From Deb at Readerbuzz: “This week choose a book that reflects a journey for its author or for the reader or both. This can be a physical journey, an emotional, psychological or spiritual journey or a combination of these. Any nonfiction title that leaves its author/protagonist and/or reader in a different place at the end from the start point is good for this challenge. Week 2 will be hosted by Frances at volatilerune.blog.”

My pick for this week is Nightwalking by John Lewis-Stempel. I love all of his nature writing, and this one was appealing to me because I love to be outside alone at night. I don’t take night walks alone sadly, but I love to just go sit quietly in the darkness. I love the stillness and the silence, and just the night I guess. So when I saw this book by one of my favorite authors I knew I had to read it.

I don’t ever see anything cool where I am. I long to see a fox run through my yard, but that has not happened yet. Well, I take that back. We do usually get possums in our yard and I do love possums.

The summary for this one: “At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the other way, tipped my cap, said hello. The animals do not expect us humans to be abroad in the dark, which is their time, when the world still belongs to them.

That was in winter. The screaming of a tawny owl echoed off the bare trees. For all of our street-lamp civilization, you can still hear the call of the wild. If, if, you go out after the decline of the day…

As the human world settles down each evening, nocturnal animals prepare to take back the countryside. Taking readers on four walks through the four seasons, acclaimed nature writer and farmer John Lewis-Stempel reveals a world bursting with life and normally hidden from view. Out beyond the cities, it is still possible to see the night sky full of stars, or witness a moonbow, an arch of white light in the heavens.

It is time for us to leave our lairs and go tramping. To join our fellow creatures of the night.”

My little review from when I read it:

“Night is for imagining.” A beautiful, atmospheric, nature and wonder filled read, full of magic hidden in every encounter with the wild. Foxes, hares, owls, badger, the teeny little hedgehogs are Lewis-Stempel’s companions in these nighttime perambulations (and of course a dog or two) and this accounting of four walks through the different seasons lets us all live a bit vicariously through his eyes.

This book is a slow walk through a dark wood, through all the seasons, through the eyes of an author who loves nature. It is a wonderful, quick read.

I am linking up with Deb at Readerbuzz, Kathryn at Book Date, and Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. (even though Monday mornings I usually forget. Someone remind me!)

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well! Things are Novembering over here. Billy and I went our for our anniversary last night, and we had a great time. Next up is my birthday! Lol. My birthday is the 16th, and then my cousin is turning 50 on the 20th! And a good friend of ours is turning 50 0n the 15th. So many birthdays right in a row. When we were kids, Brian and I would have joint family birthday parties, with a cake that said happy birthday to us both. We were and are such close friends – he is really more of a brother than a cousin. I call him and my brother the brat boys, lovingly of course, like in a big sister way.

Anyway, books. I was rambling.

Books:

I haven’t really read anything this month! I’ve been working on projects and I couldn’t really settle down with a book. I did start one the other night though, and I am enjoying it. I am also participating in Nonfiction November, which has been so fun!

I am almost done, and when I finish I am planning on reading these.

Screens:

We just finished up Edwardian Farm for the millionth time, and now we are watching Reservation Dogs. We haven’t watched any movies for a bit – probably the last one we watched was the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin Halloween movie with Wyatt. I am very happy that is something we managed to pass down successfully – Wyatt actually loves that movie. Lol. We will watch the Thanksgiving one but that one is the weakest, don’t you all agree? Halloween and Christmas are the best.

I posted a few times last week.

Goodbye October, Hello November!

Nonfiction November: Week 1: My Year in Nonfiction

Thursday Morning Coffee Catch Up

What’s Making Me Happy Lately – Autumn Edition

Remember, I am cohosts with Lisa at Boondock Ramblings and Cat at Cat’s Wire, of the linkup A Good Book and a Cup of Tea for all things books -not just books read or reviews, but bookstore visits or author visits or whatever else bookish you can think of! You can find the link up for November here!

In-Betweens:

I have shared so much this past week, that I feel like I have shared everything already! Lol. Hmmmm. Oh wait!! I haven’t shared yet that I have won a few book giveaways! I am so excited. I rarely get my own new books so to have an influx feels luxurious. The first of them arrived the other day.

I also was a winner over at Lisa Loves Literature! Those are on the way as well!

And that is it from me today! I hope that whatever you today, that you do something that makes you smile! Also I am still catching up on comments, I apologize!

Hello everyone!! If you read here often, you know I like to end my posts with hope that you do something that makes you smile, even if it is something small. So I thought I would share some of my something smalls that have made me smile lately!

All of the fall leaves! I love just seeing all of the trees aglow in reds and oranges and yellows. They are so bright this year it seems! I am even loving seeing them all over the ground, it just makes everything so pretty. I am just going to include the cool weather too, because I love that too.

Cat naps under a snuggly blanket. I don’t usually get to do this but I will occasionally mid-afternoon tell Wyatt I am taking a little 15 minute break and just close my eyes and get comfy on the couch.

Baking. I have been doing more baking than usual this fall. Cookies and pie, scones, and a cake that flopped. I tried my friend Kelly’s recipe that her mom always used, and I swear to you that I did everything right. But… it came out really flat? It tasted good though, like a chewy appley brownie so it wasn’t a total loss. It just wasn’t cake. Lol.

A young person told me that they liked my outfit when we were out the other day. I felt cool again for a minute.

Speaking of clothes, I am also loving my red shoes. I am totally getting a pair of Mary Janes in green next. It will be like the more adult version of the green square toed Doc Martens I wore all through high school and college.

Afternoons at the library with Wyatt.

My Mythologie Candle. I buy one every year and it last the whole year for me. My favorite is The Alchemist but there is a fun quiz to find your “scent”. Oh and every candle has a fun story! Anyway, part of my nightly kitchen clean up is lighting my candle, it’s just part of the whole thing. And I have talked way too much about candles.

Watercolors. I have been practicing painting with watercolors and while I am no artist I am definitely having fun with it! I filled up a whole book with my paintings even, and made some into postcards.

Which brings me to my last happy smile for today – my mail from my pen pal friends. I love getting a new card or letter. Whenever I get one, I save it for bed and read it while I drink my tea. That is definitely a big happy for me.

And that is it from me today! I would love love love it if you shared some things making you smile!!!

Hello everyone! How are you all doing today? I am just starting my second cup of coffee; Wyatt is not adjusting to this time change very well and is waking up so early!!

How is it only Thursday? I feel like this week has been crazy busy. I did know that this week was going to be a busy one and that the rest of the month settles down but I have been so distracted!

Monday we went to our first St. Andrews Society meeting. I didn’t know what to expect, and the center is about 30 minutes from my house, not too bad of a drive, but I still had Billy and Wyatt go with me for this first one. The first hour was social hour, and we met some very delightful women. One woman was from Scotland, and still had her brogue and she and Billy hit it off. I talked to another woman, who was so sweet and she told me she had lived in England twice in her life, once in the 1970s and once in the 90s. How cool would that have been? England in the 70s seems like it would have been really cool. There were drinks (I had a Strongbow and Billy had a Guinness) and a giant potluck, and just a real sense of happiness and joy all around. They had a musician playing the whole time, and I really had fun. However, it was going to be too late of a night for Wyatt and the membership coordinator, who sat with us since we were new, told us it was fine if we left whenever we wanted. So we stayed for the bringing in of the colors, where they piped in the flags, played a few other songs including Scotland the Brave, listed to the first speakers and then quietly slipped out. It was a good first introduction. We probably won’t be able to attend these first events in November and December as we are pretty booked already, but in January we are hoping to attend the Robert Burns dinner.

Tuesday was election day, and I had already mailed in my ballot so I didn’t need to go to the polls. Wyatt and I just had a pretty normal day, and I stayed away from social media and the news for the most part. However we did take Election Results day off. I figured we deserved it. All the public school kids had Tuesday off, so we took Wednesday.

It was also Billy and my wedding anniversary yesterday too! We didn’t do anything though, and are hoping to go out this weekend instead. He did work from home however, so that was nice.

And this is how nerdy we are. We got fancy journals for our anniversary gifts. We want to make them artsy, with drawings and paintings, but also folklore and traditions (me) and Billy wants to do a whole nature meets technology art project in his – like comparing the internet to mushroom mycelium, and the like. They are handmade leather with heavy paper with deckle edges, and we are just nerding out with them. I am so lucky that we are both like this, very interested in little projects and art and holing up at home during these months.

Speaking of projects and cozy type things, I stumbled upon the coolest unit study yesterday! Yep, I said that. It is a book study of Winterhouse, but it is so immersive that I knew it was the perfect December read for us. I am in love with it. It has suggestions for having a breakfast every morning, cinnamon rolls and chocolate chip pancakes (and doesn’t make you feel like you have to do it all from scratch!), built in quiet time for reading, puzzles, just so much. I am really excited to start it in December with Wyatt. I had been sort of hoping for something fun to mix it up a bit and this is perfect. I chose Christmas at Winterhouse, but there are 3 other options to choose from, including Little House. These are all from Bookish Adventures, and I depending on how this goes in December, I would like to try one of her other book studies. Wyatt loves stuff like this, probably because I am his mother and have raised him like this lol, and he learns so well when we do big old deep dives and involve different ways of learning.

And honestly, that is about it from around here! We are transitioning from the whirl of September and October and are starting to turn inward, to home and cozy. I bought a new bed light to replace the one that died so I can sew in bed again at night, we are settling in with our art projects and learning projects, focusing on friends and family and baking and good meals. And it feels right.

Just a few photos from the camera to end with!

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

This week is hosted by Heather! Heather is a veterinarian living in Ohio who blogs at Based on a True Story.

Hello everyone! I haven’t participated in this in a very long time. And while I am working on reading more nonfiction, I never feel I read enough to participate. But this year I decided I was going to do it regardless of my number! I had a rough goal of reading 12 this year – I have so far made it to ten, and it may stay that way, although I am hoping to read 84, Charing Cross Road still this year.

Week 1 November 2-8 – My Year in Nonfiction -Celebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read? What were your favorites? Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more?  What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?

This year, I found that I apparently really like one genre of nonfiction a lot. Memoirs. I used to tease my mom about all of the biographies she read; they made up 99% of what she read. And now look at me, reading memoirs. I don’t necessarily want to read memoirs of famous people, although Dinner for Vampires was really good, but I do like these cozy, nature memoirs I am digging into.

This was the year I fell in love with Gladys Taber. I first heard of her last year, when watching a Rebecca’s Literary Wanderings. And then I didn’t seek her out immediately, until maybe the end of the year, when I checked out Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge, and started it January this year. And then that was it. I became a Taber fangirl. I squealed with happiness when I found one of her books in a bookstore this year, and I plan on starting that one in January 2027. Just because. And then, the gasp I gasped yesterday when I came upon one of her articles in a vintage magazine a friend gave me!

I also love nature writing, especially that of John Lewis-Stempel and lucky me, those are both nature writing and memoirs. I also seem to like true crime and reading about cults, although I haven’t read anything like this since the League of Lady Poisoners.

I love a cozy book I guess. And tales of life, just a woman out in her beloved home, surrounded by her dogs and flowers and vegetables, baking and cooking and making jam. Writing and reading. It just makes me so happy. I also really loved When Wanderers Cease to Roam – I love the writing interspersed with the author’s artwork. It adds a whole different dimension.

Next year, I hope to continue reading Taber, and probably more memoirs that vibe the same. I would like to read the book called The Man From the Train, which is about the Villisca Ax murders in Iowa. I am sort of nervous to read it though, because I would like to read it but I am hoping it is not too full of details of the victims. I don’t care for that too much for a few reasons. I also would like to read Candice Millard. But for the most part I am just letting next year’s nonfiction happen, like I did this year.

I am really excited to participate this year. I think it is a great opportunity to see what else is out there!

Hello everyone!! We had a great Halloween weekend, and I am writing this today while drinking my second cup of coffee – because I really needed the caffeine this morning- and hair that smells like bonfire. Before we greet November fully though, let’s finish saying goodbye to October.

October was a month full of highs and lows. Lots of good things happened, but my friends and I also walked through some big goodbyes. We had my mom’s celebration of life at the beginning of the month, which was very cathartic and healing. Then my college bestie lost her mother, and my good friend Jill lost her grandfather, a big loss for her on the heels of just losing her stepdad in August. We have all been holding each other up; and really that is my biggest takeaway this October. It has been hard and sad for so many of my friends, including Lisa at Boondock Ramblings who is going through her own things with her parents, and I am still dealing with my own grief but we are all there for each other. Supporting each other. Letting each other know that we are there, we listen. We try to ease the burdens.

My friends have also been here this year for Wyatt and Halloween! We had our first Halloween Homeschool Party on Friday, with Wyatt’s two friends A. and Z. and it was so much fun. Wyatt could not stop talking about the party, the party. Until it was over, then it was all about trick or treating! Wyatt had a goal of walking with his gait trainer this Halloween, at least some of the way, and this kid did it. We spent so many evenings walking and walking with him when Billy got home after work, getting him ready for Halloween. And it paid off. This kid had the biggest smile ever!! And his friends were so good about it, helping! And can I just say, two years ago I wished for friends for Wyatt, actual friends, and I went about starting clubs and meeting people and finding community, and now, here he is with his buddies trick or treating! I did miss hanging out with my brother and nieces but we did go by there after to see them and hang for a bit.

We started out the month with a sad goodbye, and ended with a very happy hopeful moment.

And now, we look ahead to November. My birthday month, my anniversary month. And hopefully, a month to start to slow down in. I did sign up for Wilder Child’s 30 Day Slow Down Childhood Challenge, where it is not necessarily tasks or goals, but more gentle reminders to take your time, slow down. Stop the rushing. This week it was suggested that we notice – notice how quickly we move from task to task, moment to moment, and try to slow that down. Stop and enjoy the moment. Savor it. Don’t just rush through to check it off of your list. So this month, instead of a list of things I want to do, or books to read, or goals, I am heading into this month with some general ideas. Maybe some baking. Maybe this book but maybe not. Maybe we will try to go to this place. I also want to make sure I don’t just slide into an everyday routine of work work no play either, which for us would mean we never leave the house! It’s a balance and that is what I am aiming for. The challenge quote is one that I love, that I have loved for longer than I have been aware of this challenge for sure. It is from Peace of the Wild Things by Wendell Berry, “I come into the peace of wild things.” If you are a longtime friend here, then you might remember when we did the Kids’ Moon Club all the time, and this Slow Down Challenge is from the same creator. If you are interested in this slow down, it is here and it is free.

So I am keeping this post short today. I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!!

Hello everyone! I can’t believe that Halloween is Saturday! We have plans to trick or treat with Wyatt’s friends and then to go over to my brother’s for a bonfire later on to hang out with my nieces. Tomorrow is Wyatt’s “school” Halloween party with his buddies, and today we are going to make an apple cake to serve along with the other goodies!

Billy painted our whatever room last weekend, and I am so thankful. I’ve wanted it repainted for ages but it was one of those things that always got put on the back burner, you know how it is. Well we finally got around to it and I am in love with all the brightness and light. The purple was pretty but I had it for a very long time, and in the fall and winter, and even in the spring and summer, that room can be very dark, which made school in there difficult! Dinners would even seem too dark. We painted it Swiss Coffee which is my favorite shade right now, and even at night just using a small lamp, the room is so much brighter! Yay!

Some of you already saw this on Instagram, but I took a few pictures.

We did paint the baseboards, just last. And they weren’t done yet in that last photo. We weren’t sure what we wanted to do, get new ones or repaint. We decided to repaint because they get bashed constantly by our child in his wheelchair. Lol. Our doorways and baseboards all look crazy but he will get it one day. Max is also cracking me up in that photo. He looks like he does not approve of the change! And isn’t he so poofy and big now? I have a video of the room all put back together but I can’t figure out how to post it here. Here is the link to my Instagram post, maybe that will work.

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A month or so ago, I mentioned I applied to the St. Andrews Society, which is a Scottish Heritage Society. Our family members, our elders, my mom and my aunt, my grandma, are gone and I want to keep Wyatt involved in the traditions that I was part of as a kid. I thought this would be a good way to help keep that spirit going. I was notified that I was accepted and our first meeting is Monday! I am nervous but also looking forward to it. And it is always good I think to have community in your life, and I try very hard to build that for Wyatt. We become regulars places, where people know him and he knows them, we have our Blackbirds group, baseball, my church, and now St. Andrews. It will just be good for him to know some of our cultural traditions.

I had to look up my Scottish ancestry to apply, and it had been a minute since I had played around with my genealogy. There was a DNA update, and it was neat. I learned that I am 25% Italian, and also have Cornish DNA. Just a smidge, but I told Billy that must be why I like to read about Cornwall. I was also a whopping 3% Bavarian. Billy’s update was really cool. He is New Zealand Maori, Hawaiian, Scottish and Irish, and Carpathian! Just like Dracula. LOL.

I have been soaking up all the Halloween that I can the past month, with the books I am reading, the movies we are watching, our crafts and decorations, and also YouTubers I watch. Wyatt is my little watching buddy at night while Billy is showering – Billy showers, and Wyatt and I pile onto the bed and watch a YouTube video then read one of his books. Wyatt is such a good kid, watching these book people with me. Lately we have been watching a lot of Rebecca’s Literary Wanderings. She just took an epic trip west, up into the Pacific NW, before heading back home somewhere on the East coast, and read books that matched her location along the way. She is a big seasonal and theme reader like me, and I enjoy her style.

We also have been watching Morgan Long. Her vlogs are always very cozy and positive.

It’s been a pretty quiet week as you can see. Lots of just moments at home, reading, hanging out, cooking/baking. I made butternut squash soup the other day and it was delicious, and I felt so proud I saved the seeds to plant in our garden in the spring. We got the squash at the orchard when we got our pumpkins, so I love that I know where the squash seeds came from. One year we had butternut squash that grew all down the alley along the fence, and our neighbors were harvesting and eating it as well. I hope our squash does that next year too! We are going to plant it along the fence again, so maybe!

And I think that is it for today guys. November is right around the corner, and our little house is starting to settle down. I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile, even if it is just a small thing!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Today’s Prompt: Freebie for Halloween

A few weeks ago I thought about doing this post, and then I saw that Olivia did it. I loved reading about her favorites, and thought I would now share mine!

I grew up reading King’s books. He was my favorite author for decades! And he always came out with a new book near my birthday which was awesome. I have quite a collection! Then when Wyatt was born, I just couldn’t read him anymore. His books began to freak me out too much. I will always have fond memories of his books and all the years that I read them though and I still have my favorites. There are even a few I will still read that are on this list.

Here we go – in no particular order.

Joyland || Bag of Bones || 11/22/63

Ok, I said no particular order but these are my three favorites. LOL. I love a ghost story, and Joyland and Bag of Bones are ghost stories, while 11/22/63 just evolves into a love story that made me cry.

Joyland was a fun ride – silly dad joke intended. There is mystery and coming of age and a ghost, and I love it. One thing that is weird about this one for me is that there are two characters, Erin and Devin, and it is weird to read because it is my name, and my brother’s. Lol.

Bag of Bones is another ghost story but it is enveloped in a story of love and grief and loss. I have read this one many times and it never fails to capture me every time.

11/22/63 is obviously about Kennedy but also so much more. It is a crazy journey, but also has its sentimental moments.

Different Seasons || The Dark Tower The Gunslinger || Skeleton Crew

Different Seasons and Skeleton Crew both contain the scariest of King’s stories in my opinion- The Raft, The Mist, and Apt Pupil. These three have freaked me out since I read them back in middle school. I absolutely can’t swim in open water without thinking about The Raft, and Apt Pupil was such a horrifying slide into evil it still scares me to think about. I think because it is not paranormal, just straight up the evils of humanity. The Mist is just one of those stories that scare you as well; you can’t see what is coming and then it is too late when you do.

The Dark Tower books are amazing! That is all I will say there.

The Shining || Needful Things || Misery

The Shining. Of course I am going to love a book about a haunted hotel! And I love that King stayed at the real Overlook in Colorado, which is The Stanley Hotel. I will watch and listen to documentaries and videos and listen to podcasts about that place any day of the week. My dad visited there once when he was in Colorado for work and I have always been jealous! Anyway, this story is master class King.

Needful Things is creepy in a different way. I loved that this was at its heart, at least in my opinion, about the excesses of materialism and society, but it was also just a fun book too amid the crazy. These people were wild!

Misery. Now this lady was just crazy. Never tell an author you are their number one fan. Lol.

Oh. My. Gosh. did I love this book. It is super gross at times and freaky, but that was why I liked it, the absolute scary of it. King also wrote The Regulators, which is the same story set somewhere else, with the characters all switched up, as mirror novels. Desperation published under his name Stephen King, the other under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. It was just such a cool concept and I loved them both, but of the two, I enjoyed this one more.

I have to take my son somewhere today that is a long drive and I will be gone all day, but I hope to visit everyone tomorrow!

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Aj at Read All The Things made a book tag!

As we wind down to Halloween and head into the slowness of November (well comparatively for me), I find myself really welcoming that slow down. October is always really busy, sort of a last hurrah before winter starts to seep in, and our lives become more inside lives than outside lives. Aj mentioned this book tag she made the other day and I thought with Nonfiction November right around the corner, it would be a good time to do it and start reframing my thoughts toward nonfiction reads and that feeling of cozy cocooning that like when reading nonfiction as well.

An unread book you’re excited to read?

84 Charing Cross Road was recommended to me by one of my pen pals and I think she is right, I would love it.

An unread book that’s been on your to-be-read list for way too long?

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear has been on my list for ages. I am moving it to the list for November!

An unread book you recently bought or added to your to-be-read list?

All the Beauty in the World. I just added this one to my list! It sounds really wonderful! It makes me think of Night at the Museum, without the museum actually coming to life, and Night at the Museum is one of my favorite kids movies. Unfortunately I don’t think I could handle this one right now but I am keeping it on my list until I can!

An unread book about a new-to-you subject?

Catlandia! So I have no idea where I saw this one but I was instantly interested! Anthropomorphic cats? That is just so me!

An unread book that will deepen your knowledge of a favorite subject?

I have always been interested in Native American history but even more so after I had Wyatt and we started homeschooling. It became super important to me that I was teaching Wyatt the correct history and I have done a lot of reading and research in my attempts to do this. I think Re-Storying Education is one I definitely need to read.

A book you read years ago and still think about?

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a book I will never forget. I read it when I was in a time of serious grief, and it really helped me cope. It was just so gentle. You can read my review here if you are interested.

A book you were assigned to read in school and didn’t hate?

I was assigned Daughter of Persia in college for my Middle Eastern History class and I loved it honestly.

A book that gave you strong emotions?

I think The Nature Fix made me realize how much nature can heal us and it blew my mind! It really changed how I viewed our life.

A book you want to reread?

Raising Hare. I just loved it so much. I saw that they have a children’s edition of this book and I am planning on getting it for Wyatt, just because I love it so he needs that one.

A book that could spark a great discussion?

Cultish is absolutely fascinating. It’s all about loaded language and the way that just about anything can be considered “cultish” (a contrast was made between a real cult like Jim Jones or Heavens Gate, and cultish groups like say Crossfit) and how language plays a huge part in making people act and feel a certain way. It was so interesting.

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

Hello everyone!! We are having the most foggy morning today, and I am loving it. I wouldn’t as much if I needed to drive in it, but thankfully I can just sit here and drink my coffee and look out the window at it. It is beautiful with the fire of the autumn leaves showing through it.

Books:

Last week I read The Unknown, which I completely inhaled in two days. I loved it until the very end, where I became slightly disappointed. But otherwise it was a completely solid book, filled with lots of twists! I followed it up with The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. This is cosmic dread, and it was very full of dread. It was short but it gave me the creeps, it was just so unsettling. Thankfully after reading these two books I had Mulberry Mischief waiting, and it is a nice return to cozy. I am about halfway through it, and I am enjoying the return to Oriole Point!

This week I plan on reading Crafting for Sinners, and if I have time, The Haunted Librarian. We will see though. I read all day last Sunday and this Sunday I have to work. Lol. Billy painted our family room yesterday (yay!!!) and today I have to put it all back together. I can’t wait. I was super excited to finally get rid of the purple! That room was that color for a million years and it made it sooo dark in the fall and winter. When Wyatt and I sit in there for school mid-winter it is just too dark, even with lights.

I picked up Crafting for Sinners at the author’s bookstore in Louisville which was all horror themed!

Screens:

Billy and I have been just jumping all over the place watching things. Below with Josh Hartnett, Over the Garden Wall, and Edwardian Farm are getting the most watched here. There is just something so soothing about those BBC Farm shows.

I did post a few times last week:

Top Ten Tuesday: Sleepy Hollow Inspired Stories

Thursday Morning Coffee Catch Up

Sweater Weather Cinema

In-Betweens:

It’s Halloween week! We love Halloween around here. I am really excited because this week I arranged for Wyatt’s besties A. and Z. to come over Friday for Halloween school! They are also homeschooled and I am planning a special Halloween themed art project and science project, with of course snacks. It will be his first “school party” since preschool!

And that is it for me today! I hope that you are all doing well, and do something that makes you smile today, even if it is just something small.