Living a Joyful Life

1. What We're Eating This Week Monday: Gino's Pizza Tuesday: Grilled sausage, ravioli, and green beans I'm not sure about the rest of the week. 2. What I'm Reminiscing About... My trip to NY to visit my family that happened earlier this month. Credit: Pinterest 3. What I'm Loving... That I was able to spend a week in NY and spend quality time with my nieces & nephews and my siblings. Credit: Pinterest 4. What I've Been Up To... I started back to work last week when it was the first day of school. I work at an elementary school in the aftercare program and I'm also a substitute teacher. Credit: Heather Stillufsen @  Rose Hill Design Studio 5. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. 6. What I'm Working On... I have a couple of blog posts that I want to get posted and one of them is my review of the 2018 Erin Condren Life Planner. 7. What I'm Excited About... M

1. Pool, lake or ocean? If I could trade the Caribbean ocean for the Atlantic ocean, I would in a heartbeat and I would be there all the time. Since I sadly can't make this happen, I love both pools and lake. I grew up going to Lake George, NY for a week every Summer for our Summer vacations and that place has my heart. To this day, it is still one of my all time favorite places in the world. 2. Camping, cottage, or hotel? I've only been camping a few times in my life so I would say cottage or hotel. 3. Favorite ice cream flavor? Funfetti (it tastes just like the Funfetti cake mix). 4. PJ's, Nightgown, T-shirt/Shorts or Birthday Suit? Combination of PJ's and t-shirt/shorts. 5. Fave Summer Beverage? Sweet Tea/Iced Tea 6. Would you rather be hot or cold? Cold. 7. Sandals with heels or flats? Flats 8. Shorts or skirts? Shorts. 9. Sit in the sun or the shade? Shade. 10. Water, tea, or soda? Wat

Here are the books I read in July: 1. The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn I really enjoyed this novel. The story was very different and it held my interest. I was very curious to find out what was going to happen next and how the story was going to end. I rated this book 4 stars on the Goodreads website. 2. Always & Forever, Lara Jean -Jenny Han This is the third and final installment of the Lara Jean series. I have loved all of the books in this series and this one was no exception. I'm sad that there are going to be no more new books but I do love how this book ended and wrapped up Lara Jean's story. I rated this book 5 stars. 3. The Sunshine Sisters -Jane Green Another fabulous novel by Jane Green. This one focused on three sisters and their childhood and how they were raised by their mother and how the mother treated each of them so differently. A circumstance finds all the sisters (who are spread out in different places) back home for the Sum