Living a Joyful Life

What We're Eating This Week... Monday. Takeout: salad & cheesy bread Tuesday: Meatloaf, baked mac & cheese, acorn squash Wednesday: Leftovers of meatloaf and baked mac & cheese and a vegetable What I'm Reminiscing About... My two trips to the Caribbean that both happened in February. One was in 2011 and the other was in 2018 I believe. I love the Caribbean ocean so much and I wish it was closer to where I live so that I could swim in it more often. What I'm Loving... Watching the football playoffs. One game left of the season in February.. the big game. It will be the Kansas City Chiefs vs. the San Francisco 49er's. What I've Been Up To... I've been doing the usual: planning/filming for my YT channel, reading, watching football/tv/movies and Youtube. What I'm Dreading... Nothing I want to talk about. What I'm Working On... Filming for my Youtube channel and working on my February content schedule. What I'm Excited About... Football playof

  Here are the books I read in December 2023: A Holly Jolly Ever After ( A Christmas Notch #2 ) –Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone My Rating: 4 stars I really enjoyed this novel. I liked this one better than the first book in the series. The characters were all great especially the main characters. Same Time, Next Year (A Novella) –Tessa Bailey My Rating: 4 stars This is the first thing I’ve read from Tessa Bailey and I can’t wait to read more. I loved the main characters so much and I honestly wish that this was a full length novel. Faking Christmas –Cindy Steel My Rating: 3 stars I enjoyed this story. I loved the characters and enjoyed the fake dating trope. Holiday Romance (Fitzpatrick Christmas #1) –Catherine Walsh My Rating: 4 stars I loved all of the characters in this book and I thought the storyline was so unique and creative. Snowed In (Fitzpatrick Christmas #2) –Catherine Walsh My Rating: 4 stars Again, I loved all of the characters in this book. This book featured the fak

                                                                       Currently Reading? Eight Perfect Hours –Lia Louis   Your book goal of 2023? 75   How many books read in 2020? 90   Fiction/Non-fiction ratio? 89/2   Male/Female authors? 89/2   Favorite book(s) read? 1.             Meet Me at the Lake – Carley Fortune 2.             An Evil Heart –Linda Castillo (Kate Burkholder #15) 3.             Carrie Soto Is Back –Taylor Jenkins Reid 4.             The Darlings –Hannah McKinnon 5.             The Do over –Lynn Painter 6.             Better than the Movies –Lynn Painter 7.             Betting on You –Lynn Painter 8.             Happy Place –Emily Henry 9.             Two Truths and a Lie –Meg Mitchell Moore 10.           Left Field Love –C.W. Farnsworth 11.           The Next Chapter –Jana Kramer 12.           There’s something about Merry –Codi Hall 13.           Along Came Holly –Codi Hall 14.           If