tuesday favourites

1. Always a delight to have some tunes stuck in your head for two weeks at a time… This musical has some of the best lines and beats in the genre, and any inevitable ear-worms are worth it.
2. This gluten-free brownie recipe is becoming my go-to solution for a quick dessert. They are particularly delicious eaten straight out of the freezer (don’t ask me how I know.)
3. New towels. A small upgrade that was worth every cent I spent of my birthday money.
4. The ease of wireless earbuds while walking, cleaning, or trying not to disturb Wesley while he does online school.
5. A cute local flower truck, where I could make my own birthday bouquet.

tuesday favourites

1. A gift of sunflowers to brighten the day.

2. Our new-to-us piano.

(If I had know how much entertainment and joy it would bring, I’d have insisted on moving it in months ago!)

3. Snacks at the drive-in movie theater.

4. Catching “smocking fever” and completing other cute projects.

5. This curious little alligator coming to say hello on a country road.

6. Feeling better after a nasty bout of Covid-19.

(And thankful for breath, energy and the many family and friends who checked in on us daily.)

 

~What have you been loving lately?

tuesday favourites

1. I’ve been listening to World Magazine’s podcast while I get ready in the morning and it’s been the perfect daily dose of current events from a Christian perspective.

2. Lately, I’ve also enjoyed looking through this cozy magazine compiled by a friend. A new issue was released earlier this month with some contributed photos and writing by yours truly!

3. This hummus recipe is so much better than any other, I’m committed to it for life.  Add this lamb on top and prepare yourself for pita dipping magic.

4. I fell down an old-country rabbit hole recently and have had this song’s chorus stuck in my head every since. Which I’m not complaining about!

5. Even though I’m not really a kitchen gadget person, this milk frother has come in handy now that we’re fixing weekend coffee at home. For whipping cream, steamed milk, or this trendy dalgona drink, a little whisk can pack a lot of power!

 

What small pleasures have you been enjoying lately?

 

a resurrection soundtrack

A Week in Pictures

 

1. Fall gardening is strange enough, but trying to squirrel proof the raised beds took things to a whole other level.

2. In the midst of 90 degree weather, this shelf has become my shrine to Fall in cooler climes.

3. If I could pick one favourite plant it would be my fiddle leaf fig. And this leaf is quite possibly my favourite little part of it.

4. Wesley has been blessed with job after job this summer. Many nights we eat late suppers together and I’m thankful for both the crazy and coziness of this season.

5. Flat fields and low, stormy clouds are some of my favourite things about this town. It sometimes truly feels like I could touch the sky!

Be It Ever So Humble

 

A charm from the sky
Seems to hallow us there
Which seek thro’ the world
Is ne’er met with elsewhere

 

 

 

 

Tuesday Favourites

1. Ok,ok. Blueberry cake donuts from Krispy Kreme.
2. Wisteria, which has been blooming alongside azalea bushes and pear trees in a perfect pollen storm the last few weeks.
3. Note cards and snail mail.
4. This muesli, which is a million times better than granola.
5. I’m still happily on my house plant kick these days. Since I’ve kept everything alive so far, next on the list is a rubber plant.
6. Goodreads. It’s the perfect app to track finished books, rate them, and keep a list of titles I want to read in the future.
7. The amazing, all purpose and wonderful smelling Dr. Bronner’s.
8. A little walk in the late afternoon, just enough to sleep well.

xo

 

Valentine’s and a Visit

Love is the purple sky of a preschooler’s painting. Not what you expected. Just want you want.

It was the size of this recent visit. The vacation I didn’t know I needed. Friendship in my own home.

Come again soon, precious ones.

Tuesday Favourites

1. Apple cider in the morning.
2. This book, which blew my mind this month.
3. Consider the Stars, the best kind of lullaby.
4. Learning my American presidents thanks to this podcast.
5. Diffusing lemon, peppermint and lavender oil.
6. Ricola cough drops. The real life savers.
7. Green lights.
8. The cold weather that has finally arrived!
9. Cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds.
10. A true picture book gem.

 

26 Things for 26

Hey. This is for this year.

1. please procrastinate bathroom cleaning less
2. learn to make a killer hot sauce
3. volunteer
4. be friendlier to your literal neighbours
5. become a green card holder
6. say yes more quickly
7. find a piano to play
8. pray without ceasing
9. see a snake
10. trust God about money
11. go skating!
12. learn the Lord’s delight
13. go on more walks
14. practice the art of NotNagging
15. wear your glasses BEFORE the headache starts
16. trust God about money
17. buy more plants
18. read books that you simply love
19. listen harder than you talk
20. go to bed earlier on week nights
21. buy some blank canvases
22. speak Truth, not just the easy stuff
23. become a compost expert
24. give thanks
25. speak more words of affirmation
26. eat a quince