🪨 Lil Treasures #237: Ramen Noodles, Conway Fitty + Rock Bottom
We're talking mission trips, Gen-Z and the ministry of ice cream sammies
Beloveds it is Friday and therefore we reap what the Internet hath sown. I have brought in the harvest and we have a bounty.
Here we goooooooooooo!
🎬 There’s a trend going ‘round the internet of “when Gen-Z edits a video” and this particular version is my favorite one so far.
🥵 Like this girl, I think I appreciate the great Alan Jackson’s power with words to a great extent now, because we have entered the soupy part of summer and it is one hundred percent “hoochie coochie” hot.
🤠 I will never party in the club the same way again thanks to this treasure from "Conway Fitty". Along those same lines, what were you clubbing (err, dancing) to in your high school/college years that makes you instantly feral again anytime you hear it? Please drop your fave nostalgic bangers in the comments!
🖼️ A couple of weeks ago, we had the chance to see the art of Dr. Herbert Jung at Samford. Herbert was the grandfather of our dear friend, Alan, who is the dean of Health Professions at Samford. This is the coolest story, and we loved getting to experience it with our whole family. Cy was also very into it and made us take pictures of him with his favorite pieces, which I will share a sampling of with you now.
👰 Who doesn’t love an excuse to play dress-up, especially when it’s a pretend wedding to celebrate with people you love? It is so sweet the way this bride made her flower girl feel a part of her special day, even when she couldn’t be there for the real one.
🙏 We’re discussing The NOs of Mission Trips on this week’s episode of Faith Adjacent! If you went on a mission trip or two growing up and have the matching t-shirts and traveler’s diarrhea stories to prove it, this episode is for you! Y’all this one was wild.
🥑 It’s a bajillion degrees outside and we are ABSOLUTELY NOT turning on the oven in my house, so I’m attempting to make everything into some sort of cold salad-type dish. Next on the docket is to try and make this fiesta avocado corn salad!
🥶 I got chills listening to the The City Choir perform this powerful/hilarious song.
🍜 This little girl’s reaction to the the best gift she ever received sent me into outer space. Also, a lesson for us all - if someone asks for something (even if it’s weird) for a birthday/Christmas/etc, just get it for them! Give the people what they want! I mean, this is precious beyond words.
🧠 The mental load is a pain for us all, especially when it comes to trying to teach our kids how to help carry it without giving them a list (and adding more to our mental energy by doing so). This post gives some helpful solutions for how to guide your kids into taking ownership, specifically if you’re packing up to go on vacation. Make the children responsible…I mean, if we can.
🛹 This is me trying, skateboarding - edition.
⚽ It’s a good day or another Enneagram meme roundup, this time with some Ted Lasso sprinkled in.
Say hello to this week’s memes 👋
Stay cool out there, my people! Let me know how you’re surviving these long arduous weeks of hoochie coochie summer in the comments, please! I’m out here melting and could use your tips of brilliance. See you here again next week!
The heat is oppressive and makes anything outside between the hours of 7:00 AM AND 4:00 AM unmanageable. I can’t deal.
I feel bad complaining knowing my Houston neighbors have been without power for so long. DAMN TEXAS AND IT’S POWER FAILURES! 🤬
Does anyone remember the cultural club gem that was Laffy Taffy by D4L?
Yay! It's Lil' Treasures Day! 😁 I live in Pennsylvania where a hateful heat dome has make hell our new home. I mean really, we're the gateway to the northeast. What in the world? While it is cooler today, it is only a brief respite. If one more person says, "Hot enough for you?" I will thoroughly throat punch them! I cannot be responsible for much when we are in the throes of hoochie coochie horrors.
Loved the art gallery pics, Erin. We have forced our daughters to suffer through many a museum/art gallery in their lives to varying degrees of success. As you might guess, we have photos that document it well...complete with grimaced smiles trying to comply with my photographic wishes so they get the promised Starbucks as a result. 🤣
Speaking of museums (we were, right?), my husband and I took a little side trip this weekend, mostly to enjoy better air conditioning that our home currently afforded, and landed in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It's a cute little town, maybe 25 minutes from Center City Philadelphia. Lots of shops, restaurants, etc. We spent one afternoon at the James A. Michener art muesum which was lovely, but I was captivated by the Mercer Museum. This must be PA's best kept secret because I had never heard of it. It's a huge concrete castle constructed in 1913 on zero plans by an anthropologist who wanted to build the best place he could think of to house his considerable collection of "stuff". Mostly work tools and way of life type things from bygone eras. I'm not sure what I expected, but I surely did not expect to walk into a seven stories tall atrium of floor to ceiling things displayed for one's viewing pleaure. Huge pieces of 18th and 19th century farm and well equipement, contestoga wagons, sleighs, dugout canoes capped off cradles and baskets suspended from the ceiling, I'm not doing a good job describing it but it's bonkers! I sent pictures to my adult daughters and my youngest asked if we had stumbled into Hogwarts. I do not know why I feel so passionate about this place, but it evoked something to see the passion and literally hard work one man put into capturing a moment in time in the area in which I live. If you visit our humble state, you must check it out! BTW--Henry Mercer built a second castle in which to live. Because, of course.
https://www.mercermuseum.org/visit/mercer-museum/
We're in a season of transtion over here. My daughters both graduacted (one from high school, the other from law school), I'm getting ordained in a week, looking for a new ministry position, and we're all laboring along with all the drama that comes with bar prep (oldest has been at home this year after ending an ailing 5 year relationship. She's fierce.) In a few weeks they'll both move out and we'll be empty nesters. While there are many things I'll miss as this season of family life comes to a close, one thing I will NOT miss is what appears to be the Gen Z trend to set roughly nine million alarms each morning, beginning literal hours before they actually plan to arise from their comfy beds, all at top volume. What.in.the.actual.world. Is this soiling the nest? Becuase it makes me irate every day! Ack!
Okay friends, I hope you have a not so hoochie coochie day!