🏆 Lil Treasures #65: It Was Hard, But We Did It

There's a movie about youth camp, clementine margaritas, and freelance hotness.

Some snippets from my week:

My grandmother got the vaccine this week. She wasn’t going to take it because she has a history of allergic reactions to shots, but her doctor convinced her and she got wheeled into a line with some other seniors and ten minutes later was inoculated. I cried, thinking about the culmination of years of medical school, line assembly machinery, and God’s common grace that it took to get this into her arm and into her veins. I remember when all of this started and she called to check-in, telling me about how she was one of the nurses who administered the polio vaccine, what a relief it was when it became available. She told me: “it was hard, but we did it.” Look how cute she is (that’s her in (what else?) the glasses:

I know we’re not done with this pandemic, but this was a win to celebrate for me. Now I need Alabama to get its act together.

I got to spend a lovely hour with the Faith Adjacent Book Club this week talking about one of my very favorite books, Inspired by Rachel Held Evans. Reading the book leading up to the livestream and discussing it with those beautiful folks was like drinking a perfect wine on the back deck with friends, a delight to share something so beautiful with such curious and thoughtful people. If you were there, you gave me such a gift. Thank you. Something we talked about was how when you start to take ownership of your faith, whether that’s through deconstruction or untangling or just coming into your own, someone will be disappointed in you. Someone will be mad that you ever doubted or questioned, they will think you went too far. And someone will always think you didn’t go far enough. This constant movement of faith is often not tweetable or ‘grammable, they happen in the quiet moments or in the margins. They are not necessarily for public consumption. You will feel behind, you will feel alone, you will feel too far out. You are not. You are not. You are not.

We are 90% fully out of diapers in the Moon household as of this week, and I just want to offer a hymn of praise unto the Lord for He is good.

Shall we promenade to the treasures?

My love language is Geoffrey calling Pauline a “happy bunny.”

🍸 My lovely friend Bri McKoy posted this clementine margarita recipe for those times when you want a margarita, but are tragically out of limes - and my world is changed! Adding this to my to-make list for this weekend.

💀 For those of you participating in the Memento Mori Lent study this year, you should read this fascinating article about how the symbol of “memento mori” has been used in art over the last few centuries.

💆🏻‍♀️ My hair magician @helloimahairdresser told me about these Kristin Ess color depositing conditioners and I’m currently enjoying my lavender smoke hair (I think I’ve taken out all my pandemic angst on my hair, but it is what it is).

🤝 If you are looking for continued growth in your journey towards anti-racism, Faitth Brooks has a self-guided Ebook journal called Is Your Allyship Conditional? And other questions for white people. You can pre-order it now, and it will be officially available on March 1st!

❤️ I will be the first to admit I know almost nothing about immigration policies and reform. Let me tell you who does: Sarah Quezada. She is an excellent guide, and I’m so grateful for her public work in this area, teaching earnest dummies like myself about how and why we should care about these types of issues. If you’ve been confused by some of the recent news surrounding Biden’s immigration bill, I HIGHLY suggest checking out her story highlights and just following her!

🚶‍♀️ For my fellow Stupid Walk™ fans, please read this hilarious “letter” from an afternoon walk to you.

☕️ Instagram pushed these Milk Street coffee sugars on me hard. I recently folded like a cheap suit and decided to try them. I got the sampler, and while I like all of them (except the Coconut Ginger Cream, it’s fine just not my fave), I am definitely re-ordering the Burnt Sugar Orange Spice. S’good. I think you could technically zest an orange, get a few drops of vanilla, add some allspice and cinnamon to some sugar and blend it up all nice, if you’re more of a DIYer.

💅🏻 I’m also pretty dadgum obsessed with Olive & June’s new spring colors (specifically Lava and Pink Sands (I’m wearing Lava in the pic above). So much so that we haven’t done a fun giveaway in awhile, so if you share the newsletter today on Instagram (my apologies to those who are giving it up for Lent, I’ll do another one post-Easter!), I’ll pick one person to win a mani or a pedi set (your choice). Just make sure to tag me so I can put your name in the hat!

📚 I’m in the middle of reading about five things: NT Wright’s biography on Paul (👀), The Heiress by Molly Greeley, A Rhythm of Prayer by Sarah Bessey. Okay. That was three. Numbers are hard.

Shall we do some good tweets?

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

use too many exclamation points in an email and you sound like a maniac; use only periods and you sound like a man narrating the tale of his trip to the South Pole where the rest of the crew was devoured by some nameless thing

Sara K. Runnels @omgskr

I know I’m hot, but I also know I’m not a full-time hot person. I’m hot when I wanna be. I choose my own hours. I make my own schedule. I do freelance hotness.

Sarcastic Mommy @sarcasticmommy4

I’m not a regular Mom. I’m a “YOU BETTER DIE IN YOUR VIDEO GAME BECAUSE DINNER IS READY IN 5 MINUTES!” Mom.

Liv Stratman @livrstrat

Am I normal when I sit in bed for like 3 days while vaguely worrying that i’m supposed to be doing something important before realizing the important thing I’m not doing is live a normal existence because there’s a pandemic? Also are you mad at me? Everyone’s mad at me right

Reed Brice @thatdangdingus

we discuss the mere existence of these gals but the buried lede is now we know grimace is a full time public nudist - wild

Mike Scollins @mikescollins

There are lady grimaces. https://t.co/3L6EoQbPw4

(Side note: @LeahBSassy is a new favorite follow👇)

Sassy Seminary Student @LeahBSassy

The same men who complain about identity politics will turn around and tell me that my identity as a woman defines what I can and should do. Like baby. pick a narrative.

This comes out the day before my birthday, which I’m taking as proof God loves me and wants me to be happy:

Netflix Family @netflixfamily

Only a (few more) weeks away from the best day ever. The summer camp musical A WEEK AWAY comes to Netflix on March 26.

Dr. Francesca Lyn @francescalyn

Today I asked for a positive representation of masculinity and a student said “Kermit the frog” — they weren’t wrong but I don’t think I fully recovered 🤣

Sarah Kouba @imsarahkouba

I’m not trying to brag but I ran a 9 minute half-mile when I was in the 3rd grade.

Okay pals. Proud of you for every tiny thing you did this week to take care of yourself and take care of your people. See you in the comments.