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Who of you had a chance to see the eclipse this week?
It was too cloudy for us so we watched it online.
Then we had one day of sun and the rest of the week was gloomy and depressing. That one day was glorious though. We sat on our front porch and read books and did our schoolwork.
Let’s get right to the most clicked posts for the week.
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I hope everyone who is in the right location for spring is having a nice spring. If you’re entering into another season, I hope that it is going well for you too.
Let’s get right to our most clicked post for this week and some of the posts I decided to highlight.
The most clicked this week were three from Thrifting Wonderland:
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Family-wise things have been a bit hectic, but I’ll share more about that in my Saturday Afternoon Tea and Chat post.
Blog-wise I’ve been busy writing reviews of books and shows.
Writing-wise I have finished Cassie, which will release in August and have started brainstorming for the third Gladwynn book. I’ll announce a title for it at a later date.
Let’s get right to our most clicked post of the week:
I always love Debbie’s decorations and how she pays attention to detail and focuses on that detail for us in case we miss it while looking at the photos. These setups must take a very long time and her patience to create them always impresses me.
I really loved this sentence: Then we look up, not into the eyes of our friends and family, but into the precious Word of God and realize that spring is here, not because it’s actually spring, but it begins to feel like spring because we’ve allowed ourselves to be comforted by the Word of God and His Spirit.
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What a lovely week we had weather-wise. Today I spent part of the day at a park with my daughter and our friends and it was such a nice time.
Tomorrow our temperatures will go down about 20 degrees so I am glad we were able to get out today. I hope the weather was nice or will be nice soon where you are.
Let’s get right to our most clicked post for the week:
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I did what I normally do (homeschool, cooking dinner, working on my book) but made a little extra time for reading. Today it is very, very cold in our neck of the woods. We went from 60 degrees yesterday to 26 today with a windchill of 15. What brought that cold air in was heavy rain and wind all day yesterday and my dad and I drove in it for me to get my eyes checked and him to have his taxes done. Good times. We made it safely home, unlike a car that we saw up on an embankment on our way home, however.
How was your week?
Let’s move on to the most clicked post for this week and a few of my favorites:
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What: Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot – a chance for bloggers to link up their posts that are related to fashion, DIY, food, and anything else that is family-friendly.
When: The link goes live Thursday nights at 9:30 PM EST/United States time.
Why: To connect with other bloggers and bring more traffic to your own blog.
My 9-year-old daughter wanted me to read my book—Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing to her a couple of months ago and then again this weekend. Since it is a very clean book, even with the mystery element, I started to read it to her. I didn’t think she’d be interested but she asked me to keep reading so I did.
This week she asked if she could use my old Kindle and she downloaded my book and began to read it on her own. I thought she’d get bored fairly fast but 20 minutes in she ran to me from where she’d been sitting on the couch in the dining room and declared, “I just got to Lucinda and I love her. She is my favorite character.” She then quoted something Lucinda had said and, in the most adult way, said “She is heeelarious.”
I can’t lie – the whole situation made me weepy. I imagined other people reading my book and enjoying it and always thought that would be so amazing but I never thought about how amazing it would be to have my own family like what I write.
Some might say that it is normal to have family and friends say they like what you have written, but I have not had one friend from high school, college, or in my adult years read my books or say one thing about them to me over the last five years I have been writing.
I have not been able to gush with them over my characters like I hoped I would be able to.
My mom and my husband have both read my books so I can gush a little with them, luckily.
My daughter is only 9 and I really didn’t think about her reading my books or even caring about them, but I am grateful that my books are clean so she can read them and not be shown things she shouldn’t be shown or exposed to at her age.
My dad is not a reader but he has now read both of my Gladwynn Grant books. He literally took the time to read a couple of my chapters of my books each night and that means the world to me. If you could see me right now you would see me with tears in my eyes, knowing that my non-reader dad took the time out of his day to read my books and even left me a review on my Facebook. Dad has not always been a supporter, exactly, of me writing fiction so I was shocked when Mom said he was reading my book.
Dad felt like I needed to have traveled more and experienced more to be able to write fiction and he may be right in some ways, but his comments were somewhat discouraging to me when I started writing fiction for fun in 2018.
Here is the review my dad left me:
I am not much of a reader at all and very seldom read fiction and I watch very few movies.
Like who wants to read about something that is not . Lol Evidently a lot of people.
Anyway I got into the first Gladwyn mystery and found it intriguing and starting this one I find it more so.
Sometimes I think wow, I never knew that lol ; you see Gladwynn Grant,a mixture of intelligent, ditsy curious, and almost cunning, was my mother’s name.
Okay off to store a few more clues and along the way of the town theater find out what happened to Samantha.
Well, anyhow, I just thought I’d share all that today because it was on my mind as I started to write this post today.
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I hope all of you who celebrate Valentine’s Day had a lovely day. For all of you who consider it just another day, I hope you are having a good week!
Our kids made dinner for us yesterday at home and then we watched a Fred Astaire movie, which I didn’t enjoy as much as his others because the ending was quite weird. He tricked a woman into marrying him like he could just treat her like something he owned and not a real person. It was so odd.
We watched an episode of Psych as a family after the movie.
Our weather dropped down into below-freezing or just above-freezing temperatures this week so today I am sitting in front of a fire that took a bit for me to make but that is keeping us nice and cozy in our living room while I snack on frozen blueberries as a treat and get ready to watch Lark Rise From Candleford. Have you ever seen the show? It is based on a classic book.
This week we had a three-way tie and they were all from Lynne at Thrifting Wonderland! Lynne always has such interesting posts! Did you see these three this week?
I hope you had a great week and have a great week ahead.
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