My baby is 4 years old. He's 100% a youngest child. He's floored by "babies" (2 year olds) who can talk. It just blows him away! We celebrated him with gifts and playing Loteria with friends. And, knock on wood, he may be outgrowing sleeping in the bed with me??

• "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarrows
• "Iron Flame" by Rebecca Yarrows
• "On Our Best Behavior" by Elise Loehnen*
• "Meet Me at the Lake" by Carley Fortune*
• "Come and Get It" by Kiley Reid
• "The Library of Borrowed Hearts" by Lucy Gilmore
• "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
• "The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club" by Helen Simonson
• "Anita de Monte Laughs Last" by Xochitl Gonzalez
• "Long After We Are Gone" by Terah Shelton Harris
• "The Most Fun We Ever Had" by Claire Lombardo**
• "The Paris Novel" by Ruth Reichl
• "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" By Gabrielle Zevin
• "The Lion Women of Tehran" by Marian Kamali*
• "The Paradise Problem" by Christina Lauren
• "Bear" by Julie Phillips*
• "Same As It Ever Was" by Claire Lombardo
• "A Happier Life" by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
• "The Night Ends with Fire" by K. X. Song
• "Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective" by Katie Siegel
• "Small Town, Big Magic" by Hazel Beck
• "The Only Purple House in Town" by Ann Aguirre
• "The God of the Woods" by Liz Moore*
• "The Ex Hex" by Erin Stirling
• "The Unmothers" by Leslie J. Anderson*
• "How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water" by Angie Cruz
• "This Summer Will Be Different" by Carley Fortune
• "Big Little Spells" by Hazel Beck
• "A Sorceress Comes to Call" by T. Kingfisher
• "We Were Never Here" by Andrea Bartz*
• "Fire Exit" by Morgan Talty
• "Lady MacBeth" by Ava Reid
• "Margo's Got Money Troubles" by Rufi Thorpe*
• "Greenwich Park" by Katherine Faulkner
• "All the Colors of the Dark" by Chris Whitaker
• "Evie Drake Starts Over" by Linda Holmes

37 books read in the second half of the year. A total of 77 books read in 2024. What a great year for reading!

Were these boys ready for remote control cars? Probably not. Did it make for a very fun Christmas? Yes, yes it did.

Christmas was so beautiful and special this year. I really cherish this time with my family.

Aw, Christmas. We had an extra lovely one that was so low-key. I spent a lot of the 24th cooking and preparing food. In the evening, we walked to the neighborhood park to sing Christmas carols with our friends. Then we returned home for French Onion Soup and salad. The kids opened up matching pajamas. They didn't really need pajamas but I'm in a point of crises where I'm not sure how much longer everyone will mind matching. I should've bought loose pajama pants for the teens though because they haven't worn them since. We got everyone to bed at a semi-reasonable time including Conor and I. Sweet, sweet memories.