CharLovesVille

On August 12, my beautiful hometown was a invaded by a group of white supremacist.  Thousands of them, although I am unsure of actual numbers. I know about 7,000 protesters and counter protests from here and out of town were expected. It turned very bad very quickly. The violence, if I'm being honest, was above anything I thought. They beat a black man in a garage with 2x4s while screaming the "N" word at home. Fights broke out all over, but the worst of it all was when a car plowed through a side street running of protesters on "our side" injuring 19 and killing 1. The act is being called a terriost attack, although they have not charged the driver with that charge.

This act ripped the heart of this town apart. People of both political parties came together against racism. Different events were organized all over the town to show support to each other. I've gone downtown and visited the memorial. And I've gone down to the mural on the other end of the mall. It's awful the see my hometown on CNN and FOX and even international news. It breaks my heart that this is what people know our little town for. For days, it's all anyone could talk about. I would actually get annoyed at my friends who wanted complain about mundane things, like their husband bringing home the wrong cheese for dinner. Everyone's feelings were so raw. I had conversations with people I didn't know, people from around the country friend requesting me and checking in. I had conversations with Trump supporters, and I had conversations with people who want to keep the statue. The only thing on my fb for days, was the rally.

I've been trying to show my support for the town when I can. I usually find out about events after the fact, due to them not being on social media, for safety reasons. My friend Heather has a shop on etsy and came up with these decals to show support. Half the proceeds are going to go to the patient relief fund set up for the victims of the terrorist attack. I picked them up yesterday, and am in love with it. I can't wait to put it on my jeep.

Monthly Wrap-up

It's late, but I couldn't do this last month, so here is my last months wrap up!! I was on vacation for a week, so I didn't read as much as last month, but still not too bad! And! I even read the book club book

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A random find on KU and it wasn't what I thought it would be....It was a suspense like it said, but it was a little too sexual for me. I didn't care for that part of it. 

★★★

From the author of Girl on the Train, which I loved. I didn't like this one as much. It took me about a month to finish. 

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This was a sequel to a book I read in January. I did not like this as much as the first one, which I was disappointed about. 

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Book club pick, and it was a fun spin on Peter Pan. I don't see many Peter Pan retellings

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This one was a random find on amazon KU and it was the best book of the month!!! I've been on a suspense kick lately, but this was a great read. Highly recommend!!

Spotlight Saturday

I have missed my blog!! My computer caught a virus trying to fix my son's IPad, I hate apple products... #teamandroid!! So, my first post in a month 💗



We spent our Saturday in a couple towns over at a kids birthday party! The park was really cute, and we had a great time

NOT a Pintrest mom

I am not crafty...like AT ALL. And most of the time it doesn't bother me, but sometimes it's very frustrating. My son is very low maintenance, but this year he wants a Beauty and the Beast party. First off, fuck society for thinking that only GIRLS can enjoy Beauty and the Beast. I couldn't find any even gender neutral invites. It was very frustating. And usually I don't give a shit, but since I was handing these out at school, I did. He gets picked on enough for his choices, I didn't need to add fuel to the fire by sending in glitter and pink and princessey invites. Thanks to my awesome (Very crafty) friend, I was able to get some really cute custom invites made.

So now cue the panic that I suck at being crafty and my son's party is going to suck. The only thing working to my advantage is this is at a public place and we are renting a room, so there is only so much I can do. B/c as awesome as something like this is, yeah...that would never happen.

If I can get over the decoration part, next comes cupcakes and or cake. Which, my son doesn't even like....so I don't know why every year I obsess over this. My dad is an awesome cake decorator but he doesn't live in town and doesn't make it to his parties. Last year I had a friend make them and they were absolutely stunning. Buuuut this year my son didn't want to invite her kids. Talk about awkward....oh hey, I know you're not invited to the party but can you make cupcakes again....? I hate they way grocery store icing taste, and I can't decorate for shit. I saw these rice krispie treats and thought yeah I could totaly drizzle some shit on those, and fake the flowers. But then I rememered I can't even make rice krispie treats....WHO CAN'T HANDLE MAKING RICE KRISPIE TREATS?!?! Me. That's who. How cute are those little clock cakes though?!

Next would come favor bags. Which honestly, I've never really done before b/c I think they are a waste of money. But apparently they are a thing....so I'll do them this year. I thought of something really cute to put in the bags would be a bookmark, since you know Belle loves reading....and I would have my son decorate the bookmarks. But what else should I put in? And of course, these bags are super cute, but never in a million years could I pull it off. 

I know in the end my son doesn't care about any of this, and I will still a huge hug and a thank you from him after the party. He will tell me I'm the best mommy ever and it was the best party ever. So even though I think the party sucked b/c I'm not a pintrest mom, he will still love it and that should be the only thing that matters.

7 Years old!!

Yesterday was my son's birthday!! I requested the day off, and usually his dad doesn't have to work either and we do something together, but this year he did. So it was just me and the birthday boy all day!!

We started the day off with me sleeping until almost 10! B/c I work overnights, he's usually really good about entertaining himself while I sleep for a few. He wanted to go to the museum here in town, so we headed downtown, had some lunch and then to the museum.On the way to the museum he got a call from paw patrol wishing him a happy birthday!!! I couldn't hear the phone call, but he seemed pretty excited about it :-)  I still had to do some shopping, so we didn't stay as long as we usually do. He hung out with Grandma while I ran and did some quick shopping. We had dinner at 6 so after shopping we went home. He took a nap! And I read my book. I haven't had a birthday that was just me and him, and it was really nice to just get to do what we wanted and go where we wanted.

Next was dinner. I have a hard time at family dinners with my son's dad there. I'm not really sure why except for the fact that I feel like everyone acts weird when he's there. Including him. He tells really weird stories and it just makes me uncomfortable. I don't know if he does it to be funny, or what, but I just don't want my mom listening to stories about how you use to buy alcohol at the age of 15.  Of course, no one gets it and every one just thinks I'm being a bitch and its super frustrating. My son's dad and I get along pretty well, that's not the issue. Idk, sometimes I just don't like him around friends or family. It makes me anxious, and I don't have a good time. But no one else can relate, and they just think I'm being pety or a bitch.

But I survived dinner and since I was off that night we went home and had a "Secret Party"!! when I told my son I was off for his birthday, he got super excited and asked could we have a secret party after dinner. I had wanted to do sparklers that were left over from the 4th but it was raining :-( So instead we played with his new tea set, and had a tea party with his Hatchamil.

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Mid Year Book Freakout

                    MID YEAR BOOK FREAKOUT TAG



1. Best book you’ve read so far in 2017: Ummm, I don't know that I can pick one, but I'll go with Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. Or since that's a poetry book, Two Kisses for Maddy by: Matthew Logelin would be next pick 

2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2017: 1000 Pieces of You by: Claudia Grey 

3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to: The Crazy House by: James Patterson and Lost in a Book by: Jennifer Donnelly 

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year. Merit by: Colleen Hoover 

5. Biggest disappointment. Hands down it was the Handmaids Tail 

6. Biggest surprise. 1984 by: George Orwell

7. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you) Nicola Yoon, Dot Hutchinson, Claudia Grey

8. Newest fictional crush. Olly from Everything, Everything or Park from Eleanor and Park 

9. Newest favourite character. Maya from The Butterfly Garden 

10. Book that made you cry. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur 

11. Book that made you happy: Everything, Everything by: Nicola Yoon 

12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year. Haven't seen any yet, but hoping to see Everything everything 

13. Favourite review you've written this year. I've only written one review I think? So I guess that one 

14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) Everything, Everything 

15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year? Way too many to list! My TBR list is way too long