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2011 Reading Challenge

2011 Reading Challenge
Yvette has read 12 books toward her goal of 200 books.
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Yvette's bookshelf: read

At First Sight
Comfort & Joy
On Mystic Lake
Between Sisters
The Things We Do for Love
Twilight
Summer Island
Daughter of Darkness
The Wedding
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
New Moon
Home Again
Angel Falls
Firefly Lane
The Choice
The Lucky One
Memoirs of a Geisha
Distant Shores
The Lovely Bones


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Welcome!

Managing a household of 4 (plus 10 animals) can be crazy, add in 2 full time jobs and life can get out of hand! Our Life Without Instructions is more than just a personal journal for me. I live a busy, often crazy life and I created this blog to share thoughts on my REAL life and how I manage get everything done (or sometimes how I fail to do so!)... Living life without instructions is a matter of trial and error, success and failures, but I am here to chronicle it.

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