🦊Lil Treasures #104: My Foxy Agent and Your Guide to Advent

Also, some new language for deconstruction and Andrew Garfield being an emotional genius.

Cheers to Friday, friends! Happy day-after-Thanksgiving to those of you who are celebrating this week (I know we have some lovely international friends out there as well!) This newsletter will be short and sweet because well, it’s the holidays and I’m still in a food coma to be honest.

I did want to take a chance to tell you once more about my Advent study, Thunder In The Desert, that is starting this Sunday! If you’re still interested in being a part, you can click the button below to subscribe to The Swipe Up+ and get the study sent directly to your Inbox! If you’ve been waiting until the last minute to sign up - the time is now ladies and gents. Can’t wait to walk through Advent with you!

Also, I know it’s the middle of the holiday season and extra funds are scarce, so if it’s not in the cards for you right now financially but you’d still like to participate in the study, send me an email at hello@erinhmoon.com and I’ll get you taken care of! You can also gift a subscription of The Swipe Up+ to a friend for only $6 (you would only have to cover a month since Advent is 4 weeks long!)

Now on to some treasures!

🕯️Now that we’ve got YOUR Advent needs taken care of, let’s do some Advent resources for your kids! She Reads Truth makes these Kids Read Truth conversation cards that are so fun and helpful to walk through with your kids each evening. I’ve also highlighted Little Way Chapel on Instagram before for both her Advent and Lent suggestions, and this year she has a Little Way Bundle with Advent and 12 Days of Christmas printables for kids. If you’re trying to slowly introduce your kids into the liturgical calendar, these are a couple of terrific options to get that process started!

👩‍🍳 Now that the Christmas season is officially upon us, it’s time for me to try out these apple cinnamon rolls with maple icing from HBH. Give me that cinnamon smell wafting throughout my house while I’m decorating my tree!

💙 Actor Andrew Garfield was on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week and shared about the process of grieving over his mother, who recently passed away. The way he talked about grief was incredibly beautiful and cathartic and is forever stamped in my brain. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been an Andrew Garfield fan since I randomly heard he was mean to that kid who dressed up like Batman to fight cancer, which is horrible, to be clear, but this might have redeemed him.

🙄 I also need this pep talk every time I leave my house.

🎁 Last year I gathered some suggestions for ways to support local businesses and shop local during the holiday season, and you guys provided some incredible options. If you’d like to access that spreadsheet or add some new ideas, you can click here! (please note, there are multiple tabs!)

🍽️ FEAST ON THESE TWEETS

Michael Harriot @michaelharriot

I don’t know who needs to hear this but your family DOES NOT want you to “try something different” with the macaroni & cheese.

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

I relate to Taylor Swift in that I, too, have never gotten over anything ever

Dana Schwartz 🫀 @DanaSchwartzzz

celebrities shouldn't have podcasts. it's an audio medium it was made for us ugly normals

charlie @chunkbardey

PLEASE stop posting about your accomplishments unless i have the same ones otherwise it can make me feel BAD!!!!!!!! i seriously shouldn’t even have to say that

Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

The events that make your blood boil reveal what matters most to you. Anger rises when your core values are in jeopardy. With reflection, it becomes a mirror for seeing your principles more clearly. With action, it becomes a map for making change to protect what you hold dear.

matthew pierce @MatthewEPierce

i don't think it's right for pete davidson to date becki falwell

𝓐𝓾𝓽𝓾𝓶𝓷 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓮 🍂📚☕🎃💫 @annie_hawthorne

i wish i was a cat so i could just curl up in random, bizarre places and sleep for hours on end and it wouldn't be an unhealthy or concerning thing to do

kirsten howard @emotionalpedant

me and my google docs

Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman

This bike is locked up tight in case two thieves in love walk by.

patrick doyle, phd (10 minute version) @pcxd13

cashier at target saw me buying hair bleach, looked me dead in the eyes, and said “baby is everything ok” and THAT’S trauma informed care

Trey Ferguson @PastorTrey05

Sometimes I think I’ve finally reached Maturity And then I have To fold a fitted Sheet

Justin Bryant @jthouse37

I don't have an agent, but there is a small fox that lives in the woods next to my house who would, I think, given the opportunity, champion my work.

Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM

A wise mentor once said to me, “Beth, there are some people you don’t want to like you.”

Danté Stewart (Stew) @stewartdantec

I think some people critique others not out of concern for truth but out of jealousy and fear. Instead of approaching others from a spirit of humility—listening and learning—they would rather approach others in a spirit of insecurity while calling it love.

Carly 💅🏼 (she/her) @carlymbutton

I’m sick & tired of the word “deconstruction”; from now on, it’s Divine Renovation: Creator fixed my dishwasher, Brown Jesus swung a mallet until my house was open concept, Spirit did a fresh coat of paint, and my ancestors said “Move! That! Bus!” 😇

Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew

why don’t any of the bad people have burnout

Sara K. Runnels @omgskr

If you’re not in a hometown bar convincing a boy you went to 8th grade dance with to go to therapy are you even back home

Alright pals, that about wraps it up for this holiday edition of Lil Treasures! May your leftovers be hearty, your traveling be safe, and if you’re out there shopping for Christmas treasures this week, may the force (and our Lord) be with you. See you in the comments!