Bekatelyn http://bekatelyn.com/ Bekatelyn. Welcome to my little life. Here you’ll find snippets and peeks into me. Most posts will be about sewing, food and my girls—but they’ll be other stuff too. Here you’ll find Katelyn. en-us Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:53:53 +0000 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:53:53 +0000 Book List 2025 July - December http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/book-list-2025-july-december Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 bekatelyn http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/book-list-2025-july-december
  • "Catalina" by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  • "Isola" by Allegra Goodman*
  • "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • "The Emperor Of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong
  • "Real Americans" by Rachel Khong
  • "The Original Daughter" by Jemimah Wei
  • "The Book of Doors" by Gareth Brown
  • "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  • "Broken Country" by Clare Leslie Hall
  • "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
  • "So Far Gone" by Jess Walter
  • "I'll Be Right Here" by Amy Bloom
  • "Golden Son" by Pierce Brown
  • "Good Dirt" by Charmaine Wilkerson*
  • "Mask of the Deer Woman" by Laurie L. Dove
  • "All the Other Mothers Hate Me" by Sarah Harman
  • "The Reformatory" by Tananarive Due
  • "Will There Ever Be Another You" by Patricia Lockwood
  • "Problematic Summer Romance" by Ali Hazelwood
  • "The Missing Half" by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester
  • "Frist-Time Caller" by B.K. Borison
  • "Buckeye" by Patrick Ryan**
  • "The Life Impossible" by Matt Haig
  • "A Marriage at Sea" by Sophie Elmhirst*
  • "We Do Not Part" by Han Kang
  • "Iron Gold" by Pierce Brown
  • "Morning Star" by Pierce Brown

    • I joined a book club and look forward to what I get to read with them! 63 books read in 2025.

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  • "The Wedding People" by Alison Espach*
  • "Truly Madly Magically" by Hazel Beck
  • "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
  • "Mother/Founder" by Amanda Jane Jones and Jennifer Fernandez*
  • "The Cliffs" by J. Courtney Sullivan
  • "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman*
  • "A Lady's Guide to Scandal" by Sophie Irwin
  • "The Mighty Red" by Louise Erdrich
  • "A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting" by Sophie Irwin
  • "The School for Good Mothers" by Jessamine Chan*
  • "The Story of a New Name" by Elena Ferrante
  • "Radical Acceptance" by Tara Brach
  • "Pearl" by Siân Hughes
  • "Hood Feminism" by Mike Kendall
  • "Homegoing" by Yea Gyasi
  • "Hum" by Helen Phillips*
  • "You Could Make This Place Beautiful" by Maggie Smith*
  • "The Hike" by Lucy Clarke
  • "The Dallergut Dream Department Store" by Miye Lee
  • "The Last Light over Oslo" by Alex Rockliff
  • "The Sirens" by Emilia Hart
  • "Good Inside" by Becky Kennedy
  • "She Comes First" by Ian Kerner
  • "What Happened to the McCrays?" by Tracey Lange
  • "Water Moon" by Samantha Sotto Yambao
  • "The Lost Stories" by Meg Shaffer
  • "The Mercies" by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • "Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout
  • "Say You'll Remember Me" Abby Jimenez
  • "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" by Sue Monk Kidd****
  • "We All Want Impossible Things" by Catherine Newman
  • "The Husbands" by Holly Gramazio
  • "The Bullet Swallower" by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
  • "The Storm We Made" by Vanessa Chan
  • "Yellowface" by R. F. Kuang*
  • "Dream Count" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    • I read the most transformative of my life - "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" by Sue Monk Kidd.

    ]]>         Ira rides a bike http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/ira-rides-a-bike Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 bekatelyn http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/ira-rides-a-bike Holly taught Ira how to ride a bike and he loves it! So weird to have older kids who teach the younger kids milestones like riding a bike!

    ]]>         Picking Strawberries http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/picking-strawberries Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 bekatelyn http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/picking-strawberries This was our second attempt at picking strawberries. The first was a bust because all the strawberries were picked out for a few days. But it wasn't really a bust because we got to hang out with our best friends for a few hours. I went later in the week with the 3 youngest and Holly and we picked strawberries and raspberries. So yummy!

    Strawberry picking was the first family activity we did with Enoch when he came to live with us so it feels extra special.

    ]]>         Enoch's 5th Birthday http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/enochs-5th-birthday Thu, 22 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000 bekatelyn http://bekatelyn.com/notes/entry/enochs-5th-birthday Our darling boy turned 5 years old! He was so excited! We gave him a new scooter for his birthday and he loves it. We had a little scooter party with a couple of friends followed by cake. A couple notes: nothing says "younger brother" like Ira pouting in one of the photos. It's tough! And, the way Conor looks at Enoch is adorable. He's a good dad and they have a really special relationship.

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