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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An afternoon stroll or scootering or blading

Actually, I was the only one that didn’t have wheels for any part of our stroll.

Sunday afternoon, we decided to enjoy the brief good weather that we had by taking a walk (of sorts) down by the lake. There is a great paved trail that goes around […]

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Our Family's Favorite Restaurant

Birthdays we like to make special and we seem to gravitate towards our own traditions. One thing that is fast becoming a tradition is going to a tepan restaurant for each of the kids birthdays. We went a few days early for Jade’s because we were able to have both sets of grandparents […]

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Not Quick but Delicious

Several years ago, Coscto carried a Raclette grill by Trudeau. Scott had memories of eating around a Raclette as a missionary when church members would have them over for dinner. Because of awesome memories, Scott bought one and we were excited to try it. The first thing we realized was that our fancy grill was […]

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What a Birthday

Ivy is five – and all day she reminded us that it was her birthday and that she is five. Oh the list of things that she can and will do now that she’s five! I’m crossing my fingers that her “now that I’m five I’m going to do whatever you ask me to do” […]

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My memorable party

This year I got to attend blogher in my favorite city – New York. It was absolutely amazing. And as I have already done a post about the whole conference I will focus only on one very fun day.

The last day of Blogher was an absolute blast. Lolli (my roommate and friend) was asked […]

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