January Reading Update & 2025 Reading Goals | Book Explorer Vol. 15
Happy belated New Year internet friends! I hope we’ve all survived January with our sanity intact, it was a wild time in my house to say the least. 2024 Reading Review I set my 2024 reading goal for 20 books, hit that goal by July, ultimately ending the year having read 31 books. According to […]
An Updated Home Cleaning Schedule
I’ve been scared straight. The house has gotten a little out of control lately, especially recovering from election day and a brutal sinus infection. I knew I needed a deep cleaning day soon, but had been kicking the can down the road with Thanksgiving hosting looming in the not-so-distant-future. But today we had a surprise […]
Thanksgiving Countdown: How I’m Getting Ready
I cannot tell you the joy I get from hosting. There’s no better boost than seeing people fill my table and my couch to eat, drink, and laugh. Hosting Thanksgiving is like the Olympics of hosting. Bringing in the highest stakes guests, cooking the biggest dinner, and doing furniture gymnastics to make it all fit. […]
Soup Sunday | Fall Recipes on Repeat
When the temperature dips consistently below 70, I become a new woman. She’s the up at 5:45 on a Saturday, wrapped in a chunky sweater, two hands around the mug of tea kind of gal. Some kind of brunette Nicole Kidman character with a twist of Streganona. And I love her. Fall Me’s greatest strength […]
Kicking off 75 Days Hotter
Let me start by saying, I have a deep hate for 75 Hard. It sets people up to fail with crazy difficult inflexible rules and the shame they put behind having to start over is so wild to me. That and the fact that it’s pushed so heavily at the top of the year to […]
October Spooky Scary Movie Marathon
Last October I found a movie marathon on TikTok and it was the most pre-Halloween fun I’ve had since we moved into this house. This year, I took the list into my own hands! I added my favorites and a few that we missed last year into the Spooky column. The Scary column, I can […]
2024 Reading Progress Report | Book Explorer Vol. 14
Or How Moira Got Her Bookish Groove Back There’s no other way I can start this post, the reading groove is BACK and better than ever. I feel like a little kid again, going into the library to return a stack and taking home a tote full of new books. On top of that, 2023 […]
Thoughts
It’s been a while, just wanted to pop in and say hello with a few thoughts. On Work Leaving secure full-time work in favor of self-employment and going back to working for myself was a big decision but not one I made in isolation. There were weeks of discussions with C, with my parents, with […]
2023 Reading Recap | Book Explorer Vol. 13
I started this year setting myself the goal to fall back in love with reading. With 25 books and over 10,000 pages read, I can confidently say that I have accomplished that goal. Finding joy in reading has been like finding myself again. All of 2023 has been fighting so much for that feeling. With […]
One Year In: Our Experience Adopting a Rescue Dog
Almost exactly one year ago, we brought home our second dog, Maisie, for the first time. We thought it would be cake. We had a rough time with Levi, but we had one under our belt, how hard could a second dog be? Turns out, it’s actually very very hard! But it’s so worth it, […]