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.

My 11-year-old daughter was upset at me the other night but the funny thing is I had no idea and was just skipping around through life and our bedtime routine while she was all  stewing under her covers.

She later told me she kept sighing heavily and changing positions to see if I would notice she was upset but I never did.

I even suggested we do our nightly prayers, having no idea she was holding a grudge over something I said that she took wrong.

Why this is so funny to me is that when she shared with me how upset she’d been I kept thinking of a video I recently watched where a cat owner is saying she can’t be upset when her cat does something annoying because she imagines the cat with some derpy/dorky music in her head and feels sorry for her. I just kept imagining myself as the cat, skipping along through life, clueless while my kid  was all annoyed at me. I even shared this with Little Miss and let her know that the next time she is sitting there annoyed at me just imagine that most of the time I have no clue I’ve said something wrong and am instead just listening to dumb music in my head.

Luckily Little Miss and I worked things out when she was able to tell me how she felt and I was able to clarify what I actually meant by the comment.

What I/We’ve Been Reading

Just Finished

Nothing yet.

In Progress

My Beloved by Jan Karon is growing on me and I’m glad I didn’t give up on it but it is still disappointing in many ways overall. I feel like Jan’s notes, in their chopped up form, were just shoved into a book without flushing it out or connecting it.

I do recommend the previous 14 books in The Mitford series, however.

I started the first book in the Miss Read series, Village School, this week,  putting the second book, Village Diary, aside after realizing it was the second book and I should probably read the first book in the series…first.

It’s a very slow paced book so to move things a long a bit I started The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie and am realizing that sometimes the “Britishness” of her books goes over my head.

Chimneys is an area in the country, not the appendage on a house roof, it turns out.

Up Soon

After these  books, I plan to read The Tiger in the Smoke by Margaret Allingham and start Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

What The Family is Reading

The Husband just finished his first book of the year —

The Boy is listening to a Warhammer book.

Little Miss is reading Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock.

What I/We’ve Been Watching

The past week or so since my husband has been off work so we’ve watched a variety of things together. We watched some Murder, She Wrote, Parks and Recreation, Car 54 Where Are You, and  Midsomer Murders which The Husband likes better than me. The series is a bit dark for me, but the mysteries are interesting.

The Husband got caught up in a movie called Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but I didn’t realize he was going to keep watching it and that I should follow along so I didn’t pay attention at first and then when I did tune in, I was so confused that I had to take to Google to catch up with what was really going on.

Even after reading the summary, I was completely confused but sort of figured things out.

I also rewatched McLintock with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.

And I watched Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney, which I wrote about on the blog.

What I’ve Been Writing

Last week on the blog I shared:

• Winter of Cagney: Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Welcome to 2026!
• James Cagney: One of the most versatile actors of the Golden Age
• Because she would want us to

Some Housekeeping

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.

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.

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.

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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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