Category: Thoughts

The Sunday Salon is a Facebook group that has become an
informal week in review gathering place for bloggers.
It is also a place to share our thoughts about things of a bookish nature.
You can also link up weekly on Readerbuzz.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by
Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer
~ It’s a chance to share news~
A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received, and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!

It was Spring Break for the grandchildren last week. Remi arrived on Sunday and stayed through Thursday. Natalie arrived Friday night for a quick weekend visit. Kaden stayed home to attend track practice every day only to have his Saturday track meet get canceled due to the 12+ inches of snow that fell Friday night into Saturday. It is melting and probably will be gone soon. The graphic below is spot on.

Mr. Dollycas and I have a new hobby. He received a puzzle from Santa and a puzzle board from me and we have been enjoying our evenings before reading trying to put the darn thing together. Who knew a Peanuts puzzle would be so hard, LOL. His mother has been doing puzzles for the past few years and now we have gotten the bug.

Regarding the mammogram news I shared last week, I will be going back for more imaging on Friday. My oncologist is not worried. Apparently, they just did a screening mammogram and for my history, it should have been a diagnostic with more images right away which was what he ordered. Thankfully they are covered by insurance or would be ticked off even more. I will let you know how it goes next week.

How was your week?

Weekly Rewind – March 20 – 25, 2023

Monday – My Reading Itinerary Monday! – Week #12 – 2023

Tuesday – The Art of the Decoy (A Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery) by Trish Esden #Review / #Giveaway

Wednesday – Cozy Mystery featuring Death by Arts and Crafts (An Abby McCree Mystery) by Alexis Morgan #Review / #Giveaway @Alexis_Morgan @KensingtonBooks

Thursday – Star Tangled Murder (Bad Hair Day Mysteries) by Nancy J Cohen #Review / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour @nancyjcohen

Friday – Murder at a Scottish Wedding (A Scottish Shire Mystery) by Traci Hall #Spotlight / #Giveaway @KensingtonBooks

Saturday – A Flicker of a Doubt (A Fairy Garden Mystery) by Daryl Wood Gerber #Spotlight / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour @darylwoodgerber @KensingtonBooks

Where the Guilty Hide by Annette Dashofy is on Sale for $0.99 right now.
Post Motem by Tonya Kappes is also on sale for $0.99 right now.
Click the links above to get your copies.

Have a great week!!

Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent

The Sunday Salon is a Facebook group that has become an
informal week in review gathering place for bloggers.
It is also a place to share our thoughts about things of a bookish nature.
You can also link up weekly on Readerbuzz.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by
Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer
~ It’s a chance to share news~
A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received, and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!

It was a rough week around here as my family again dealt with their grief and remembered the accident that changed all our lives in 2001. It used to be every year I would write a post to go up on Kris’s memory page. Last year, Mr. Dollycas took care of the post. This year Daughter #1 did it and gave her point of view. It touched me so much that I had to finish my work day early and focus on myself and take some time. Here is her post:

14 years and 1 day after our family was rocked…it happened again. We lost one of us. He was a son, a brother, a father and a friend. My brother Kris ended his life.

I will never forget getting a phone call in the very early morning hours and hearing my mother tell me that Kris was gone. Those words would not process, this can’t be true, she needed to repeat those horrible words that no parent should have to say.

My world went dark. My older brother was gone.

So many memories are still so vivid in my mind. The fights, the joint forces against all and the love. B., J. and I are 3 of the 4 that will always be 4 children of Jeff and Lori. The memory of our older brother lives on though us and his amazing daughter Natalie.

We are blessed to still have each other, our amazing parents and all our new additions but our family is not physically full. There is a hole that will never be filled.

I love you Kris now and forever.

After that, I had to get my butt in gear the next day and get to the hospital for my mammogram. I thought, no big deal. Yeah right, I forgot it was ME and it is MARCH.

A report hit my My Chart late Thursday. This is what I saw – Abnormal findings. Additional imaging is requested. Of course, I freaked out. It was too late to call any of my doctors so I called Daughter #1. As always, she calmed me down and told me to wait for a doctor to call.

So I woke up Friday and went through my day. No one called. Then again late in the day a letter hit My Chart and confused me. It said that I would be contacted about additional imaging because my tissue is dense. I have known that for years and I am sure it is noted in my records. Then the rest of the letter was about breast cancer and told me to continue to have yearly mammograms and to talk to my doctor so I am aware of my risks of getting breast cancer. WHAT!

I plan on contacting my oncologist tomorrow and hopefully, he can explain to me if the abnormal is normal for me or do I need to worry. My Chart is a great way to keep up with all your health issues but results landing there after 6 p.m. is just unacceptable.

Other than that it was a normal week of blogging, reading, book tours, and television.

 

How was your week?

 

Weekly Rewind – March 13 – 18, 2023

Monday – My Reading Itinerary Monday! – Week #11 – 2023

Tuesday – Dearly Beloved Departed: A PIP Inc. Mystery by Nancy Lynn Jarvis #Spotlight / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour

Plus – I Will Find You by Harlan Coben #Review @GrandCentralPub

Wednesday – Cozy Wednesday featuring Lemon Curd Killer (A Tea Shop Mystery) by Laura Childs #Review / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour @BerkleyMystery

Thursday – Purls Before Swine (Clear Creek Mysteries) by Rebecca McKinnon #Review / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour

Friday – #FlashbackFriday – It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (A Catering Hall Mystery) by Maria DiRico #Review / #Giveaway @KensingtonBooks

Saturday – Candy, Cigarettes, and Murder (Chocolate Martini Sisters Mystery) by Brenda Whiteside and Joyce Proell #Spotlight / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour

Plus – Special Guest – Marcia Rosen – Author of Murder at the Zoo (Agatha, Raymond, Sherlock, & Me Mystery) #GuestPost

Happy Reading!

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