Breakfast Nook Update

I can't believe it's been so long since we put something into his bare room, but we love it! We wanted to find a casual, wooden circle table for this nook. Honestly, we had the future in mind when thinking about he functionality of this - kids doing their homework while we're cooking dinner right next to them, casual daily family dinners, and all that jazz. We found this great, perfect one on Craigslist! You could tell that the family we got it from used it for the same purpose with their two daughters that we look forward to. There's so much character on the table and chairs already so it's exactly what we were looking for for the space.

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Have you met Goodreads?

Since I've graduated college and have finished the requirement to read books that I don't particularly enjoy, I've started to actually take a liking to reading. Especially  now with my hour-long commute to and from work, I have no choice. Mr. K and I bought a Kindle Fire a number of years ago, since it's a convenient thing to bring around and search the internet with. I'll admit, it's an old version now, doesn't have a camera and only works on wifi. But honestly, I'm really the only one that uses it now, and primarily for reading anyways. I did just see an article recently about how to really utilize your Kindle Fire to the max. I know I'm missing so many of its capabilities, and since I have it on me 24/7 now, I should really go  back and read that article thoroughly.

Anyways, I just finished a really good book called My Sister's Grave over the weekend. I highly recommend it. One thing I love about Goodreads - besides seeing what everyone else is reading and getting great ideas for future reads - is that I can track when I started the book and when I finished it (if I'm diligent in adding the book the day I start, and consequentially updating my status to "finished" the day I actually finish it. For someone who hasn't always been a huge reader, I'm actually very punctual about adding my books, because it's exciting to me to track my progress. I have a goal to read 10 books in 2015, and I think I'll be increasing that goal pretty soon. So to you new-ish readers, welcome! We'll have fun here. Check out my Goodreads to see what I hope to read.

I go between Amazon Prime books and my county's library Overdrive database. They recently (aka in the last couple years) started offering ebooks online in their database, downloads straight to the device. It's great and convenient, except when you're on a waiting list of 270 people, for 73 copies of Little Big Lies. Oh well, I'll get it sometime.

So this is the boring stuff, I know. Check back soon for updates on the house. They're pretty exciting!!