🧑🚀 Lil Treasures #86: Going to Space and Olympics Prep
Happy Friday! You made it! I am over the moon excited today because The Olympics are finally here! So looking forward to all your treasures this week.
🤳 This poem called “Like Every Selfie” from the Common Hymnal is really sitting with me this week (in a good way).
🪲 Hulu just released a 6 episode series on Paul McCartney and it looks very intriguing! Adding it to my post-Olympics watch list.
🤝 One of our Lil Swipes, Shelby, has a dear friend who lost her husband in a terrible car accident. She is now facing a mountain (around $1,000,000) of medical debt in the midst of grieving the loss of her husband and recovering from the trauma of the accident herself. Here’s the link to her GoFundMe if you’d like to come alongside her and help! And if you’re looking for more ways you can extend a hand right now, check out the We Got You Club.
🏅Part of your Olympics prep today (before the Opening Ceremonies tonight!) is to read this article from Time magazine highlighting 48 athletes you should keep tabs on at the Olympic games. Also, allow yourself to feel all the feels and excitement by watching this video of #TeamUSA journeying to Tokyo. And lastly, for extra credit, don’t forget about the very adorable National Baby Trials.
👪 For the parents out there - this post has some really helpful tips to help explore Bible stories with your kids. Lots of wisdom here that I’m tucking away for later!
The gold medal tweets from this week:
🧘 GOD BLESS U ADRIENNE
completely nerding out over this:
All credit to Lily for this masterpiece!
Alright, guys - that’s it for me! Be safe out there and enjoy the Opening Ceremonies tonight, hopefully accompanied by some Japanese-themed snacks. Let me know what you’re doing to celebrate in the comments!
Erin, thank you so much for sharing about McKenna. If anyone has sent money over venmo, all the money has been forwarded to her mom. She hasn’t had time to look through her venmo yet but I can’t wait until I am able to tell her about my internet friends that cared for her. ♥️ McKenna had her fifth surgery yesterday - in less than two weeks - and it was to put pins in her foot to help it heal after the break. She has a long road ahead.
In other news - some very exciting job stuff - on Monday, I finally decided that I would put in my two weeks at work (at the latest) by mid August. It is just too stressful and too awful to justify staying. My husband was supportive and my parents agreed it was the best decision. It felt like a huge weight was taken off my shoulders even after just *deciding* to leave. Yesterday afternoon, I got a call from the owner of the store I love working at (who is also my podcast partner!) It’s complicated to explain but basically she wanted my permission to recommend me for an amazing position that would allow me to work 30 hours a week and still make more money than I do working 40 right now. It would allow us to finally start the podcast running and I would essentially be managing a new Salt & Honey location. Nothing is for sure yet, but I am so, so hopeful for the first time in a long time.
I’m excited to see how your weeks have gone. Thank you for all your kind words and prayers for McKenna - she’s the closest thing I’ve had to a sister. I got all of her hand-me-downs, for heavens sake.
💼 Hey everyone! Today I go to the office and come to terms with the fact that I am about to accept a promotion that God made me take even though I tried to avoid it for several months. My boss took another job earlier this year. When he left, I briefly thought about applying before deciding I did not need the extra stress of supervising a bunch of full time employees and dealing with the other bureaucratic/political drama of community college admin. Also I have 3 kids under 4. So I did not apply. They hired someone else — who backed out the weekend before he was supposed to start for “his dream job.” So they had to repost the job. I thought about it again. I decided AGAIN not to apply. A week after the position was supposed to close, I asked the hiring manager how the second pool of applicants was looking. He was not encouraged. Re-posting a positions scares people off. And so, 2 weeks ago, I updated my resume for the first time in almost 3 years at midnight and applied to this terrifying amount of responsibility. I’m leaving out a lot of other details, but I knew God was leaving this door open until I stepped in. So I had an interview Wednesday and an offer with my goal salary yesterday. It’s kind of wild, but I’m feeling less terrified and less imposter-y. So y’all can pray for me as I step into this next role of being someone’s (like 16-22 people’s) boss.
👩🏼💼 Send me any resources on how to be a good boss!
✅ Also if you work in higher ed/academic advising and want to move to Bryan, TX, I have an assistant director and program manager position to fill and I need quality people like Lil Swipes!
💎 Treasures: starting marriage counseling and being told “well y’all are way ahead of the game,” watching Tombstone for the first time and realizing it wasn’t a boring black and white movie from the 30s, Dove dark chocolate raspberry sorbet bars, Never Have I Ever season 2, and texting with the other working moms in my life.