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Share Your Shelf #21: What I Read In December

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It's time for Share Your Shelf. This post and link up are dedicated solely to books and book reviews and it's one I look so forward to each and every month. I am always looking for new and more book ideas. My co-hosts all decided to drop out/bow out gracefully but I love this link up far too much to discontinue it. I had a great month of reading in December and spent many cold days snuggled up with a good book. I only read a couple of Christmas themed books and mostly stuck to my usual reading materials instead.  1. The King's Rancom by Janet Evanovich  (book 2 in the Recovery Agent series)-- Janet Evanovich writes some of the best characters! In this second book in the series Gabriela is a recovery agent and is roped into helping her ex-husband Rafer and Rafer's cousin Harley track down missing pieces of art and artifacts; otherwise Harley might end up in prison or worse. Their hunt takes them across the globe and across the paths of many quirky side characters-- some ...
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Currently Hodgepodging-- January 2026

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It's the first Wednesday of the month and time for Currently with Amy. We'll be talking about what we're loving, resolving, planning, eating/drinking, and watching/reading. Loving:  We had an early birthday celebration for Alec while he was home on break; his birthday is later this month but as of right now he's not planning on coming home again until spring break in March. It was great to get together with the grandparents and celebrate.  We bought new dinner plates and bowls last month and I am LOVING them!   Resolving:  To cut sugar and white/bad carbs out of my diet-- 90% of the time. I won't cut out whole grains or potatoes though but I do want to cut back on them.  Planning:  I'm not really planning anything right now. With the holidays and birthday celebrations behind us and no trips coming up for another couple of months I'm just enjoying the everyday right now.  Eating/drinking:  I am drinking water; it's the only thing I ever drin...
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Throwback Tuesday: Keeping Busy Indoors on a COLD Winter's Day.

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 *Originally posted January 5, 2018 when my boys were 10, 11, & 13.    We enjoyed another quiet week at home. Temperatures are staying quite cold and we had a few snowstorms again this week. The forecasters were predicting a huge storm to hit Wednesday night into Thursday morning dumping another foot or so of snow and we were prepared to lose power.  Losing power is always a real headache but losing power in the middle of winter when temperatures are below freezing is so much worse.  Temperatures aren't forecasted to get much above 2 degrees for the next few weeks!  So we are quite happy to hibernate at home. It was so cold on Friday (like single digits cold) that the boys and I elected to stay inside and wrap up with our blankets.  We watched Boss Baby and Despicable Me 3.  Evan and Ian worked on another Lego set Evan had gotten for Christmas. Evan put together the building while Ian built the dragon.  Alec put together his Lego ...
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