Review: The Heirs by Susan Rieger

About the Book: Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him.  The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him.  In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure. 

My Thoughts: This book was good in my opinon. It is about this rich family where the father dies from cancer and he leaves behind a legacy. His wife and their 5 sons are in the process of mourning when in comes a woman claiming that she had a relationship with Rupert and he had two sons with her as well. 

It is always the case when a rich person dies, that some "fraud" comes in trying to claim heirs to money. Eleanor gets rid of every last piece of her husband after he dies and then she gets the letter from the woman. She did not have proper time to grieve yet, she felt that her husband could have been unfaithful, and she kept asking her self, why couldn't she help out those two men because they looked exactly like her husband.

About the Author:  SUSAN RIEGER is the author of the 2014 novel The Divorce Papers.  She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and has worked as a residential College Dean at Yale and as associate provost at Columbia. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer David Denby.

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

December Wrap Up

I did not have a great reading month. I got sick and was not feeling up to reading anything and I am struggling to get through a book right now. I hope I don't start the year with a reading slump, but it might seem that way. I just don't want to read anything, not even books to the girls. I am even bored reading the illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. But here are the four books that I read for the month of December. I enjoyed all of them. 

I had a good reading year, and I am hoping that I will read more amazing books in 2018!

Freebie Haul 12/18- 12/30

The freebies and samples for the past two weeks were very lacking. I am planning to take a freebie haul break in January. I am going to be revamping this blog and try to put more effort into my posts and have more variety and also I want to concentrate more on my YouTube channel. So this will be the last freebie post until February. Whatever I receive in January I will not be hauling. These two weeks were very magazine heavy.

Monday 12/18: Starting the week off with a magazine.

January 2018 issue of Vogue

Tuesday 12/19: No Freebies

Wednesday 12/20: Blogging For Books review copy of The Chalk Man

Thursday 12/21: No Freebies

Friday 12/22: I got two more magazines today. A Weight Watchers magazine and Sports Illustrated

January/ February 2018 issue

December 25, 2017 issue

Saturday 12/23: I got another Entertainment weekly magazine to add to the girls "school project" stash

December 29, 2017 - January 5, 2018 issue

Monday 12/25: No Mail. Merry Christmas

Tuesday 12/26: No Freebies

Wednesday 12/27: Goodreads Giveaway win and Seventh Generation Tampons

The Philosopher's Flight by Tom Miller

Seventh Generation Free & Clear Tampons

Thursday 12/28: Handy Manny DVD from Disney Movie Rewards and magazine

Handy Manny Big Race

December 2017 issue of Outside magazine

Friday 12/29: No Freebies

Saturday 12/30: Ending the year with another magazine.

January 2018 issue of Travel + Leisure

Hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year!!!
I will see you all for another freebie haul in February.

School Week 19 Summarized

This is going to be a straight written post about school last week. We were so sick last week before Christmas that I didn't take any pictures but we still did school because I needed to get us to that 90 day mark. My home school association and state has to have 90 day forms every year, and my home school association gives reminders from the very beginning of the school year straight till the new year to turn in our 90 day forms for every student. We did get some stuff done, but it was mostly Netflix on Monday and Tuesday and then we were so sick on Wednesday, that we just couldn't do anything.

I had Thursday planned as an off day right at the beginning because that was my birthday, and we were still sick as dogs. This day was the girls worst sick day. Friday we were feeling a little better and got more done than just watching Science documentaries on Netflix.

Ariana worked on her workbook and got some reading time in for herself. Addy got some Easy Peasy lessons done in both Getting Ready sets. Samantha also got some reading time in for herself and completed some workbook pages. We ended this short and awful week with reading some library books and chapter 3 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. After we finished this day, we all took a nap because we were worn slap out.

I hate that I didn't take any pictures what so ever this week, but I was just focused on getting our time in and also my girls not being awful in pictures when they were feeling so miserable.

Freebie Haul 12/11- 12/16

I was going to double up weeks on this post until I realized that last week as I am writing this, I didn't have much and I doubt I will get much this current week due to the holidays. Plus, this was a good sized freebie week and I have enough pictures in this post.

Monday 12/11: I got an awesome hair care product that I can't wait to try. I am going to try it for New Years Eve.

It's a 10 Miss America miracle leave in product

Tuesday 12/12: Got another magazine and Cayce got some more men beauty supplies.

December 2017 issue of Golfweek

Cantu Shea Butter men body and hair care

Wednesday 12/13: Received my last Goodreads Giveaway win book and Cayce's pinchme box

Reign of the Fallen: Goodreads Giveaway Win

Pinchme box: Meow Mix Bistro treat and coupon, Kashi protein bar, and RXBar Kids chocolate chip snack, and Graze box promo card

Thursday 12/14: We got two more Pinchme boxes today that contained the same thing as yesterday except these boxes didn't have the Kashi bar, and we also got another magazine.

December 18, 2017 issue of Sports Illustrated

Friday 12/15: Every year, I always get a birthday present from Black and Mild, and this year, I got to choose what they would send. I forget what they offered but I picked out this robe and it is so warm and cozy.

Red robe from Black and Mild for my Birthday

Saturday 12/16: Back in late September, I found out that Bertolli had a rewards thing where if you send them your receipt for whatever product has an offer with it, they will send you a reward. Yadda Yadda Yadda, I had to buy two jars of pasta sauce and send them my receipt and I would get this spoon rest. It took months to get here, and it is so beautiful. It is ceramic, not plastic. I don't know if they are still doing this promo or if they have another offer right now but keep a lookout. I wish I would have gotten a second one to give as a Christmas present to my mama.

Bertolli Ceramic spoon rest

Airwick V.I.Poo bathroom spray for review

Review: The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

About the Book: In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.

My Thoughts: Ever since I first read the synopsis for this book, I knew it would peak my interest. It's a thriller, mystery somewhat horror novel. It starts off with someone finding a dismembered body in the woods. The body is of a girl and she is missing her head. This book also takes place in two different times. 1986 and 2016. So the story is being told 30 years apart. It is also set in England because the slang words and town names suggest so and I watch a lot of British YouTubers to pick up on the slang. It is also a complete mind fuck because one minute some one will be standing there and then in a split second, there face and leg is being ripped apart right in front of you... kind of like Final Destination. Also, I will never draw stick figures the same way again because I will think of this book.

About The Author: C. J. TUDOR lives in Nottingham, England, with her partner and three-year-old daughter. Over the years she has worked as a copywriter, television presenter, voice-over, and dog walker. She is now thrilled to be able to write full-time, and doesn’t miss chasing wet dogs through muddy fields all that much. The Chalk Man is her first novel.


I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

School Week 18 Photos

This was supposed to go up sometime last weekend but I got sick and couldn't be bothered with anything. It took me a lot of effort just to get basic housework done and a week later, I am still trying to cough up a lung. I haven't been able to film any videos for my YouTube channel and Christmas is tomorrow and I am not ready. My anxiety is through the roof. As I am writing this my heart feels like it is about to beat out of my chest. I have so much I want to do with the girls tonight before bed, and it feels like I am going to run out of time or it's going to be late night and I am going to forget something. Let's just get on with the school week recap.

Monday 12/11: It was a late start to the day. They started with their morning work and then we finished disc 1 of Pearl Harbor. After the movie, I had Sammy do reading time while Ariana worked on Reading Eggs Mathseeds. Addy watched some more of SuperWhy.

We ended the day with reading chapter 3 of A Christmas Carol.

Tuesday: Another late start to the morning. We finally finished watching Pearl Harbor and 2 out of 4 of us were crying. Me as usual and then Ariana. I had Sammy do reading time again while Ariana did some workbook pages and Addy did some Easy Peasy lessons.

Sammy worked on reading eggs and ariana did some reading on her own after an hour. Addy did some more alphabet coloring pages and we ended the day with a YouTube video on Paul Revere's midnight ride.

Wednesday: Started at the same time as yesterday morning/ We watched 2 episodes of Frozen Planet and we discussed what we watched after and then they drew pictures after. Sammy worked on her reading and Ariana did more workbook pages while Addy did some more of her Easy Peasy lessons.

Sammy drew mountains

writing words on her own.

We finally finished reading A Christmas Carol today. We also read two library books to end our day. They were called Polar Bear's Underwear and The Polar Express.

Thursday: No Pictures taken today. We had an early morning start. Sammy started an hour before Ariana and Addy. She did two days worth of Easy Peasy and then she did her morning work along with Ariana and Addy. They watched two more episodes of Frozen Planet. They did their Easy Peasy and reading and Leapfrog as usual. They watched an hour long documentary on Paul Revere. We ended our day with starting Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the illustrated edition.

Friday: We had a very late start to the day. The latest of start of the week. We started watching a new Netflix show called The Pyramid Code. Every time I see something on Ancient Egypt, I always let the girls know because they are fascinated by it and love watching new things about it.

After the Pyramid Code, Addy watched Leapfrog videos on Netflix while Ariana did more workbook pages and Samantha read to herself. They switched after an hour. Sammy did some workbook pages today and she did surprisingly well. We ended the day with reading Chapter 3 of Harry Potter. I did plan on reading Chapter 4 as well, but I started getting a sore throat that would eventually lead into a full blown cold into the next week and cause misery all the way till Christmas!!