🚿 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?

Ariel Dumas @ArielDumas

MILLION DOLLAR IDEA DO NOT STEAL: barbershop where they shave your legs

T.J. Chambers @tjchambersLA

You’re allowed to call anything “Country music’s biggest night” like literally no one checks

Brandon Follick @follickacid

I’ll never unhear the time my mom referred to Timothee Chalamet as “chimney taliban”

SparkNotes @SparkNotes

The existence of the Wife of Bath implies the existence of the Wife of Bed and the Wife of Beyond

✨ Tara Wine-Queen ✨ @TaraWineQueen

I identify with Frankenstein’s monster because I, too, am: - Intellectually curious - Held together by a thread - Seeking love and affection - Interested in burning down the homes of those who have betrayed me - Scared by my own reflection - Better in theory than real life

Syd 🦁👋🏻✨ @ak_lioness

“YoU sHoUlD sHoWeR iN lUkE wArM wAtEr” Plz be quiet and let me simmer in my hell water and converse with my demons in peace

small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snurp) @haragoochie

garlic is to cooking as vanilla extract is to baking in that the amount i add to my food is guided by reckless extravagance and utter disregard, verging on mild contempt, for the recipe as written

my entire Winter vibe:

the moon’s wife🧣 @bookishseawitch

in honor of bilbo baggins I will also be leaving parties halfway through and refusing adventures and wishing I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing

flamin nora @katierpacker

everytime money leaves my bank account because I’ve spent it

Lucy Crabtree @LucyCrabKC

I would like my body to stop keeping the score, please. I know the score. I'm good. Please stop reminding me of it.

Amber Sparks @ambernoelle

Gen Z I don’t believe you’re serious about your 90s love until you bring this haircut back challenge

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

no one warned me that adulthood would just be googling synopses of shows I don’t intend to watch so that I don’t sound like an idiot when other people are talking about them

Okay guys, have an excellent week! Can’t wait to see you in the comments!