⚘ Happy Mother's Day ⚘

To all the tough, hard-working,

patient, loving, and all-around
amazing moms out there!

What better way to start back up with my blog than by wishing all the mother's out there a Happy Mother's Day! I lost my mom in 2014 to Adenocarcinoma of the lungs that metastasized into her bones, stage 4 when we found out. She was diagnosed on 9/10/14 and passed on 11/3/14; she was 62 years young. And while I miss her so very, very much every single day, I have to remember she's no longer in pain and would want me to move forward. So a shoutout to my momma. I love and miss you!

A little bit about me...

Hobbies

I have a few hobbies that I'll be sharing here and I invite you to peruse and comment on, and if nothing else, I hope to inspire at least one person. Forewarning though, I work full-time, help to take care of my 1 1/2-year-old grandson, and boy is he a handful, and to top it all off, I have ADHD, so it's hard for me to stick with things sometimes. I jump around like a bunny, from place to place, or interest to interest, and it's only the ones that I truly enjoy that I continue with.

Book Reviews

I love to read and have since I was young, and thanks to the digital age I can now share my personal feedback on them with more than just family and friends. I'll share links to books I've read, want to read, and how I felt about them. Yesterday I spent the entire day, from around 7:30 AM until 10:30 PM working in my office/sewing room organizing and writing book reviews. I noticed I was missing some reviews so I had to compare Goodreads, Amazon, NetGalley, and Book Sirens, which is why it took me all day long. Now I know which books I have already reviewed and which I need to review. I just finished reading/listening to Bentley Little's The Influence, which I really do not recommend even though I'm a huge fan of his work, and I recently finished both House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas. I'm in the process of working on my reviews for them. I told myself I would NOT start another book/audiobook until I wrote my reviews.

Quilting

My second favorite hobby is quilting. I taught myself to quilt along with free tutorials I found online back in 2004. Then I joined a Yahoo quilt group (don't laugh it was a while back when Yahoo groups were popular) called Beginners & Beyond and that group of wonderful ladies, and gents, taught me so much! I made my first king-size quilt in 2008 and never looked back. Sadly, after my mom passed away I lost the desire to do anything more than work and watch TV (another one of my passions/hobbies). It's now been almost 9 years since she passed and I'm finally ready to get back to it. So if you are interested, follow my blog and see my progress. I am currently working on multiple WIPs (Work In Progress) aside from finishing up projects I've had sitting in storage for years. I just started my Dear Jane quilt and Aves quilt. These will most likely take me years to make unless I get to retire soon lol, but I will share my progress along the way.

TV Shows, Movies, Streaming Series

My most guilty pleasure is watching TV. I can watch it for hours on end and thanks to streaming services I can spend an entire day binge-watching shows I've missed on live tv and original shows from the service. I currently subscribe to AppleTV, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock TV, and Paramount TV. Yes I know, that is way too many, but it's okay. I'll talk about current shows and movies that I'm watching/binging etc. I work from home so I do miss physically going to work (eh, not so much) and chatting with others about the previous night's episode. At this moment I am binging Brave New World on Peacock TV S1 E5: Firefall and enjoying it very much, gives me a lot to think about, all those "what-if" situations.

Lifelong Learning

Finally, I believe in lifelong learning, as my student loans can confirm, but the cost of higher education has become excessive so I look for ways to learn for free. There is a plethora of free learning on the internet. Just about anything you may want to learn is out there just waiting for you. I found that with The Odin Project., which teaches you about web development step-by-step.

That's about enough for today's post. Very simple and to the point. Off to sew some before the hubby returns from fishing. Until next time... A messy house is the sign of a happy quilter.