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Eliza Barger's avatar

Yay for everyone making it through May!

πŸ“½οΈWe are gearing up for our busy season aka summer library program. We made a fun little video to share with the kids about the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb_eKaYK3ko

🎨Fun fact- the Collaborative Summer Library Program creates themes, graphics, program ideas etc. every year for libraries to use, so your library might also be doing Color Our World

πŸ”–The Modern Mrs. Darcy summer reading guide came out last week and there are lots of great books coming out this summer. I made a little 'summer tbr' canva collage to keep track of what I want to read. It turned out very cute!

🌱Slowly but surely, I might become ok with gardening. I found no joy in maintaining my yard/flower beds last year, but seeing everything come back has been really fun and motivating!

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Mary Van Geffen's avatar

love it

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Mary's avatar

That video is adorable, Eliza!!

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Erin H Moon's avatar

The older I get, the more I'm like, old people really knew what they were talking about with birds and plants!

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Meredith Agan's avatar

Hello! Back in the comments this week and it feels good. My oldest had his last exam of freshman year yesterday and I cried as I picked him up while simultaneously blaring Alice Cooper’s School’s Out (which I do every year). My baby has his last day today. Third grade has been good to us. Ready for that summer life of only being responsible for me (yall know what I mean) in the mornings!

I adore Katherine Wolf and have heard her speak several times. Even met her once a few years ago. We have the same birthday πŸ˜‰

Rev Lizzie is a treasure and since our church is in the process of search for a new rector, would love her to come to Dothan! πŸ˜‚

As the kids say these days while signing year books, HAGS!!

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Erin H Moon's avatar

I forgot about HAGS!

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Diana's avatar

Our homeschool plods on while my 14 year old finishes her last few things, but my 21-year-old son graduates from college today!

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Erin H Moon's avatar

Congrats to him (and you)!

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Katie Peters's avatar

Haven’t been in these comments for a hot minute but happy Friday, everyone! Today is the last academic day for 2 of my 3 kids (they still have Tuesday & Wednesday next week and I am sending them, thankyousomuchbye) and the last day of preschool for the 3rd πŸ₯Ή Do I have teacher cards ready? NOPE. Will I get Walmart gift cards before afternoon preschool starts at noon? WHO KNOWS.

-Very much loving Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang and Philly Justice cracked me up and warmed my heart. I live in Indiana and am convinced Parks & Rec is partially based on my hometown so I am all-in on a mini P&R reunion πŸ΄πŸ§‡

-I deleted IG off my phone and I hate it. I gotta find a better way to engage with it without spending all my time on it because it really does bring joy in these dark times. Any suggestions?

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Mary's avatar

I recently started listening to Good Hang and love it so far! Her episode with Michelle Obama wasπŸ‘ŒπŸ€£πŸ₯Ή

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Katie Peters's avatar

MO was so funny! A delight to listen to!

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Erin H Moon's avatar

It's a form of torture to go back after Memorial Day. What the heck!?

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Katie Peters's avatar

And we didn’t even have a ton of snow days to make up this year!! But it’ll be Field Day and goof-around day so whatever πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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Kristine Toone's avatar

Highly recommend the One Sec app. I pay for the annual - it's worth it. It's broken my habit. It's annoying, so it's just not as easy to click over. And it builds in a break after whatever time you set. It's helped me break free from FB and IG... but I'm not using it on Reddit or NYT Games so... ;)

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Littlelady66's avatar

Girl same πŸ˜‚I use screen zen and like it but even before that in my Apple settings when my phone locked down NYT games is always available…

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Katie Peters's avatar

I’ll look into it, thanks!

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Amanda Soltoff's avatar

Happy Friday!

Just came on here to share that my love for this show has never wavered. But the fact that this trailer for Philly Justice exists has reconfirmed to me that Parks and Rec is the actual best.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DJ49BYphQQO/

I hope you have the Friday you need today!

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Maggie McLeod's avatar

It gets better with each rewatch!

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