☕ Lil Treasures #114: Bob Saget Makes Me Cry and some Deconstruction Tea
Plus Lent and adult field trips
Hello, all you beautiful people! Greetings to you during this wild and crazy OlympicSuperBowlValentine weekend extravaganza. I hope you got your Valentines for your kid’s classroom already because there are no more left at Target. There’s a lot of stuff on the weekend radar, but it’s Friday and I’m here to say we are going to make it.
I’ve got a fun announcement up my sleeve as well as a cornucopia full of delightful treasures, so let’s get started!
This week’s treasures:
✝️ Guys, can you believe it is already time for Lent? Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent) is on March 2nd this year, which is right around the corner. I am highly anticipating this year’s study called Mercy Seat, which will be a Lenten study of the Psalms. It will be available within the Swipe Up+ group for the duration of the Lent season! I hope you can join us there!
If you are interested in doing a Lent study this year outside of the private group, you still can! The studies from the last two years (Every Broken Thing and Memento Mori) will both be available starting today in my online store. AND if you’re a Lil Swipe, you can get a discount of 20% off with the code LILSWIPES. If you’re new to following the liturgical calendar and are thinking about observing Lent for the first time, I’m hopeful that either of these studies can act as the gentle Gandalf to lead you on your Lenten journey.
⏰Anybody else feel like this when your alarm goes off in the morning? Just me?
😭 Get out those tissues and prepare yourself for a good cry-fest via this wedding toast by a bride’s sweet dad.
🪱 This week’s episode of the Bible Binge is a SWDGISS (Stuff We Didn’t Get in Sunday School) where we’ll be digging deep into Bible Treasures - including but not limited to talking about a worm that was used to slice through stone. If that intrigues you, add this episode to wherever you listen to your pods.
❤️ It’s Valentine’s weekend bb’s, and if you need to feel some warm fuzzies, go watch this video of Bob Saget telling a bunch of celebrities that he loves them. 🤧 We miss you, Bob!
🟩Not only is Wordle creating a little motivation for me to make it to the next day, but it is also SAVING LIVES EVERYONE. Read here to see how! I am still in awe of this.
☕ I loved this TikTok about tea + deconstruction.
⛰️ If you’re starting to plan your vacations for this year, let me point you once again to my friend Courtney at All The Best Days! She just did a trip review of Pagosa Springs, Colorado and every fiber of my being wants to teleport there immediately. She planned our family trip to Blue Ridge last year and it was truly a magical experience because of her help!
Now for those good Tweets!
Thanks for reading, pals! Hope your weekends are filled with a little football and a lot of snacks. See you in the comments!
1. I felt the tweet about remembering random people’s birthdays in my soul. I will tell him/her happy birthday on Facebook or something and then go back days later and think oh gosh do people think I’m weird for telling that person Happy Birthday. So that’s my life.
2. The teachers got Wise at my kids school and scheduled a teacher workday for Valentine’s Day so they had parties yesterday, so they didn’t really get out of the whole party part but I was so proud of myself because I bought skittles as Valentine’s Day gifts and I didn’t even have to write the kids names on them I literally just put enough skittles (individually wrapped bags of course ) in a plastic bag for each kid’s class and told the kid to pass them out accordingly.
3. I am currently conducting my pre-Super Bowl prep of listening to the performers scheduled for the halftime show so that I can remember what song is facing out of time.
I did not expect to Olympic as hard as I usually do because a) we just had one and b) China is sketch, but I physically can't not watch Olympic figure skating and the next thing I know the only thing on my TV for 2 weeks straight is Olympics. Sorry not sorry. Some thoughts on the games so far:
- We are proud of Nathan Chen for his beautiful win, yes, but also for his extremely conscientious masking practices. Good job Nathan!
- Was anyone as excited as I was to see Jason Brown back on the Olympic team? He is so good and has obviously grown up so much and I'm just so proud of him. Jason, if you're reading, I want to be your friend. Hit me up.
- Shaun White leaving the corral after his last ever run to be met by all his snowboarding bros? Cue tears.
- The AUDACITY of the NFL to have a Superbowl during the Olympics. You couldn't postpone for 2 weeks? Really?
I can't get any agents to return my emails about helping me find a rent house, so it looks like I may be on my own for this particular chore. I just want to give someone a list of what I'm looking for so they can narrow it down and the whole thing can be done in a day or two.
If you have some time, this ACL episode with Phoebe Bridgers and Olivia Rodrigo is worth a watch. All of Olivia's teenage fangirls were so precious. https://www.pbs.org/video/olivia-rodrigo-phoebe-bridgers-umz1ai/