Wednesday, February 28, 2018

The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble - TLC Book Tour

The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble - TLC Book Tour
About The View from Rainshadow Bay Series:  A Lavender Tides Novel Paperback:  336 pages Publisher:  Thomas Nelson (January 23, 2018) “Prepare to stay up all night with Colleen Coble. Coble’s beautiful, emotional prose coupled with her keen sense of pacing, escalating danger, and very real characters p…

Monday, February 26, 2018

Family Tree by Susan Wiggs - TLC Book Tour

Family Tree by Susan Wiggs - TLC Book Tour
About Family Tree • Paperback:  400 pages • Publisher:  William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 9, 2018) From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past—and the promise of the future. Sometimes the greatest drea…

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/26/2018

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/26/2018
Good morning, and a very happy Monday to you all :) How was your weekend? Mine was good, the usual homemaking, had family over for dinner on Saturday night and then yesterday just pottered around and finished up laundry, hung in my pajamas all day and enjoyed every single minute of it. It is now Mo…

Saturday, February 24, 2018

How I fell in love with homemaking, all over again!

How I fell in love with homemaking, all over again!
I was talking to you the other day, about the fact that I had stopped enjoying being a homemaker, had fallen off the wagon and only recently found that joy again. I wasn't going to really talk about it much, but then I started thinking that maybe there are others out there going through the sa…

Thursday, February 22, 2018

The Story of Our Lives by Helen Warner - TLC Book Tour

The Story of Our Lives by Helen Warner - TLC Book Tour
About The Story of Our Lives Paperback:  416 pages Publisher:  Graydon House (February 6, 2018) They think nothing can tear their bond apart, until a long-buried secret threatens to destroy everything. Every year they have met up for a vacation, but their time away is much more than just a bit of fun.…

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Housework, more physical therapy, rain and sleet

Housework, more physical therapy, rain and sleet
I'm so completely confused the past week.  I keep having to check the calendar because my days are all switched around. We had a long weekend, as you all know, so Monday felt like Sunday to me, then yesterday it was back to normal school and work, and today due to the Winter Storm there was no…

Monday, February 19, 2018

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/19/2018

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/19/2018
Hello friends and welcome to another Happy Homemaker Monday :) I hope you've been having a good weekend, especially since it's a long one.  I always enjoy these long weekends and having my husband home. We've been relaxing the past two days, but today we actually have quite a few things…

Friday, February 16, 2018

Candlelight, crochet and Valentine's Day!!!

Candlelight, crochet and Valentine's Day!!!
Hello?  Anyone still here? Whenever I go some time without putting up a blog post, and I don't mean the Happy Homemaker Monday, but a proper chatty post, I feel like when someone returns to their summer house and needs to clean off the cobwebs and give it a good dusting. It's been crazy. I…

Monday, February 12, 2018

The Lost Castle by Kristy Cambron - TLC Book Tour

The Lost Castle by Kristy Cambron - TLC Book Tour
Paperback:  384 pages Publisher:  Thomas Nelson (February 6, 2018) Broken-down walls and crumbled stones seemed to possess a secret language all their own. What stories would they tell, if she finally listened? Ellie Carver arrives at her grandmother’s bedside expecting to find her silently slipping…

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/12/2018

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/12/2018
Good morning friends. I just realized that I've been pretty MIA from my little corner here on the web, and actually the last post I made was last week's Happy Homemaker Monday.  For shame!!! We've been extremely sick around here, when I say that the sickness grabbed hold of our house, …

Monday, February 05, 2018

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/05/2018

Happy Homemaker Monday - 02/05/2018
Good morning everyone. I'm starting this post pretty early but having to take breaks as I go along.  This flu is kicking my behind and sitting up or standing for longer than a few minutes, is leaving me light headed and nauseous.  I'm not sure how long it will take to type this all up, but …

Saturday, February 03, 2018

Sickness has fallen upon our household

Sickness has fallen upon our household
Oh goodness.  I mentioned the other day that the kids were sick.  After taking them to the doctor, they didn't seem to be getting any better, matter of fact, on Thursday Jasmine got worse which prompted a trip to the Urgent Care. I was there with her for a couple of hours, and after testing he…