TBR list on my Kindle...

Inspired by a book blogger (Lit and Life) who posted her list of unread books on her Nook I am making my own TBR list.

1. The Girl You Left Behind-JoJo Moyes
2. The Man in the Window-Jon Cohn
3. Walk Me Home-Catherine Ryan Hyde
4. Sycamore Row-John Grisham
5. Where We Belong-Catherine Ryan Hyde
6. The Last Camelia-Sarah Jio
7. Between Sisters- Kristen Hannah
8. Pigs in Heaven- Kinsolver
9. Angela's Ashes-Frank McCoy
10. Emily and Einstein-Linda Francis Lee
11. Twelve Years a Slave

I am not sure which book is my next read. I still have to finish The Rosie Project (hardcover) and Voyager on Audible. Hmmm...I do love a long list.

This week I went to a movie, unusual for me. I saw August, Osage County with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Oh, my goodness. It was awful. The actors were wonderful being really awful people. It made me not want to have a funeral dinner if there could be any chance it could turn out like the dinner in this movie. Not the feel good movie of the year! I also watched The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Painful but very good.

The Rosie Project

I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem. As with so many scientific breakthroughs, the answer was obvious in retrospect. But had it not been for a series of unscheduled events, it is unlikely I would have discovered it.
The sequence was initiated by Gene's insisting I give a lecture on Asperger's syndrome that he had previously agreed to deliver himself. The timing was extremely annoying. The preparation could be time-shared with lunch consumption, but on the designated evening I had scheduled ninety four minutes to clean my bathroom. I was faced with the choice of three options, none of them satisfactory.

Hmmm...should l read this??

Christmas on the porch...

 

Sarah's pics from the porch...

Sisters, Hannah and Alyssa

Sledders

Cade

Vi and Iris

Haven, Lauren and Hannah 

Waiting to open

Funny baby-mama

Thanks

Twister game-hand made

people and paper

Eh?

Big kids

All of us on the porch

piano players

The new kid with Daddy and Kenny-Bell

Mmmmm

Me,in the kitchen

sledders

Sledders

Dave and Christine from B.C.

Oh, we had fun.
It was my turn to host the Aman family Christmas this year. My daughter Cammy, her husband, Steve and family welcomed us into their Lakeshore home in da U.P. I made my "almost famous" marinara sauce, lots of it, and a parmesean cheese sauce. Ivan cooked two turkeys just to snack on! Yummy. There are 45 of us, including in-laws, and 40 of us attended  A Yooper Christmas. We met seven week old Jaxon, the new kid. Games, Tenzy and a funny gift exchange, were played. Many of us sledded on the park hill right off the porch. Joe, Alice and Sarah handcrafted Twister games. I made my traditional family calender with at least one missing birthday just like I do every year! There were special cookies and snacks, cheesecake and candies. Jeanne Ray's peanut butter fudge. Aunt Joanie, Ivan's sister, buttered our bread and helped keep food flowing.
I love you all. I thank you for making the effort to trek to da U.P. to be together. 

Under the porch...

I happened to mention how much Under the Dome freaked me out to my dear grand girls. Well, walking through Target the other day I nearly screamed when I saw this sight!

Far away from the porch...

Phone pics of Texas trip!

Meet-aversary...

I just read a post about the day the blogger met his wife. I liked his story. So here is mine.

I was working in Bay City MI at Ritchie's Drive Inn. I met some girls from the Upper Peninsula. We became good friends. So when one of the girls got married I traveled to the wedding up north. My girl friend introduced me to a boy named Ivan. He was so funny in an arrogant " I know I am so cute" sort of way. He pursued me all night at the reception. I was quite stand offish. He was so sure he would make a conquest! At the end of the night he gave me a kiss, knocked out my contact lens and told me he was going to marry me! I did not ever expect to see him again...
He called me every day until I finally agreed to meet him in Kalamazoo for a date. The rest, as they say is history! August 30, 1968 our meet-aversary!