Well, and watch these two be cute.
JANUARY LEADER BOARDS
Why we love pets.
Nap time!
Perfect snow day.
SPLOOT!
Movie night
Happy snow day!
Katie has an official old school snow day since teachers didn’t send home Chromebooks at all the schools. Owen has a late-start eLearning day.
Today doesn’t look much different for me, though…I’ll be finishing book 8 soon!
And it’s a wee bit chilly—there is ice in our microwave!
Colin Mochrie!!
We loved Whose Line is it Anyway? so when we had a chance to see Colin locally, we jumped at it—and it was indeed hilarious!
She loves curling up on the blanket
If there’s fire, they will come.
Cheering at a college game!
The cheer team was invited to cheer at halftime of the women’s CLC game! They did a good job!
I might be sleeping on the couch tonight.
Must. Touch. Olive.
Besties as Big Mouth characters
We love the show Big Mouth so when I saw this personalized artwork on Etsy I had to get it. So we all now have a framed copy.
Sleepy sisters
Look at my new infinity scarf!
Anna has gotten really good at crocheting and gave me this for Christmas!
Zoomies!
And then nappies.
Just chillin’
My top 10 sellers of 2023
MY FINAL 2023 TOTAL BOOKS READ IS 187!
I did a monthly book bracket—which was hard because some months had more than one great book!
That said, my top 12 bracket books of the year were:
- January – Verity
- February – Spare
- March – Winners
- April – Under the Whispering Door
- May – In the Lives of Puppets
- June – The Bones Beneath My Skin
- July – Housemaid’s Secret
- August – Dark Matter
- September – Big Little Lies
- October – A Man Called Ove
- November – The Wishing Game
- December – Never Lie
And the winning bracket book of my year is Under the Whispering Door.
Other books I’d highly recommend:
•Beartown (series)
•Project Hail Mary
•Midnight Library
•The Rose Code
•The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
•Undercover Bromance (series)
•Remarkably Bright Creatures
•The Authenticity Project
•Gone Girl
•Drowning
•In an Instant
•Finley Donovan series
•Thursday Murder Club (series)
•Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice
•I Will Always Write Back
•The Wild Robot
•None of This is True
We’re Disney-fied!
Schwalm Christmas 2023
A Christmas surprise!
Since we missed going to Grayling for Christmas since Katie had Covid, we surprised them in Lansing for the Schwalm Christmas! We decided at about 10am that we could make it…and walked in to Beth and Jim’s as they were finishing dinner! SURPRISE!
Manny’s Carnival Rum Punch
From Drunk on the Job The Misadventures of a Drunk in Paradise: Book #4
This sounded good so I’m saving it here!
Sometimes she picks him.
Ivy on Olive
Olive loves the kids’ new beanbag
Bah humbug.
Katie tested positive for Covid (her second time!)—she even took two tests. I blame the cesspool of middle school. Tom and I are as boosted as we can be so fingers crossed we don’t get it.
She was super upset and crying when we got the results—she really wanted to go to Gramma’s house. I’m just glad we decided to test her at all because we thought it was just a cold.
She slipped into this position
And stayed there napping for quite some time. Dogs are weird.