Hey! It's been a ridiculous summer and I haven't been around much. Since I've been kind of MIA lately, I thought I should update y'all on where I've been.
We celebrated Julia's birthday at the end of June. She was so excited to turn 4! We celebrated with family and then had a small party with her friends. This year I made her a Moana cake and am pretty happy with how it turned out.
Right after Julia's birthday party, we had to drive down to Arkansas to see my family. My step-dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December and had been going through chemo and had multiple surgeries and procedures. They told us on June 29 that the cancer was everywhere and that he did have much longer to live. He passed on July 5 but I'm so glad that we got to see him, talk to him and say good-bye. It was so fast and difficult to process for a bit. We had a lovely memorial to him a week later and while I miss him a lot, I'm really glad he's not in pain anymore.
In the midst of all that, my husband and I bought a house! We closed on July 10 and moved a few weeks later. The move was crazy and we moved the majority of our stuff on the hottest day of the summer which was quite the adventure. It's not super fun to move when it's 106 degrees! But we got it done and starting to feel somewhat settled. We still have stuff to go through in our garage and a lot of yard work to do before winter but we're getting there. I love the house and Julia is so excited to have a big girl bed in her room. Even though it was a challenging move, it was so worth and I'm very happy here.
August is one of the busiest times at my job. I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off for the whole month. All that to say, reading and especially blogging has gone to the wayside. I did read 18 books this summer but that didn't make a huge dent in my goal. Goodreads keeps reminding me how behind I am on my reading goal, I think it's around 12 books now. I'm hoping to still hit 100 but we'll see. I want to get all caught up on my review books and then read holiday romance books for the rest of the year. That sounds like heaven!
All the whining in this post is to say that things are finally getting back on track and I should be back here more often. I have a lot of reviews to write so there should be some posts coming soon. I'm slowly getting back in the swing of blogging and excited to be back!
I hope you all are having a great week!
We celebrated Julia's birthday at the end of June. She was so excited to turn 4! We celebrated with family and then had a small party with her friends. This year I made her a Moana cake and am pretty happy with how it turned out.
Right after Julia's birthday party, we had to drive down to Arkansas to see my family. My step-dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December and had been going through chemo and had multiple surgeries and procedures. They told us on June 29 that the cancer was everywhere and that he did have much longer to live. He passed on July 5 but I'm so glad that we got to see him, talk to him and say good-bye. It was so fast and difficult to process for a bit. We had a lovely memorial to him a week later and while I miss him a lot, I'm really glad he's not in pain anymore.
In the midst of all that, my husband and I bought a house! We closed on July 10 and moved a few weeks later. The move was crazy and we moved the majority of our stuff on the hottest day of the summer which was quite the adventure. It's not super fun to move when it's 106 degrees! But we got it done and starting to feel somewhat settled. We still have stuff to go through in our garage and a lot of yard work to do before winter but we're getting there. I love the house and Julia is so excited to have a big girl bed in her room. Even though it was a challenging move, it was so worth and I'm very happy here.
August is one of the busiest times at my job. I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off for the whole month. All that to say, reading and especially blogging has gone to the wayside. I did read 18 books this summer but that didn't make a huge dent in my goal. Goodreads keeps reminding me how behind I am on my reading goal, I think it's around 12 books now. I'm hoping to still hit 100 but we'll see. I want to get all caught up on my review books and then read holiday romance books for the rest of the year. That sounds like heaven!
All the whining in this post is to say that things are finally getting back on track and I should be back here more often. I have a lot of reviews to write so there should be some posts coming soon. I'm slowly getting back in the swing of blogging and excited to be back!
I hope you all are having a great week!
Omg, you really did have a whirlwind summer! I'm so sorry for your family's loss. You must still be hurting. But hooray on the new house altho I kind of want to say that Moana cake deserves bigger kudos! ;)
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