Living a Joyful Life

1. What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Chicken, corn, sweet potato Tuesday: Waffles Wednesday: Pizza and I'm not sure about the rest of the week. 2. What I'm Reminiscing About... My trip to Turks & Caicos last year. ^This was a picture taken from my first trip to Turks & Caicos in 2012. I went back for a second time last year.^ 3. What I'm Loving... Spending time with my mom, my job, my co-workers, planning in my Erin Condren Life Planner, reading. 4. What I've Been Up To... Aside from working, I have been taking it easy at night and on the weekends. 5. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. 6. What I'm Working On... Scheduling blog posts (and trying to stick to the schedule). 7. What I'm Excited About... Upcoming visits from family! 8. What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: Regular TV shows, football Reading: The Summer House by Hannah McKinnon 9.

Survey taken from  Here ! Number Of Books You Read: 50 Number of Re-Reads: 0 Genre You Read The Most From: Fiction 1. Best Book You Read In 2017? Wonder –R.J. Palacio (Runner-Up: The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney) 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? I Hate Everyone But You –Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin  3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?   Into The Water –Paula Hawkins  4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read? Wonder by R.J. Palacio  5. Best series you started in 2017? Best Sequel of 2017? Best Series Ender of 2017? I didn’t start a new series. Best sequel: Book #9 in the Kate Burkholder series called Down A Dark Road. Best series ender: Always & Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han.  6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2017? J.P. Delaney & Hannah McKinnon 7. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone? I don’t

1. Happy New Year Happy New Year, my friends! We are 5 days into the new year already. I hope you all had a fun time celebrating the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018. Credit:  This Site 2. My 31st birthday On New Year's Eve, I celebrated my 31st birthday! I was still recovering from double ear infections and a sinus infection but I managed to go out for a little bit with my mom. We went to Target and Barnes & Noble and had tacos at Moe's. We also got cupcakes to take home. I was so tired that I didn't even stay up to watch the ball drop at midnight and I crashed at 10pm. Credit:  This Site 3. Books Read In December These are the 4 books I read in December, which completed my Goodreads challenge of reading 50 books in 2017: Christmas At Mistletoe Cove –Holly Martin (3 stars) Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories –R.J.Palacio (4 stars) We’ll Always Have Christmas –Jenny Hale (5 stars) Christmas at St. Ives –Miranda Di

1. What did you do in 2017 that you'd never done before? I got a full time job at a daycare center. I started working there on October 16 th . 2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I didn't make any resolutions. 3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My cousin, A and my friend, C. 4. Did anyone close to you die? No. 5. What countries did you visit? Not a country but I went to Turks & Caicos at the end of February/beginning of March.   6. What would you like to have in 2018 that you lacked in 2017? Nothing that I can think of. 7. What date(s) from 2017 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? February 25 & 26: I was in NY visiting family. February 27-March 4 th : Trip to Turks & Caicos. April 20 th -April 23: Nashville, TN for Planners Gone Wild National Planner Conference. August 13-August 21: Trip to NY to visit family. September 27: Found out that I got the full ti