Living a Joyful Life

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Filet mignon and vegetables Tuesday: Pepperoni roll Wednesday: BLT I'm not sure about the rest of the week. What I'm Reminiscing About... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Loving... Family time, swimming, reading. What I've Been Up To... Trip to visit my family, attended an amazing country music concert, celebrated my nephew's birthday, lots of reading and swimming. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Working On... Filming for my Youtube channel. What I'm Excited About... Trip to visit my family and the concert. What I'm Watching/Reading.. Watching: I binged the whole season of Sweet Magnolias with my sister in law the day after it came out. Reading: I read a lot of books this month and will recap them in a book blog post next month. What I'm Listening To... Sam Hunt, Brett Young, Morgan Wallen, Kenny Chesney, Bailey Zimmerman What I'm Doing This Weekend... Attending my best friend...

The Fastball –Megan Cousins (Wild Pitches #3) My Rating: 4 stars A romance series with themes of baseball? Sign me right up! I really enjoyed this book and the relationship between the main characters and the male main character and his family. I’m excited that there will be at least one more book in this series. Six summers to fall –C.W. Farnsworth My Rating: 4 stars I really enjoyed this novel. I am excited to read more from this author. I loved the relationship between the main characters. I also loved the setting (any book that takes place at the lake always makes me so happy).   Open Road Summer –Emery Lord My Rating: 3 stars I loved the relationship between the two best friends in this novel and how they were always there for each other during hard times. I really like this author and her writing style.   Mr. Wrong Number –Lynn Painter My Rating: 4 stars I love Lynn Painter’s novels and really enjoyed this one as well. I really loved the rela...

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday... Salad with chicken Tuesday: Leftovers Wednesday: Chicken parm. & pasta Thursday: Takeout, I think I'm not sure about the rest of the week. What I'm Reminiscing About... As usual this time of year, I'm thinking about all of my trips to the lake and my trips to visit my family during the summertime.  What I'm Loving... Reading, watching baseball (even though the Mets game have been leaving me depressed). What I've Been Up To... June 1st-June 4th: The last couple of days that I was visiting my family. June 3rd: Went to the Mets game and met my friend Ana in person after being Internet friends for years. Other than that, I've been doing a lot of reading, watching Youtube, watching baseball. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Working On... Filming and uploading for my Youtube channel. What I'm Excited About... I was excited to go to the Mets game (even though we ended up losing), meeting...

  Meet Me at the Lake -Carley Fortune My Rating: 5 stars This is the second novel from Carley Fortune and she has been added to my list of favorite authors. I absolutely love that her first two books take place at a lake. If you haven't read her books yet, I highly recommend both of them. I loved this book just as much as her first one and I can't wait to read more from her. Happy Place -Emily Henry My Rating: 5 stars I absolutely loved this book. I think it's probably my favorite Emily Henry book (although I have loved them all). I love the characters in this novel, the setting and I loved the ending. Love in the time of Serial Killers -Alicia Thompson My Rating: 3 stars While I did enjoy this book, it wasn't my favorite and I don't see myself re-reading it but it was enjoyable enough. I did like the development of the relationship between the two main characters. Smart Girl Summer -Kristin Rockaway My Rating: 3 stars This was a cute summer read. I liked all of...

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: BBQ (Sliders, chicken, steak, corn, salad) Tuesady: Leftovers from BBQ Wednesday: Fried ravioli and chicken Thursday: Pasta Friday: Chicken, zucchini, salad Saturday: Early lunch before I went to baseball game, donut/milkshake combo at ballpark, chips & salad as a snack when I got home Sunday: Pasta, chicken, salad What I'm Reminiscing About... My wonderful trips to visit my family during the spring/summer months. What I'm Loving... Quality time with family, baseball, reading. What I've Been Up To... On the 3rd I spent the day with my best friend and her daughter. Celebrated my mom on Mother's Day. I watched lots of baseball. Trip to visit my family and lots of quality family time. What I'm Dreading... On the 5th, it was Pumpkin's 10th birthday and the first one she's celebrating in Heaven. It was a really emotional day. I miss her so badly that my heart aches from missing her everyday. As of May 1st, it's...

  Your Life Has Been Delayed -Michelle I. Mason My Rating: 4 stars This book mixed YA with science fiction. Although I'm not generally a science fiction fan, I really enjoyed this novel and how it was very different than most YA books I've read. The Truth Project -Dante Medema My Rating: 3 stars I really enjoyed this book and the storyline. I liked the main character and her relationships with the other characters in this book. When We Collided -Emery Lord My Rating: 4 stars This was such a good book. It was the first novel I read from this author and I have her other novels on my TBR list. I also love the cover of this book so much. Meet Me in the Middle -Alex Light My Rating: 3 stars I enjoyed this novel, the storyline and the characters, especially the main characters. If We Were Us -K.L Walther My Rating: 4 stars I loved this book so much. I enjoyed all of the characters in this book and the storyline so much. I recommend this novel if you like YA novels. Finlay Donova...

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Cheeseburger, fries, and beans Tuesday: Roasted pork, roasted potatoes, lima beans I'm not sure about the rest of the week. What I'm Reminiscing About... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Loving... Baseball is back! Let's Go Mets! I've been reading up a storm this month. I'm on my 10th book of the month. What I've Been Up To... Family visits, a week of sickness (double ear infections & a viral infection), watching lots of baseball, and doing a ton of reading, watching TV/Youtube. What I'm Dreading... Nothing that I can think of at the moment. What I'm Working On... Planning out my content for my Youtube channel for the next few months. What I'm Excited About... I was chosen to participate in the Erin Condren planner launch collaboration. My review of the new planners and accessories that I were sent to review is on my Youtube channel:   My EC Review What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: Regular ...