I hope you all had a enjoyable and festive week and loved your Halloween. I’m going to dive proper into at this time’s submit since I wish to chat about Halloween and that’s the first bulletpoint on my listing of weekly favorites! I hope you all have a beautiful weekend!
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Halloween was a enjoyable one for the Fagan crew this 12 months! It kicked off with a fairytale parade on the large children’ college the place the entire children parade round dressed up as ebook characters. Chase’s costume labored nicely for trick-or-treating and the parade as he needed to decorate up as Willy Wonka after our household learn and cherished Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit collectively final month!
(Should you observe me on Instagram, you already know the drama with Chase’s Amazon delayed-and-then-canceled costume, however we put collectively a make-shift costume on the final minute that he fortunately completely cherished even when it didn’t precisely look too Willy Wonka-ish to the adults on the market. Ha!)
Ryder actually needed to put on Chase’s Creature Man costume from years in the past and so he went as “Bug Boy” from a ebook all about bugs!
I additionally bought to spend a while in Rhett’s classroom as my fellow room mother and I organized a Halloween recreation and craft for the children in addition to goodie baggage and a candy deal with. These little pumpkin stress balls have been an enormous hit for anybody who may have a fall craft thought sooner or later! We simply had the children fill orange balloons with rice and tied them off with inexperienced string.
As for Halloween night, the boys become their costumes and Ryan and I went as skeletons which I’m fairly certain is identical factor I’ve been for the previous three years. I had no thought how a lot use I’d get out of my Previous Navy skeleton onesie nevertheless it’s been price each penny for a lazy mother costume that also appears festive!
Chase went as Willy Wonka, Ryder went as a fireplace knight and Rhett dressed up as a lion!
We trick-or-treated with a bunch of our associates and it’s loopy for me to suppose that there hasn’t been a single Halloween since Chase was one the place we didn’t trick-or-treat with this similar crew! It was a blast and the boys cherished spending time buying and selling and sorting their sweet after we bought again house which is all types of nostalgic to look at because it was certainly one of my favourite issues to do with my sister on Halloween as a child, too!
My score: B+ / Style: Romance/Girls’s Fiction
Having beforehand learn and cherished In 5 Years by Rebecca Serle, I had excessive hopes for Expiration Dates by the identical writer. (I loved the ebook from begin to end however completely want In 5 Years.) Rebecca Serle has a present for including a magical, sudden twist to her romance novels that immediately piques my curiosity and retains me invested within the plot from the very first web page. Within the case of Expiration Dates, when Daphne Bell meets a brand new man, she receives just a little slip of paper with the title of a person on it and the length of time their relationship will final. Daphne has acquired many slips of paper since this started taking place years in the past and the papers have all been the identical: Identify + The period of time the connection will final. That’s, till now. Daphne has plans to fulfill a brand new man named Jake on a blind date and when she receives the paper together with his title on it earlier than the date begins she is shocked. There isn’t a timeline. No date telling her when this relationship will finish. Daphne is perplexed and confused however intrigued. This should imply Jake is her “perpetually,” proper?
As Expiration Dates continues, we’re given flashbacks into Daphne’s previous relationships, her takeaways from her time with varied males and the one fixed in her life: Her greatest buddy, Hugo. I cherished studying extra about Daphne and her distinctive circumstances and actually loved the development of her relationship with Jake and her friendship with Hugo. The ebook features a twist I didn’t see coming in addition to an ending I favored so much. It was a considerate, strong learn I loved diving into earlier than mattress each evening.
My score: B / Style: Thriller/Suspense
Ruth Ware is a go-to writer for me when I’m on the lookout for a thriller that may instantly rope me in. Her books are at all times inventive and intriguing and Zero Days was no totally different. I feel the ebook may’ve been condensed a bit — it felt unnecessarily lengthy in elements — however I nonetheless loved the premise. I didn’t discover it overly surprising nevertheless it wasn’t in-your-face apparent both. To sum it up: It was a good thriller and adequate to maintain me invested till the very finish, even when I did discover it a bit predictable. (Observe: I learn a lot of the ebook but in addition listened to the audiobook in items as nicely and cherished the audiobook naration by Imogen Church!)
Actually, the very starting of the ebook was my favourite as a result of I knew nothing about it (I downloaded it through Libby and didn’t learn the plot abstract) so I’m going to depart a abstract off of my evaluate, although a plot abstract is simple sufficient to seek out on Amazon do you have to want to head into studying this one with just a little extra info.
Beneath you’ll discover a group of your high 10 favorites — weblog posts + favourite finds — from October 2024!
Weblog Posts
Your High 10 Favorites
Cinnamon Apple Pie Ice Cream (Like fall in ice cream kind!)
Straightforward Coconut Granola (It’s been some time since I made this recipe however I introduced it again this week and have been loving it sprinkled over Greek yogurt for a day snack.)
Query of the Day
How was Halloween in your own home? Did you gown up?
Something particular making you smile this week?
