The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ The Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~this meme was inspired in part by ~ In My Mailbox~ It's a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
Husband was off work Monday. Monday was also my brother's birthday. We went for a walk and then the kiddos ended up going to Grammy's house for a few hours with Husband while he cut her grass. I had a few unexpected hours to myself. Tuesday we walked and then went swimming. My oldest two kids had a fight over monopoly and then decided they wanted to be good friends with each other. They spent the rest of the night being so polite to each other I nearly cried. They even slept in the same room together. I wasn't naive enough to think such behavior was likely to last until the morning the next day, but it gave me hope for their future relationship. Wednesday was my birthday. Husband fixed me breakfast and the kids gave me their presents. The polite sibling behavior had indeed worn off. We went by grocery pickup and then to the storage building. I wanted to swim, but can you believe that the kids didn't? Granted, temps have only hit 90 once here so far this month so the water is unseasonably cold. It also did rain that afternoon. Thursday I took the kids to my parents house. We took their bicylces to ride around the block. Friday, we ran back up to the store to get a birthday present for a friend. Then we went swimming. Saturday, I went to a women's devotional. And then took Little Girl to a birthday party for her friend at a roller skating rink. That was Little Girl's first time skating and my first time in at least ten years. Saturday was a particularly exhausting, but good, day.
Monday: Review of Play for Me by Libby Hubscher (4 Stars)
Tuesday: Top Ten Summer 2023 TBR List
Wednesday: Can't Wait for Light Bringer (Red Rising, # 6) by Pierce Brown
Monday: Review of Love Unseen by Rachel Kelley Stones
Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday?
Wednesday: Can't Wait for Wednesday?
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Homeschool Bravely
By: Jamie Erikson
Publication: April 2, 2019
208 pages
Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting, Christian, Education
Source: Personal Kindle Library
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Goodreads description--Quiet the voices of "not good enough" and step courageously into guilt-free homeschooling Many homeschool parents have a long-term relationship with self-doubt. "Did I make the right decision?" "Could someone else do this better?" "Am I robbing my kids of something by not sending them to ‘regular school’?" What if there’s a better way? Not a 3-step technique or a shiny, new curriculum, but a change in perspective that transforms the way you plan, teach, and homeschool? Homeschool Bravely teaches you to see homeschooling as a calling, helps you overthrow the tyranny of impossible expectations, and guides you through the common bumps in the road, including how Reclaim your hope, renew your purpose, and transform your homeschool. Because the truth God will use every part of your homeschool, even your fears, faults, and failures, to weave good plans for your kids.
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, # 1)
By: Rebecca Yarros
Publication: May 2, 2023
528 pages
Genre: New Adult, Fantasy, Dragon
Source: Personal Kindle Library
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Goodreads description--Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca YarrosTwenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
That's it for my shelves and recaps of my past and upcoming week. What did you add to your shelves this week? Any bookish news you want to talk about? Let me know!
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