Living a Joyful Life

I'm posting this a day late. 1. What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Pizza Tuesday: Cheeseburger & Fries Wednesday: Oatmeal Thursday: Thanksgiving dinner! Friday: Leftovers Credit:  This Site 2. What I'm Reminiscing About... Holiday seasons through the years. Credit:  This Site 3. What I'm Loving... The start of the holiday season! 4. What I've Been Up To... I've been loving my new job! The past weekend, I went to see Wonder with my mom and Grandma and it was such a beautiful movie! I recommend that everyone read the book and see the movie! Credit:  This Site 5. What I'm Dreading... That I am unable to go to NY this year for Christmas to spend time with my family! 6. What I'm Working On... Shopping for Christmas presents for my family! Credit: Heather Stillufsen @  Rose Hill Design Studio 7. What I'm Excited About... The holiday season!! Credit: H...

1. Favorite Fall sweet treat? Anything pumpkin related. 2. Red, yellow, or green apples? Green. 3. Favorite Fall sport to play? Baseball & football! 4. Best Drink for Fall? Iced Pumpkin Spice Latte. 5. Favorite Fall activity? Attending Fall/Halloween festivals & parties. 6. Must have Fall purchase? Soaps & other things from Bath & Body Works. 7. Pumpkins: Pick your own or store bought? Pick your own. 8. Real or Fake Pumpkin? I like both! 9. Favorite Halloween Costume? Pumpkin. 10. College Football or NFL? NFL. 11. Fall or Halloween Decor? BOTH! 12. Raking leaves or no leaves to rake? Growing up, there was always leaves to rake but not where I live now. 13. Favorite soup? My mom's home-made turkey soup. I also love egg drop soup. 14. Favorite Fall Candle Scent? Anything Pumpkin scented. 15. Love or hate Pumpkin Spice? LOVE! 16. Short booties o...

1. What We're Eating This Week... This week has been very odd dinner wise for me as I have been having stomach issues due to an antibiotic I'm on for my double ear & throat infections. Monday, I had two bottles of water and grapes for dinner, and Tuesday, I had crackers and ginger ale. 2. What I'm Reminiscing About... All of the Halloween memories I have as a child including decorating for Halloween with my mom, picking out my costume, going trick or treating, and going to a lot of Fall & pumpkin festivals with my mom and family. Credit:  This Site 3. What I'm Loving... My new job. I recently got hired as a full time daycare worker and I'm loving it. I have always had a passion for working with children and I love that I get to do it full time and at a place that I love. Credit:  This Blog 4. What I've Been Up To... As mentioned above, I started my new job last week. I attended two planner meet ups with my ...

1. 8 years with Davey Eli On Tuesday, it marked 8 years that Davey Eli, my cat and fur baby, came into my life. He is the sweetest boy. He loves to snuggle, play with his toys, try and steal my washi tape and planner stuff, loves laying in the sun and sleeping! I love him so very much! 2. Birthdays Today is my sister, K's, birthday! I hope she has the best day. Tomorrow my cousin L has a birthday. Next month, there are a lot of birthdays in my family. My mom, my dad, my nephew M, a few of my cousins, and some friends of mine, all have birthdays next month! Credit:  This Site 3. Fall TV Shows   I'm so excited for the return/premieres of Fall TV shows! Here is what I'm watching: Monday: Dancing With The Stars, Kevin Can Wait, The Good Doctor, 9JKL, S.W.A.T. Tuesday: Law & Order: True Crime, This Is Us, Chrisley Knows Best Wednesday: Survivor, Chicago PD, Law & Order: SVU, American Housewife, Eric & Jessie, Total Bellas ...

1. What We're Eating This Week.. Monday: Quesadilla Tuesday: PB & J (I was so tired and wasn't feeling well due to allergies.) I'm not sure about the rest of the week. 2. What I'm Reminiscing About... The 2015 Mets season where they made it to the World Series. September and October 2015 were so magical because of playoff and Post-season baseball. Credit:  This  Instagram Accout 3. What I'm Loving... Attending planner meet ups with my friends! Credit:  This  Instagram Account 4. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. 5. What I'm Working On... New blog posts and a cleaning schedule. 6. What I'm Excited About... All things Fall and Pumpkin related!!! Credit:  This Site 7. What I'm Watching/Reading: Watching: This week is the start of Fall premieres. I will have a list of all of the returning and new shows I'm watching this season in my Five on Friday post. ...

I read 7 books in August. 1. Reality TV Bites by Shane Bolks This was a very light read. At some parts, I lost interest but towards the middle/end of the book, it was good. I rated it 2 stars on Goodreads.com. 2. Behind Closed Doors -B.A. Paris I loved this book. The writing was great it kept me on the edge of my seat. If you like a good mystery novel, I definitely recommend this book. B.A. Paris just released a new book and I'm on the wait list for it at my library. I rated this book 4 stars.  3. The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily -Rachel Cohn & David Levithan I loved this book, which is the follow up to Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. Even though I read it during the Summer, it totally put me in the Christmas mood! I hope they write more books starring these characters in the future. I rated it 5 stars. 4. Into The Water by Paula Hawkins I had really high hopes for this novel since I absolutely loved Paula Hawkin'...

I'm posting this a day early as I will not be able to do so tomorrow. 1. Trip to NY I went to NY for 8 days in August to visit my family. I had the best time. I got to spend lots of quality time with my nieces & nephews and my siblings. This was my first real visit to NY this year as I had only been for one day in February before I went to Turks & Caicos. I miss my family so much already and I can't wait until the next time that I get to see them! ^Photo I took when we landed at the airport^ 2. Nieces & Nephews My nieces & nephews all started back to school either this week or two weeks ago. My nephew M is going into 8th grade, my niece O is going into 7th grade, my nephew J & niece M are going into 6th grade, my nephew N is going into 4th grade, my niece A is going into 3rd grade, my nephew S is going into 2nd grade, my nephew M is starting Kindergarten, and my nephew M is starting pre-school. My nephew A is just a baby and isn...