The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah was the July pick for my neighborhood book club. I finished it almost a month ago, and I’ve been meaning to do a full review on here for our Regular Folks book club! I think I’ve read one other Kristin Hannah book before (The Nightingale), but it was honestly so long ago that I…
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Happy Friday! This volume of Friday Favorites is so all over the place– but I guess that’s the purpose of it right? 🙂 Let’s jump right in to the things I have been loving recently: Smoothie Popsicles for Theo Theo has been teething quite a bit and he must have one that has been bothering him a bit more than…
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When I was just 1 week postpartum I started breaking out in a hives rash on my chest and neck (and eventually arms and face) every time I was breastfeeding my baby. When you are a new mom, just gave birth a week ago, are dealing with a newborn, trying to figure out breastfeeding, and just trying to make sure…
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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…
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These dill pickles are THE BEST. My mom has been begging me to make her more of these pickles, and now that we have some cucumbers growing, it was dill pickle time! They are so easy to make, no canning required. If I am getting store-bought pickles, Grillo’s Pickles are my favorite, but they are a little bit pricey. These…
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The historic Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia has been on my list of domestic travel destinations for probably 6 or 7 years now. Finally, we were able to go for my birthday in March this year, and it made for an absolutely perfect birthday weekend! It’s nestled in the Virginia mountains– almost in West Virginia– and is a…
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I recently tried my hand at preserving my garden’s huge abundance of cilantro by drying out the fresh cilantro in the oven. A lot of my cilantro was beginning to bolt with the warmer weather so I knew that time was running out to use up the cilantro. Just look at all this harvest! Although this looks like a ton…
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About a million years ago, I used to weekly (if not semi-regularly) post my Friday Favorites on here. Recipes, music, Amazon finds, just random things in general! I’m not going to hold myself to the standard of reviving the Friday Favorites to every week, but I do think I will start doing it more regularly again! Peppermint tea with lemon…
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I recently read This Time Tomorrow which I picked for my neighborhood book club that I am a part of. It was the first book that I chose for book club and was so nervous that it was going to turn out to be bad and everyone was going to hate it. Luckily, I ended up liking the book and…
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