book is no pill, surgery will fix your mindset about food only therapy will. If you use food to soothe/hide behind/self medicate the pill/surgery won‘t cure you. If you can‘t eat because of surgery or pills you will substitute ‘medicating‘ with another addiction. And my Lego poinsettia is officially complete

A delightful cozy Christmas romance light on the spice and heavy on the Scotland ❤️

Bags #4 and 5 of the poinsettia. I got sidetracked with tree decorating and errands. This book is quite interesting but I‘m looking forward to it being finished so I can just listen to Christmas music and escape reality

#5joysfriday 1. Cardinal art with grade 2s based on Charley Harper 2. Tree art with grade 2/3s 3. I got my nails done 4. My Santas are all out inside and out 5. Not my phone updating and this app is screwed up and I don‘t know how to add my picture

#tlt #threelistthursday some of the newer movies I‘ve never heard of and I need to make a list to watch them ( instead of football which is on now against my will) my three are 2 I watch every year; Die Hard and love actually and 1 I think should be on the list; Rent 🎶and it‘s beginning to snow 🎶

EH books are so easy to read. I devoured this on a snow day and I feel warm and fuzzy now

I‘m basically rage reading at this point. The mystery is WHY?!

It‘s a SNOW DAY 🎉🎉 Christmas has come early 🤣🤣 so it‘s hygge all day long and getting ahead of my #sundaybuddyread

Booked off today so I could sleep in and fight the good fight against all the germs at school. A lot of listening to this book while loads of laundry were done, kitchen tidying, nails were painted and a turkey breast was roasted for a Wednesday night dinner. I‘d like the holidays to be here now

This was on a list of books that feel like a hug and it really is the loveliest story of friendship and found families and finding joy in all your moments. All the stars ⭐️

It‘s 5:30 and it feels like 8:30 so my #hyggehour starts now ❤️I‘m so behind on my #sundaybuddyread 🤦🏻‍♀️

Friday night and I‘m enjoying my favourite reading spot one last time. Tomorrow we get the tree 🌲 and it sits right here until Epiphany. So for now, I‘m just chilling in my favourite indoor reading spot ( besides my bed) with my favourite cocktail ( French blonde ) and the sweetest book that I know will break my heart

#5joysfriday I had another full week of teaching so it feels like I did nothing but put one foot in front of the other 1. last Saturday we drove to Toronto to see Beckett and go to the Swedish Fair and had lunch ( I love liver wurst ❤️) 2. We saw where the Eras Tour was going to be that night 😢 without me 3. My poinsettia is coming along 4. Last night I went to a magical holiday sale event 5. Today I‘m going shoe shopping with my sister & niece

Bag #3 of the poinsettia and starting a new audio book. I read about this somewhere and now I have it. I don‘t remember knowing this was about Ozempic 🤷🏻‍♀️

6 months later my hold comes in 👵🏻

Bag #2 of the poinsettia and I have finished this crazy book! It really was a GREAT audio book read by one of my favourite actresses, Nicola Walker ❤️❤️❤️ I miss Unforgiven with her and Annika, hopefully I find her in another show sooner than later

My next Lego set #audiolegoing

The wreath is finished and hanging up. I keep thinking about this book and it‘s title and what is happening 🤯

I did bag #8 late last night when we got home from driving to Toronto. Taylor Swift has been in Toronto for the last 2 weeks so hotels are premium priced and booked up so we didn‘t/couldn‘t stay over 😢 we had a quick visit with Beckett, saw his latest big project for one of his last 2 classes before he‘s done his degree and went to the Swedish Fair for lunch and to pick up our order of foodstuffs for Christmas ( John‘s dad‘s family is Swedish)

A gorgeous coming of age novel set in Colorado in the 60‘s. A first novel for SR that is stellar, a tale of first love, loss, strength, racism, friendship and forgiveness ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

1. I went for my mammogram this week so I treated my self to 2. A new mug to help me get over the fact I won‘t get to go to the Eras Tour 3. I taught a lot this week and I got to teach art ❤️❤️❤️ I did torn paper owls with grade 2s and we painted BIG fall leaves in grade 1 4. I fancied up my front urns for Christmas and 5. My Lego wreath brings me joy ( so much I ordered the big botanical garden for myself for Christmas 😆) #5joysfriday

Bag #7 still no idea what‘s going on in this although Josie can‘t be sane ( her mom is a narcissist, her husband is ancient, both girls have some issues that aren‘t discussed forever but it‘s more than diagnosis?)

Why does it feel like I have been reading this FOREVER?! And how am I not even halfway through?! WT actual F

Bag #6 of the Lego wreath and I continue to wonder what the heck is going on in this book 😱

Bag #5 of the Lego wreath and a new audio book. This story is CREEPY

New mug cuz why not #supportlocal I can‘t get tickets to the #erastour so I am making my own. This book was easy to get right into

Bags 1-4 are done and attached - so repetitive 🙄 this book was so interesting. The end of the book breaks down the asteroid strike and a step by step description of what would have happened after it hit the Yucatan Peninsula. And all the people who scoffed at the asteroid hypothesis 🤣🤣

This novella was on a book list of books that feel like a hug and part of a big library hold list I registered. I usually feel like November is a tough slog, between the time change and weather it kind of sucks the joy out of you. This is a bittersweet book about dementia, generations of family, and love.

The wreath is begun. Fun fact for me diplodocus is pronounced di-plod-u-cus not dip-low-dock-us 🤯

November #foodandlit 🇨🇦 I loved this book so much ❤️ so funny and heartbreaking too - you never know what other people are going through and how much a little kindness can change the world

It‘s been a week full of treats for me after some disappointing in law/extended family stress 1. A new Free People stripey top 2. New wreath Lego kit to start today or tomorrow 3. Christmas wreaths from Costco bought and hung 4. I finished my ‘books are my passion‘ set and I love it so 5. All of my holds came in and I‘m so excited to read all of them #5joysfriday

#foodandlit2024 November is Canada 🇨🇦 and I‘m trying a new to me Canadian author and her first book ❤️ with a mug of David‘s Tea 🇨🇦 in my Canadiana mug ( I mean if I can‘t do Canada what hope is there ?!)

I started this ages ago but didn‘t get it finished so had to wait for my hold to come back in ( Libby held my spot 🤯❤️) I finished my “Books are my passion” set and now to decide on which Christmas set I start 🤔

I love Elizabeth Strout and how she tells a story. I wanted to see a play adapted from My Name is Lucy Barton ( the first book in the Amgash series ) but the timing was never right to get to Toronto to see it. This is 17 years later

I really loved this book, magical imagining to how The Scarlet Letter came to be but I could have done without the past magic trip back in time

Audio Lego-ing

This is darker and more dystopian than what I‘ve read by TJ Klune previously
It‘s a beautiful story but humans don‘t end well in it ( all current indicators show this ending is completely feasible )

#5joysfridays 1. This social media post spoke to me ( it feels like everything makes me cranky right now) 2. Jenny Colgan is always a mood shifter ❤️ I‘m glad I saved this 3rd book in the ‘Lessons‘ series ( my book hoarding has been justified) 3. Pyjama day at school = my new leopard print pjs ( shopping problem also justified) 4. Still trying to doodle 5. Remembrance Day Art with grade 4‘s today

Bedtime comfort reading doesn‘t get better than Jenny Colgan

#two4tuesday 1. Always a sunset preferably with a book in one hand and a chilled glass of rosé in the other 2. Future, Las Vegas, robots consider yourself tagged ?? if you see this and you haven‘t played already