Living a Joyful Life

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Fish & veggies Tuesday: Chicken & veggies Wednesday: Pizza Thursday: Late lunch. Friday: Mac & cheese from Trader Joe's Saturday: Breakfast for dinner Sunday: Corn beef, cabbage, veggies, and Irish soda bread. We didn't have our Irish meal on St. Patrick's Day because we had bloodwork scheduled for the following day. What I'm Reminiscing About... All of my trips to visit my nephews and nieces when they were growing up. I can't believe how fast time flies and how fast my nephews and nieces have grown and are growing up. Right now, I have 2 nephews and 2 nieces in college, nephew who is a senior in HS, niece who is a junior in HS, nephew who is a sophomore in HS, nephew who is a freshman in HS, nephew in 5th grade, and nephew in 3rd grade. What I'm Loving... March Madness! What I've Been Up To... My nephew and his basketball team won their county championship game and then they won the championship game ...

  Change of Plans –Sarah Dessen My Rating: 4 stars (really 4.5) From acclaimed and #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a romantic coming-of-age novel about an unassuming girl who learns to stand on her own while falling in love during a life-changing summer. This is Sarah Dessen’s first novel in a number of years and I am so excited to have a new release from her. This novel is expected to be published May 5th, 2026. I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads. I’m not allowed to really say anything about the book as it has yet to be published but I will say that I loved it so much and I really hope Sarah Dessen doesn’t have another big gap between publishing novels because I love her writing so much. I’m pretty sure I’ve rated all of her novels either 4 or 5 stars. Two Can Play -Ali Hazelwood (a novella) My Rating: 5 stars I loved this novella so much and  I really wish it was a full length novel. I loved the main characters and the secondary characte...