If you are in the US, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of friends, family, and good food! Today I’m sharing about our week with family, a Little Free Library book drop, my first edition of the Sunday Spotlight, Christmas preparations, and my 2017 reading year recap. Enjoy!
Thanksgiving Week
My parents were in town this week and it was so nice spending time with them. We decorated for Christmas, watched football, and saw Wicked – it was fantastic, highly recommend! My son didn’t have school this week, but we did manage a play date and swim lessons. My husband and I also went to dinner at Revel.
For Thanksgiving, we had our meal catered by Hazy BBQ. After lunch we drove to the Golden Gate Bridge with my parents. The weather was so clear and perfect!
LFL Drop
I recently finished Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand. Even though this is technically considered a beach read, it was exactly what I needed over the past month. I dropped it off at a local Little Free Library for someone else to enjoy! (Don’t you just love those poinsettias?) You can find a Little Free Library close to you by using the LFL World Map.
Sunday Spotlight
In case you missed it, I published the very first Sunday Spotlight earlier this week! My friend, Amanda, told me all about her favorite bookstore, reading habits and one of her literary sins.
Christmas Prep
Thanksgiving was so late this year, so I gave in and pulled out my Christmas decorations last weekend. My goal was to have very little decorating to do after Thanksgiving, plus my mom was in town and she loves this kind of stuff! We don’t have anything close to a magazine-worthy tree, but we do have ornaments from almost every place we’ve been over the last eight years. My mom also did an amazing job at wrapping all the picture books for our annual 25 days of Christmas beginning December 1st (this Sunday)! You can read more about that tradition here.
2017 Reading Recap
I have a few more reading years to review before the end of the year. (See 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.)
I can’t look back at my reading list from 2017 without mentioning the book I was reading when I found out I was pregnant with my son – An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Once again, books take us back to moments in our own life.
My favorite book of 2017 was This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel. It would be so interesting to re-read this one now that my son is seven years old! Below is one of my favorite passages from the book; I think about it often when I have a parenting dilemma:
“This is how it always is. You have to make these huge decisions on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose fate and future is entirely in your hands, who trusts you to know what’s good and right and then to be able to make that happen. You never have enough information. You don’t get to see the future. And if you screw up, if with your incomplete, contradictory information you make the wrong call, well, nothing less than your child’s entire future and happiness is at stake. It’s impossible. It’s heartbreaking. It’s maddening. But there’s no alternative.”
That’s it for this week. I’m finishing up writing this post on Thanksgiving afternoon, so my plans for the rest of the day include drinking hot chocolate and watching The Holiday with my mom before she goes back home!
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