✈️ Lil Treasures #76: Flight Anxiety and Bennifer 2.0
Hey pals! I hope you’ve had a great week. As a reminder, Lil Treasures is taking a working vacation while I complete my next project, which is why it’s short in length (but full in heart). Thank you for sticking around even when I have to press pause. It means a lot to me.
🗣️ Need your morning cup of tea? The writing in this HBO sketch called The Last Supp-her is absolutely brilliant and hilarious. When they tell her Jesus gives away the fishes and loaves for free…
🗑 My friend Tara at House Peace came to my house last Friday and made my laundry room + pantry magically organized! The way my granola bars are so beautifully lined up. Gah its so good. It is now therapeutic to walk in there, and no longer stressful. Have you done this kind of organizing before? You can watch Tara’s story highlight, complete with lots of background noise from Cyrus & Ben, here!
✈️ Y’all this interview with Megan Fox about flying made me laugh so hard. If you have flight anxiety please indulge yourself and watch it.
🤝 Yesterday a few of you banded together on Instagram to rally behind my friend who needed help with her phone bill. Her need was met and then some! I was in awe of how eagerly you guys stepped in to help her. It showed me - once again - that this is the most amazing and generous community out there! THANK YOU! If you missed out on the opportunity yesterday, you can always check out the We Got You Club spreadsheet - there are some folks on there in need of some rallying as well (or if you have a need or a special skill set that might help meet a need, you can list that too!)
This week’s good good tweets:
Okay friends! Can’t wait to see what you’re loving this week! See you in the comments!
Fridaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Friends, I'm so glad it's Friday and the weather in Chicagoland is clear and finally getting warmer.
Treasures:
🌳My kids and I went to a local nature preserve yesterday and it was so wonderfully peaceful. I foresee us going back a LOT.
🥔We had tater tots with dinner and my son called them "tater TOPS" with such gusto that now that's what they'll be called forever.
🦆All the ducks and geese around our pond are having babies and I just love how they go for their walks every day. The babies are so fuzzy and cluttered, stumbling over each other, and the mamas always have a sense of calm that I am truly jealous of when I see them.
🔥I finished reading the Throne of Glass series and now I am deep in a reading rut. What do I even read next?!
❤️My sister is coming to visit for a week and I CANNOT wait! She just finished her first year in college and we haven't seen her in over a year. I just want to hug her for an hour but also casually use some gen z slang to try and appear hip.
👩❤️💋👨It's mine and my husband's 10 year anniversary next Friday! And since my sister will be here we are GOING. OUT. TO. DINNER! It'll be the first time we've been out on a date since before my youngest was born. Friends, that's over 17 months, whaaaat. Also, we have no clue what to purchase for a fun gift to ourselves, so please share frivolous couple gifts if you have suggestions.
Y'all, I'm fully waxed and vaxxed, who in the Chicago area wants to hang out?! I AM READY, LET'S GO.
Good morning, sweet friends. I hope everyone had as good of a week as they felt capable of. 🙂 I’m feeling pretty exhausted this morning after spending the day yesterday at chemo with Chance. I feel so incredibly grateful for the ability to show up in person for her and I will be back to support her again during her ongoing treatment, but the emotional output of a day spent watching someone fight with, for, and against her body was not quite what I was expecting. I know some of it is that Chance hits whatever small mothering instinct I do have, and seeing someone who has had such a hard life knocked down by another hard thing feels incredibly sad and unfair. But I also think I was overcome by being in a room of women who were all fighting to stay alive. The weight of all the life/death/aging/dying things felt heavy on me. Those of you who have weathered cancer, either personally or with family members, how did you deal with the rollercoaster of emotion? And how do you keep it from being about yourself when the emotions feel too big? I feel bad even talking about my own feelings here since this process is about Chance.
Ready for some whiplash? Here’s a quick left turn: after the exhaustion and weight of yesterday, today is the happiest day because I will finally get my hair done by my guy in Fort Wayne. When I lived down here, I had the BEST hair guy and, despite moving back to Michigan, have continued to go to his salon when I come see my friends (I only need a cut/color every 3-4 months due to my long hair, so it works). Enter Covid and I have not been to see him since November of 2019. But today...today we will be reunited. And my hair will finally feel normal again after a year and a half of being good enough but not great. God bless hair dressers. They are the unsung heroes of the Appearance Olympics.
I hope you all have a wonderful Friday and weekend. Next Friday is my birthday, so that means Birthday Week activities start this weekend for me. 🙂 I am someone who believes that life is worth celebrating all the time, but I feel that poignantly after yesterday. I hope you do, too. For all of its sometimes-ugliness, life IS worth celebrating. ❤️ Love you guys.