What I’m Reading: What Alice Forgot

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From Goodreads.com:

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over…

My review:

This is the third Liane Moriarty book I’ve read and while I still enjoyed it, it was my least favourite after Big Little Lies and The Husband’s Secret.

I felt that it was kind of all over the place; between the “main” plot of Alice forgetting the past 10 years of her life, Elisabeth’s journal entries to her shrink, and Frannie’s letters to her fiancé, it felt a little cluttered. I’m not so sure Frannie’s letters added anything to the storyline, although I appreciated Elisabeth’s.

Like I said though, I did enjoy book as a whole and it made me think about how much life and relationships can change, regardless of how solid you think they are. And how insane would it be if you woke up and thought it was 10 years previous, forgetting everything? I’d probably crap my pants if I woke up and suddenly I had three kids and was in the middle of a hostile divorce. I had a hard time putting the book down as I wanted to find out if/when Alice remembered the past 10 years and how she would react to what transpired.

I still gave What Alice Forgot 4 stars out of 5. It’s a good read and really makes you think about your own life!

Where do you think you’ll be in 10 years?

Weekend Update

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Really, our weekend festivities started on Thursday, when Kyle’s guy friends arrived for a little belated birthday celebration!

While I wanted to surprise him with their visit, the last time I tried to pull the wool over Kyle’s eyes it turned out to be an epic fail so I preplanned it this time around with Kyle’s blessing. They got to our place around dinner time and I barbecued some hamburgers up and the man-talk begun!

{Friday}
The boys went off to the gun range and I stayed at home with the girls and did laundry/played some video games. Priorities, yo. ;) Norah had an epic afternoon nap (2 hours!) so I packed up my bags as the girls and I were going to crash at my mom’s for the night to let the boys have free reign of the house! We had a fairly decent night at my mom’s, although Norah had a bit of a tough time getting to sleep for the evening.

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{Saturday}
Isla was up at 6 am but thankfully her grandpa was awake, so she hung out and watched cartoons upstairs with him and my mom until Norah and I emerged from our room. We lounged around for the morning until it was time to get Isla ready to go to dance. My mom watched Norah while I took Isla, so I even got a kid-free grocery shopping trip in! When lessons were done, we headed back to my mom’s for lunch and took in some of the “valley” warm weather and sunshine! While there’s still a butt-load of snow at my house up on the hill, my mom’s tulips & crocuses are already starting to bloom. Jealous!

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I eventually got all our crap packed up and we headed home. The house was all in one piece and it was nice to see my husband again! Since it was so gorgeous we decided to “celebrate” the weather with some Slurpees from 7-Eleven. We had a lazy evening since Isla was a bit cranky from being overtired and watched some PVR’d stuff before heading to bed.

{Sunday}
Kyle and I registered for a big walk/run that’s happening at the end of April! He’s going to do the 10K and I’m sticking with the 5K. We figured if we register now we have more motivation to actually do it! (Especially me, ha.) Kyle headed out for a run, and I stuck around the house with the girls. Norah fought her afternoon nap and didn’t really sleep, so she was super cranky by bedtime. Thankfully she went down for the night with ease and Kyle and I watched part of a movie on TV before turning in for the night.

How was your weekend?

 

 

 

Thought Dump Thursday

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First off, check out my new button for Thought Dump Thursday! My brother, who just so happens to be a pretty great graphic designer by trade, made up this graphic for me and I can’t thank him enough! If you had seen the rough sketch I gave him on Instagram, he did a pretty good job interpreting what I wanted. Thank you, little bro!!

Now, onto the dumping on my thoughts …

  • While I think about her a lot to begin with, my grandma has been on my mind more that usual lately. The anniversary of her passing is approaching and the month leading to the date always leaves me feeling like there’s a storm cloud hanging over my head in some way. I miss her so much like crazy and I always wish for the month of March to come and go as fast as possible because it was so hard on everyone.
  • I’m a huge believer that a fed baby is the best baby, not the whole “breast is best” BS that gets shoved down your throat as soon as you baby exits the birth canal. I understand that some women struggle big time with nursing and producing their own milk and that it’s a huge hit to them emotionally when they just can’t feed their baby “nature” intended them to. I don’t judge women I don’t know for formula feeding their babies because I don’t know the reason why they’re doing so to begin with.
  • Why does every potential house that comes onto the market have a bloody suite? Kyle and I are always browsing real estate and it’s annoying when we see a great house pop up in a great neighbourhood with a decent price tag and it has a stinkin’ suite in the basement. ANNNNND half the time it would take a LOT of work to uninstall said suite. Dear homeowners: If you NEED to have a suite in your basement to afford your mortgage, you’re buying outside of your means. That is all.
  • I’m pretty sure I’m one of the few people in North America who did NOT watch the Oscars. I tuned into about 5 minutes of the red carpet and that was it. I also don’t care about Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar “finally.”
  • And I’ll end today’s post with a simple, Donald Trump: WTH? Just goes to show the power of fear mongering.

What thoughts would you like to dump today?