2025 May Books

Finished 5 books in May.  I started easily another 10 and three of these I wanted to not finish but I forced myself to slog thru them.  My favorite was Everything is Tuberculosis - it was so interesting I truly didn’t know anything about Tuberculosis. 

2025 April Books

In April I finished 6 books.  This was a mixed bag in terms of content but overall I enjoyed most of them.  My favorite was Everything I Know about Love by Dolly Alderton.   I think this brings my total to 17 for the year so I am ahead for the year.  

• Everything I Know About Love
• The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life in WWII
• Us Against You
• The Husbands 
• One Life 
• Just for the Summer 

Art Installation - Field of Corn

I have already seen this installation before like ages ago probably 15 years back.  It was more of a mud pit back then it seems to have aged well although some of the corn seems to have aged a bit with the elements.  

2025 March Books

I finished 4 books in March at least that I logged in good reads I feel like actually finished another one too but I never logged it and now I can’t remember.  I started easily another 15 so 4 seems respectable when you abandon so many.  I most enjoyed Dinner for Vampires - I do enjoy reading and watching cult documentaries.  And Peggy and American Overdose were also interesting.  

Porch Goose

I was so delighted when I discovered a porch goose on clearance at Joann’s I immediately brought her home and made her a dress and bunny ears.  I have a second dress in the works as well.  

2025 Feb Books

In February I completed two more books both easy reads.  One of these I started and abandoned like two years ago.  But it was recommended to me again and I saw the movie so I tried it again.  This brings the yearly total to 7.  

Onward.

Madison Wisconsin

In January we took a hockey trip to Madison Wisconsin.  We drove a party bus with some of our friends and it was freezing but it was so fun.  We got to have some fun adventures looking for trolls and putt putt golf at a super fun course. 

2025 Books

One of my 2025 goals was to read 30 books.  I started probably 20 in January but I did manage to finish 5.  I had such high hopes for onyx storm after liking the first two books and honestly this was meh I felt like the end it was so blah.  But I really enjoyed Greenlights and The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes was a good prequel I read it super quick and it made me think maybe jones would like hunger games. 

Onward and upward maybe I will finish 5 in Feb too although I have abandoned like 12 already.  

2024 Things that made my year

Last year I wrote memorable moments in a note pad.  I wrote the first few then I lost track and revisited it a few times throughout the year.  So here’s the list. 

2024 memories

1. New Years Dutch baby.
2. Last minute pre checkout swims.
3. Hockey tournament chaos. 
4. Coyote sightings
5. Making valentines boxes.
6. Baby wolfie!!!
7. Jr RedHawks winning the buckeye tourney
8. Thea using two voices to pretend a story by herself.
9. When Jones asked the librarian for Iron Flame and me slightly dying of mortification because it’s completely inappropriate for 9 year olds.
10. Jones reading me a chapter from his book
11. Jones winning a PS5
12. Top golf with 4/5ths of Jones and co
13. Playing football in the yard with my nephews and niece.
14. Thrift store shopping with Kathleen and my kids.
15. The horse photo.
16. Catching up with Amy and meeting Ahana
17. Fair Oaks pool moment
18. science and industry museum baby exhibit and talking about baby development to my kids 
19. Vomit in the backseat.  
20. Eclipse interpretive dance
21. Eclipse
22. Brooks dancing to calm Rowan
23. Getting hit by a bus and discovering the numerous amount of people who care for us. 
24. 6 girls in the van scream singing Taylor swift on the way to Disney on ice. 
25. The triple sleepover.
26. Rowie giggling at the kids hopping out of the water.
27. My kids rating systems for playground tours. 
28. Art installation in someplace Wisconsin, that jones mind you requested.
29. Beaching with just Thea.
30. Rock finding Michigan. 
31. Theas crush on our new vacation friends. 
32. Winning a 1/2 a hog. 
33. Fireworks commentary oh by 10 year olds. 
34. Theas tape worm named Suzy.
35. Jones Jorn
36. Jones learns to water ski
37. Mom camp Olympics 
38. Snoop dog at the Olympics
39. Jones killing name that tune.
40. Soccer halftime shows.
41. Hockey hockey hockey 
42. Theas concussed elbow
43. Doing crafts with Jones’s class
44. Watching hawks in my back yard
45. Making art journal masking tape
46. Priscillas December spirit
47. Thanksgiving dinner 
48. Jones hat trick at indoor soccer.
49. Theas descendants duet at winter ice show
50. Rowies scream sing song voice.
51. Cookie baking with Blakley
52. Blakely singing us Taylor swift.
53. Brooks delight in all things. 
54. Theas musical 17 boyfriends 
55. Rob indicating to Raj “act like you are coming out of lita” during Christmas photos 
56. Rowie pops awake from naps grabs Litas sandwich and shoves it into his mouth in less. 
57. New years grape eating.

2025 Goal Bingo

Here’s my 2025 goals list.  It’s in bingo card form my friend suggested we make the bingo cards and I figured why not change it up a bit.  I think I might give myself like $200 for every bingo I get too.  Not sure what I will spend the money on but seems like a fun idea.  Here’s the items from my list.

1. Family vacation 
2. Year of Pizza
3. Thea and Mom Date
4. Jones and mom date
5. Tiny art project
6. Year of Art journal pages
7. Girls trip
8. Stairway Art Wall
9. Get Porch Goose
10. Finish a quilt
11. Kids passports
12. Redecorate the dollhouse
13. Remove carpet stairs
14. Madison Wisconsin Trip
15. Visit Art installation 
16. Drink more water (48 oz)
17. Attend trivia 
18. Read 30 books
19. Tiny trinket shelf
20. Watch 100 movies
21. Buy bird camera
22. Paint my bath cupboards
23. Europe
24. Go thrift store