Category: life update
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My New Normal: the Balancing Act Between Parenting and Everything Else
I’m back! After an accidental 3-month hiatus, I’m finally feeling myself enough to get back to reading and blogging. What caused this unintended break? Only the sweetest little soul that I’ve ever encountered. In late September, we welcomed our daughter to the world and I’ve been completely preoccupied ever since.
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August Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and A New Era
I genuinely can’t believe it’s September, and at the same time, I eagerly awaited being able to say that all month. We’re finally within sight of welcoming baby girl into the world. I feel like my entire life, including every spare bit of brainpower I have, has been dedicated to preparing, excitement, and anxiety as…
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July 2024 Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving Right Now
I’m typically a summer person. I cling to how wonderful it will feel to have the sun on my skin again when we’re up to our necks in snow, and the second I start to see green grass again in the spring, I can feel my spirits lift.
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June 2024 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR lists, and What I’m Loving
Another month has come and gone and I’m thinking the theme of 2024 is going to end up being “where did the time go?!” I feel like we’re flying through the summer already, and with so much coming in the fall, I’m doing my best to savour it even while it races relentlessly past me.
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May 2024 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Readd, TBR lists, and What I’m Loving
May felt like the full return of my energy. While I’d been feeling better the month before, in May, I mostly felt normal as far as mental capacity went. Everything else still feels very much in the trenches of the second trimester, but almost every night I found myself finally able to sit down and…
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April Wrap-Up: Books Read, Season of Series Update, and What I’m Loving Right Now
I can’t believe it’s already time to wrap up April 2024. It feels like this year is flying, and the pinch to get more done feels stronger than ever as we prepare for our family to grow this fall. In April, I entered my second trimester and with it, I finally got some of my…
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March 2024 Reading Wrap-Up: My Slow Reading Season Amidst Major Life Changes
It’s been a while since I wrote a monthly reading summary. In fact, I haven’t written one since wrapping up my January reads a couple of months ago. To be honest, I simply didn’t have the capacity for reading or writing over the past couple of months, but that’s beginning to change and I couldn’t…
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January 2024 Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving Right Now
I had big plans for January. Over the holidays, I had three full weeks off and I spent a lot of it getting organized and preparing for a hyper-productive, focused 2024. I was excited and motivated and ready to go. Then my health took a deep dive and everything went up in smoke.
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Reflections on one year of book blogging
2023 is now finished and wow, what a year it was. I’ve had ups and downs, new jobs, new friends, international and local travel, anniversary celebrations, milestone birthdays, time spent with family, time spent grieving, and so much more, but easily one of the most consistent highlights for me has been diving head-first into this…
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Best Books Read in 2023
2023 was a record-breaker for me. I read a full 100 books and so many of them were amazing. While I read more new releases this year than I have in years past, I’m still making my way through a TBR list that’s several years long, so not every book I read was released in…
