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NetGalley Reading Journal For about a year now, I kept seeing people posting pictures of their reading journals online in various groups.  They would have all these stickers and pictures in them.  They were always so cute. NetGalley has made a reading journal for all the people who do reviews of their books.  Inside there are pages for all the books in your to be read (or listened to) pile, pages to keep track of your reviews, pages to keep track of challenges that you are taking part in.  They even provided stickers that you can use. The only thing that I don't like is that I don't find it very easy to use.  They could have made it so easy since it is a PDF.  When creating PDFs, you can make them where they have fields that are easy to fill-in.  Instead, when you want to fill in the field, you have to edit the file and create a text field yourself to fill in the area.  You have to do that for each and every area.  To me, that is very tedious.   One good thing is that NetGalley

The Expectant Detectives by Kat Ailes Narrated by Kitty Kelly It has been ages since I have reviewed any books.  I would like to apologize for that.  I had a stroke, and it took away my ability to read regular books.  I was too proud to turn to audiobooks.  I finally did and I have been enjoying them.  I was too afraid to do reviews because I didn't feel that my words would come to me.  Maybe they will, maybe they won't.  However, this is my true feelings about this book.   It has been ages since I was pregnant.  My youngest would have been 24 this year if she would have survived.  So, to say that reading this took me back in time to when I was pregnant is to definitely say something.  The author wrote it in such a way that it brought back those memories for me.  I could remember the weight of the baby on the bladder and how it felt to walk.   The main character of the book is Alice.  She and her partner Joe have just moved to a lovely little village in England named Penton.  D

Karen Kingsbury has been a well loved author of mine for many years. "Waiting for Morning" is a book about anger towards God and humanity while learning to forgive and go on with life. A terrible tragedy fills Hannah with unforgiveness, Kingsbury writes in such a way that you feel this characters anger and the need for revenge. Also as she realizes her need to forgive and the need to let go and let God take control. There are many people who struggle with forgiving those that have wronged them. Karen reminds us that Jesus forgave us of our sins, of our wrong doings. He asked the Father to forgive those that crucified him. We all had a part in that and yet Jesus forgave us. When we forgive, we can have the ultimate peace that can only come from Christ. This is definitely a book that you need to keep a box of tissues close at hand.  Karen writes with such passion that you can feel Hannah's anger and sorrow as well as her relief when she can finally let go and forgi

I had been doing really great with my weight loss.  I lost about 60 pounds but then stalled.  So I joined Weight Watchers.  I was doing pretty good on Smart Points plan.  However, with the new switch to Freestyle, I am really struggling.  Don’t get me wrong, Freestyle is a good plan for many people who have willpower and control over their eating.  For me, it just isn’t working.  With Freestyle, they have increased the number of foods that are free.  My big issue is that I didn’t overeat sweets & stuff like that.  I overate most of the foods that they have put to free.  It is easy for me to go back for 2nds or 3rds on chicken, fish, etc.  I prefer the savory foods.  I know that the leaders keep saying to think of it as zero points instead of free.  But I have a more logically inclined mindset.  Let me explain my way of thinking.  Imagine walking into a store with $23 in your pocket and being told that all the pants are free and you can take as many as you want.  You are going to gr

I found some really interesting tarot challenges on Tumblr.  I decided to go ahead and post them on my blog as well.  You can find me on Tumblr here . So the first challenge that I will be doing is the April Fool Tarot Challenge.  Here is a listing of each day: 1. The April Fool Spread : Shuffle, and find the Fool. The cards on either side are “what to be optimistic about this month” and “what to be wary of, in case it’s a trick” 2. Tarot Garden : Go through your decks and see if you can find at least three different flower species depicted. Take a super aesthetic photo of this tarot garden! 3. The Sun Cross Spread : Shuffle and find the Sun. The cards on either side are things that will warm up your spring 4. Green Thumb : Find three cards (or more!) with green as the dominant colour. Do the cards’ meanings relate somehow? If differentiating colours is difficult, select one or more cards that mean “growth” to you. 5. The April Showers Spread : Pull a card to represent Apri

  Description Young Maggie Greene may be trespassing in the old, empty Victorian mansion on a quiet street in Hidden Springs, but all she wants is some private time in the magnificent tower room to write her stories. Certain she'll be in trouble if caught, she hides when a realtor shows up. But someone else is in the house too, someone even more worried about getting caught. When Maggie finds the realtor's body at the bottom of a flight of stairs and the other person gone, Deputy Sheriff Michael Keane is called in. He assumes the realtor's death is a tragic accident--until a second person is found dead in the house. When Maggie is threatened, Michael must catch the murderer before anyone else dies.   Review This is the third installment of the Hidden Springs series by A.H. Gabhart.  I hadn’t read the prior two books, but I found this one a fun read.  So you can definitely read it as a stand-alone.  But trust me, once you read it you will be hooked!  So you might

I have been putting off posting for awhile.  My health really declined in the second half of 2016.  In fact, 2016 ended with me having a stroke and finding out that I am now diabetic. It has been stressful and frustrating.  I am only 45 years old and I am now having to use a walker.  I am terrified of going out anywhere because we live on the second floor and I am not sure how to manage the stairs with a walker. I am relearning how to do many simple tasks.  One thing I did learn is that when I had thought I had a stroke a few years back and the hospital I went to kept telling me that I didn’t have one, they were not right.  I was told that the lesion on my brain was from a previous stroke.  So I had already been suffering from one for a long time.  Thankfully, neither stroke was terribly horrible.  The first one left me a little weak on my left side.  Oh yeah, by the way, I am left handed.  I was still able to get in and out of the bath/shower.  However, my left leg had to be dra