The Dodgers won the World Series in a nail biting game 7. My family, especially my guys, were over the moon!
Between Halloween, no school for the kids, time change, a chest cold, and a very intensely exciting game 7 of the World Series, it’s taking me a minute to get in the groove…
This year was a lay low halloween, where our kids wanted pizza, a few friends over, and trick or treating in our neighborhood. We I love the parents of these kiddos so we got to chat and hang out while the teenagers did their thing. Eden’s grieve came over early to do a cookie haunted house and to get ready to be matching beanie babies with home made tags. Ryder’s crew wanted Star Wars themed, so we used what we had and he went as Princess Leia with Hans Solo frozen in carbonite. It was SO fun!
The making of Ryder’s costume:
The making of twin beanie babies:
Halloween night:
🎃 Happy Halloween🎃
Here are the books I enjoyed this month!
The novel weaves together the lives of three main characters, told in alternating perspectives, and follows their emotional journeys of guilt, forgiveness, second chances, and connection.
Their lives intersect by chance in a bookstore: Violet goes there after her release to buy a particular novel she’d been reading in prison; Harriet is selecting books for her prison book club; Frank is performing his handyman duties. That encounter begins a process of transformation for all three.
Miss Benson’s Beetle is a heartwarming and adventurous novel about Margery Benson, a lonely, middle-aged schoolteacher in 1950s England who abandons her unfulfilling life to pursue a lifelong dream: to find a rare golden beetle in the wilds of New Caledonia. She hires an unexpected assistant, the eccentric and vibrant Enid Pretty, and together they embark on a transformative journey full of danger, friendship, and self-discovery. As their bond deepens, the two women face both external challenges and inner demons, ultimately finding courage, purpose, and unexpected joy in the most unlikely of places.
If we have a free day, Eden has two favorite things: thrifting and Barnes and Noble and reading.
She loves seeing new books come out and the smell of book stores. It’s SO fun watching her fall in love with reading!
Ryder and I went to Costco and he gave me one of his airpods so we could listen to his music together.
I can’t tell you what it was like but I swear we’ve never been more connected…😂
