At Home On one hand, I'm thrilled it's finally Friday because this past week has been crazy. On the other hand, I can't believe my kids' last day of school is in one week! I'm about three-quarters prepared for the summer. We have the workbooks, I've been working on their schedule and keeping an eye … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – June 2, 2023
Welcome to this month's Curated Bookshelf! It's June, which means the school year is about to come to a close. I'm sad it means my kids are growing up, but I'm actually looking forward to all the fun we can have now that they don't have to spend the better part of a weekday at … Continue reading The Curated Bookshelf: June 2023’s Theme
At Home Is it Friday already? Well, I'm not sure where, exactly, the week has gone, but I'm glad it's a three day weekend. Even if I'm up to my knees preparing for the summer and our vacation. I did so much laundry this week to wash a ton of new clothes we've gotten for … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 26, 2023
Back in January I decided to not make a bookish wish this year. Making a wish this year just didn't quite feel right, so I decided to not do it. Actually, a lot of how I had been reading didn't quite feel right, so I've been working on changing things so I'm a lot happier … Continue reading My Bookish Wish of 2023 That Wasn’t
At Home This past week has actually been quite uninteresting. We're starting to get ready for summer vacation and our first family vacation ever in July, so lots of prep work (mostly buying clothes) has been going on. My son isn't really interested in buying clothes, but my daughter is in rainbow unicorn heaven. Her … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 19, 2023
It's only May and I've already found what this year is all about. And it's all thanks to books! Seriously, could it have been any other way? I've been a book lover since before I could read (according to my mom. I have no memory of "reading" to myself at a year old), so it … Continue reading That’s It, This Year Is All About Reclaiming My Childhood
At Home Where the last couple of weeks were full of errands and other not fun things (with a few fun things mixed in, of course), this past week has kind of felt like a massive social call. We spent Saturday at Disneyland with another family, which could have gone horribly wrong, but ended up … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 12, 2023
I'm a little sensitive to cursing these days. And how I wish I meant witch curses by that. Then I'd say I'm a little tired of being turned into a toad. Unfortunately, I mean those bad words. My son is not quite nine, but already plays around with them. It's gotten tiring trying to teach … Continue reading Books and Bad Words
At Home I thought last week was a bit nutty, but turns out even that could be beat. I have both been more absent from this blog than I had planned and literally absent from my home as nearly every day has had errands that needed to be run. And the one day that didn't? … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 5, 2023
Welcome to this month's Curated Bookshelf! I'm glad to be back at it, but also feeling a little rushed this month because the past two months have thrown my personal life into all sorts of chaos. There were a few themes I was thinking of for May, but I decided to keep it on the … Continue reading The Curated Bookshelf: May 2023’s Theme
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