Howdy, I’m KansasMama. I’m a mom from Kansas who loves to write, read and enjoy to spread love and kindness.
I’m currently absorbed by books and writing.
So last month I read a total of 11 books. For this month, My goal is to read another 11 books, whether it be physical books, e-books, or audio books ( which gets me through my work day.)
Most of the books I read are romance, fantasy, or very very much smut. My favorites this year have been Onyx Storm, the Edge of Darkness trilogy, and Blood of Hercules.
What book would you recommend?
So as I have previously wrote on here that I like to bullet journal. Well this year I added something to help me keep track of my reading and how much I read. So, I’m going to break it down here as well. 🙃
Books read this month: 11 books
Pages read this month: 2,230 pgs
Books bought this month: 0
Books Borrowed this month: 3
Paperbacks: 4
Hardcovers: 1
Met goals this month: Yes
E-books: 6
Wow! That is a lot of books read for 1 month! Do you think I can beat 11 books for the month of Feb?
I started this book on January 5th via audio book. I finished it the next day. I couldn’t stop listening to it!
I did enjoy it! 4⭐️
I will be honest that the main reason I read this was for a reading challenge on Good Reads and I didn’t think that I would like it but man was I wrong.
The best way to describe this book is solving a murder that hasn’t happened yet. So I would definitely go give this book a read if you have a chance.
This is a post to help me hold myself accountable throughout the year for my 2026 goals. At the end of each month I will see how far I have made is so far.
I know that this post is not very long but this is me and I know that I will be able to do all of these things.
There are many ways that I am able to be creative, whether that be with photography/videography or other ways.
As of lately it’s been more hands on creations like rainbow loom or lacing crafts. I feel like those are ways to keep my hands busy. My daughter recently wanted to make bracelets for her friends on her competition team so that’s what I have been doing. She wants to have at least 6-7 but I am going to try to make as many as I can by her next meet, which is in early January. I might also make some plastic keychains for some of the girls too. *If you are an older millennial you might remember back in grade school asking for a friend to start a key chain for you so that you can finish it.* Well I have recently taught myself how to do more than just 2 colors.
Obviously I am creative with photography and videography but I haven’t really had the time to go out and take photos. I know eventually when it starts to be spring time I will definitely be going out to take photos again.
I know that this is a short post but I have been wanting to sit back and think about what I want to post to this blog more. Do I want to do more book things or do I want to do something like day to day life in my life and house hold? What do you think?
I got this writing prompt recently, ” Describe a man who has positively impacted your life,” and I wanted to write about my husband. I don’t know if he reads my blogs or not but we’ll find out. 🙂
Let’s start from the beginning. We didn’t meet like the traditional place like school, work, church, etc. We actually met on a dating app but little did we know that us matching would be the best time of our lives. Yes, you read that correctly we met on a dating app. We talked for a bit prior to actually meeting each other. He knew I had kids and I didn’t want to pressure him so I asked to wait until I didn’t have my son with me but he insisted that I bring him to our first date. That first date will always be the way that showed me what his heart truly showed.
We were dating for only 8 months and he decided to ask me to be his wife and he took all of my dream things of an engagement and pulled it together within a week. This included having someone hid to take photos, dancing in headlights, and much more.
This man had made my world so much better. I couldn’t have asked for a better husband. He has shown me what it truly meant to be loved and has been an amazing bonus dad to the kids!
I love you babe! You make me the happiest woman in the world
I just realized that my last post prior to my Pokèmon post yesterday was back in July of this year. I’m sure your asking Kansas where have you been? Well let me tell you.
First I want to say that from July I was just super focused on the wedding and yes we did get married! I got to marry my best friend in front of our friends and family. It was a stressful day as Aaron and I hadn’t seen each other since the night before our wedding because that is the one thing we did try to keep traditional. Yes I will add some pictures in here to show how it turned out.
Since then I have been more focused on my outside of this blog job as well as family things such as sports for the kids, bible quizzing for David, and so much more.
I figured I would give an update on why I haven’t posted since July. I am hoping to post much more!
My family and I have decided that we are going to combine our cards and create a Pokèdex with them. When we first started this, I was just going to do Generation 1 for it, but we decided to try to get all of the generations completed. The kids came up with the name of our Pokèdex. The name is….. “The Bird Family Pokèdex.”
So far, this is the total number of each generation of the Pokèdex.
It is nice to be able to do this as a family. If you would like to donate any cards that we don’t have, you are more than welcome to comment, and I can find a way to message you to send them to.
This past weekend my family and I took a trip to Omaha Nebraska. My family was myself, Aaron, David, Callie and my mom. We left our house right after I got off work and we went straight to Omaha. It was fun on the way up there because we were laughing, telling stories and the kids were making bracelets. Once we got to the hotel we decided to go out for dinner. We chose a Chinese buffet that was maybe a 10 minute drive from the hotel. The Chinese buffet was called Grand China Buffet. We all enjoyed it and was so full after eating. We then went back to the hotel to get rest for the next day.
The next morning I was the first one up, which is surprising because usually Aaron is typically the first one up as his sleep schedule he is always up early for work. I woke up and started to get everything ready for the trip to the zoo. I think the kids were excited to get up as they didn’t fight to get up. We packed our bags and headed out. We did stop for breakfast at McDonald’s. We got to the zoo at 8:30 am which I am lucky we did because it was already pretty busy. We got our tickets and a scooter for my mom and then began our trip.
After the zoo we went back to to hotel so that the kids could go swimming for a bit before dinner. For dinner it was a belated birthday dinner for me because we wanted to have a special dinner this year. So we decided to go to dinner at La Mesa Mexican restaurant. This place was so delicious that I ended up trying to find out if there was one closer to home. Yes there is and I’m excited. Did my family embarrass me while at dinner? Yes they did. There is a video but I would rather not put that on here. We then called it a night and all went to bed.
The last day in Omaha, I decided to do a few fun things for the kids. We got to go see the Joslyn Castle and then walked the bridge to where the kids were on the state border.
The way home was peaceful and quiet as everyone was just so wore out from the walking over the 2 days. We can’t wait to see what our next trip will take us.
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This past weekend was nothing but focusing on family and the wedding. Aaron and I sat down and figured out the guest list as well.
Saturday was a day of just spending time with my mom and working on things around the house and going to our church service with Ciera.
Sunday morning I served at church in the nursery and then after getting home we got all the invitations that we could hand deliver invitations in our town that we could. We wanted to do that so that we could see our friends and family as well as saving money for stamps to not have them all mailed. When we got home from that we sent out our link to people so that they could RSVP now before getting their invitations if they wanted to.
I started a list of companies that I thought would be fun to just send invitations to both popular and even local companies as well!
On Monday and Tuesday I sent out the invitations in the mail and worked on getting the company address so that I can get the invitations to them.
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