🚿 Lil Treasures #102: Scalding Hot Showers and Wrinkle the Duck
Plus a migraine hat and your holiday ice cream roundup
Hello my darlings. It’s so nice to be here with you today!
Something I’ve been thinking through recently is how everything is slowly starting to inch towards getting back-to-normal (crosses fingers 🤞🏼)and I feel like I am just now realizing and appreciating it. Am I the only one? But maybe that’s how change happens a lot of times - it kind of sneaks up on you. Just like the chaos in my new house, which is finally starting to find its’ own space. It looks like we live here now and it’s all just really cozy and beautiful, but the process to get us there was slow and disenchanting. To be fair, we are still sleeping on a mattress on the floor so everything is not completely settled, but there is still small progress happening all around that helps us keep going. I think it works that way with healing, too. Suddenly, it’s easier to get out of bed in the morning. You look up and you realize you don’t dread cracking open your Bible or talking to that friend. You drive down the street and see the leaves have changed and it’s amazing and how did you not see that until now? Most of the time things change slowly, gradually - much less dramatic than we imagine they will. I hope you are able to take a moment to notice the little waves of change that are happening in your own life, gradual as they may be.
In other news, Taylor released her version of Red today, so if you need me, I’ll just be listening to all 10 minutes of All Too Well on a loop for the majority of the day. Thank you Taylor for sprinkling your magic songs upon us all!
Now give it up for this week’s treasures 👏
🦆 My favorite celebrity who ran the NYC Marathon this past weekend was Wrinkle the Duck. I’m certain he PR’d.
🥃 Her recipe highness, Half Baked Harvest posted a recipe for spiced maple bourbon champagne fizz. If you’re looking for the perfect Thanksgiving cocktail, this one’s worth your time!
🍗 Kendall Vanderslice over at Edible Theology is starting a podcast called Kitchen Meditations - you can watch a preview about it here! If there’s tension or stress when you think about food, your body, God, or the church (raises hand 🙋🏻♀️), this podcast aims to bring healing to any and all of those things. The topic of food can be both complicated and wonderful at the same time, and the goal of Kitchen Meditations is to dig into that and explore the beauty in the seemingly mundane tasks of food and cooking and how it brings people together. The first episode drops this Sunday!
👘 The lady in the robe is back again with one of my favorite videos from this week.
🧡 On Tuesday of this week, I documented each hour of my day on Instagram (per Laura Tremaine's OnedayHH challenge). As a result, I received a flurry of DM’s asking for links so here are some of the things I mentioned:
Books
Evelyn Underhill's Prayer Book
Rewilding Motherhood by Shannon Evans
Sacred Questions by Kellye Fabian
The Message Bible
The Simple Difference by Becky Kiefe
Get to Work Book
The Difficult Words of Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
Counterpoints: Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy
Prayer for the People by Terry J. Stokes
Beauty & Skincare
Shape Tape from Tarte
Some Call Me Crunchy Cleansing Oil
Curology
The Ordinary Lactic Acid
Bye Bye Pores from IT Cosmetics
Squalane and Omega Repair Cream from Biossance
Comfort & Other:
Sipa Fineliner Pens
Be Our Chef on Disney+
Weighted Blanket
TheraIceRX Migraine Hat
The Standard Birmingham (top 5 best burgers 🍔 in town!)
🕯️ Only 16 days until Advent begins! This year I wrote a guide to act as a companion for the four weeks of Advent called Thunder in the Desert - a study on Isaiah 40. If you’d like to be a part of the study, you can subscribe to The Swipe Up+ for only $6 a month! I hope you’ll be joining us as we dig into the anticipation of the birth and resurrection of Christ within a kind and curious community.
🍨 I normally wait to indulge in Christmas spirit until after Thanksgiving, but the new holiday flavors from Jeni’s Ice Cream have made seriously question this practice. If you’re already fa-la-la-la-la’ing triumphantly, then please treat yourself to the new flavors listed in this article that lists all the holiday flavors, complete with Christmas movie pairings!
Y’all ready for those good Tweets?
my entire Winter vibe:
Okay guys, have an excellent week! Can’t wait to see you in the comments!
Ooof, that tweet about googling shows absolutely came for me.
Lucy Crabtree's tweet made me cackle. Dealing with a pain flare (I know hormones are a necessity of life, but this whole cyclical living in a world that prefers straight lines... isn't my favorite) right now and I resonate deeply with I already know the score.
We just got notice we've got 30 days (well, now 28) to vacate our living situation. I knew it was coming, the husband convinced me to be in denial, and the thing I'm learning about the both of us is that he needs approximately 30 minutes to switch from denial mode to 'okay, let's move' and I take a wee bit longer than that WHICH IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT TO BE IN DENIAL IN THE FIRST PLACE