🧹Lil Treasures #274: Iconic Librarians + Amelia Bedelia Housekeeping Skills
Plus feminine intuition and how to be super chill
Happy Friday, folks!
I do not have a list of motivations or a beautiful, inspiring intro for you this week. Did you know when the brain is constantly under stress, it can’t operate at its’ full potential?
It’s a miracle we have any groceries at home.
Hopefully the treasures will suffice. Enjoy this newsletter and I’ll see you in the comments! You can jump there now if you want to get a head start.
👏 Absolutely loved the audience’s response during the SNL Weekend Update on this past weekend’s episode. Beautiful job, no notes.
📖 My best coping strategy lately has been completely immersing myself in fiction and more specifically smut, if I’m being honest (Dramione has entered the chat). Here are a few of the best IG bookish threads from this week if your Kindle is working overtime these days, too.
🌹It’s Launch Week for my friend Jessica Turner’s new book, I Thought It Would Be Better than This! 🎉 If you don’t know Jessica’s story, her husband came out after being married for 16 years, and this book is about the grief in the aftermath and how she was able to bravely build a beautiful new life even in the midst. Jessica is a mother of three, an author, and a social media guru, and I love hearing her perspective on pretty much anything!
Her website lists a few different places you can order the book from, especially if there are some you are avoiding right now. Do yourself a favor and add this one to your cart!
🌾 As for me and my mind/body/spirit, I’ve been looking for some strategies to help me chill out in the midst of a whole lot of anxiety. Here’s a helpful post I found about how to calm a very nervous system if you’re feeling the same way!
✊ Need a place where you can ask the right questions about the state of the church AND learn how you can make a change, all within a like-minded community? Jemar Tisby is hosting a four-week study called Roadmap to Ruin: How the Church Can Resist the Dismantling of Democracy. The study just started this past Tuesday, but you can still join in for the next 3 weeks! You can head
on Substack to find out more info and learn how you can be a part.📚 If you were a child of the 90s and All That was your favorite after-school snack show, I need you to know that the most iconic librarian has resurfaced just to deliver a very important message.
🤷🏽♀️ In this current season, it can be difficult to know how to talk to the people in our lives about how faith intersects with politics, especially when it’s our kids we are talking to! Meredith Miller comes to our rescue in this week’s episode of I Kid You Not: What The Hell Do We Tell Our Kids? We are here to help you figure out how to guide these conversations, and what to do if you disagree with others (especially other family members). Listen to the episode here as you kick off your weekend!
The memes keep me going:
Aaaaaand that is all for this week’s edition of internet treasures. Goodbye and good weekend, my beautiful birdies! Hope it’s everything you hoped it would be. See you next time!
My treasure this week that I got my offer accepted to get a house!! In the midst of the chaos of the world, I’ve been trying to find a house that I can one day own and make my own, and I’m one step closer!!
I woke up feeling good about the day for the first time in a while and that just feels really nice.
💩 I didn't make it to the second round of interviews for the teen position which is a bummer.
🎶 I auditioned for a solo in choir! nothings been announced but I'm proud of myself for going for it.
🌈 We filmed our summer library program promo video that I co wrote this week and I'm very excited to see it! It's going to be very cute.
🧵 I've been patiently waiting for JoAnn's to have a good discount on the apparel fabric and I was rewarded. I did a little prebirthday shopping yesterday and got some fun fabrics that would typically be out of my budget.
🎤 I've recently discovered personal attention asmr. It's just so calming and I'll put it on while I do chores or sew and it helps me recenter. Jocie B ASMR and OceansASMR are two of my favs on youtube
🤣 If you need a hilarious chaotic show to keep you going in these trying times,Taskmaster and Game Changer are my two favs.
❤️ Y'all, my birthday is next Thursday and it's also the first anniversary of my grandmother's passing. I've taken Thurs-Mon off to give myself some time to rest and feel my feelings. Gram loved birthdays and her specialty was getting your card to you as close to your actual birthday as possible. She was such a loving woman and it's hard to believe she's not here with us.