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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This is me...

This is me. It is me on a day off of work when I spent the day playing with my girls and taking pictures of them. It is my favorite kind of day. The kind that doesn’t get to happen often enough.

My little sister took this picture and she gave […]

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My Absence...

Please excuse my absence the past few days and the next couple of days. I am in the middle of end of quarter/ end of year. If I manage to get some free time I will post about Christmas and the life my girls have led this week with me working and Scott working from […]

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I've learned I'm...

When I was young, I was constantly told, “Amy, you are NOT your performance.”

For years I worked on having a good self-image no matter the reality that I was not the best at everything.

A few years after Scott and I got married, I was really struggling with […]

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Sickness and the Holidays

This fall our house has been full of sniffles and coughs and fevers, and even some vomiting. It hasn’t been fun and now I’m very ready for spring. That way everyone can run and play and burn off that sickness that is getting passed from one of us to the next.

Ivy seems to be […]

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The BEST Christmas gift EVER!!!

Scott and I aren’t much into the Black Friday shopping. We did it our first year married and got so frustrated that everything we got up super early for was sold out by the time we got through the lines. Granted that was nearly 10 years ago and Black Friday wasn’t quite as big of […]

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