Hello everyone! I hope that the past week has been good to you!

Last week I mentioned that I had hurt my back, and I wanted to thank everyone for all of their well wishes. I am back to normal thank goodness! I had hurt it trying to get Wyatt to the basement during a tornado warning, and since then his PT and I have been working on different ideas on how to make this more efficient and also less painful for me since apparently the Midwest has gone crazy with the weather this year.

This past weekend was Wyatt’s last baseball game of the season. He had so much fun playing and I loved seeing his joy. If you read my Books, Screens, and In-Betweens post, I mentioned how a grandma there told me that she loves watching the little wheelchair boy because he is so happy. And honestly, he is. He has the biggest grin on his face while out there. I was happy to learn that there is fall ball, because I will be signing Wyatt up. He might miss some games though, because fall is usually so busy around here. We are also planning a trip to Louisville in September, which I am super excited about.

After the game, it rained all weekend. I had a project I wanted to work on anyway, so Billy and I started it. Our art cabinet. Ugh. It was just so uggo and a mess and just sad looking. Not the way an art (and homeschool) cabinet should look! I picked out a paint color, bought some neat contact paper, and we got to work! Also, by the end of the school year, things are just all out of order around here anyway. I had to straighten that whole area, put stuff away, etc. so it was the perfect time to spruce this up.

Billy sanded it all down, then it was my turn to paint. I of course had little furry helpers.

After it was all dry, it was back to Billy again to paper the back.

And then after two days of sorting through all of our materials, deciding what I could store in our basement art overflow area, and then organizing everything, I was done.

I am in love with it, and the best part is that the whole thing cost $30! It was a quart of Dutch Boy Deep Peppermint, and then this adorable contact paper with flowers and cats and chipmunks and birds.

Billy has until mid-August to paint the room, or I am doing it with my friend Kelly. I have literally asked him for five years to paint it. LOL. I am so tired of the lavender! I think he will now though because he also loves our new cabinet and a lighter color paint on the walls will make it pop.

Speaking of Kelly, we celebrated her daughter on Sunday at her graduation party! They had her party at a restaurant on the water, and the room was beautiful. I felt like I was on a boat, honestly, because we had a downpour that morning that was heavy and crazy, and apparently the room floods! Kelly and her family were in the room busily squeeging the floor, using a leaf blower to blow the water out, mopping, anything they could to get the water out of the room before the party. They succeeded, leaving only a few puddles here and there, which I thought added to the on the water atmosphere. It was a beautiful party though, with great food. I am so proud of her daughter too, she worked so hard and is a great kid!

And that is about it for now! We have a recital tonight for J & T, Wyatt’s little cousins, and then coffee tomorrow morning with friends before heading into Father’s Day weekend.

And now just some random snaps!

How is your June so far?

I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl

Today’s Prompt: Bookish Wishlist

Hello everyone!! Today is all about the books on our wishlist, and also the opportunity to gift another blogger with a book from their wishlist!

I do love to pick a blogger or two (by putting all the names of people with posted lists in a hat and having Wyatt pick) to gift a book. As Jana says, “This week’s topic, Bookish Wishes, is a popular one and one I host twice a year (around Christmas and again in June)! List the top 10 books you’d love to own and include a link to your wish list so that people can grant your wishes. Make sure you link your wish list to your mailing address or include the email address associated with your e-reader in the list description so people know how to get the book to you. After you post, jump around the Linky and grant a wish or two if you’d like. Please don’t feel obligated to send anything to anyone!”

These are the books that are at the tops of my wish list! Some of them I have read and want to own since I love them so much (I use the library for 99.9% of the time) and some are books that I think I will love so much I want to own them.

Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero || The Smallest of Joys by Diane Shiffer || Off the Beaten Path by Eloise Corvo

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans || The Enchanted Greenhouse and The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst || Firefly by Robert McFarlane || The Tarantula in My Purse by Jean Craighead George (although I had better not ever find our tarantula in my purse!

I never know if I should share my link or not! I go back and forth, back and forth. I am going to do it in the spirit of the prompt, with zero expectations. 🙂 Amazon List

And that is it for me! I am excited to go read everyone’s posts today (or as many as I can before my son’s appts!), and hopefully grant a wish or two!

I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!

I am linking up with Deb at Readerbuzz,  Kathryn at Book Date, and  Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello everyone! I hope that you are all doing well! Wyatt and I are one week into our six week break from school and it has been lovely. We had some lazy days, some fun outings, and also I managed to do some major cleaning and re-organizing I have been wanting to do. I also am zhuzhing up our art cabinet this weekend. I painted it a color that makes my heart feel happy, and then today Billy is adding a cute contact paper to the back of it, and I can’t wait. We also have my bestie’s oldest daughter’s graduation party today. I can’t wait to celebrate this very accomplished graduate! She graduated in the top ten of her class, is a star athlete, and was also prom queen. I am excited to see what she does next!

Books:

I forgot to post last Sunday, so I will add last week’s books as well.

I finished two books.

The League of Lady Poisoners was really fascinating. It combined a lot of history and context to some of the women’s stories written about here. I also love the artwork by Lisa Perrin!

I finished up Dungeon Crawler Carl as well, and I LOVED it. Billy was right. And I love Princess Donut. She is awesome.

I nearing the end of my current read, and I am poised to begin my next.

Deadly Summer Nights has been ok. It is not as good as I had hoped it would be, but I don’t dislike it enough to dnf. I feel like it has potential though as a series, so if there is a second I will probably put it on my list.

I am very excited to read Yesteryear! I almost never read books that are being talked about and are “hot” at the time that they are, but I managed to snag this one from Book of the Month so here I am, right in the middle of things.

Screens:

Billy and I are obsessed with Widow’s Bay. I love these kind of coastal thrillers during summer, and this one is so perfect. It is quirky, creepy, but also tempered with humor. We will watch the last episode tonight or tomorrow night and I will be so bummed out that we will be done. I am not sure what we will watch next, maybe Dark Winds.

I also mentioned in a post last week that we are hoping to keep watching 80s/90s movies this summer. Old favorites like Now and Then, The Sandlot, Holes, etc. It’s time Wyatt watched these oldies but goodies. We have already watched Matilda and Little Shop of Horrors (Rick Moranis version).

Oh and Billy got us a game to play as a family. It is super nerdy but we are all nerds in our house so it is ok. It is called Librarian, and you straighten up the library. That is it, that is the game. It is $5.99 on Steam if anyone is interested.

Last week I posted a few times too.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Handwriting on the Cover

BookTubers I am Watching

Coffee Catch Up

And just a reminder: Lisa of Boondock Ramblings and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea.  This link-up is for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!). Each link party will be open for a month. You can find that link up for this month here.

In-Betweens:

This post is getting long so I will keep this part short. I will just tell a little story about baseball yesterday. It was Wyatt’s last game, and I had a lot of family show up to support him. My aunt, cousin, my cousin’s son, Devin, Chrissy, and the girls. We were all hanging out on the bleachers, and a woman sat near us. We all started chatting together about how much we love watching all the kids play, and she said she felt like she was on the wrong side, because her grandson played on the other team. I assured her it was fine of course, we cheer for all the kids on both teams. She said that she did as well, and that besides her grandson, her favorite player to watch is the boy in the wheelchair. Lol. I told her that boy is my son and we had a laugh! She said she just gets a kick out of watching his joy as he and Billy run around the bases. It was just a cute little moment.

We also got his pictures and I will probably share them all because that is me, but here is the cute little buddy pic they had done. This is Wyatt and his buddies. I love it! I also love that his friend Z. colored a picture to look like the three of them. I loved it so much I turned it into stickers for the kids, and moms.

And that is it for now! I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!

Hello everyone!! I injured myself!! Not badly thank goodness, but enough where I have been ordered to rest by my husband and friends.

On Tuesday Wyatt and I were home, just doing whatever, and all of a sudden the tornado alarms all started going off. I immediately got Wyatt to our safety spot, which when Billy isn’t home is the hallway. Wyatt is 85 pounds and while transfers are no big deal for me, carrying him down the stairs would be dangerous for us both. I turned on Michigan Storm Chasers on Facebook, and they are so good, they zoom in and can tell you almost exactly where the tornado activity is. And apparently it was moving right at us, like literally our neighborhood, not just our city. I was not comfortable with this situation. I wanted Wyatt to be in the basement, safe and sound. So, I did what any mom would do. I summoned my mom strength and got him to the stairs, where I lifted him up and put him down on each step, one by one, while he had his arms around my neck. I was very scrunched up and standing all weird, and Wyatt was not happy, he felt very scared by the stairs. He almost cried but I asked him to trust me and he relaxed. I got to the bottom of the stairs, grabbed a rolling chair that is down there, and rolled him to Billy’s office. However, by that point I knew that I had hurt something in my back, and it turned out to be my sciatic. Plus, I didn’t know how we would get back up. LOL. So once the storm had passed, and we were safe, I called Billy to tell him we were trapped in the basement. He left work a little early to come home and rescue us. Billy however has pimped out his office with an enormous tv and couch, so we were comfortable, and once the danger was gone, I went up for snacks and water. We just had to hang there for about an hour and a half or so. It wasn’t too bad, except I was in pain.

I have been doing stretches and have been ordered to take it easy, which I have been trying to do but I get antsy. I felt better today and decided it was a good idea to go and try to dig up an area to plant some things, but realized that was a bad idea after I started. So I am back to resting. I need to be physically sound for Wyatt so I am doing it. Sigh.

So, we have been watching some YouTube, drawing and coloring, and reading. I feel terrible that I can’t get him out right now, but there will be other days to do that, IF I rest now. So I am trying.

On Sunday we celebrated my nephew B, who graduated from high school!! I am so very proud of him! He also has cerebral palsy like Wyatt, and has overcome a lot. He participated on the boy’s basketball team as manager, attended almost every school sporting event as their biggest supporter, and just shines his light on everyone.

The first is B. with baby Wyatt, and the second is his graduation picture. I wish him all the joy and happiness in this next chapter as he had his first.

This weekend we have the summer reading kickoff at the library, Wyatt’s last baseball game (this makes me sad, he has loved it so much!), and another graduation party on Sunday, for my bestie’s daughter. I am hoping that she has a beautiful day for it, with no rain!

We are done with school for right now, and are taking a nice break. I have some projects I want to get done, like painting our multi-purpose room and the art cabinet, finishing up the garden, and getting our crested geckos all moved into their new homes. We bought them taller tanks as they need more space to climb, and we just need to get them moved in – but that means substrate, and plants and getting it all in place. I want to totally change up our multi-purpose room because right now it is working but I think we could make it more functional and less…messy? We have a small house, lots of animals, lots of books and games, and lots of equipment for Wyatt. So I want to organize things a bit more, rather than just sticking things wherever in there. I want to move the games, get rid of the big tank that is in there and the table it is on, there is a small loveseat in there we can pitch as well. It needs more organization and less stuff, if that makes sense. I would love to have wall shelves for books and games where the tank and table are, but we will see. Maybe it would be better to have something to hide the games but also have shelves for books? We eat at the table in that room, as well as homeschool. I feel like I can do this. I just need to put on my thinking cap and get creative.

Billy and I have also been obsessed with Widow’s Bay, the tv show. It is soooo good! I love stuff like that, all coastal horror, small insular communities with secrets. Eeek! It reminds me of Haven or of the modern version of Nancy Drew that was on a few years ago. It is so good. We try to limit ourselves to one episode a night which is hard! I love a good summer thriller.

We also watched the Rick Moranis/Steve Martin version of Little Shop of Horrors with Wyatt the other night. It was so cheesy and camp and we loved it. Wyatt was just bopping along to the beats. It was a fun watch. We are really into these old 80s/90s movies right now. I think the tv show remake of The ‘Burbs sort of kicked it off for us. I have a bunch I want to watch this summer! Now and Then, Tremors, The Great Outdoors with John Candy, The Sandlot, Holes, some of the Muppet movies. Billy and I are hoping to watch a few other Kevin Bacon movies as well, minus Wyatt, like Stir of Echoes and The River Wild.

And, I think that is it from me today!! I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Today’s Prompt:  Books with Handwriting on the Cover (Or fonts that look like handwriting. Titles, subtitles, covers with letters on them, etc.)

Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin

The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake by Rachel Linden

Hearts in Circulation by Sarah Monzon

Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero

Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden by Lulah Ellender

Books, Iced Coffee, and a Side of Dragons by Amanda Lovelace

Calico Girl by Jerdine Nolen

Temple of Swoon by Jo Segura

Beaches, Bungalows, and Burglaries by Tonya Kappes

Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery

I can’t wait to see what you all chose!

Hello everyone!! I just stepped outside to water the plants and it is gorgeous out there! Although it will be a bit hotter today than I like, it is nice to have warm and sun.

So, I haven’t written one of these in a while! It looks like my last one was May 14th. Since then we have done a few things, and one big one, Wyatt’s surgery. We will start there.

Wyatt had his surgery last week at Mott Michigan Medicine, and they did such a great job taking care of him. He is at the age now though where he understands surgery and after his last one, he was pretty anxious and reluctant, which broke my heart. I hate that he has had to have all of these surgeries already. This was like number 12 or 13 and he is only 11. However, he had the staff rolling with laughter in pre-op because he is a funny kid and likes to make people laugh. The surgery went well, and was about 90 minutes or so. After surgery was rough for a few days, but he seems to be back to my Wyatt now. I took him to therapy yesterday and his PT cleared him for all physical activities to his pain tolerance. I won’t feel relaxed for a while yet, but that is because I am his mum.

Afterwards we went shopping for crickets for our lizards and Carl the tarantula, and the pet store we stopped at had an ice cream place right next store. I felt little man deserved some ice cream after the past week, so we popped over. I only ordered each of us a single scoop since dinner wasn’t too far off, but the guy working I guess didn’t feel like that was enough, as he added a few scoops to each of ours for free. Wyatt’s was fully loaded and overflowing, and he was one happy kid!

Speaking of ice cream, do you all have Superman ice cream in your state? Or blue moon? I read the other day that those were just Michigan flavors and that seemed crazy.

We have been consuming lots of delicious treats the past few weeks honestly. Lol. A few weeks ago, I helped out with the social media for a local bookshop owner who was putting on a book festival. (She did a great job, and if you are in Michigan try to stop by The Wandering Librarian bookstore in Monroe!) We had a great time meeting the authors, of course shopping for books and other items because that was going to happen of course, and obviously posting to social media. Wyatt and Billy went with me because we were leaving right after baseball, and it was fun to share that event with them! One of the perks that I got was a free dirty soda it was delicious. I had not had one before and now I feel like I need to find a place closer to me so I can have it again. Although, it is probably good there is not one! I shared it with Billy and Wyatt of course, and then we stopped for cookies at a bakery on the way home. Billy ran in and picked up four different cookies, and we split them over the course of four days, which took Willpower with a capital W.

Wyatt and I also have spent some time accumulating books from thrift stores, garage sales, and little free library hopping.

Max seems pretty excited about this stack too! I think we gathered some great books, and half of these were even free at a garage sale! A few of them made it onto Wyatt’s summer reading list (which is flexible and I am sure will absolutely change).

I also spotted this stack of strawberry Corelle plates while thrifting, although I did not buy them. I wanted to though, they feel so nostalgic to me! My grandma had Corelle plates when I was a kid. I have heard they are non-breakable, is that true? I will probably keep thinking about these darn it. I really don’t need more plates no matter how cute though.

The other day when Wyatt and I went to the library, the big front porch was open for the summer. We have been waiting because we (I) love to sit out there. In fact I am hoping for some time alone here and there over the summer to go by myself and read there with an iced coffee. Anyway, this time it was me and Wyatt and as soon as we stepped onto the porch the big door slammed shut and we were locked out of the library! I joked to Wyatt that at least we were in a nice shady spot with lots of books! We hung out there for a bit then I called the front desk to let them know we needed “rescuing”. Lol.

I like to sit here and imagine what it would have been like to sit there before the city was all built up around it. This is the old house part of the library, we also have a new annex. The annex was built in the 1970s but they very recently renovated it. I am not a fan of the new renovations though, at least not yet. It is really cold and sterile and gray. I can see how it makes the space more functional, but it is lacking the warmth it used to have. Maybe we just all need to live in the space more to make it feel that way, considering the way it used to look was the way that it looked my entire life.

And I have to hurry off now, Wyatt has an appointment and I just noticed the time. We are both still in our pajamas and we need to leave in 30 minutes!! LOL.

I hope you all have a great day, and do something that makes you smile!

Hello everyone! It is time for my three book round up of mini-reviews! This grouping of books could really describe me as a reader; cozy, fantastical, nostalgic. And it includes my favorite book that I read in May, The Faraway Inn!

Let’s start with that one.

First, I love this cover. Second, I loved this book. It is different than Durst’s Spellshop series, but still has that cozy, whimsical feel. This one is YA, and revolves around Calisa, who is a high schooler. It is summer break and she just had a bad breakup with her long time boyfriend, and wants an escape. So her moms send her to aunt’s inn in Vermont, which they describe as magical, but not magical in the magic sense, if you get my drift. However, Calisa arrives and the place is barely standing, it is so run down. She immediately bumps into a handsome young man about her age, and learns that he is the groundskeeper’s son, and that he has been holding down the fort single handedly really while his dad is out of town. She also learns that her aunt is not enthused she is there. She sets out to prove herself by putting the Inn back together, bit by bit. I love to watch people organize and clean on YouTube, and I found that even reading about it was relaxing and satisfying to me. Lol. Calisa also soon finds out that there is more than meets the eye to The Faraway Inn, and that there just might be some magic left after all.

I loved the characters, the Inn, the whole story. It was a five star read for me.

Next, we have Jane of Lantern Hill. I would rank this on near the bottom of the L.M. Montgomery list of books that I have read, but that does not mean that it was bad or that I didn’t like it. It still had all the wonderful nature writing and a strong female protagonist that we have all grown to love about Montgomery. Jane Victoria learns that her father, whom she has believed is dead, is very much alive. Although her grandmother might wish he was, or considers him so. Jane has grown up as Victoria, a formal name for her formal life that she has never felt she fit into. When she finally meets her dad, and lives with him for an enchanted summer on PEI, or the Island, she finds herself and develops all the confidence that was just brewing under the surface. My only complaint about this book is that both of her parents seem to be under the thumb of a domineering family figure in their life, her father less so but he is still blind to the manipulative nature of that character, and I don’t feel like there was any sort of…comeuppance is the word I am thinking but that is not the right one. There is no reckoning, no resolution. I didn’t like that they were sort of wimpy, and that Jane was more adult than her parents.

Other than that, I loved this book. Ok, one more exception. Of course the cats. Watch out, there are a few triggers with cats in this one but they are quick.

Four stars.

Now let’s move on to Bridge to Terabithia. Spoiler alert if you don’t know what happens in this book.

My niece, Mermaid Girl, and I were talking about books the other day, and she told me that this is her favorite book. She also asked me if I had read it. I mentioned the other day that I have avoided this book like, 40 years, because of how sad it seemed to me. So I had to tell her that no I hadn’t read it. She asked me if I would, so that we could discuss it, and of course I said yes. How could I not? I immediately ordered a copy on Pango and read it when it arrived. And yes, it was terribly sad! Not just the big event sad, but the overall poverty and sadness that emanates from the supporting characters most of the time, the beat downess by life of Jess’ parents, the standoffishness of Jess’ dad towards him. And I think that was my favorite part in the book, the interactions between Jess and his dad, AFTER Leslie dies. The small gestures between them, his dad resting his hand briefly on his shoulder, and then this passage.

“His father stroked his hair without speaking. Jess grew quiet. They both watched the water. Finally his father said, ‘Hell, ain’t it'” and I felt this scene to my core. My own father is an emotional guy, not afraid to show his feelings but I did grow up in an era where a lot of dads didn’t. They weren’t hard men, but it was difficult or not done. So this moment seemed huge.

This book was just very well-written as well. Katherine Paterson is gifted and can transport you in just a few words. I also loved this part.

“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”

What a hopeful way to look at such a tragedy.

And just an FYI, Katherine Paterson is still alive at 93.

Four and half stars.

Have you read any of these? What did you think?

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Prompt: Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read

Most of these today are books that I probably should have read in childhood, but didn’t. Then I never read them, ever. I started wondering what books I missed out on as a kid after I read Heidi in April. That was one I didn’t read in childhood, but absolutely loved it when I finally did read it. Some of these are books that I absolutely should have read by now; I am pretty well read when it comes to the classics, unless the classics are children’s books!

Please don’t yell at me! LOL.

Daddy-Long Legs || What Katy Did || Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (this one is actually on my summer TBR though)

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe || A Wrinkle in Time || The Trumpet of the Swan

I know, I know, I know.

Bridge to Terabithia || A Little Princess || Caddie Woodlawn

On Sunday, my 10 year old niece informed me that Bridge to Terabithia is her favorite book, and asked me, her aunt who reads all the time, if I had read it. I was ashamed to tell her that I had not. So I promptly ordered it off of Pango and I am reading it when it gets here. She is excited because then we can talk about it. I am excited for that too!

Peter Pan

I love every single Peter Pan movie I have ever watched. I love this story – although, I have never read the book, so do I love the story? I really need to read it. I own it, I just need to do it. Maybe this winter I will finally do it!

I am looking forward to seeing what you have all never read as well!

Hello everyone! Happy June 1! How did we get here already?

As much as I didn’t like having Wyatt’s surgery, I am happy that it is over now and we still have the whole summer ahead of us. Our Frog and Toad summer! He is still healing but everyday is so much better than the day before.

May was in general, a very crazy month. It was a month of new starts, like Little League, and of wrapping things up, like Blackbirds and school (for the most part). We had long school days as I was trying to get us to certain points before ending school for six weeks, then all of his home therapy which also had added exercises and work. Plus Little League twice a week! It was just a really busy month, ending with his surgery. But despite the crazy, it was a pretty good month.

So let’s see. What did I read in May?

I read six books, with one squeaking in there right at the end. I only read one nonfiction book this month, but I did manage a translated fiction book, so I added to my total books in both the Nonfiction Challenge and Books in Translation Challenge in May! These were sort of all over the place in terms of genre, but I seem to read that way.

And for those that like statistics, here are a few! I read books set in four different countries, with settings in rural England, rural Ireland, rural Virginia, rural Vermont, rural Canada, and finally Los Angeles, California. Lol. I read 1,625 pages, and 6 genres.

My favorite read of May was The Faraway Inn. I just love Sarah Beth Durst and her worlds. I feel like this one was good for my frame of mind at the time too. I love to watch people clean and this book talked a lot about straightening and cleaning and fixing up, and I found it really calming. That was not the intention I am sure but that is something I personally took from it.

I am a cohost with Lisa at Boondock Ramblings, who thought of the monthly bookish linkup A Good Book and a Cup of Tea for all things book, not just books read or reviews, but bookstore visits or author visits or whatever else bookish you can think of!

We have decided we will be featuring our favorite posts from the month here. I do read all the posts even if I don’t comment. I only like to comment from my actual laptop and not from my phone, which is a problem sometimes when I read the post on my phone. ( I am working on more time to read and comment though. )

I enjoyed everyone’s posts, but these were my favorites:

From My Children’s Book Cabinet – Catweazle from Cat at Cat’s Wire

May Books from Gail at Is This Mutton?

6 Standout Books I Recommend This Month from Lisa at Lisa Notes

You can link up with us here for June!

It was an enjoyable month of tv and movie watching. I love all of these shows, and honestly Brokenwood and Beyond Paradise are probably two of my favorite shows. I am so bummed they have such short seasons!!

Anaconda was a weird but fun choice, and I love Paul Rudd and Jack Black so it was a win. But Matilda was my favorite. I love this movie, especially the ending. Billy and I kept saying that Miss Trunchbull was so familiar to us but we could not place her. So I looked it up and she played Laura Thyme in the British mystery show Rosemary and Thyme! She just looked and acted so differently we couldn’t put it together.

And for some non-book related faves this month….

Caturdays Cute and Cozy Coloring Book With Cattitude

I had my first tomato and cheese sandwich of the season yesterday! I had it on toasted sourdough with a bit of green chile aioli and it was delicious.

Good weather, good enough to start gardening. Finally!!!

Thrifting

Little Free Library hopping

And of course we had lots of fun times, some mentioned above. We went to a book fest, we ate delicious adorable cookies, we started seeds, we crafted. It was busy but there were also lots of slow good Frog and Toad moments in between.

I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!