🍅 Lil Treasures #103: Sexy Veggie Tales and a Dog Wearing a Hoodie
Greetings, friends! It’s Friday AND we’re less than a week away from feasting for Thanksgiving, so I’m feeling good. I am completely infatuated with the trees right now - just oohing and aahing every time I make my daily commute through the display of colors that make thee trees look like they’re on fire. My kids don’t share this same enthusiasm unfortunately, no matter how hard I try. Their loss honestly. I think this (fall to winter) is the most beautiful seasonal transition we have, and it’s got me thinking a lot about how our time is limited with these enchanting leaves, that everything is already preparing for what’s next. Here’s a poem from Mary Oliver that better explains what I mean:
In the deep fall
don’t you imagine the leaves think how
comfortable it will be to touch
the earth instead of the
nothingness of air and the endless
freshets of wind? And don’t you think
the trees themselves, especially those with mossy,
warm caves, begin to think
of the birds that will come — six, a dozen — to sleep
inside their bodies? And don’t you hear
the goldenrod whispering goodbye,
the everlasting being crowned with the first
tuffets of snow? The pond
vanishes, and the white field over which
the fox runs so quickly brings out
its blue shadows. And the wind pumps its
bellows. And at evening especially,
the piled firewood shifts a little,
longing to be on its way.
I hope you are soaking in the autumn beauty while we still have it, friends. Do you have any fun Thanksgiving traditions you’re participating in this week? Share them in the comments!
Now on to this week’s treasures:
🧣 For my fellow Swifties - this video got me good.
🍅 If Silly Songs with Larry lights a reminiscent fire within you, you should enjoy this post about the sexiest veggie tales characters.
🕯️ Dis/entangle is officially over (today is the last day)! Thank you to those of you who have been along for the ride. It has been such a special time and I’m grateful. We have a break in-between studies, but then will start a study of Advent this year called Thunder In the Desert, which will begin so soon on Sunday, November 28th! We’ll be digging in to Isaiah 40 as we journey through the season of Advent together. Here’s a sneak peak of the cover:
If you’re interested in being a part of the study, you can sign up here for only $6 a month! As always, if the mention of dollars makes you sweat and you can’t make that monthly fee happen right now, send me an email at hello@erinhmoon.com and we’ll make sure you’re included!
✝️️ We are doing some fun things over on The Bible Binge - one of which is the newest episode of Favored or Forsaken where we talk through the show Midnight Mass. If you’re done binging the show and need a support group, add this episode to your listening queue (PSA there are spoilers in the episode!)
🍞This is less of a treasure and more of a PSA, but lady Sister Shubert has now discontinued the sausage wrap rolls and I’m not okay.
🧶 I saw this post last week (about the response of many pastors to deconstruction) and I cannot stop coming back to it.
Let’s do some Tweets!
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Alright ladies and gents, hope you have the most lovely weekend. If there are any gorgeous, fiery trees in your vicinity that you’re in love with right now, please share a pic! Can’t wait to see you in the comments.
Sorry I’m commenting three times but my brain only works in fits and starts. Honestly my greatest treasure (aside from the tik tok lunch lady and my being a 50 year old woman obsessed with TS drama) is something my daughter told me this morning. I have 3 girls - Maggie, Zoe and Tori. Maggie is in college. Zoe and Tori are twins but Zoe’s in 9th and Tori’s in 8th. Tori has a very rare chromosome disorder so she acts a little younger than she is, but she is totally with it socially and she’s a trip. Anyway, she told me today that they had to write an essay in ELA about their heroes and she wrote it about Maggie, her older sister. My mom heart exploded. Just to hear how Tori sees her older sister and what an impression she’s made on Tori’s life. It’s dear. I cannot.
Y’all, take the wind when you get them. Write them down. Relish them. This is something I will need to come back to on those rough days as a parent.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I have one major turd this week - my 3rd grade daughter wanted to invite a friend home from school. The mom replied to me that they don't let their son have playdates with girls, in case feelings became involved down the road & they had to redraw the boundaries. She said it in such a nice way that at first I brushed it off, like, oh, that's weird, too bad. But as more time goes by, it's making me sadder & sadder. I feel bad for their kid, for my daughter, for females in general, mad about Christians who sexualize little kids. This mom couldn't have known, but my daughter is nonbinary due to a hereditary condition, so I'm already on alert for gender-related challenges she might have, I just was never expecting this particular one? So basically I'm processing this with everyone I know in the hopes that I don't let it ruin my Thanksgiving. 😂
Treasure - each year for the last four years, I've gotten together with friends & we've watched a movie and eaten pie the night before Thanksgiving (masked & distanced last year!). It is my absolute favorite tradition. This year we're watching Jungle Cruise & having apple pie.
Wishing you all a very happy Thanksgiving. :)