Adventures With Books

Because life is full of adventures

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Adventures at LEGOLAND!

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On January 10, 2020

In Family Adventures, Travel

This fall when the school had its fall break my husband and I decided to take a vacation with our children even though only one of them goes to school at this time. We went to the San Diego area and took them to LEGOLAND. This was the first time any of us had been to LEGOLAND and we thought it was a really good place to take them that would have rides as well as a place that features something they all love.

All of my children enjoy playing with Legos and while there are times when they will not play with them for a while they always come back and play with them for days. They love to build the different sets that they have received or to just build whatever they feel like making with their Legos.

While there are still a lot of things that not all my children could do at LEGOLAND, they all found something to do and had a fun time including my youngest who wasn’t even two years old yet when we were there. He enjoyed going on some of the rides, and did not enjoy other ones at first, but eventually warmed up to it.

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View of Life

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On October 24, 2019

In Family Adventures

Everyone always has their own view of life and the things going on in them at any given time. Sometimes our views are pessimistic while other times they are optimistic, even other times we can have an indifferent view.

In July we ended up moving our family again in order to get a bigger place to fit us all since the children are growing and needing a little more space. Through the process of unpacking my children decided to help with some of the boxes in my room. Not only did they help to unpack them they then decided to help me with a knitting project by unraveling the yarn I had been working with. This resulted in a big tangle of yarn connected to my knitting needles.

Upon my discovery of this fun they had with my knitting I was a little frustrated, but I started removing the knot and was making great progress on it until I had to go and take care of life. When I left the job at hand to take care of other things, my children got a hold of it again and undid the progress I had made as well as making it an even bigger mess of the knotted yarn.

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About Me

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On August 18, 2019

In Books, Family Adventures, Writing

My name is Dixie Satterfield. I am a wife of twelve years and a mother of almost seven years. I have four children, three boys, and a girl. My middle children are a boy and girl twin.

This is my most recent picture courtesy of my Sister in law Amber Baker

Life with twins has been an adventure and I know that it will be a very long adventure. So far all of our children love to learn new things and are always ready to learn. Since my oldest has been going to school his brother and sister have wanted to as well. We do learning things at home all the time, but they see big brother go off to school and want to be like him.

I am an avid reader, although with four young children I do not always have the time to read the things that I want to read. I do always try to read books with my children in hopes that they will always enjoy reading as they grow. I know that every book is some kind of adventure to be read, some are just the adventure of someone’s real life. My all-time favorite book is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I would have to say my favorite author as a child was Dr. Suess. I remember reading all of his books that we had in our house and to this day I enjoy reading his books to my children

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14 By Peter Clines

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On April 5, 2019

In Books, Reviews

Last month my husband and I took a road trip to Las Vegas to celebrate our nephew’s Twenty-first birthday with him. For our trip, we decided to listen to a book through his Audible subscription. My husband ended up choosing 14 by Peter Clines and I would have to say he chose an excellent book.

This book was an exciting book to listen to. It was an extremely suspenseful book while keeping your interest in what is happening to and between the characters.

The story follows a guy named Nate as he moves into his new apartment and he is amazed at the prices of the rent. Upon moving into this low rent apartment he starts to notice some odd things around the place, like mutant cockroaches and strange light fixtures among other things.

You follow along as Nate meets the different tenants of his new home and starts along a path of discovery. This all starts as he meets each new neighbor and he finds small differences between all their apartments.

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Journey to Finding Oneself Part One

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On February 16, 2019

In Books, Family Adventures

Recently I have been doing a lot of self-reflection and trying to understand myself better. It has come to my knowledge that I have been living life in a somewhat unhealthy way, and it has been this way for a very long time. Even though I am realizing that there are things that are going to have to change in the way that I deal with some things that come up in life I know that this is also going to take me some time to learn new ways of dealing with everything and a lot more learning.

When I was growing up I was always reading books, and while I am an avid reader I am coming to understand that this was a way to escape some things in life. I know there are a lot of people who get drawn into the book they are reading and I do the same thing, but I am realizing that I also used the books as a way to hide from some of the things that I was dealing with.

While this is something I felt I needed to do in order to get through life, I have been doing it so long that I do not know how to change it. I am trying to learn new ways of dealing with hardships in life and how to be a different person.

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Exploring Our City

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On January 27, 2019

In Family Adventures

Yesterday my children and I went to find a park to have a picnic at and enjoy some time outside since most of this week someone in our house has been sick and we have not been able to go many places. At first, I was just going to take them to a place that we have been to a few times, but then I decided to ask them if they wanted to try a new park and since we have only been living here for about a year and a half there are plenty of new parks to explore. The majority said to go to a new park and so we headed to one that we had not been to before, but upon arriving there it was so packed there was no place to park and did not look like we would have a place to sit for lunch. With this being the situation we decided to head up the little mountain here called Alum Rock Park where there is a park and a lot of hiking areas.

There are two different playgrounds, one for older children that has big slides, swings and monkey-bars, and then there is another one with a cement eagle and ants and baby swings. My children love going to the younger playground and making up adventures while pretending to be baby eagles with the big eagle slide. We had some food while they would run and play in between eating. The youngest had fun just trying to go for a little walk on his own, which made me have to go and chase him down. Then you have my middle son who just loves to wander off sometimes and so after we ate we decided to go on a little walk.

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Traveling for the Holidays

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On December 27, 2018

In Family Adventures, Travel

Since we have family that lives somewhat close to us and family that lives in another state we find our family traveling every other year for at least Christmas time to the other state. While we travel every year a couple of hours to have Christmas dinner with one side of our family, the other years we find that we have to take the time to travel two days down and then two days back. It is always a fun time traveling, but sometimes we find things to do together once we are there.

This year it was time for travel to the other state to visit with the family we don’t get to see as often. The travel days were not too bad this year even with a one year old. We were surprised that he did as well as he did and did not freak out as much as we thought he would.

Since this year we came down to Albuquerque, New Mexico we wanted to go and visit areas of light displays that we would visit when we lived here.

This year we learned of a tradition that we had not heard of before even when we lived here. We all went to a golf course not far from where we were staying and they had some of the local hot air balloons set up and do what they call a balloon glow.

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Welcome to My Blog

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On November 28, 2018

In Books, Family Adventures, Writing

This blog is about the things that I love the most. Those being: having a fun time with my children and other family members,  as well as reading books and working on writing my own works.

I enjoy taking time to teach my children the things they will need to succeed in life, all while trying to have as much fun as we possibly can. We take family trips to visit family we have throughout the United States. We have been moving around quite a bit the last five years and learning to settle into a new environment each time we have done so. While we never really know what the future holds for us as long as we are together as a family we can have fun and live life to its fullest.

I want to bring my love of books to anyone out there that is looking for new books to read. I am always teaching my children to love to read books and comics. We go to the library most weeks and check out new books to read at home. As we explore those books I would like to be able to let others know about them as well. With all the moving around I have been doing in life, especially in the last five years with my family, I have not been reading as much as I used to. For one of the short times we were living with my parents I was able to join my Mom with going to her book group, but since I am no longer there I have not been able to find a book group I am interested in joining and so with starting this blog I thought I could create an online book group that could be joined from anywhere you are, whenever there is time to do so. While I will be doing reviews of books I have never liked the way that people go about giving stars to the things that they like and what not and so I have decided not to use the star system. 

While I do not feel that I have as much time to dedicate to writing as I use to, I still enjoy it. At this time I have been trying to get back into my writing and since I feel like there is strain to it I have been searching ways to get out of this stuck position in writing and would love to share what I have found and what I have gotten to work for me.

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