just living my best life in the midwest.
Hi, friends! The month is not quite done, but I wanted to hop on and give my October Aldi finds! I am such a fan of autumnal flavors: pumpkin, nutmeg, butternut squash -- all of it! Sooo, when fall comes around, there are so many goodies that are released that I want to try. Here [...]
Hi, friends! Ah! It's been a little while since I've hopped on here. The end of summer/beginning of fall has been busy! My husband and I just came home from our anniversary trip, which was AMAZING. We have now been married for SIX years! That is absolutely crazy to think. I remember writing a post [...]
Hello, friends! Happy Sunday! I decided to try something new today -- visible mending. My much-loved pajama pants (7-8 ish years old) finally got a hole in them. In situations such as this, it's like in the old cartoons where the character has an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other. The [...]
Hello, friends! Welcome back to my little corner of the internet. Today's post is a simple one, but I wanted to highlight something positive in the world -- free libraries. It's so easy to focus on the negative, and I am certainly guilty of this, so I want to focus on something positive. I live [...]
Hello, friends! I am a voracious reader, so it might be surprising to hear that prior to Joyland, the only Stephen King book that I had ever read was Thinner. So, when I went to the library thinking that I wanted to try a King book, it truly was a completely random selection. I chose [...]
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