Happy St Patrick's Day!

Ok people, it's going to be 70 degrees today! I have seen about 25 robins in the last couple days so I know spring is around the corner. Yeay!!!! I don't know about the rest of you but winter seemed unusually long this year and I'm ready for warmth and green.

I have been having a tough time keeping up with my blogging but did want you all to know that I am fulfilling my reading quota and hanging in there with my goals. I read a couple of interesting books these past couple weeks. The first one is one called "The Middle Place" by Kelly Corrigan which I absolutely loved and can't imagine anyone not liking it. It's nonfiction and about a young mom who has an amazing relationship with her father (who is really quite a character!) and her being in the "middle place" where she is raising children of her own but also feeling a little in charge of her aging parents. There is some illness involved but really inspirational and I suggest you read it. The other book i finished last week is called "The Shack" by William Paul Young. It's a different genre book than I usually read and to put it really simply it's about a man who has a family, something horrific happens to one of his children and he struggles for a couple years faithwise and one day God sends him a letter telling him to meet him at "the shack" where the crime took place. What happens in that weekend for him is pretty remarkable and it certainly is a story that makes you think and then think some more. If anyone else has read it I would be very interested in hearing what you thought. It may be a book to read for our book group at some point.
I'm trying to finish "Loving Frank" by tomorrow nite as it is book group nite and hopefully will get that in. I'm in kind of a slow part in the book, a little more than half way thru but I do like it and I think it will create some really good conversation. It was a lot different for women living in that period of time don't you think? There seemed to be alot of judgement involved. Anyway, beyond that I am also still pluggging away at Comfort Food" by Kate Jacobs and on deck is "Thank You For All Things" by Sandra Kring who wrote the book we read last year called "The Book of Bright Ideas" Remember that one? We all liked it...............so that's where I'm at with my reading. I hope you're all having a wonderful week and we'll see you tomorrow nite!