just living my best life in the midwest.
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! Another old draft revisited. This one is from 2019! Hard to believe that it's been six years since then. Boy, does time fly! This draft was pretty sparse, but I love the idea of it, so I thought I'd expound on it. There are treasures that we find, that did not begin their [...]
Hello, friends! Back with another book review. Let me start by saying this book was SO good. What Alice Forgot follows Alice Love, a 29 year old woman pregnant for the first time, but wait… is she? After a fall at the gym, Alice is told that she is not pregnant, nor is she 29 [...]
Hello, friends! This idea isn’t life-changing by any means, but being a toddler parent, some days I feel like all I do is cook, clean up what I cooked, repeat x 3. So, when I’m able to find a simple, well-rounded meal, I make it as much as possible. I aim to have a source [...]
Hello, friends! Night Bird Calling is the story of Lilliana Swope, a woman who, upon the death of her beloved mother, flees from her husband and father, to live with her beloved Aunt Hyacinth. Set in Appalachia, 1941, this story follows the town of No Creek as they hear rumblings of conflict that will eventually [...]
Midwest Mattie 