. Hi Reader, I hope you're having a great week so far! Quick update on my cat...so...she seems to be all better! She gave us quite the scare but it seems that she's on the mend! I'm counting my lucky stars and kind of calling her a zombie cat at the moment, due to the season, but I'll take it! Thanks for sticking with me through that, I appreciate you! Now on to more fun things! Today I'm sharing a Halloween Word Search with you that you can download and print for free! My kids have loved...

. Hi Reader, I hope your week has started out better than ours. I don't mean to be a downer but my blog is "The Way it Really Is" and it isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Trigger warning: death is discussed. A week ago was the 9 year anniversary of when my dear grandpa died, whom I was really close to all my life. Saturday was the 10 year anniversary of when my father-in-law died of cancer at the young age of 65. He never got to meet our kids, which is so sad for all. He would have had so much...

. Hi Reader, I hope your week is going well so far! This week I finally did something that I've been wanting to do for decades, I wrote a children's book! It's full of cute fall graphics, rhyming words, and is perfect for ages 3-6. Though I have to admit, I read it to my kids last night (7yo twins and 9yo) and they loved it too! It's an eBook that you can purchase on Etsy or Teachers Pay Teachers. You can use it digitally or print it out. Now that I've written and published one eBook I'm...