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This weekend is filled with parties celebrating my five-year-old! Enjoy these fun links I’ve found around the web this week. Diving into trying to understand my succulents and make them thrive! (and hopefully propagating some of them will help!) Interesting way Jane Austen edited her novels. Excited to make tons of these for quick breakfasts before school (which generally means… Read More
It’s August! This month is going to be crazy with Drew’s birthday, school starting, and all the fun things we’re going to try to cram into the last two weeks of summer. I’m excited to get back into the swing of things, and set some goals that will pack a punch! July Wrap-up Finish a weaving. Run/Visit the Gym 3x a… Read More
It’s almost time for the weekend again. I have plans for no plans at all (maybe lots of reading)—and I’m really looking forward to it. Here are some fun reads from around the web. Have you seen Elise’s one second every day project? I love it. Hoping to fit this craft project in before the summer’s over. This Instagram makes me… Read More
Around here: I’m ordering backpacks and gathering school supplies, and preparing myself for TWO school orientations. Around here: We’re getting all our library books read (and reading loved ones from our shelves). Around here: We’re starting new lunch traditions, soon to change to dinner traditions when school starts. Around here: We’re squeezing in all the last minute swimming that we can…. Read More
There are some days that require a little more inspiration than others. There are two slim books that I always turn to when I’m feeling a little low in the inspiration department. Ksenia Anske’s Sparrow books. Ksenia Anske has taken her (very) inspirational tweets on writing and reading and combined them all into two volumes: Blue Sparrow and Blue Sparrow… Read More
I’ve been really trying hard to be active more during the week. The days when I’m up early working, and then crashing in the afternoon—instead of crashing, I’ve been trying to get up and move. Sitting is said to be the new smoking. I’m doing everything in my power to stay healthy (and not . . .smoke?) Here are a… Read More
Warning: The Girl From Everywhere will have you planning an impromptu trip to Hawaii (it also may give you an overwhelming desire to collect maps)! In her debut offering, Heidi Heilig introduces us to Nix—a girl who has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, Temptation. Taking a map, adding a dash of belief they steer their ship through… Read More