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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My gymnast

Jade thrives on a super busy schedule. She goes to the gym twice a week for nearly 3 hours. And she’s at the studio twice a week for another 3 hours a day. One day a week she has off. She does homework when she gets home from the gym or the studio. And on […]

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Church and Kids - not always easy

I love that our church has a meeting when the whole family gets to sit together and pray together. But I also love that there is a time for the adults to meet together and finally a time for just the women to meet together. (Okay, the men meet together as well).

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Additional tool for a budget

Last week, I shared how we have started a budget and that it is KILLING me. I gave a link to a very helpful tool. One that can go on your iPhone, you iGoogle page or you can use the full version on the wonderful world wide web.

Today I want to share another tool […]

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A Tool for a budget

I hate budgets.

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A budget gives me a pit in my stomach.

It makes my mood crash into a dark hole.

But I know that it is important.

I would like to quit working full time, in a few years, and be able to volunteer at my girls’ schools

But without […]

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Because she wanted to

Just like everyone else, we are short on time. Our lives are filled with work, school, homework, family, lessons, playing and everything else. So we find it hard to find the time (while it is still light out) to just play and do the things that kids love to do.

Jade always wants to ride […]

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