It’s that time of year that I’ve made some goals, including being more mindful with reviewing book and being more active with my blogger friends.
As a family we made vison boards together yesterday, a first. This morning Jason was in his first pickleball tournament at the new club in town and he WON! Gage and I checked out a new church based on the recommendation of a friend. It was decidedly different, but not in a bad way. The jury is still out. We recorded the results of Gage’s science fair project which involved him counting and trying to sprout various fruit seeds. So no we have a lot of sprouts and he wants to grow them all, lol. That’s a project for later.
On the blog
My 2024 favorite movies and shows
Books
I finished my first book of the year yesterday, First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
and my second one this morning, Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas.
Movies
We had a fairly chill New Year’s, all of us had covid over Christmas so we’re just getting back on track, and we watched JAWS with Gage. After we were a bit into the movie, he said he wasn’t a fan because they were gaslighting everyone about sharks, lol. He made it to the end, but described it as mid.
Shows
Jason and I started season 3 of The Diplomat this week. That marriage is a train wreck I can’t look away from.
Plans for the weekend
I hope we don’t don’t do much of anything else today, but Gage’s last day of winter break and we’re meeting friends for the movies.
What are your plans for the rest of the day?
Stacy's Books 
Too funny about Gage’s critique of Jaws. How old is he? I remember it came out the summer my cousin and I were 11 (yes, I’m old) and at that time you had to be 12 to see PG movies or whatever it was rated. We begged, we pleaded, we said our lives would be over if our mom’s didn’t let us see that movie!!! They took us to the drive-in to see it because no one checks the ages of a station wagon full of two moms and four kids. Knowing my mom, she might’ve even told us to hide under a blanket and have the older kids sit on top of us.
Anyway, we loooooved that movie and saw it many times that summer and were all terrified to go swimming in our pool.
Doing vision boards as a family activity sounds fun! I would not even know where to begin to do one.
I miss drive-ins!! There is one that’s about 25-30 minutes from here, but we don’t get there very often. He’s 14 and didn’t jump at all the of the places I jumped, but I was at least impressed he made it to the end since he’s not much of a movie guy.
Oh my! I literally just learned that “mid” is a word, and now I’m seeing it used to assess a movie. I love it.
I’ve always thought vision boards were fun, though I haven’t got a clue how to make one.
I have a young teen so I know lots of of the new slang, but not close to all I’m sure. I’ve found mid to be very useful and fun to use, lol.
Stacy, sounds like you and your guys have a lot of fun things planned for 2025. I’ve never done a vision board. Good luck with all your reading and other pursuits!!
Gage and I had done something similar to a vision board when we were homeschooling, but this was Jason’s first time. The best part is just sitting around cutting up magazines together, lol.
I remember seeing Jaws in the theater when we lived in San Diego. Until then, I loved to swim in the ocean, but once I saw that movie, I was terrified that I would get attacked by a shark! I eventually overcame that fear, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been in the ocean.
So sorry you all had Covid over the holidays. So much crud going around right now. A lot of my family in California have been sick with upper respiratory viruses and pneumonia. I’m just hoping we stay healthy and not get Norovirus! Blech.
Very cool that Jason won the pickleball tournament. I love that sport, but haven’t played in a few years. Bad knees!
We started watching The Diplomat this month and I love it! We’re almost finished with Season One and I”m not sure if my husband will want to continue, so I may be on my own with the next two seasons. I’m also watching (solo) Bad Sisters. It’s very good, too!
Love the photo of you with all of those books! Did you check them out from the library all at once for the photo or do you own all of them?
I’m glad that you’re loving The Diplomat too! We’re on season 3 but haven’t found much time to watch it lately. Both Jason and Gage were sick again this week. I’ll have to check out Bad Sisters.
I own probably half? of the books in the stack. At the beginning of December I requested what I didn’t own from the library for the picture. It was a lot, lol.