🐷 Lil Treasures #95: Taxi Gardens and a Baby Boar
Also, parenting during COVID and the ketchup hospital.
Happy Friday, Lil Swipes! We have officially transitioned into fall. Can you feel it? Can you smell it? This morning when I woke up it was in the 50’s, and I’m not sure what Alabama is doing this early in the season but I’m very pleased.
How do you feel when the seasons transition? I love pretty much everything about fall, except that it acts as a precursor to winter. I really struggle with the time change and the dormancy that winter holds. Don’t get me wrong, I adore hibernation - but so much of winter can make me feel trapped. Things outside begin to look bare and lifeless, and it’s hard not to feel that way inside at times too. I find myself this year especially looking ahead with dread, afraid that this winter will hold the bleakness and dreariness that we experienced last year. Winter is characteristically dark, but these months marked by the pandemic have a different kind of weariness associated with them. For now, it is still Fall! So, I’ll try to cling to the hope I see around me - the delight I feel at the tree in my front yard changing colors, the satisfaction in rallying other middle school parents to start a cheering section, the peace in my heart when I pull into my new driveway and know it is ours. There’s a lot going on around us and more that will happen ahead, but I’m trying to stop and find the goodness around me. Mini-treasures, if you will. What makes you hopeful today?
Okay, we’ve got lots of treasures this week! Let’s go!
📚 The lovely and brilliant @marikoclark is writing a progressive Bible for kids called The Book of Belonging and I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy! It will be an updated story Bible for “modern and mindful kids” with emphasis on diversity, women, and the beautiful stories contained in the Bible. The cover and the illustrations themselves already look so beautiful! In order for the book to get funded, Marri needs another 799 people (800 included myself) to pre-order. You can read more about The Book of Belonging and pre-order your copy here!
🦠 With a rulebook that seems to be ever-changing, figuring out how to parent best and keep my kids safe during COVID-19 has been a real doozy. It feels like each week I’ve finally learned the steps to this dance and then the routine is changed and I’m stumbling again. This article in the New York Times highlights this struggle we’ve all been facing as parents.
🍪 Autumn has officially begun, and I’m saving every fall recipe that comes across my feed. First on the baking list is a toss between either these divine-looking autumn spice crinkledoodles or these chewy brown sugar maple cookies 🤤 If you have some good fall recipes, post them in the comments!
🌙 We are still in the process of unpacking and getting settled into the new Lunar Module (our house) and purchasing important items such as “shower curtains” and “garbage bags” and things of this nature. Apparently those things are necessary. I love quirky, colorful things and Urban Outfitters has provided the perfect bathmats to meet this criteria. Turns out they have more than crop-tops, guys! I bought this moon phase bath mat and it is bringing me so much joy!1
🤠 If you’ve read the book Jesus and John Wayne (highly recommend if you haven’t yet), you might be interested to read Anne Helen Peterson’s latest newsletter, where she interviewed Kristin du Mez and talked through the problem of patriarchy.
🎧 I got to talk to my friend Chad about The Babysitter’s Club (among other things) on the Hold On Podcast recently and it was so fun! If you’re looking for a good podcast hang, add it to your listening list this week.
🏆 Mayor of Easttown fans - read this lovely article all about Jean Smart!
🚕 The transportation industry has really taken a hit during the pandemic. Taxi and Uber/Lyft drivers have had to find new streams of revenue to supplement their dwindling income, or have left their jobs completely. In Thailand, some of the drivers and community members decided to take matters into their own hands, bringing purpose and life out of these parked and unused taxis through creating miniature gardens on the car rooftops! They have been able to enjoy and even sell some of the produce, which does not make up for the loss in income, but certainly does help to some extent. I thought it was a beautiful depiction of using resources to make the best out of a really crummy situation. You can read more about these taxi gardens here!
Let’s do some Tweets!
My plans for this weekend:
That’s all for now, my friends! I look forward to reading your treasures in the comments, they always make me smile. Have a great week!
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Good morning friends!
Highlight of my week was going to a Walk the Moon concert on Monday. I was up way too late and got so many mosquito bites (it was outside and had just rained and it's Florida), but it was so worth it!!!
My husband's out of town this weekend, and I'm trying to make the most of my alone time, but also I miss him and I don't like sleeping alone!
I'm trying desperately to convince my mom to get vaccinated before Thanksgiving. She says she's open to changing her mind and said I could send her articles to convince her, so if you have any (or just any advice), please send them my way!
I haven't tried them before, but I'm making these apple cider caramels this weekend and I am PUMPED about them!
https://smittenkitchen.com/2012/10/apple-cider-caramels/
Hope you all have the best first weekend of fall available to you!
Happy Friday! Long time reader, first time commenter. 🙋🏼♀️ When it comes to fall recipes I usually make a big batch of this at home copycat version of Trader Joe’s Autumnal Alfredo Sauce.
https://www.sarcasticcooking.com/2018/10/23/autumnal-alfredo-sauce/