HoHoHo Holiday Haiku Challenge WINNER!!

Yay! The HoHoHoRAT2024 was so much fun! I saw lots of posts with some great holiday reads - thanks to everyone who participated and shared. 

As an elf, I hosted the Holiday Haiku challenge :) Thanks to those who shared your creative haikus. I gave the list of participant numbers to my husband to pick the lucky winner, and he chose my lucky number, 13!

Congrats to Melissa the Reading Nerd for her winning haiku:

Jesus' Birthday, Hooray!

Such a glorious time of year

I am exhausted

Melissa won a $15 Amazon gift card from me! Congratulations!!

Sunday Salon/Sunday Post - November 24, 2024: The Girl Lives

And that's a wrap! Last night was the fourth and final performance of my daughter's high school's production of Little Women. OMG. They were so, so amazing. I tend to bounce around volunteering and see bits of and pieces of the show, except for one performance when I buy tickets and barely leave my seat for intermission. Even so, I am again spending the next day wishing I could watch it again. 

This is probably my latest start ever on Sunday Salon and Sunday Post. Everything I planned to do Friday after work and all day yesterday ended up pushed til today. Which means today has been non-stop, but I'm determined to get this and my holiday wish post for today up before I crawl into bed with my kindle and a night-cap.

What I'm reading this week:

Friday night I did finish up reading The Woman at the Wheel (historical fiction about Bertha Benz), and started on Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Love (my first holiday read for the HoHoHo Readathon with Caffeinated Reviewer.

For print books, I'm starting to feel like I'm in the home stretch of Lightborne (hopefully I can wrap that up this week). I think I've currently given up on Little Women, but I do hope to read it over the holidays before I start a review copy of The Other March Sisters which publishes in February 2025.

Three Good Things:

1. Little Women. Sorry. I'll probably stop talking about it now that it's over. But SO proud of my Jo March, her talent, her dedication, and her amazing performance. Also, since it's sort of a small town, I get to see so many acquaintances at the shows. That's always interesting.
2. We found a new euphonium instructor for my son! Euphonium was the baritone, back in my day, and he started playing it last school year. He took a few lessons from a high schooler who is a friend of our family, but that high schooler graduated and went away to college. So today was my son's first lesson with a college student near us, who was recommended by the band director. The first lesson went well, and we'll be back next week.
3. A short work week! Man do I need this! Thanksgiving for us Americans is this Thursday. Hubs has all week off, and the kids only go to school on Monday and Tuesday. I'm so happy I at least get Thursday and Friday off. Woo-hoo!!

Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:

1. The chips are down! I have GOT to finish our advent jars this week. Obviously. Since the kids start OPENING the jars a week from today.
2. I couldn't decide whether this belonged in good things or goals, but I already designed and ordered our holiday cards (go, past Becki!) and now I need to address and mail them. The sooner the better.
3. I also want to put some of my quiet me time while everyone else is enjoying their shorter-than-my-week holiday week to finish up my Lego BrickHeadz so I can do my Bonsai tree from last Christmas before I get new Legos! LOL We're having a creative dream Lego sets backlog that needs to be taken care of!

HoHoHo Readathon - Holiday Haiku Challenge

It's here! The 12th Annual HoHoHo Readathon!

I'm Becki - SweetlyBSquared - and I love reading and writing! (and exclamation points, apparently!) So my challenge to you is to write a Holiday Haiku.

To put it simply, a haiku is a Japanese poem made up of 17 syllables in three lines - 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the third line. Purists may add a few more rules, but this is all we're going to deal with ;) There's lots of examples online, but here are a few that I wrote:

The leaves are falling,
The temperature is dropping,
Winter is coming.

These kids don't listen,
They always do what they want,
Santa won't visit.

Daylight is now short,

The cold kills my energy,

Spring better come quick.

Okay. Apparently I have a bit of an attitude today. Yeah, probably everyday.

Anyone can share their haikus with me (and anyone else who stops by) in the comments. 

If you want your haiku(s) entered to win a $15 Amazon card, you'll need to be a participant of the HoHoHo Readathon (please share your linky signup number in your comment so I know!). 

The challenge ends Tuesday, December 3, 2024.

12th Annual HoHoHo Readathon!!

Check it out! The 12th Annual HoHoHo Readathon starts this week at Caffeinated Reviewer! 

We're going to have lots of fun with several contests on different sites (including mine!). It officially runs from this Thursday, November 21 - Tuesday, December 3, with the grand prize winner announced on December 5.

Help us all get in the spirit by commenting on this post - what's your favorite holiday read, or the new holiday read you're looking forward to this year. I need to fill up my holiday reading list! If you're part of the #2024HoHoHoRAT include your linky sign up number!

I think my first holiday read will be next week, Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Love by Robert Marro Jr. And watch for my contest post on Thursday, November 21!