Meet Amy

I have struggled with the answer when asked, "What do you do?" and it isn't work-related. Ultimately, we settled on that I find things and untangle things. But I also read (a lot), pretend to wake surf, and watch Hallmark films.

Amy's bookshelf: 2024

The Weekend Away
it was amazing
So so good! Orla and Kate are long-time best friends off on a girls' weekend away. Kate is a bit of a player who is trying to get back at her soon-to-be-ex, causing her to spend frivolously and do drugs and hook-ups. Orla is a new mom ex...
tagged: 2024, audible-books, five-stars, thriller, and thoughtful
Written Off
really liked it
tagged: 2024, cozy, easy, and four-stars
Maybe Next Time
really liked it
Parts were a screaming 5 and parts were like “what?” And just irritated me. It is a Groundhog Day premise about a family of four - the mom is caught up in her own life and missing all that is going on around her with her kids and then he...
tagged: 2024, audible-books, fiction, four-stars, and thoughtful

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11 Things to do without in 2011 - What are they?

Oh goodness, where to begin on the items that I do not need in 2011. Here we go…

1. Less stress in 2011. Guessing that most of us could say that.

2. Less discouragement. I hate getting frustrated and feeling like I don’t have the solution.

3. Less sickness. This ones easy to hope for […]

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5 Minutes of Memories...

If I had only 5 minutes to save all the memories I could from 2011, what would I want to remember?

1. Ivy’s tonsillectomy and her panic over a Barbie doll at the hospital.

2. Nathan’s baptism (our nephew) – the first baptism that my girls were old enough to understand and remember.

3. Jade […]

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My gratitude is great

This year I have learned to appreciate something amazing.

When my sister-in-law was diagnosed with cancer, I was first overcome with shock. Then our family focused on hope and faith. We turned to prayer and leaned on the doctors that believed in a treatment.

Treatment began and it really […]

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It was a great decision...

…even though it has been difficult.

The wisest decision of 2010 has also been a decision that has created many challenges but it has definitely been worth it.

5 1/2 years ago, Scott and I made the decision for me to go back to work full time. When I first started working, my sister and […]

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Beautifully Different

I have decided to participate in Reverb10. Unfortunately I’m getting a late start. And of course it is one that is really hard for me. I’m struggling with what to say about me. I very rarely write about me

Me – what makes me different? What do […]

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