Thankful Thursday

Day 7 - Friends

I am so very thankful for the great friends I have in life. I'll be the first to admit I'm not always the best friend around. I'm flaky and I forget things and sometimes I'm just lazy about preserving our friendship. For some reason, they put up with it. Without them I'd be lost. I hope they know that, and that they know how much I love them and would do anything in the world for them. :)

Smiles,
B

Waiting on Wednesday ♥ Isla

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that highlights upcoming releases we're excited about.

There are, as you know, books coming out left and right that we all want to read. One I am looking most forward to is...

 

I have loved the first two in this series so I'm really looking forward to this one. :)

What are you waiting on?

Wednesday Woes

Day 6 - Thankfulness Challenge

Oddly enough, I'm thankful for the bad times in my life. It always helps me appreciate the good in my life and helps keep me on toes. I'm so very grateful for all the good I have in my life - my loving husband, joyous little children, supportive family, stable job... that sometimes I forget to be thankful for them all.

Might be a strange one, but there you have it. :)

Smiles,
B

Tuesday Thankfulness Award

Day 5 of Thankfulness... and the award goes to...

COFFEE!

I realize that this isn't the most enlightened or deep choice, but I am thankful for coffee nonetheless. It's warm, rich, goodness has gotten me through many a day. I don't have much else to say about it because, well, if you're a coffee drinker then you understand. If you're not a coffee drinker, then you will continue to think we are all nuts no matter how much I try to justify it. :)

Top Ten Tuesday ♥ Sequels I Can't Wait to Become Acquainted With

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they provide a Top Ten topic for you to create your list, then you share it on their post so others can find you. :)

  ♥ Top Ten Six Sequels Installments I Can't Wait to Get My Hands On ♥

Okay. So as I was making my list for this I noticed that they weren't true sequels. They are all third in a series. Apparently I haven't started any series that I'm dying for the second one. lol That being said, I only came up with six anyway. ;) I really tried to go back, even to older series, but I just couldn't come up with some. Anywho.

Links to Goodreads, if you're interested:

Allegiant

Ignite Me

Raven Cycle #3

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Isla & The Happily Ever After

Ensnared

What about you? What sequels, or third/fourth/fifth/etc installments, are you looking forward to? 

Smiles,
B

Monday Memories

Day 4 of my Thankfulness challenge. 

I am so very grateful for all the memories I have. I love that sometimes, out of nowhere, a smell will bring back the most vivid of memories. I love looking at pictures and scrapbooks and recalling/talking about what was going on.

I love that when my dad fixes fried potatoes and I'm walking through the kitchen, smelling the deliciousness, I recall sitting at my grandparents kitchen table peeling potatoes for Grandma to make her own fried potatoes. When mom and I go through old photos it's great reminiscing about our time at the river behind my Mama and Papa's farm house, swimming and lounging, and having a seemingly great time. Remembering how all of us kids would swing off the rope and land in the "deep" part of the river (how unsafe that probably was, in hindsight).

The smell of baby soap takes me back to my newborns, roses to my wedding...  chlorine almost always instantly reminds me of the time I fell in the pool when I was three.

I only hope that our kids will have a great time as they get older remembering the times of their past - good and bad.

What memories do you cherish?

Memorable Monday ♥ Lola and the Boy Next Door

Memorable Monday is a meme hosted by Escape in a Good Book. I'm excited to join in on this one because I love quotes, which was the driving force behind the creation of Memorable Mondays. I thank the ladies at Escape in a Good Book.

So... how do you participate? It's simple ~

1) Share a quote that has captured your interest lately in a Memorable Monday post on your blog.

2) Come back here and leave the link to your post in the comment box below. If you don't have a blog, I'd still love to hear read your quote. Leave it in the comment box instead of a link to a non-existent blog. :)

3) Visit other participants if you have time. It's always nice to have visitors. There's no overstaying your welcome this way, and they don't have to offer the obligatory drinks. Or clean.

4) If you tweet your posts, feel free to use the hashtag #MemorableMonday.

This week's choice:

 


“I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”  

~Lola and the Boy Next Door, by Stephanie Perkins 








I love this one. I think it's so important to remember that perfection is an unattainable goal and that there are people out there who will love and accept you for who you are - flaws and all. :)

Any quotes/sayings strike you lately?


Smiles,
B