📺Lil Treasures #169: The Ruby Jubilee and Trash TV

We're also talking okay white sharks and Christian book endorsements

Hello hello,

I hope your Friday has welcomed you in like a delightful warm cup of tea.

It’s March, and this month I am turning the big 4️⃣ 0️⃣! I am trying to remain very cool and neutral about it.

When Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 40th year of reign in 1992, they called it the “Ruby Jubilee”, so I’ll definitely be using the same term for my celebration this year 👸. If you’re nearing 40 or have surpassed this milestone, I’d love to hear about some of your fun plans or the best parts about being in your 40s! I have some hopes and goals for this decade but your thoughts and opinions are like gold to me so please share if you feel so inclined.

I am grateful for these four decades and look forward to the next four! Until then though, we have treasures to discuss!

This week’s treasures:

🙅🏻‍♀️I shared an excerpt from this article on Instagram earlier this week, but in light of some recent internet mishaps, this article from Katelyn Beaty called the Problem with Christian Book Endorsements is such a good read.

💬Could not stop laughing at these inspirational quotes from a teenage daughter. Let me know if you have your own version of these inspiring quotes in the comments 🙃

🥘Bake me right into these delicious Crockpot Garlic Butter Chicken Meatballs with Creamy Orzo from HBH.

🎧If you’re working through Lent and need some tunes to keep you company in your daily reading, here’s a link to my trusty Lent playlist!

👂In celebration of all women and especially in lieu of Women’s History Month, here are some phrases all the young girls in your life could stand to hear.

📷THOROUGHLY ENJOYED this photoshoot of Jonathan Majors and Michael B Jordan that was shot recently for an article in the New York Times about Creed III.

🧳If you’re planning a trip for spring break this year, start making your packing plan now with my friend Courtney at All the Best Days’ Free Packing List PDF chalked full of fun and helpful tips for your upcoming travels!

Let’s get to those tweets!

mount bellyache @mountbellyache

how it feels to get constructive criticism that i asked for

Hurt CoPain @SaeedDiCaprio

I was not born to work a 9-5 I was made to be the hottest person at the grocery store at noon on a weekday

Heart Shaped Trashcan𖤐 @EthanOpia_

Okay guys, we cant ALL be depressed at once. We have to take turns.

Lyndsay Rush @rushbomb

Gonna start referring to sports as trash TV

🐢What the Tuck🧣(’-’*) @TucktheguyFly

Shampoo bottles are more dramatic than little brothers. Like I barely touched you! Why did you fall down!?

George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace

Shout out to all the just okay white sharks, doing the best they can, with greatness just out of reach and whatnot.

1984’s George Whorewell @EwdatsGROSS

6 year old me with a pretzel stick pretending it’s a cigarette

Momma of Midgard @MidgardMomma

86% of parenting teens is waiting in the car outside some practice or sporting event.

Kat Armas @kat_armas

I think a lot about the time right before Jesus was killed, he was in such agony he told the disciples, “it’s as if I’m dying.” What a declaration. A deeply intimate, personal, vulnerable—a profoundly human—declaration. This is the Jesus so many of us fight so hard to cling to.

Let me know what you’re getting into this weekend in comments! Looking forward to reading allll your fun treasures. Enjoy that extra dose of sunshine coming your way this Sunday, friends!