🐶 Lil Treasures #77: Doga and Punk Rock Nuns
Beloveds! I hope you’ve had a great week. I feel like this:
I mean I know to some degree we all feel that way but I’m finding it difficult to adjust to the world opening up. Plus lots of emotions over here with the eldest finishing up elementary school next week.
However, as always, we have some treasures and tweets. I hope you like them. I brought them all together for you!
🧘 I found this account on Instagram of a woman and her dog doing yoga together (“doga”) and now I can’t stop watching!
🦆 Speaking of pets - if you haven’t already seen the video of a little girl cuddling with a duck, please do so here. When she says “he wants to watch cartoons with me” in her tiny accent, I was done for.
🎨 My incredibly talented friend Laurel-Dawn Latshaw is an amazing artist (I have a few pieces she created) and she is about to release a collection specifically curated for dad’s/golf lovers called “Eighteen Holes”. I feel like she just solved my Father’s Day stress honestly. If you want to check out the collection or any of the other dreamy work, you can visit her page here!
💀 The New York Times posted an article about a “punk rock” nun named Sister Alethiea, and I’m thinking she should have been the poster child for the Memento Mori. She says in the article: “remembering death keeps us awake, focused, and ready for whatever might happen — both the excruciatingly difficult and the breathtakingly beautiful.” Read the rest of her story and her view on living in the reality of death and suffering here.
📚 This piece of very good news:
And finally, take the time out of your day to spend watching Viola Fletcher testify about the Tulsa race massacre. She is 107 and still fighting hard for justice.
Thank you for keeping the comment section going while I continue to work. I’m hoping to dip in later today, but will definitely this weekend. Can’t wait to read what you’re loving!
Happiest of Fridays my lovely Lil Swipes!
It's my 10 year wedding anniversary today, so I thought I'd share some reflections:
If you can, have delicious bbq at your wedding. It's what you'll be remembered for, you'll feel badass eating it in your wedding dress, and if your spouse was the one who picked it, they will feel adorably smug forever.
Get you several signature gifs that communicate specific emotions. We use the Justin Timberlake looking exasperated one heavily over here.
Find something you both really enjoy, and go all in on it. We both like fondue, but paying for the Melting Pot wasn't in the cards for a couple 23 year olds going to grad school, so we decided to figure out how to make our own. Now our Valentine's Day dinner is the absolute best meal of the year.
Go to bed mad. It's totally ok. If you have kids, they'll most likely wake up early and cause you to forget what you were fighting about in solidarity about getting the coffee made.
Watch at least a few shows together. Then you can use terms like "faffing around" all the time and you won't have to explain it to your partner, they'll just know Chris Traeger wants you to stop messing about and help with the dishes.
In conclusion, I'm super happy Bennifer is a thing again, because my husband and I got together at the height of Bennifer 1.0, and our nickname was the best.
Benjanda Forever!!!
Hello to my favorite internet gang in all the land!
This week was a sort of mixed bag, but I think that is generally just life. Monday was such a traumatic day that I genuinely cannot remember all that went down. I have stuffed it down and covered it with feelings food. It’ll come back later to haunt me but that’s fine.
I also wanted to update you on the chick fil a sauce crisis. As a reminder three of my six kids work at CFA. They have plenty of sauce, I repeat they have PLENTY of sauce. They do not have cups to package the sauce in. My older son has worked there for 5 years and has never been sworn at by a customer. All three of my kids were sworn at by three different people over the sauce shortage in the same week!
We finally reached a sort of an end of my sons case. Despite being the victim of an internet predator who groomed him and victimized him, my son was also charged with a misdemeanor. Because the laws have not caught up with the technology. It’s unjust in all the ways you can imagine. It’s also unjust in ways you cannot imagine. He is being treated as a victim in some ways, the state paying for trauma therapy. In other ways he is treated as a criminal, charged with a crime. As the victim who needs an attorney one was not provided. My husband and I needed to get him one which was $7000. Otherwise he would’ve been charged with a felony as the victim. He is required to continue therapy, do community service and now has a probation officer to check in with. At the end of this his record will be cleared. But I just want to highlight the ways the Juvenile court system is broken. Not everyone has access to $7000 to protect their child’s future- we barely did. It took work to scrape that together. We were given the option to “buy” his way out of community service-by donating to the nonprofit he’ll be working for. Again not everyone can do that. We will not be buying his way out. While we know he is the victim we have decided not to feed into that broken system. I am daily aware of our privilege, but this was a glaring magnifying glass on it. It will take some time to recover the money but the fact is we can. This is not the case for everyone and that’s heartbreaking. God has been so good to us and his goodness continues. I have never felt more like emotional soup than I have over this but my lil swipes hold me and their hold is strong, unending and judgement free. They have become woven bits of my soul.
In cheerful news Hank and Waylon have started planning ways to trick their sisters into buying them CFA and other treats! It’s the funniest thing that I should discourage but it cracks me up!! Also Hank fell asleep before bath time last night and HE REALLY needed one. We over slept this morning so did I spray my five year old with Axe body spray?! Yes, yes I did!
Much love to my favorite internet gang in all the land!
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