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Day 3 means it's time for another great sneak peek video... 

And now on to today's regularly scheduled post.

Watching: Instead of watching regular movies, J and I have watching the RiffTrax versions of movies. This week's selections were Battlefield Earth and Batman and Robin. Both horrible movies made entertaining with RiffTrax.

Reading: Getting back into some fluffy romance with More Than a Mistress by Mary Balogh.

Listening: Changing up our Pandora channels. Arthur and I were enjoying The Lumineers yesterday.

Making: Busting out the fall themed stamps!

Feeling: The pain ebbs and flows. Saturday was horrible, Sunday was decent, Monday was okay until I vacuumed the car and the house then it was bad, today is back to decent.

Planning: J leaves for his big work trip this Sunday. Arthur and I hope to fit in some fun activities while he's gone and the baby's still cooking.

Loving: I love when I wake up to fog that burns off about 10am. No 90 degree days for us right now.

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Watching: J and I dove in The Shannara Chronicles. It's a bit ridiculous, but fun. It's our current go-to for something fun and not depressing.

Reading: Making my way through The Finishing School series by Gail Carriger for Read a Series in a Month challenge. I'm almost finished with the second book, Curtsies and Conspiracies.

Listening: Going on week 5 of roof repairs in our part of the neighborhood. Our building alone took three weeks (scared to know how damaged the roof really was). They've moved on to the next building down, but lots of noises from hammering and cutting tile. Plus, our building is next to get painted. So noise, lots of noise from about 8am to 5pm every Monday through Friday.

Making: I caught up Arthur's and the family PL albums last week. Moving on to the twins' albums this week. Hopefully I can get to prepping the baby's album before my due date.

Feeling: Pregnancy and life is really wearing on me this week.

Planning: Arthur's 3rd birthday party got moved up a month because of the baby coming. I'm starting to get in deep with party planning. Have an entire Pinterest board and Amazon list.

Loving: J went to the store the other night for pizza and ice cream. He came home with an ice cream cake. So incredibly good!

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Watching: J and I have been on a movie kick lately. We've watched The Wolverine, The Scorch Trials, Keanu, and San Andreas all in the past week. I plan on watching Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tonight.

Reading: I finally picked up George Washington's Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade. I've been obsessed with the American Revolution lately.

Listening: I started listening to The Scot and the Sassenach podcast yesterday. I love Outlander both books and tv series, so this podcast series is perfect for me.

Making: Started working on my August SSINK cards. In the past three days, I knocked out 4! Woohoo!

Feeling: For the first time in months, I started a week without a meal plan. What is wrong with me this month? Overall, I'm feeling a bit disorganized lately. Need to fix this.

Planning: From my point above, I really need to dive back into my meal and activity planning.

Loving: Digging the fresh fruit right now, especially nectarines, cantaloupe, and grapes. It's all I want to eat right now.

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Watching: Over the summer, we've introduced the twins to The Colour of Magic and Hogfather. We're finishing up with Going Postal.

Reading: Diving into The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I haven't read this book for years. We're reading it for July's book club book.

Listening: Been deep into podcasts this week. I caught up on some of my favorites including The Simple Show.

Making: Knocked out June's Project Life pages this weekend. Hoping to catch up on Arthur and the twin's albums this week.

Feeling: So very tired... 28 weeks and I'm exhausted. How do I survive for the next 12 weeks?

Planning: September is filling up with events most notably the retreat and Arthur's birthday party. We're having his birthday a month early due the baby coming in early October.

Loving: So addicted to desserts right now. I'm made a few cakes this past week and have been craving smores. Thankfully I have all the fixins to make some tonight...

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Watching: Obsessed with The Bachelor right now. Watching it on free Hulu, so I'm a week behind. Trying to avoid any spoilers for the current week.

Reading: Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs. Finishing out the Miss Peregrine trilogy finally. The library had it on the Lucky Day shelf so I grabbed it quickly!

Listening: J downloaded the Hamilton soundtrack and it's still on repeat...

Making: The design team admins put up the schedule for March and April. My goal is to finish out my cards for those two months before leaving for Indiana on the 16th.

Feeling: There's some big news brewing in our household. I'll let you know once everything is set, but I'm super excited.

Planning: The retreat is happening in two weeks. I'm finalizing the last little details and shopping for food.

Loving: Grabbed some awesome ginger beer at the store last week. Now I am obsessed with it.

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Watching: Lots of light-hearted fare over here. Specifically, we've been binging Galavant and Telenovela. They are so cheesy, but I love them!

Reading: The Great Influenza by John Barry. Nonfiction about The Spanish Flu. I'm 120 pages in and it's just getting good. Barry is no Erik Larson, but I'm still exciting to dig in further.

Listening: Lots and lots of podcast episodes. I've completely caught up with One Bad Mother and The Simple Show. I'm close to being caught up with Happier. And I've listened to a few You are Not So Smart episodes. Plus, I've downloaded Gilmore Guys because so many people have raved about it! Hoping to start that one soon.

Making: I always make a few surprise gifts for the retreat attendees. I grabbed an interested idea from Pinterest and ran with it. May not be the best considering the amount of time I'm spending on seven of these, but I still enjoy the process.

Feeling: We finally had our social committee prep meeting today (scheduled last Thursday, Arthur was puking, so no go). The social is Saturday and I was feeling the pressure to get everything set. We had a very productive meeting and I'm feeling a lot less stressed now. This thing might just happen!

Planning: I'm feeling less stressed about the social, but we still have a short list of to-dos.

Loving: Really been craving iced tea this week. So good!

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Watching: Catching up on some of the backlogged Vlog Brothers videos. Love Hank and John Green!

Reading: A friend game me Interest by Kevin Gaughen to read this week. Starting it today. Hope it's good.

Listening: Arthur's huge into talking right now, but I still only understand about 40% of what he's saying.

Making: After almost of week of other activities, I'm getting back into making cards for the design team. First up: kid birthday card featuring Stampin' Up's No Bones About It stamp set.

Feeling: This weekend was crazy busy with the craft garage sale and Thirty-One party, but it was energized me for the coming week. I'm ready to get moving on some of my other goals this week.

Planning: Speaking of the coming week, I'm getting our schedule set with some fun excursions and the usual chores.

Loving: I made lemon poppyseed muffins for yesterday's Thirty-One party and thankfully there were a few leftover for me! Yum yum!

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Watching: J and I are finally on the last season of Newsroom. We'll probably finish it this week.

Reading: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not expecting it to be as amazing as The Great Gatsby but hoping it's a good read.

Listening: Brandi Carlile's newest album The Firewatcher's Daughter has been on repeat. Love her voice!

Making: I'm right in the middle of the Find Your Voice 6 week course. Along with contemplating the weekly questions, I'm completing a traditional scrapbook page with thoughts, actions, and reflections. I'll be sharing the first half of my pages this week on the craft blog.

Feeling: The twins and my mom left on Sunday. It's been very quiet in the house the past few days.

Planning: I'm trying to wrap my brain around all the big projects I want to accomplish in the second half of 2015. I'm thinking a brain dump day may be in order to get all the random thoughts and ideas down on paper.

Loving: Arthur woke up vomiting on Sunday. It was not a good day. I think he was/has a sinus infection as most of the throw up was mucus. Monday he's doing a lot better, but we're not out of the woods yet. Overall, sick toddlers are miserable. Glad he's feeling better quickly.

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Watching: J and I ventured out last night and saw Avengers: Age of Ultron. J and the twins had both seen it, but I hadn't. I was going to take the twins to see Jurassic World last night, but apparently they have made a plan with my mom to see it. So they didn't want to go. Instead, we put the baby to bed, and let the twins and the baby at home and went and saw Avengers. So good! I'm glad I actually got to see it in the theater.

Reading: The Lost Soul by Gabriella Pierce. I felt the need to finish this slightly ridiculous series.

Listening: It's garbage day which means listening to three trucks: composting truck, trash truck, and recycling truck. It's very noisy on Monday mornings around here.

Making: So many lists! I've got a list for everything and I love it.

Feeling: Last week was rough. I'm trying to keep a more optimistic mindset with the start of the week. Already I feel less stressed. Hope this feeling continues.

Planning: The twins have swim lessons Mon-Thurs, but only for an hour each day. We're hoping to fit in the library, lunch at Sonic, Golfland, and maybe some other activity this week.

Loving: Coffee! So yummy!

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Watching: We've introduced the twins to Video Game High School this week and they are hooked! We've flown through Season 1 and half of Season 2 already.

Reading: I'm rereading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for book club next weekend. Really enjoying it again.

Listening: The Daily Show is playing in the background as I blog, clean, and craft today.

Making: Finally finished the last remaining pages in the twins' traditional scrapbook album. I'm moving on to switching them to Project Life style scrapbooking. Really excite to get this started.

Feeling: It's been really warm here lately. Mostly it's just the sunshine. I've even gotten a bit of sunburn because of spending so much time in the sun.

Planning: I'm looking toward July's classes, activities, and upcoming events. Getting very excited for some new crafting projects. Hello retreat surprises!

Loving: Arthur's new trick is giving actual kisses. So adorable!