😈 Lil Treasures #210: The Human Body & Letters to Satan
Plus Dolly Parton and computer passwords
Hi, folks!
I hope you’ve had the merriest holiday week and are enjoying this last little bit of 2023 with all it has to offer. In this weirdo in-between time, I am wading through piles of gift bags, socks, half-eaten cookies, and God only knows what else. This is my current reality:
I’ve got a few treasures for you to enjoy as you get prepped for your weekend parties, and then I’ll have a more robust version of Lil Treasures for you to enjoy next week!
If your New Year’s resolution is to consume more good content, might I interest you in a subscription of The Swipe Up+? I’d love to have you come hang behind the paywall in 2024!
Onward to the treasures!
✉️ Christmas may be behind us, but these holiday letters from children to Satan are still hilarious all year-round.
🪕 Dolly Parton continues to exercise her powers of kindness with stories like this one.
👟 It’s an easy tendency to breeze past hard news about war and death during the holidays. Too often I resort to tucking it away in a pocket in my brain to be dealt with later. But these images of children’s shoes laid out to reflect the lives lost and this post by Sara Billups were important reminders this week of the grief that still exists in the midst of gatherings and twinkling lights.
🙄 I find myself here on a regular basis, realizing my daughters are miniature, sassier versions of me.
🌼 I wasn’t prepared for how emotional this poem would make me feel.
Happy New Memes!
Okay pals, signing off. Thanks for letting me be a part of your Fridays in 2023! It has been an honor. See you next year!
Christmas was, to quote Eliza, good, weird and a little sad. This was our son's first married Christmas, and we committed early on to be the flexible parents and just go with the flow and celebrate the holidays whenever they could. They only live 2 hours away, but her family is large and there are a lot of events going on. We had hopes that we might be included in those events, but that didn't happen and knowing that we were flexible, plans changed no fewer than six times. These traditions that you as young marrieds with children work so hard to create for your littles can disappear in a flash with the onset of married life. But we got time with the kids and it was really good time, and I am super grateful for every moment. I miss the traditions that we weren't able to keep, am happy for the traditions that we reformed to fit our new reality and am looking forward to figuring out what next year will look like! Have some grace for your parents, if you are blessed to still have them - it's a process for them too. Year end for a nonprofit is super busy, so I'm off to write emails and hopefully get some year end donations! Happy New Year everyone!
The way I laughed at “there seems to have been a struggle” and thought to myself “Yes, a struggle for the past two months!” 🤣🤣🤣 Listen, I’m a single woman who lives by herself with zero dependents and my home is an *actual disaster*. I give standing ovations to anyone with more to take care of than I do and who has managed to keep their homes in a semi-livable manner. All-star adults, all of you 👏👏👏👏