I took a mental health day ❤️ I made a big breakfast for my husband who still went to school, I puttered, I went to the post office and finally mailed a package that‘s been waiting for months to get sent ( I have beat the baby‘s arrival so yay me) I bought my sister a Christmas present, got McDonald‘s for lunch and I‘m making chicken stew for dinner. I feel like a human being instead of a crazy educator for once

Sunday = starting this again ( I bought a signed copy from an independent bookstore so I returned my library copy and waited for my bookclub reading time to get closer) I had the worst sleep Saturday night full of scaries about school a full day ahead of schedule 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ so my husband made breakfast and brought it to me in bed ❤️

The perfect easy feel good read for this crazy time of year. I‘ve spent the day cleaning and getting the Christmas decorations down from the attic ( gonna have to get that BOO put away unless I can figure out a Charles Dickens theme )

I have waited for this forever

This is Gothic mystery romance? A young woman inherits a title and an estate that comes with some serious drawbacks. It‘s quite puzzling in the beginning, is Ivy an unreliable narrator or are there dark forces at play? Despite being too tired to read most days I still read past my bedtime all week. Never doubt a book with library in the title

It‘s been a week! Even though today was far better than the last 3 I still needed a glass of wine and chips to get me through making tomorrow‘s slide deck. This book is stellar, Chanel is a great writer and her story is so powerful. She should be so proud of herself, for surviving, inspiring and hopefully now she‘s living her best life

Just listening to my audio book while I look at my print copy and coming down from a shit show day at school - this week has been a train wreck and I wish we had Thanksgiving coming up - I‘ve got 22 school days to go until Christmas break - I‘ve got to work some magic to manage it, feeling some mental health sick days coming up

I‘m in and finishing My Friend Anna for sure, and hopefully The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, Know My Name and Eight Perfect Hours and maybe starting something random from my ridiculous TBR stacks

I was in Toronto this weekend living a much fancier version of my life while I finished this book for #sundaybuddyread we went out for dinner twice ( once with our son who‘s there going to uni), we went to the Art Gallery of Ontario AGO to see Keith Haring and KAWS shows, fantastic weather made walking around a joy and I don‘t even care we broke the bank on the high end meals

Going away for 2 nights so I‘ve brought 3 books #iykyk ( the 8 perfect hours have happened already 6 chapters in so I have no idea where this is going now 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Parent/Teacher interviews were last night and Friday morning. Mine were pretty stacked but I had one no show and a bit of grace built in so I got to listen to my audio book while I made slide decks for next week and dreamed of this pickle pickle poutine for my dinner treat afterwards. Friday am I only have one interview booked but maybe I will have some walk ins 🙏🏻 there are a few parents I need to talk to

What time I went to bed last night #wildchild I just want to be reading and comfy

Getting ready for #subdaybuddyread honestly I can not handle the stress of this book

Finished my Hocus Pocus set. Time to find my Christmas set now

I‘ve had this in hard cover since it came out. I wanted Chanel to have my money. But I really wanted to listen to her so I FINALLY gave myself permission to borrow the audio from the library. I‘m happy with my choices but my heart is breaking while I listen

PB left his job at the New Yorker and got a job working in what he considered the most beautiful place he knew after he lost his brother suddenly to cancer. His frank recounting of his overwhelming grief after the loss of his brother is hard to listen to while driving to work in the morning but the level of care he shows himself as he navigates his loss and tries to cope is remarkable.

It‘s the middle of the night. Truthfully it‘s 5:30 and full dark thanks to stupid clock changing, who is the holdout for EST?!

Still working on this magical set

Ready for a new month of #sundaybuddyread s

I LOVED this murder mystery

Why buy one book when you can order 7 from Book Outlet? I can barely find time to read what I already own but seeing that Book Outlet box on my front step when I got home from school made me sooooo happy!

Roof is going on and I‘m loving this book

Marking, laundry, stew making, week planning and pretending I‘m doing none of it and spending time in the Met instead ❤️

It has been a legit WEEK that ended in what felt like sheer madness and then I realized there‘s a full moon tonight so everything makes sense. Teaching full time and a new to me grade is kicking my ass and these bloody full moons sneak up on me every time 🤪 and my reactions to the madness is just as baffling until I know why. Here‘s to a weekend dedicated to self medication 🎉

I‘m don‘t usually do fiction as audio, I just really love non-fiction on audio but this was available so I thought why not. It has a cast of narrators but not every character gets it‘s own narrator 🤷🏻‍♀️ I really liked some parts and other were meh. I do feel like this portrays a really accurate picture of the making of a motion picture, so that‘s good

This is the looonnggeesstt week! I just want to stay home and read. No more school 👎🏻 let me read

Advertised as a cross between Sabrina and The L word - it was okay

Read with #sundaybuddyreads and I just wish I‘d managed a print copy. I‘m doing so little reading right now, school continues to kick my ass and just really need to hold a print copy in my hands to get that reading high I need to survive life 🤷🏻‍♀️ that and this ebook copy was not ff track of the print version so it was lost for a good 2 weeks. Otherwise MS is the Master of suspense and she keeps you guessing #ohwhatawickedwebweweave

2 bags today, trying to stay on task and survive writing progress reports 🤣😖

Sarah Sanderson joins the build

Missed a day but back at my Lego #winnifredsandersonisinthehouse

Self medicating with wine, cheese balls, Lego and this audio book to get over a very Monday Monday

There are 15 bags in the Lego Hocus Pocus set, so it‘s the perfect countdown to Halloween listening to Tom read his book to me

Lego finished, TH Making of a Major Motion Picture Masterpiece begun ( now to get my next Lego set out - it‘s a vicious cycle 🤣🤣🤣)

I finished the book but not the Lego, good thing I have another audio book in the queue 🤣🤣 I am thankful RF persisted in his quest for this story, he faced a lot of opposition. I‘m going to be angry for a long while because so many people were complicit in treating women as if they are disposable

My oldest is a university graduate 💛💜👏🏻 I got to finish my book driving to and from and I‘m thankful for the hope at the end

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Finally finished my Lego birdhouse ❤️ it‘s so cute

Finally getting back to audio books. I‘m going to try and get my to do list crushed this weekend and listen to this too 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Friday night is basically a repeat of Thursday but with higher end chips. Do I know how to party, or what?!

It‘s been a week ( and it‘s not over) monthly staff meeting on Monday, errands and a swim Tuesday, meet the Creature Wednesday and big strike vote union meeting last night because we haven‘t had a contract for 14 months ( instead of negotiating the ministry keeps deciding new things for us without going through the proper motions 🤷🏻‍♀️ evil or stupid? Jury is still out ) so this was Thursday night and now it‘s a PD Day

An enjoyable last blast of summer

My weekend feels like I‘m spinning my wheels as I try to do some school work, clean my house, get weeds in the garden under control, catch up on reading, do 4 loads of laundry ( I do love doing laundry so that‘s not a big deal) and take it easy. Simultaneously. #mentalmadness but it feels like summer so I only want to do outside things

Best thing about this book is the #sundaybuddyread group and whatever I drink while reading it.

Teaching full time has me so overstimulated by the time I get home I‘m struggling to stay on top of all my reads 😢 this week I plan to finish Murder, Most likely and Song of the Cell and then maybe begin something just for fun before October spooky read season starts and all my new buddy reads begin again. Or pace myself better

I think I need this book

Made me think of Priya and Dev #sundaybuddyread #iykyk

Jeez Louise school is kicking my butt! Saturday morning is for getting caught up on all my reads #nobodytalktomemyearsarebroken

Started the day off with breakfast and a book in bed and then moved to the swim tub ( I bought this book at Costco because how often is Winnipeg in a book title ?! 🤯)

I said I would do no work today but reading all of these in the heat wave doesn‘t count really 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️ ( planning a little puppet drama unit for my grade 5‘s to put on for grade ones and our grade 2 buddies)