February 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up

The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight.

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January 2021 Wrap-up

You can find my January 2021 Wrap-Up HERE!

February 2021 Reviews:

I read 2 books in February.  Click on the cover to read my review :)

  

 

Goodreads Challenge:

Having read 2 books in February, at the end of February I was 6/26 books.

Favorite Book of February 2021:

Book Review With the Most Views:

DNF's

This book just wasn't doing it for me.  The female lead kept calling the male lead a "hottie" (to his face) and other such annoying words.  I was 50 pages in and decided to drop it like a "hottie" potato!

Again, what is with telling the guy how built he is; even if it is obvious?  I couldn't get over the gushing over all the firefighters' manliness by the "heroine".  I didn't make it very far into this one...

Where I've "Traveled":

Kauai, HI

South Carolina

Montana

Miami, FL 

North Carolina

Top Ten Tuesday Posts:

~Books Written Before I Was Born

~Books With Love In the Title

~Purple, Yellow and Green Covers for Mardi Gras

~Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud

My Weekly Bookishness:

This includes book hauls, teasers, and other great bookish fun :)

February 5th

February 12th

February 19th

Other Posts:

A few of my favorite posts from the blog:

Kaylee in the Kitchen ~ Enchilada Stuffed Shells

Songs on Sunday ~ Good God Almighty by Crowder

Three Things I Hate About Winter

Coming Up in March 2021:

Things were really hectic in my daily life during February with lots of stress and little reading time.  I'm hoping to get back on track of reading at least 1 book per week in March.  March is also my Birth Month, so I plan on celebrating as much as I can.  Gotta have something to look forward to this time year :)

Thankful Thursday ~ 1/7/2021

 

Here are some things that made me thankful/smile/excited this week:

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~A New Beginning! ~ I know, technically, it is just another day but New Year's Day is always exciting for me.  A fresh start.  A new year.  A new beginning :)  Happy 2021!!!

~Back to Routine!  Monday we started back to our normal routines.  (As normal as possible, anyway :)  Doug and Kaylee went back to work.  Laken went back to virtual school and I went back to peace and quiet as I go about my normal everyday tasks :)  Don't get me wrong; I love having them home.  But...eventually we all have to get back at it :)

~Bible Verses In My Planner!  Planners that I've had in the past included Bible verses weekly.  My current planner does not.  I saw someone on facebook calling on her friends to tell their favorite Bible verse so she could add it to her planner on a weekly basis and also include prayer for that particular friend of the week.  I loved the idea!  As of the time I write this, I still need 20 more verses to complete the year of 2021.  I would love it if you would add your favorite Bible verse to your comment.  I'm hoping to fill all 52 weeks :)

~LoseIt! LoseIt! is an app that I am now using to count my calories, keep track of my food intake and my exercise.  MyWW was just too expensive.  I can subscribe to Premium LoseIt! for 1/6 of the price of MyWW.  So far I'm loving it!  Counting calories is so much easier than points :)

~School Starting Back???  I got a notice from Laken's school that a January 19th is the "tentative" start back date for the hybrid in-school classes.  So Laken will "possibly" be going TO school on January 19th.  It will still be every other week in school alternating with virtual weeks.  Laken has mixed emotions.  So do I...

What are you thankful for/smiling/exited about this week?  Tell me all the good stuff! 

Colletta

P.S. I love for you to stop by MY SHOP and give it some love!

Help Wanted!!! ~ Your Favorite Bible Verse is????

In the year 2021, I want to include scripture in my weekly planner.

I need 52 verses.  So what is your favorite Bible Verse?  I'm also going to write your name by the verse in my planner so I remember to pray for you at that time.

You can leave me a comment with your verse or email me at collettaskitchensink@yahoo.com .

Colletta

Thankful Thursday ~ 12/31/2020

 

Here are some things that made me thankful/smile/excited this week:

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~ Christmas!  We had a wonderful, relaxing Christmas!  The girls are getting older now so we slept in until around 7am and I actually had to wake them up!  I love the Christmas season and all the preparations and time spent together.  Things were a little bit different this year but still GOOD :)

~Mary, Did You Know!  The Ladies Choir at Church sang "Mary, Did You Know" this past Sunday morning after having one practice!  Yikes!  We were worried about coming in at just the right moment but we managed to pull it off :)  Here's one of my favorite versions of the song, that we sounded nothing like.  Nothing...

~New Computer!  I mentioned earlier in the week that my oldest daughter, Kaylee, got me a new computer for Christmas!  It didn't get here until this past Monday but that is OK.  I'm still super excited to have my own computer again!  It was just so hard to use my kindle for everything.

~Bible Reading Plan!  I will be attempting to read The One Year Chronological Bible in 2021.  I'm very excited about this because my Mom and my Aunt Donna will be reading along with me!  I'm hoping that having the extra motivation and support will help me be more consistent with my daily Bible reading.  If you'd like to join along, here is the Bible we will be using.  There is even a Kindle version.

~Calendars and Planners!  I have my new wall calendar and a new blogging planner all set and ready to use come tomorrow!   My new calendar is Landscapes and my planner is in my favorite turquoise color.  I'm a geek about these kind of things :)

~New Year's Eve!  I want to take this little bit of space to say goodbye to 2020 and say hello to 2021...It has been real but I'm ready to leave 2020 behind!  I pray that 2021 will be kinder and more gentle to us all :)

What are you thankful for/smiling/exited about this week?  Tell me all the good stuff! 

Colletta

P.S. I love for you to stop by MY SHOP and give it some love!

First Book 2021

Sheila, over at Book Journey, is once again hosting "First Book of the Year" fun!

My "First Book of the Year" will be:

She needs to move on. He wants to let her go. Will they finally be able to go their separate ways even though their hearts seem to have other plans?

Elizabeth Ashburn is madly, deeply, irrefutably in love with her best friend. They know each other better than their own minds. There is only one problem: To him, she is Little Lizzie, and nothing she does seems to replace the idea in his mind. No matter. It is her first Season and she is determined to make a match with a gentleman—any gentleman—who will help her steal her heart back from Oliver Turner and his sea-blue eyes.

Oliver Turner can remember the exact day that Lizzie grew up. And now, he cannot see her as anything besides the beautiful woman stealing his breath—no matter how much he needs to. He won’t marry her. He can’t. He loves her too much for that. Now, he simply needs to help marry her off so that she will officially be out of his reach.

What is your "First  Book of the Year"?

Colletta

P.S. I'd love for you to stop by and give MY SHOP some love!

2021 Goals

When I thought about writing a "goals" post for 2021, I was almost a bit afraid...  Isn't that silly?  But that is honestly how I felt.  I then decided that I wouldn't let that fear be bigger than my faith.  So here it is!

What a year 2020 has been!  I mean WHEW!!!! There can't be many people who won't be glad to see this year end with hopes, prayers and dreams for a brighter, kinder 2021.

I wasn't sure where to begin so I decided to take a look back at my 2020 Goals.  Click HERE if you want to go see that post and how epically I failed...  Therefore, a lot of my 2021 goals will be the similar.

Without further ado, here are my goals for 2021 in no particular order:

1.  Read 26 Books.  I actually completed this goal last year so I decided to not mess with a good thing and will be keeping my goal at 26 books.  The only challenge I will be participating in will be the Goodreads Challenge for 2021.  I'm not a good reader when under pressure so I'm going to keep it fun!

2.  Lose 52 lbs.  This was another goal from last year.  I did NOT complete this goal and it makes me a bit sad.  However, I'm going to try to keep it upbeat and strive for 1 pound a week once again.  

3.  Exercise 5 Days Per Week For 30-60 Minutes.  I got a treadmill for my birthday in March so no excuses!  I've already scheduled time into my daily planner.  Now I just need to do it!

4.  Daily Bible Study Time. I will be reading The One Year Chronological Bible this year along with my Mom and my Aunt Donna.  I'm excited to have some motivation and support to keep me accountable and on track.

5.  Ladies Bible Study.  We have a Ladies Bible Study time on Sunday mornings at 8am before Sunday School/Church.  My goal for 2021 is to be consistent in my attendance and participation.  To do that I need to also be consistent in completing the weekly lessons.  My biggest hinderance is getting up so early on Sunday mornings.

6. Morning Routine.  I want to establish a morning routine for myself.  Right now, with the youngest being educated virtually, our mornings are pretty lazy.  I'd like to get up a bit earlier and actually be productive before 9am!  This will help with Goal #5, I hope.

7.  Read For Pleasure.  I've not picked up a book (kindle or otherwise) for about 2 months.  I just haven't taken the time for reading.  I feel like I've lost my reading mojo and I'd like to get it back.

8.  Grow My Etsy Shop.  I've been watching countless Hallmark Christmas Movies and crocheting items for my Etsy shop.  While I still have lots of ideas and patterns that I want to create, I need to set myself a schedule so that it isn't ALL that I do.  I want to grow the shop while still having time to do other things.

9.  Blog Daily.  This is something I currently try to do and want to continue.  I have a pretty good schedule set up for myself.  Blogging is a wonderful outlet for creativity.

I wanted to make it an even 10 and I'm sure I'll think of things I'd like to add later but that is all I can think of for now.

I'd LOVE to know what your goals are for 2021.  Let me know in the comments!

Colletta

P.S.  I'd love for you to stop by MY SHOP and give it some love!