Friday Favorites 12-7-18

Happy Friday, Here are some of my Friday Favorites for you:

Last week was my mother in law’s 85th Birthday. She is living in an assisted living center so Mark and I went there to celebrate. My two sisters also came and it was so much fun. She said it was her best Birthday ever.

2. I am loving these lip gloss sticks from Kokie Cosmetics. I got some of these at Walmart. It is a fairly new (to me anyway) brand and I love these. I am also trying some of the liquid eyeliner but I’m still not completely sure about that. I will let you know.

3. This is the latest book we are reading in my book group. I haven’t finished it but it is great so far. Don’t let the title Baby Teeth fool you. It is quite a thriller so far.

4. This wreath. I love it and I am going to try to make it!!!

5. That I live in a town where a duck crossing is still a real thing.

6. This Video you have to check it out: It is so Christmasy fun!!!

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Happy Friday

Love your day your way!!!!

Friday Favorites

Happy Friday everyone I hope your week was great. As I promised this will be a weekly post to share with you some of my favorite things from throughout the week. O.k here we go:

1. Some books that I am currently reading. I recently joined a book club and Monday night was my first time attending. I really enjoyed it. There are about 19 ladies in the group and we will meet at a different person’s house or a restaurant every month. We met at one of the members’ houses on Monday and she made baked spaghetti and Christmas punch and several other people brought salad, garlic bread, and dessert. We discussed the book for that month and gave it a score. And then all the scores are averaged to determine what everyone thought of the book. Each person picks a different book each month and the books are already picked for over a year so you have lots of opportunity to get the book and have it read. This is the book for November:

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I loved this book it is about firefighters but not about them fighting fires throughout the entire book. This is not a book I would have normally picked but I loved it. This is what I love about our book group there are so many different kinds of books. This book scored a 3.59 out of 5.00 from our group but I liked it a lot better.

I am also reading the Girl In The Blue Coat . This book is set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. A teenager, Hanneke Bakker, delivers smuggled goods on her bicycle until she is asked to help look for a missing teen who was being hidden in a neighbor’s house.
This book scored a 4.09 out of 5.00 from our group.

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2. I am also loving this mascara by Revlon, it is not clumpy or messy and it goes on very nice.

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3. This journal. It is called, Me A Personal Journal, I ordered it when we were at the Gift Show in Gatlinburg a few weeks ago. If you are interested I can get you the information for it. It has a place for events that are going on, hopes, goals, new ideas etc. and then a full page to write whatever you want. I love this and have been keeping it beside my bed so I can write in it every night.

4. This hair spray is amazing. When I went Black Friday shopping last week Penney’s had this on sale for $7.99. It is usually $12.00-$13.00 and up when you buy it on Amazon or at a beauty supply shop. You can also get it at Walmart at the hair salon but it still is a little pricier than what I paid at Penney’s. This spray is light weight and adds texture to fine or thin hair. It also boosts volume and hold for any hairstyle without heavy buildup. Love it!!!

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Last Friday when my sister and I went black Friday shopping we went to see this move. Instant Family. It is wonderful and heart warming and will just leave you with the best feeling. We loved it. You have to go see it. Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer do an awesome job in this movie. We laughed so much. Watch this trailer.

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I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Love your day your way!!

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I am Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving for my American friends. Today I hosted Thanksgiving at my house. One of my friends wanted to know if I was going all “Betty Crocker” and I think I just may have. We only had eight people for Thanksgiving but man it was a lot of cleaning (the house) and preparing food and cooking and then cleaning. We had sort of a blended bunch today from both of our families. Mark’s mom came from the assisted living facility, where she is staying, and Mark’s brother. My sister and her husband and my niece and then my sister in law came so we had both sides of our family there and I loved it!!!!!

I cooked from about 7:00 AM until 2:00 PM just before we ate. I also hate for anyone to be in my kitchen cleaning so I felt the need to clean and load the dishwasher. After dinner several of us took a long walk through the woods and enjoyed the beautiful day. It was a great day all around but I am exhausted. I am getting ready to head to bed because me and one of the sisters will be heading out for Black Friday Shopping around 4:00 AM. We are not anxious to get the bargains or anything like that but we love the Christmasey feel in the air and the excitement of being out at 4:00 AM shopping. I know I know, it doesn’t take much for us. With lots of people starting their shopping on Thanksgiving night early Friday morning is now a great time to go. Anyway we will get coffee and eat lunch and we may see a movie before we head home so its just a lot of good quality “Sister Time” my other sister HATES shopping so we don’t even try to get her to come with us.

Things have been really busy and crazy for me the last couple of weeks. Next Friday I will start a Friday Favorites on my blog where I will share with you some of my favorite things I am really liking throughout the week. I did want to catch you up on some of the things that have been up to:

This is a cowl scarf I finished last week and have already worn it twice.

I have been knitting a lot!!! I love knitting in the winter it is just too cozy. It is soothing and I am thinking about teaching a beginner knitter’s class so that everyone can enjoy this.

I have joined a book club. Although Monday night is my first official get together with the other members in the club (They meet once a month) I have been keeping up with the books they have been reading. The reason I wanted to join a group like this is because I loved the diversity in the group and the very different types of books they read and shared with one another. These are books I may not have taken a second glance at before but I am loving them!!! I will share some of them on my Friday Favorites next week.

58 Thanksgiving Baskets ready for distribution.

I am serving as Secretary, Treasurer of my local Kiwanis Club. This is a Civic organization that is global and the main priority is young children. Our community has so many needs that sometimes it is overwhelming. On Saturday we gave out 58 Thanksgiving Baskets to families in our area. Anyway, being the Secretary, Treasurer of this very active organization keeps me very busy.

I have been working out, maybe not as much as I should, but I have been trying to make it a priority several days a week.

The struggle is real!!!!

Add all of this to a very busy work schedule and time just seems to slip away. So what have you been up to? I have missed sharing with you and hope to get back to posting on a regular schedule.

I’m off to bed, 3:30 AM will come quickly and a fun day with the sister will be here soon.

Love your day your way