Our House in the Middle of Our Street

Let's just get it out of the way first thing that I took very few of these photos--pictures from my friend Emily! Her photos are so dreamy and you can see more of them on her Instagram page .  watching the Albuquerque Balloon Festival take off just after sunrise ( amazing ) This trip was somewhat insane. Four states (5?) in under a week, multiple national parks, and a few of "once in a lifetime" experiences. We hit it hard this week and looked like Doc Brown from Back to the Future when we were done.  Above was the Balloon Festival- an annual week long festival where hot hair balloonists and enthusiasts gather in one of the largest crowds of humans I have ever seen. We woke up around 3AM to get on a bus by 4? and be at the field when it was still very dark out and the first balloons were just filling up with air after the pilot turned on the burner. The flames were enormous and loud!  Watching the sky fill with balloons over the course of the next few hours (not to men...

  Only half of these were completed, while the bottom two played the game Library Chicken November and especially December were probably two of my best reading months since the entire pandemic started! Why is this of note? Because I thought the lock down would mean so much more time and reading, it actually dramatically cut my attention span and I couldn't finish paragraphs, let alone books, without falling asleep or becoming distracted! I have lots of little books (under 300 pages) on this list that were certainly easier to get through than say, a 500 page tome, but every little bit helps, and I'm taking the win. I can't particularly remember which books were completed in November and which in December, so I'm plugging them in together, in no particular order.  All books with the (*) beside the author name can be found at the little bookshop I work at, Classical Education Books. It's a great way to support a local (BC) "mom and pop" shop that I love! 30...