💎Lil Treasures #153: Hobbit-Maxxing and Texas Jewels
It's feast weeeeeeeeek!
Greetings, friends!
It has been an eventful week for all of us. Taylor Swift shut down Ticketmaster, I met Jesus on a red carpet (you can see more about this event and my Taco Bell afterparty here) and today I am celebrating Thanksgiving break early with an endometrial ablation procedure! Wow so many things! (Also if you have been in my particular lady situation, drop your recovery suggestions below) This is a depiction of future me below as I will absolutely be winging it the next few days:
But on a brighter note, we have entered Feast Week, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the food in my future.
And for you, of course! I hope you have the most lovely break and please remember there is no shame in holiday (or any day) sweatpants.
Okay! Let’s do some holiday treasures:
💧Do you have tiny humans who are asking question about baptism? Let this post from Meredith Anne Miller be a guide to you in this process!
📕If you’re wondering how writing a book is going, Sarah Bessey summed up my experience well in her recent post.
🛍️ Wanna get an early start on holiday shopping? Are you a basic-b who loves some Texas jewels and helping a good cause? Be sure to check out Kendra Scott this weekend and you can get 20% off your purchase with the code GIVEBACK-DCRYL! Use this code at checkout between today (Friday, Nov 18) and Sunday (Nov 20) to save 20% off and benefit Amarillo Angels, an organization in the Texas Panhandle that exists to support the foster community and is run by my momma, who is perfect.
🍲One of the best examples of practical community care I’ve seen recently was in Anne Helen Petersen’s newsletter last week: she put together a shortcut for caring for others that’s essentially a survey with specific questions for how you can step in and help when those we love need it. She even created a Google Form template so you can copy it and share it with your close pals!
💗 This story is couple of years old but has just made its way to my algorithm - so if you need a lil heartwarming treat, check out this 5 year old boy who invited his entire kindergarten class to his adoption.
Twitter is still alive! For now.
have so many questions about this one
That’s a wrap for this week’s newsletter - enjoy your holiday, friends! Don’t forget to drop off your treasures in the comments before you go. Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m resurfacing after many months of lurking vs. commenting to share my best treasure of all. Our little baby son was born last week after years and years of infertility - and now I want to scream with joy from all roof tops. All you moms and mother figures of all kinds are amazing, because while it’s so incredible, it’s also so hard!
Please let me know the best binge worthy shows that are happy and light (my hormones can’t take sadness right now lol).
Erin, wishing you the best for your surgery! My mother had this done years ago and it really improved her quality of life.
🦃 It’s Thanksgiving week and there has already been soooooo much food in my life and while I love it so much and I love the community aspects, I’d kinda like to be done with it soon, thanks. As someone who’s actively working to lose weight for health reasons, this season is a difficult one.
🥰 I will say that during our church’s annual Friendsgiving potluck, the guy I have a crush on said that my dish was among his favorites and I feel soooooo so so validated. It’s definitely a confidence boost. I may have ruined our conversation a little by talking too fast and too much...but unlike my last few crushes, humility comes with self awareness and now I know to watch out for it. And he did give me a nice hug at the end of the night. So no, nothing earth shatteringly romantic but honestly, at the very least, even if this doesn’t end like an early Taylor Swift love song, I think I will get a solid friendship out of the deal once I can convince my brain to BE MORE CHILL ABOUT THIS.
💃🏻 I somehow was one of the lucky ducks that got tickets to see Taylor Swift. Well, a friend who has more experience at the Ticketmaster monster did and we did it!
🥲 Despite the world in mass chaos and nothing in life being completely perfect (will it ever be, honestly?) and me dealing with some grief about things, I’m actually doing well and doing okay. This could all be shot to hell tomorrow (because three years ago, life was good until it wasn’t), but I feel (cautiously...very cautiously) optimistic about the holidays and my future for the first time in a really long time and I’m really grateful. ❤️❤️❤️