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Sketching a library and having an art afternoon with the kids. Happy Thursday!

Costco has Happy Place for $10 cheaper than Barnes and Nobles!!

Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others' opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion.

Happy Friday! My toxic trait is continuing to buy more books when I have all of these TBRs. Have you read any of these?

I got a good laugh out of this sweatshirt that I saw at a coffee shop near me. I think most of us bookworms can definitely relate to this message. I may need to go back and buy it for my sisters and I.

Max is enjoying a good book on this #lazysunday

“Imagine you‘re a bird.”

#firstlinefridays @shybookowl

Currently reading. Only about 90 pages left to go and really enjoying it! What are you reading right now?

“I cannot go to school today.”
Said Little Peggy Ann McKay.

- Shel Silverstein was the first poet I ever read as a kid. I credit him with getting so many children interested in poetry. Sick was my favorite poem of his. It always made me laugh. I don‘t have room here to type the poem in its entirety so I kept to the first 2 lines. Anyone else a Shel Silverstein fan as kid?

#poetrymatters

What Aly had been trying to keep wasn‘t the position; it was her identity. But a title would never make her exceptional, or even normal. It would never make her feel accepted or loved. All of that had to come from within her . . . and to a lesser degree, from the people she loved. “Without that desire, I won‘t be any good.”

Florence is a ghostwriter who can talk to ghosts, her latest ghostly friend is her very hot editor who finds her in her hometown, a place she loathed to return. The story follows Florence as she faces her old life and tries to help her ghostly love interest with his unfinished business. Overall it‘s a cute story and relatively PG. I had a few quibbles but all was forgiven at the end because the ending was so good.

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler is full of second chances, relatable characters with the right amount of quirk, and the escapism that all of us moms need. Moms will relate to Amy in so many ways and will want their own momspringa. This is a great summer read. The romance is *chef‘s kiss* but it‘s so much more than that. It is also an exploration of how moms lose themselves in parenting and how Amy finds herself again.