Category: Monthly Recap

May Recap & Best of the Bunch

May Recap & Best of the Bunch

My Goings On in May: BEA!! May was all about BEA. If you haven’t seen my recaps (with giveaways), check them out here: BEA Day 1, BEA Day 2, BEA Day 3 My daughter turned 12 and we went to a fun indoor waterpark to celebrate! I caught up with the current season of Once Upon a Time, so now I need to find a new show to watch while I’m doing the elliptical. Let […]

Posted June 1, 2016 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 21 Comments
April Recap

April Recap

My Goings On in April: Our homeschool co-op performed their end of the year performances, including a performance of a play that I wrote! I thought it turned out great – the kids did a fantastic job with it, and I plan to do more writing for our co-op in the future! Our family signed up to host a teenage girl from Spain for three works during the summer. We did this five years ago […]

March Recap (incl. pics from my trip to Arizona!)

March Recap (incl. pics from my trip to Arizona!)

  My Goings On in March: It was a bit of a slow month around the blog since I was feeling a little slumpy and then headed out on vacation. I’ll be back full-steam ahead in April, though! I edited Allie Juliette Mousseau’s newest Adult/NA standalone, Stripped and started an edit of a book for a new client. We went to Tucson, Arizona for spring break and had a fabulous time! Not only did we get […]

Posted April 2, 2016 in Challenges, Monthly Recap / 61 Comments
February Recap

February Recap

My Goings On in February: I turned 42 this month. Yep, that’s right – I’m old. 🙂 But it was also my blogoversary, and my blog only turned three, so let’s just average those out, shall we? I did a proofread of A Faerytale: The Beloved by Genevra Thorne, which is being published by Booktrope. I’m still working my way through season 4 of Once Upon a Time (my official elliptical viewing pleasure). I really love this […]

Posted March 3, 2016 in Challenges, Monthly Recap / 18 Comments
January Recap

January Recap

My Goings On in January: The new year has officially come, and it feels like it’s started with a bang! We started up our homeschool co-op classes again, and my musical theater class is doing the play that I wrote. This has been a blessing and a challenge, and I’m really excited to see the finished product (in April)! I did a proofread of The Rathemaker Magician by KL Horvath, which is being published by […]

Posted February 2, 2016 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 16 Comments
2015 End of Year Book Survey

2015 End of Year Book Survey

 Jamie over at The Perpetual Page Turner has once again created her annual End of Year Book Survey and I thought I’d join in the fun! 2015 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: 165 (actually 167, since I edited two books that aren’t on Goodreads yet)   As I mention all the time, the unrated books are books I edited or proofread in 2015 (since I don’t review those due to the conflict of […]

Posted January 1, 2016 in Let's Discuss, Monthly Recap / 29 Comments
November Recap

November Recap

My Goings On in November: I felt like November flew by! I honestly can’t figure out how it’s already gone! Luckily, I did manage to accomplish a few things. I wrote a play for my homeschool co-op musical theater class. Yep, I did it, and I’m actually going to let people see it. (You know, probably.) We finished up the first semester of homeschool co-op and we had our end of semester performances. The kids did fantastic, […]

Posted December 5, 2015 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 19 Comments
October Wrap-Up

October Wrap-Up

My Goings On in October: My youngest turned 11! Kind of scary – my kids aren’t little anymore! I attended the YA Literature Conference (and the Fandom Frenzy day) at Anderson’s Bookshop. SO much fun!! Gymnastics competition season is starting up again. My daughter had her first mock meet last weekend! I finished editing Alyssa’s Redemption by Karly Morgan and started a first edit of Defy by Allie Juliette Mousseau! I binge watched more of The Walking […]

Posted October 31, 2015 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 9 Comments
September Wrap-Up & a Giveaway!

September Wrap-Up & a Giveaway!

My Goings On in September: I started teaching my homeschool co-op classes: Acting, Musical Theater and 5th/6th Grade Writing. Along with the school year comes activities – my daughter continues gymnastics (four days a week for three hours each time!) and my boys start swimming twice a week. Plus, we’re doing obedience classes with our two dogs – they’re actually doing really well with it (surprise, surprise).  Throw in random doctor appointments (and eye doctor, etc), […]

August Wrap-Up

August Wrap-Up

My Goings On in August: So, school has officially started now and life gets so much busier. August was a good time to get in those last hurrahs! Not too much exciting happened around here, though. Just catching up on things before it gets hectic. I finished proofreading The Undays of Aralias Lyons by K.L. Horvath and started editing Alyssa’s Redemption by Karly Morgan. My two older kids spent the end of summer at camp – my […]

Posted September 3, 2015 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 31 Comments