The Roundup // April 2026

It kind of feels like my head is spinning and swirling with all that's gone on and how my next few months are shaping up. April was really good, don't get me wrong, but it was FULL and I've accidentally planned at least one thing each Saturday April-June!!! Ooops! But it will be great :) I also have some news about this website and blog so keep reading!

My Bookshelf

The theme this year is re-reading :) I'm also working on a book rec freebie so it's gotten me excited to read old favorites again! I also had a crazy month and didn't read as much as usual. 

• Okay this one is new. The Manhattan Confessions by Jocelyn Green is the last book in a trilogy and it was AMAZING! 
  
• Re-read Hattie Big Sky and Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson, as well as The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine.
  
• Finished Now & Not Yet by Ruth Chou Simons. VERY good!
  

What I've Been Loving

• Amazing skies. We've had some spectacular skies lately!
  
• Blossoming trees. I love the blooms, especially the softness of redbuds (stupidly named) against the little buds of green. 
  
• Discovering a church lending library. There is a church not too far from me that has a library that anyone can use and it means that I can get some more obscure books that I've been wanting to read!
  
• Tigers baseball. Yes, it was rocky there for a minute but we seem to be finding our stride and Kevin McGonigle is pretty fun to watch. 
  

Life Update

Oh my word, April was WILD! I spent about two weeks with almost no breathing room between scheduled things and then having a bunch of catalogues coming in and me being the only editor available to work on them! Which is good for business but made for some interesting weeks. 

The last tw0 days of March we did our Great Basement Reshuffle. All the shelves got put in their new locations and then my mom and I got all the books put onto the bookshelves. We are still working on getting the storage shelves organized but the basement project is 95% finished and it went so well! 

Then the first day of April we had a dumpster delivered and we did a massive clean-out of the barn and the area right in front of it. We threw away a TON, took a bunch to the burn pile, and sent a pile to the scrap yard! 

This was also Easter week so we had two services during the week, I went to the Easter fair with my friend and my nieces' and nephews', I babysat, edited, and made cookies for Easter. (I made copycat Lofthouse cookies which honestly just tasted like sour cream cookies but the frosting was DEAD ON and so good! I made vanilla and lemon.)

I would not do something like the basement and dumpster again in the same week but we did it and it worked out. The week after Easter my mom was gone for a week and I was on for everything! Meals, chores, errands... plus babysitting and editing and some plans I had with friends. It was a good but very busy week. 

She got back and then I went to spend two days with a friend who needed some help while her husband was out of town. We had a fun time and I just enjoyed being with them since I don't get to see them very much. 

We went to a comedy show fundraiser that was very good (this bit about the fridge had my mom and grandmother dying because this is their life!). I went to two musicals - my nieces' and nephews' school musical and then a local high school to see High School Musical - visited Frankenmuth, and helped prep and then attended my friend's bridal shower!

Like I said, lots going on this month and so much fun, life-giving stuff but it's been a whirlwind! 

Business Update

I have decided that I am leaving Weebly as my website host. I'm sad but it's past time. However, I am probably not able to move my blog and I have EIGHT YEARS of posts here! So that means a few things:

1. I am going to be blogging less until I move. Since I'm not keeping this going, it's kind of foolish to put a bunch more content here that I will have to move. I will still do my recap posts for sure and I may do a few here and there but I should be moving this summer so it won't be that long until I'm blogging again on my new site.
2. These posts will be staying here. I will be downgrading this website to a free plan and removing most of the other content so that functionally this will become just a blog archive. 
3. I will move a lot of the posts to my new site slowly over time. They will stay here too, but there are many that I will want to be over at my new home and this will also give me a chance to update and do more backlinking. 

I will definitely connect this blog to my new site in some way so that people who know to come here or have saved links to these posts will be able to find both places. It's a huge bummer that I can't just switch everything over but here we are. 

Sweet note from the little boy I watch :)

He really is loving on me this month!