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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Take me to my “happy place”

Lately I have mentioned my job, more than I typically do. That’s because it is end of quarter. End of quarter, to me, means staying up until 2:00 in the morning to track down orders from China, Singapore and Australia. Then it means getting back on my computer at 6:00 in the morning […]

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She’s my “Mini-Me”

I don’t think there is a day that we don’t say, “Holy cow, Ivy is just like me and Jade is just like Dad!”

Tonight at bedtime, I took my pen and tried to write on the bottom of Ivy’s little foot. She giggled and pulled it away from me. Jade asked me if I […]

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Oh how happy the reunion...

I imagine the brightness of the light to be overwhelming and so inviting. A light that can’t be described by our earthly words and emotions. As I walk into the light, my insides begin to swell and the warmth is intoxicating. It feels as if I’m getting the most loving […]

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Before I was a mom...

I became a mom just weeks before my 31st birthday. Which means, I got a lot of living done before I slowed my life down to be a mom.

Before I was a mom, I traveled. I would spend several weeks in different cities across the US. It […]

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Have you ever?

Have you ever run through a garden in Austria? No, but Jade has

Have you ever wondered why you are here? All the time

Have you ever questioned why? Again, all the time

Have you ever returned something you had worn, with the tags […]

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