Weekly Menu

After my meal planning post (who knew how OCD I could be?!) last week, I had a request to share my weekly menu. Here's this week's menu, along with links (where applicable) to the recipes. Enjoy! The numbers below each day are our forecasted high temperatures for that day, because I do not want to [...]

Book Review: Paris Never Leaves You

Never fear, there are no spoilers here! One letter. All it takes is one letter to shock Charlotte Floret from her life in 1955 New York and send her careening back to occupied Paris. As the story goes between her postwar New York life and her life living under occupation, Charlotte remembers who she was [...]

Knoxville Moms Post: Meal Planning Saves My Sanity

Hey, y'all! My latest Knoxville Moms post is up, and it's all about my simple technique for saving money and sanity: meal planning! I'm not an extravagant meal planner: I only do dinners, and make a weekly menu. I detail my method and how it benefits my family in my post, which you can find [...]

Book Review: The Secret, Book, and Scone Society

The Secret, Book, and Scone Society may be a tongue twister of a title, but it sure is a fun mystery to read! When one suspicious death draws four loners together, they find they have more in common than their connection to the deceased. As they open up to the idea of friendship, they launch [...]

30 Minute Shows You Can Stream

Is it just me, or does it seem like every new show is an hour long? There are plenty of binge worthy shows out there, but I don't always have an hour I'm willing to dedicate. So what's worth of watching, and where can it be found? I've compiled this handy list to help you [...]

Of Mutts and Men Book Review

Way back in 2008, I was working at Barnes & Noble and found myself in the mystery section. Now, back in those old days I didn't really stray from my general fiction section. The mystery covers were often, quite frankly, terrifying. While we all say the adage don't judge a book by its cover, I often [...]

A Disney Quarantine Playlist

Disney makes everything better, right? So if your quarantine is feeling a little lackluster, put on this Disney playlist to help chronicle your quarantining, social distancing emotions. The songs tell a story, from our first being stuck at home stages to dreaming of what life on the other side of this will look like. You [...]

How I Rate Books on Goodreads

Y'all know I'm a bookaholic, a bibliophile, a word nerd...you get the gist. I've been using Goodreads to track my reading and books I want to read for a couple of years now. I started keeping a list of books I read after checking the same book out from the library...three times. Apparently I thought [...]