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 having a good weekend! Our week has been very very slow. Lol. That heatwave kept us indoors for a whole week for the most part. We ran out and did things here and there, but not anything too exciting. Wyatt and I spent a lot of time reading and painting, our two fallbacks for free time here. This week the weather is supposed to be a lot nicer, and we will be out and about. It is the annual art fair in our city this week and Wyatt and I always go one morning together, then I go again with Billy during the evening. Billy and I used to work downtown in our twenties and spent 12 hour days the week of art fair, but we absolutely loved every second. Ah to be 23 again. Lol.
Books:
I’ve fallen into this cozy mystery series and can’t stop! They are such perfect little summertime reads. They are set on the west coast of Michigan, in my favorite area near Saugatuck in a fictional town named Oriole Point. I am loving them! I read Dying for Strawberries and then immediately bought Blackberry Burial for my kindle, which if you know me, then you know I have not used my kindle for like five years. Anyway, I am loving this series, written by Michigan author Sharon Farrow.
Once I finish Blackberry Burial, which I should in a day or two, I am going to start My Own Cape Cod by Gladys Taber.
Screens:
Billy and I have been catching up on Only Murders in the Building this week. It just seemed like a good week to finally watch it. We have also been continuing on our nostalgic movies of the 80s and 90s watching with Wyatt as well! So far this weekend we have watched The Great Outdoors starring Dan Ackroyd and John Candy, Annette Bening and Stephanie Faracy. Wyatt was cracking up at so many of John Candy’s antics, much like I did in 1988.
Tonight Billy and I are going to watch one without Wyatt, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
We usually watch Jaws on the fourth of July but switched it out this year for The Great Outdoors. Sometimes you have to mix things up!
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!
Here is the link for July’s link up!
I also posted a few times last week!
Books, Screens, and In-Betweens – June Wrap Up
In Our Homeschool – Out with the Old, In with the New
And finally, some in-betweens:
It was a pretty slow week, as I said above. I visited my mom quite a bit, read, painted with Wyatt, played games with Wyatt, went to therapy with him where he knocked it out of the park again, so there is not much to say here! However, one little thing happened.
On Friday, Billy had the day off. It was still dangerously hot but we needed out of the house, at least Wyatt and I did, so all three of us went for a drive. We popped into a few stores, I got a new dress to wear poolside at my cousin’s, we got blizzards from Dairy Queen (Oreo for Wyatt, Reeses for me, and mango for Billy), and then on the way home Billy thought our car needed a bath. We went through the car wash, and midway through my child decided he wanted a closer look at the machinery washing our car – and rolled his window down! He instantly panicked when water came flying in, and Billy scrambled to roll up the window from his driver side controls. It was one of those parenting moments where you just roll your eyes at each other over the crazy antics of your kid. We all cracked up too, because we never expected that to happen! At least now that he is 11! However, Wyatt is definitely turning into a tween boy, following his impulses, and reminding me of my little brother at that age. Lol.
I do have some photos from our lazy week! Not many though. LOL.
The drive thru line was so long at Taco Bell on one of those 112 degree days that I just read my book while I was waiting. You can also see my sunflowers that I painted from an Andrea Nelson art tutorial on Instagram, and then our two mischievous tween kittens, making a mess trying to catch a fly.
And that my friends is it from me today! I hope whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!!
