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"Best"/Favorite Books of 2025 by Categories Read

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I read 150 books in 2025 so it was really hard to pick just a few favorites. Typically I just go through each month and pick a favorite from the month but I thought this year it would be fun to pick favorites based on various categories. It was still so tough to pick just one book for each category though!    Best Young Adult novel:  I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang--   This was another fun listen on my Libby app. Sadie tries so hard to make everyone like her but at times her frustration can get the best of her so she lashes out in email form. She never, ever plans to send any of them but they help her feel better.... until the day they all get sent and her life turns upside down. Most of the letters are sent to her nemesis Julius Gong and in a surprising twist of fate the emails find the two of them working together more than ever. It was really cute!  Best juvenile fiction:   Connect The Stars by Marisa de los Santos-- A really adora...
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Styling Tweed with Ageless Style

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It's the third Thursday of the month and time for another ageless style challenge. This month Mireille picked tweed as our theme. I had to google it and I'm pretty sure these pants are tweed... not that you can really tell in the pictures.  I've actually styled these on the blog before. They are one of my favorite pants; they are quite comfortable and they go with everything.         Amy ~ Amy’s Creative Pursuits Blog  |  Instagram  |  Pinterest  |  Facebook  | Bo ~ Bo's Bodacious Blog Blog  /  Instagram  / Pinterest  /  Bloglovin' Joanne ~ My Slice of Life Blog / Instagram/ Pinterest/ Facebook Jodie ~ Jodie’s Touch of Style Blog  |  Instagram  |  Facebook  | Marsha~ Marsha in the Middle Blog | Instagram Mireille ~ Chez Mireille Fashion Travel Mom Blog  |  Instagram  |  Pinterest  |  Facebook   You are invited to the Inlinkz link pa...
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6 Months of a Poultry Meat CSA Program

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We decided to try something different this year and joined a poultry CSA. Unlike the vegetable CSA the meat box is only for pick up once a month. We decided to just try their poultry products this year. The farm is family owned and prides themselves on being the largest grower of pasture raised turkeys in Connecticut. Reading about their growing practices really made me want to support them!   We were not expecting them to be frozen solid when we picked them up though. But it has worked out great as far as keeping them fresh and making sure we will use every single item up.  Each month I am sent a survey and I get to pick 1 item from each grouping in the questionnaire so I do have some say in what our boxes hold. CSA Meat box #1 (June): a very large whole chicken, 3 packages of ground turkey, a turkey breast, 2 chicken thighs and one chicken breast.  It all went right into the freezer but we used 2 of the ground turkey packages to make some homemade burger pa...
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