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July 7, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Friday Favorites: Volume XXXV

Favorite Things

Look at us! Getting out another volume of Friday Favorites! Hopefully I can keep up this momentum for a while but not holding myself to getting it out EVERY Friday, may help 🙂 If there is something that y’all want to see more of, feel free to comment or send me a DM on Instagram!

Stylus for iPad

I got this iPad stylus pencil for my iPad recently and its been so great! I’ve just been doing little things on Canva (hopefully I’ll finish up some fun projects I have in the works very soon). It’s under $30 as opposed to the $80-$90 for the Apple Pencil. The stylus just makes it a little bit easier for things like Canva.

HIMYM

I’ve been watching How I Met Your Father on Hulu and it’s…..OK. Garrett and I LOVED watching How I Met Your Mother when we were in college. We were watching How I Met Your Father the other day and we started questioning whether or not How I Met Your Mother is still funny and if it holds up. So we started re-watching it, and YES, it is still funny and so good. I forgot how much I enjoyed it. It’s such a great show!

HEMPZ Lotion

My sister has been telling me about how much she loves this lotion for YEARS. A few months ago, I saw Megan Stokes posting about it on Instagram but specifically mentioning that this scent, Floral and Banana, deters bugs. Now that sold me. It’s been so humid and buggy here in Charlotte, so I went and got the tiny travel bottle at Ulta to see if it works. I have yet to have a bug bite this year!

Levi’s 501 Shorts

Amazon has like 30+ different color options for these shorts and some of them (depending on the color) are under $30 right now! They are normally $60. I have these two-toned ones and I love them!

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Finding denim shorts that fit just right are hard to find and these fit the bill!

Zucchini Bread

We grow zucchini in our garden every year and always end up with a crazy abundance. When we came back from Duck a couple weeks ago I had one zucchini that was so huge it was comical. I wasn’t certain if it was even going to be tasty  as I’ve heard that when they get really big, that they become a bit bitter. I tasted some of it though, and it did not seem weird to me, plus I figured if I put it in something like zucchini bread, the nutmeg and cinnamon would cover it anyway.

I used this recipe from Sally’s Baking Recipes, and it was SO good. I clearly didn’t take any good photos of it though lol

The ONE zucchini (and I didn’t even use the entire thing– it was more like 2/3 of the zucchini) was enough for me to QUADRUPLE THE RECIPE!!! It was so much zucchini bread that I was giving it away to friends haha

Currently reading: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

I’m currently reading The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah for neighborhood book club and really enjoying it! Book club meets tomorrow though, so I need to pull it together and finish it 😉 I’m thinking about writing a post on this one for our Regular Folks book club.

I’m also listening to an audio-book called No-Drama discipline. I’m really enjoying it so far. It’s basically a gentle parenting book but not a permissive parenting book. The main idea so far is to connect with your child before you lecture, try to compromise with them, or do anything else. The reasoning behind this is that if your kid is acting out, they probably are struggling with something, and you connecting with them will make them more receptive to anything you do after. Theo isn’t even 1 year old, so its a bit early for discipline, I’m just taking in a lot of these different parenting books right now to prepare myself haha

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