
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
What We've Been Watching
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop - May 25, 2022
Welcome to the third Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop of May 2022! Do you believe that we are coming up on Memorial Day? Oh, the time does fly!
Well, we are really glad that you came by to party with us this week. Here you will find inspiration from dozens of bloggers including recipes, home DIY, gardening, decor, family fun, traveling, fitness, and so much more.
A friendly reminder to our guests that as a courtesy to the hosts, we ask that you follow every host on at least one social media channel. If you are a blogger, then be sure to link up below. You may be our next feature!
Before we get this party started, let's meet the hosts and check out this week's featured favorites.

Please follow the hosts on at least 1 social media channel!
- Ahna - HAMMERS N HUGS | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Anne & AnnMarie - SIMPLY 2 MOMS | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Angela - THE SHORT ORDER COOK | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Bev - ECLECTIC RED BARN | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Cindy - SIMPLE STEPS FOR LIVING LIFE | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Christin - MY HOMIER HOME | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Emily - LeCULTIVATEUR | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Jana - HARVESTING HOME | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Penny - PENNY’S PASSION | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Sinea - DUCKS ‘N A ROW | FB | IG | PINTEREST | TWITTER
- Tammy - MY LIFE ABUNDANT | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Tara - STILETTOS AND SHIPLAP | IG | PINTEREST
Old Fashioned Flowers on a Sunday by Thrifting Wonderland
Painting Rocks is Fun and They Make Great GIfts from Ducks 'n a Row
Thrifty DIY Plant Stand Ideas by My Life Abundant
At The Lake from Life in Kentucky
Lilac Basket Centerpiece by Common Ground
Summer Chore Chart Printables for Kids from Lamberts Lately

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Thursday, May 19, 2022
Five on Friday - May 20, 2022
An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey’s friendship, and an insiders' view of Pam Beesly, Angela Martin, and the iconic TV show. Featuring many of their never-before-seen photos.
Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series’ run, built a friendship that transcended the show and continues to this day. Sharing everything from what it was like in the early days as the show struggled to gain traction, to walking their first red carpet—plus exclusive stories on the making of milestone episodes and how their lives changed when they became moms—The Office BFFs is full of the same warm and friendly tone Jenna and Angela have brought to their Office Ladies podcast.
Have a fabulous weekend! Our date night plans include seeing the Downton Abbey movie. We are also going to my parents to finally celebrate Mother's Day. See you back next week!
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
What I've Been Reading
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.Next up was a Kinde Unlimited freebie. I had heard good things about Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe so I downloaded it for vacation.
As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.
With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.
Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café.
It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about.
As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly.
My rating: 4.5 out of 5
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career.
Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late '80s and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn's life unfolds - revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love - Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn's story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.
Written with Reid's signature talent for "creating complex, likable characters" (Real Simple), this is a fascinating journey through the splendor of Old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means - and what it takes - to face the truth.
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield.
Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
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Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop - May 18, 2022
Here you will find inspiration from dozens of bloggers including recipes, home DIY, gardening, decor, family fun, traveling, fitness, and so much more.
A friendly reminder to our guests that as a courtesy to the hosts, we ask that you follow every host on at least one social media channel.
If you are a blogger, then be sure to link up below. You may be our next feature!
Before we get this party started, let's meet the hosts and check out this week's featured favorites.

Please follow the hosts on at least 1 social media channel!
- Ahna - HAMMERS N HUGS | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Anne & AnnMarie - SIMPLY 2 MOMS | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Bev - ECLECTIC RED BARN | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Cindy - SIMPLE STEPS FOR LIVING LIFE | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Christin - MY HOMIER HOME | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Emily - LeCULTIVATEUR | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Jana - HARVESTING HOME | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Penny - PENNY’S PASSION | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Sinea - DUCKS ‘N A ROW | FB | IG | PINTEREST | TWITTER
- Tammy - MY LIFE ABUNDANT | FB | IG | PINTEREST
- Tara - STILETTOS AND SHIPLAP | IG | PINTEREST
Easter Clearance Part 2 from My Thrift Store Addiction
Beautiful DIY Vintage and Aged Potting and Pots Ideas from My Life Abundant
Vintage No-Bake Million Dollar Pie Recipe from Flour On My Face
Easy Front Door DIY Projects for Summer from Blue Sky At Home
Easy Custard Cake Recipe by Fat Dad Foodie
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- Please follow all hosts on AT LEAST 1 of their social channels.
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Thursday, May 12, 2022
Five on Friday - May 13, 2022
When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.
But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling sister, and must revisit the choices she made long ago, when she was a bestselling novelist with a different life. Sarah’s twin brother, Sam, is recovering from a terrible loss, and confronting big questions about who he is—questions he hopes to resolve during his stay on the Cape. Sarah’s husband, Eli, who’s been inexplicably distant during the pandemic, confronts the consequences of a long ago lapse from his typical good-guy behavior. And Sarah, frustrated by her husband, concerned about her stepdaughter, and worn out by challenges of life during quarantine, faces the alluring reappearance of someone from her past and a life that could have been.
When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
From “the undisputed boss of the beach read” (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is Jennifer Weiner’s love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.
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Hope you have a wonderful weekend! We are hoping to get unpacked from vacation and put all our beach stuff away. Oh, and there is still all the laundry. It will feel great to get it all done though. Pop back in next week for more fun!
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
2022 Trip to Orange Beach, Alabama
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