As I say every year, I’ve adapted this from The Perpetual Page Turner’s End of Year Survey! 2023 READING STATS Number of Books You Read: 95 I didn’t quite hit my 100 book goal this year (first time since 2013, when I started tracking), but that’s okay. I had a lot going on! (Plus, I read over 65 picture books and 1 manuscript, neither of which are included in Goodreads, but I track them in […]
As I say every year, I’ve adapted this from The Perpetual Page Turner’s End of Year Survey! I’m just barely sneaking this in during January, but I was waiting for my book announcement, and then I had a whole bunch of already previously scheduled posts to go up. So, better late than never? 2022 READING STATS Number of Books You Read: 115 This just happens to be the exact number of books I read last […]
My Goings-On in September: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: Working at Barnes & Noble! I’ve been working four days a week, and that’s been an adjustment. I’ve had a lot less time for blogging and blog-hopping. I absolutely love the job, though! Marathon training. I run the marathon on Sunday!! (Of course, I woke up yesterday with a cold. Ugh!) Writing things that I still can’t talk about. I […]
My Goings-On in August: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: I started working at Barnes & Noble! I’m working part-time there, and really loving it. This is the most I’ve gotten to talk about book IRL in a very long time! I definitely have less time for blogging now, though—I even missed my Sunday Post twice! Danielle is off to Purdue, and she’s really thriving there. So far her transition […]
My Goings-On in July: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: I started training for a marathon! Now, I am not a runner. At all. The farthest I’ve ever run was a 5k, and that was like 10 years ago (and I thought it was amazing that I even accomplished that at the time). I haven’t run since. But World Vision came to our church and talked about the importance of bringing […]
My Goings-On in May & June: Here are the things that stand out to me over the past two months: May was all about graduation and end-of-school events. Danielle graduated high school. She’s off to Purdue in the fall! We had her graduation party last week. There was also a whole thing about banning someone from the link-ups that took up way too much of my brain power in May. I won’t go into it […]
My Goings-On in April: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: College decision and the end of high school. Since this is Danielle’s senior year, April (actually, the last couple of months) have been all about her. We went on college visits and she ended up choosing to go to Purdue, where she’ll major in Landscape Architecture. She’s at the end of her final season of track (she runs hurdles). We’ve […]
My Goings-On in March: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: Writing. I’ve started writing a new book! Not very far at this point, but it’s good to be working on something new. Visit to Purdue. We went to visit Purdue so Danielle could see it one more time before she makes her final decision. (We also visited University of Georgia on Saturday, so she’s making her final decision in the […]
My Goings-On in February: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: Visit to Iowa State University. We visited Iowa State University and actually made a pretty huge realization while we were there. They have a Landscape Design program that’s heavier on horticulture and lighter on design than the actual Landscape Architecture. It’s an intriguing option that we didn’t really realize existed before, and I think Danielle likes the idea. But there […]
My Goings-On in January: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: My son’s Special Olympics snowshoeing competitions. Technically, the state competition took place during the first three days of February, but since I’m late writing this post (partially because of that 3-day competition), I’m including it here. Noah competed in January and qualified for state for both the 50m and 100m races. Then, at state, he got the gold medal overall […]