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Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness

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Munchkin has been playing Nancy Drew games for many years. She got started on them after reading some of the books, and her interest in the games were renewed when the Nancy Drew movie came out several years ago. Since then, we have been picking up the computer games here and there. The older games were definitely more difficult and didn’t have all the hints that allow the newer games to be completed over a few days. When we had the opportunity to receive a review copy of the latest game, Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness, I jumped on the…

Bread and Butter by Erin McKenna

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I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review purposes. I remember hearing about Babycakes bakery for the first time on Cupcake Wars. I was impressed that they were doing gluten free, vegan cupcakes that tasted good. While I’m not vegan, I appreciated the difficultly that came not only with baking gluten free but also vegan. Eggs are a go-to binder for many gluten free bakers – myself included, so not using eggs was rather intriguing. When this new cookbook was released by Erin McKenna, I was quite interested in trying out some of the recipes. The…

Fitness Friday: 21 Day Fix Week 7

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So this week is sort of week 7 of my 21 Day Fix program. I say sort due to taking some time off due to activities and illness. With having time off, I felt like I was starting over again – almost. This time around I was further along in my fitness that when I started the first time. It’s amazing how quickly your body can be knocked out of the routine. I was antsy to get back into the routine, so my body was definitely saying that I needed to get moving. Yet, when I got moving again (at…

Wilderness Rising by A.L. Shields

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Special thanks to BookLookBloggers for providing a digital review copy of this book. All opinions are based my personal thoughts on the book. This post may contain affiliate links. When I first started reading Wilderness Rising, I didn’t realize that it was the second book in the series. I quickly realized this and wished I had read the first book before diving into this book, but, thanks to some back story being given throughout the book, I was able to, for the most part, follow the story line and get into the book . It does make me want to…