🥤Lil Treasures #165: Milkshakes and Holding Your Tongue
We're talking renaissance women and parenting fails
My friends!
January did us a disservice and dragged on per usual, but February is running away from me already. How many days are in this month this year? When do we leap? I am never completely certain. I am also perplexed by the construct of time because I’m pretty sure we just finished our Lent study from last year but alas, it is time to begin again!
So, deep breath, here we go. Lent is happening! We’re doing this! You can join in on the fun in 2 different ways:
➕Within a community
We’re taking Ecclesiastes for another spin this year with the study Every Broken Thing, but this time alongside friends and fellow Lil Swipes! (In 2020 it was only available in digital format. Look at us advancing!)
You can be a part of the Lent study by joining Lil Swipes+., which will give you access to a daily reading, meditation or prayer every day of Lent that will be sent straight to your beautiful inbox. This option will only exist behind the paywall, but if you want to come along and don’t have the extra cash to support that right now, send me an email at hello@erinhmoon.com and Hannah and I will add you to the group! Zero worries, ever.
➕On your own
Every Broken Thing is also available on my online store! You can purchase your own digital version of the study with all its’ resources included at this link. For anyone on this corner of the internet, you can get also get a nifty 20% discount with the code LILSWIPES.
As someone who has a slight obsession with the liturgical calendar, I am honored to be walking through this season with you. God always seems to press into the cracks and crevices of my heart during this time, and I am full of anticipation for how He will guide me (and you) through this process again.
I hope you join either way!
Make room for the treasures:
🍗Oh, just me after any minor inconvenience. Chicken nuggets are my entire personality.
🏈The Super Bowl is this Sunday which means we get to experience our girl Rihanna’s re-emergence at the halftime show. If you want to pre-game this experience, go watch this video.
🔥I can’t stop thinking about this post by Emily P. Freeman. A complete change in perspective.
🌯If you need a good appetizer to add to your snack lineup for this weekend, these folded crispy buffalo chicken wraps from Half Baked Harvest are the best!
🤦🏻♀️This is such an excellent post about parenting fails and the recovery moments that can happen afterward.
☕ These are the kind of thoughts that cross through my mind on a daily basis.
💛Morgan Harper Nichols wrote this beautiful poem about her experiences being autistic and it is just so lovely.
This week’s Twitter roundup:
Gwandy (my parent’s celebrity couple name, obviously) is here for the weekend and there’s so much to do! Lots of excitement in the Moon household.
I can’t wait to about your treasures and weekend plans in the comments. See you soon!
Happy Friday friends! It's been a busy week here as my boss was on vacation and I've been at both branches filling in for her.
🎧 I lost an airpod going through security at JFK back in Oct and finally ordered a replacement in January! It was broken. I was able to get that replaced, it came this week and I finally have two airpods. I did not get the hype before I bought mine and am just so so happy to finally have both again!!
🥖 Aldi has had an Everything Bagel Sourdough recently that is just delicious! I've been enjoying lots of soup and toast and this has made it even better.
📚 Ok, biggest treasure of the week/month/year is that I GOT THE JOB!!! I'm in the process of doing some paperwork for background checks and once those come back I can submit my notice and discuss a start date. Generally speaking I'll move in 3-5 weeks. I'm just so excited. I've worked really hard to be able to do this and to then actually be paid for the skills and experience I have is so gratifying. I don't think I've stopped smiling for three days ❤❤❤
Have the best weekend friends! I can't wait to read your updates in the comments.
Happy Friday! I think I will also be thinking about EPF's collect prayer for a long time. DANG. 🔥
I would love prayers for my momma and I. She's approaching her one year anniversary of being at a Hospice facility with Stage 4 squamous cell cancer and the last couple weeks have brought some changes that have been very hard. It's just the two of us - my dad died of cancer when I was 9 and I'm an only child, her parents are gone, and the rest of my mom's side of the family is distant/dysfunctional and I don't have relationships with them. It's been a hard week and there's a weight in my chest that is hard to carry. 💔
A bright light from this week was dinner out with a friend who started out as the mom of one of my kiddo's friends, and has now become a good friend to me. The brewery was super slow that night and we got to sit and eat and chat WITHOUT KIDS for a few hours and it was so good for my soul.
We've also been watching Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix and IT'S SO GOOD!!! The storytelling and actors are just fantastic and it's the first exposure I've really had to Korean culture.
We're not a football family (American football, that is ⚽), but our exciting weekend event is having the 3 girls in our daughter's bestie squad over tomorrow afternoon for a lowkey 8th birthday playdate. Lucy wants to snuggle up with her friends, watch a movie, drink hot cocoa and eat snacks and that sounds pretty flippin' great to me!