Living a Joyful Life

  I'm writing this blog post a little early. What We're Eating This Week... Monday the 10th: Steak, salad, sweet potato Tuesday the 11th: Salad & broccoli Wednesday the 12th: Caesar Salad with grilled chicken Thursday the 13th: Cheeseburger, broccoli, French fries Friday the 14th: BLT and chips Saturday the 15th: Chicken cutlets, baked ziti, roasted potatoes, salad Sunday: Out to eat for Father's Day What I'm Reminiscing About... Summer trips to the lake. What I'm Loving... Watching all of the sports, filming for my YT channel. What I've Been Up To... I came home from visiting my family on June 3rd. My niece M graduated from high school. My nephew, J, is graduating from high school the last week of June. My nephew S graduated from middle school. I've been filming for my Youtube channel. I've been watching a ton of sports (college baseball, MLB, NBA, NHL, WNBA). What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Working On... Making lists, p

  Here are the books I read in May: The Ballad of Darcy & Russell -Morgan Matson My Rating: 5 stars Another fabulous novel from one of my favorite Young Adult authors. I always get so excited when she releases a new novel. This Summer Will Be Different -Carley Fortune My Rating: 5 stars This is Carley Fortune's third novel written and I have loved them all so much. I have also rated them all 5 stars. I love her writing so much. The settings of her books are my favorite. I can't wait until her next novel comes out. The Quarantine Princess Diaries -Meg Cabot My Rating: 4 stars This is the latest novel in the Princess Diaries series  which I think started being published when I was in middle school if I'm not mistaken. I loved getting to read about the main characters in this series again. It's very rare that a new novel in this series gets published anymore. I think when the first novel in the series came out, a new one followed every year for a long time. The Happy

  I am writing this a little late as I was out of town the week this link-up went live. What We're Eating This Week... Monday the 27th: Pesto pasta and salad Tuesday the 28th: Salad Wednesday the 29th: Pasta & salad Thursday the 30th: Cheeseburger, tater tots, pasta salad Friday the 31st: Sushi Saturday the 1st: Sausage & peppers Sunday the 2nd: Gnocchi in butter & cream sauce with mushrooms and truffle oil What I'm Reminiscing About... My high school graduation. With one of my nephews and one of nieces graduating high school this year (and one of my nephews graduating middle school), I am reflecting on my own high school graduation which I can't believe happened almost 19 years ago. What I'm Loving: Spending time with family, college baseball, playoff hockey & playoff basketball. Why isn't my beloved MLB baseball on the list? Because it's only end of May/start of June and my team is already out of it for the season. What I've Been Up To... D