3 Days Until My Birthday & 1 Week Until Christmas// Sunday Post #47

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly from The Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

How is Christmas next Sunday. Mentally, I am not ready. Physically, I am ready for it to be over so I can have my living room back and space to walk, and also my closet where I hide the presents. But before Christmas, I have to get through my birthday which is on Wednesday. I will be 32 and I am suffering the birthday blues severely this year. I am not ready to turn another year older. Turning older is a special kind of torture especially when you have kids. I had my oldest when I was 18, so we "grew up" together and she will be 14 in April and I just can't deal with that. Last year around my birthday I was asked to share my amazon wishlist, so I will be including it this year. 

WISH LIST

The past week was good but again exhausting and stressful. But I did have this weekend to look forward to. My dad took my girls roller skating for the first time on Friday and they made new friends. Now they want to go back next weekend and want their own pair of skates. Those will have to be birthday presents.

Puppy update... Pizza is growing like crazy. One morning I looked at her and realized she had grown overnight. She got brave and ventured into the kitchen, she touched noses with the cats and got bopped on the head by one of them because her sniffing the cat got to be too much. My big dog Si is doing well. She is trying to play more with Pizza. She is also still trying to eat Pizza's head...lol.

I got to see the toddlers again for the first time in months. They kept hugging me and the girls. Their parents had an adult Christmas party and the toddlers got to make grinch cookies and eat chicken nuggets. I also got permission to share a picture of them but their names will remain private.

Reading update: I finished Broken Wish by Julie C. Dao and absolutely LOVED it. I went in ecpecting it to be a retelling of a certain fairy tale, but it had different fairy tale elements and I loved each character. I will be reading the second book in the series, but it is by Dhonielle Clayton and follows different characters. I don't know how it is going to be connected to Broken Wish, but I hope it does live up to my high expectation now.

I am currently reading:

Growing up I used to watch this movie with my grandmother all the time. We always used to say the secrets in the sauce and quote this movie by heart. Last year, I was meant to read this and I have finally decided to pick it up because I was a little hesitant because I didn't want my memories of the movie to be changed and the movie be totally different from the source material. But, surprisingly it works in the story telling. I understand why they changed most of the stories around because if they would have kept it the way it is in the book, the movie would be confusing as hell. Like learning about Smokey the hobo before meeting Ruth and then learning about Buddy's death and then Ruth's marriage, and then Buddy Jr losing his arm. It would have been a hot mess of a movie.

Hope everyone has a great week.