It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. Feel free to link your posts about

I can’t believe that Christmas is this week. This month went so fast! This year went so fast for that matter.

Tomorrow we will have to take a trip almost an hour north to pick our cat up from being neutered. The Husband is taking him there in the morning and we will be picking him up in the afternoon. Otherwise we will be mostly laying low this week until Thursday when we will visit my parents for Christmas.

I still feel like there was so much more I wanted to do to celebrate Christmas before we got here, but, as usual, we are behind. One thing I do regret is that we never got our nativity set up this year. We had such cold weather for about two weeks and The Husband, who is the one who usually puts it up for us, has been super busy at work. Those combining factors made finding the time difficult.

Maybe we can get an Easter display up instead this year.

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Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs) and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea.  This link-up is for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!). Each link party will be open for a month. You can find that link up for this month here.

We are also hosting Comfy Cozy Christmas! As Erin said on her blog, “Anything holiday related – any December holiday – at all that strikes your fancy and you write about, please think about sharing on our linky.” You can find the link for that at the top of my page in the menu or here.

Each week, I host the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot with some great hosts. It goes live Thursday night but you can share any kind of blog posts (family-friendly) there until Tuesday of each week. You can check my recent posts on the sidebar to the right for the most recent link-party.

I finished Waiting for Christmas by Lynn Austin this past week. It was a cute and sweet Christmas novella.

I’m now reading My Beloved by Jan Karon and so far I am enjoying it even though it is bouncing back and forth between characters. I was so excited to get the book back from my mom who I let borrow it before I read it because I know how much she enjoys the Mitford books. She was afraid to read it anywhere other than her chair so it took her a month or more to finish it but I was fine with that. Now I can sit down in the days leading up to Christmas and savor it.

This is most likely the final Mitford book since Jan is 88 now so I will definitely savor it.

I am also reading  an Elm Street Quilters book called The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini but only at night when I don’t want to hold my big hardcover of My Beloved up in the dark in bed.

Coming up I am looking forward to Miss Read Village Diary by Miss Read, which is an author Jan Karon actually said inspired her Mitford series.  

The Husband is reading Showdown by Mike Lupica.

The Husband and I watched The Bishop’s Wife with Cary Grant and David Nivin last night.

Earlier in the week I watched a Christmas special from 1957 with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.

I also enjoyed a new-to-me vlogger who shared suggestions of books that are written with each chapter representing a month of the year.

We also watched an episode of Murder, She Wrote, Car 54 Where Are You?, and Shakespeare & Hathaway.

This week I will be watching only Christmas movies. Maybe. We will see.

The kids and I tried a Hallmark Christmas movie last night and couldn’t make it through. We got about a  half an hour in but only survived by making copious amounts of fun of it. Hopefully we will find something better this week.

This week I shared on the blog:

• Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot Dec. 19
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter 2025 To-Read List
• Comfy, Cozy Christmas: Meet Me In St. Louis and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
• Comfy, Cozy Christmas/Holiday Link Up Still Open
• Sunday Bookends: Sunday Bookends: Dick VanDyke,  Hercule Poirot, and a cat falling off the roof

I’ve been listening to Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien off and on.

Now It’s Your Turn

What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to, or writing? Let me know in the comments or leave a blog post link if you also write a weekly update like this. You can copy my blog graphic to your computer if you want to participate in my link party or you can join the other awesome link ups below.

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This post is linked up with The Sunday Post at  Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, The Sunday Salon with Deb at Readerbuzz, and Book Date: It’s Monday! What are you reading hosted by Kathyrn at The Book Date. Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Reading Reality.

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Hello! Welcome to my blog. I am a blogger, homeschool mom, and I write cozy mysteries.

You can find my Gladwynn Grant Mystery series HERE.

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