Currently (October 2024)

Currently it’s October 9 at 6:15 AM. I’m sitting on mother’s sofa with a softly loud night breathing Finley curled up beside me. I’m sipping coffee in a quiet home, mentally lining up my to dos for the day, peeking at my high 20 follower favorites from huge deal days, and writing to you right here. These weblog posts are a enjoyable breakdown of what life appears like categorically and in the event you’re within the spirit to share, I’d love to listen to what you’re at the moment watching, studying, and extra!

Currently (October 2024)

Currently Watching

Am I the one one not at the moment watching Nobody Wants This? Either their advertising and marketing deserves main props or everybody actually is watching it, however I’ve seen it all over the place. I’ve heard it described as romcom vibes so it’s on my brief listing to take a look at. However, proper now I’m largely watching Halloween motion pictures and Wednesday with the children. We love us some vacation themed motion pictures! We additionally completed studying The Wild Robot and went to see it within the theater. It was cute! It was very completely different from the guide and (per standard) the guide had a lot better character improvement, however the film was candy and enjoyable and we loved it.

Currently Reading

We’re all in settlement that audiobooks rely as studying, right? Excellent. In that case, I’m studying Good Energy by Casey Means. You might need heard of her; she’s the Stanford educated physician making the rounds by way of the podcast circuit speaking about complete physique well being. After studying and taking a while to digest Outlive (extremely suggest studying this one in small chunks), I used to be prepared for extra about how all our bodily methods are linked and tips on how to optimize our well being for now and sooner or later.

I’m additionally listening to the free audiobook on Audible learn fantastically by Rachel McAdams of Anne of Green Gables with the children (we’re all immensely having fun with Anne’s aptitude for the dramatic) and we’re about to start Little Women (an abridged model).

Currently Listening To

A mixture of 90’s nation, classical music, and podcasts. How is that for a mixture? My three most listened to podcasts in the mean time are Breaking Points, The Genius Life, and 1000 Hours Outside. There are a number of others within the combine, too, however on walks I’ve been Marco Polo-ing (it’s a video message app) to meet up with pals, so I haven’t listened as a lot to podcasts.

Currently Eating

• Pumpkin Chicken Chili
• Eggs, cottage cheese and tomatoes with basil, blueberries
• Fajitas with hen, steak, refried beans, lettuce, sauteed bell peppers, bitter cream, guacamole, and recent oregano
• Vegetable Barley Soup
• Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stew (I exploit the identical methodology for pot roast and beef stew- beef stew model is once I simply reduce the meat into massive chunks earlier than cooking, omit the cream of mushroom soup, and add beef bone broth as a substitute)

Currently Planning

A transfer! We are a pair weeks away at this level of transferring into the brand new home and it’s getting very thrilling. There is rather a lot to coordinate since we at the moment having full storage unit again in North Carolina and in Greenville, in addition to the gadgets we’ve right here at mother’s home. Additionally we are attempting to determine when is one of the best time to buy a couple of new gadgets for supply. Several have a time-frame supply span from per week earlier than we shut to 2 weeks after we shut so it’s tough to string that needle on timing to attempt to get it as shut to simply after we transfer in as doable. It’s all bringing good vitality although; we are able to’t imagine we’ll really be getting to maneuver into this residence we’ve been watching come to life over the previous 12 months.

Currently Drinking

Quite a mixture of issues. Coffee with half and half within the morning, adopted by my every day LMNT, adopted by water, adopted by a cup of Trader Joe’s Harvest Blend sizzling tea, adopted by pre-workout and extra water, after which generally adopted by a glass of pink wine.

In the Market for

A mattress. We hadn’t deliberate on switching out our main bedroom arrange, however quite a lot of circumstances now has us doing so. I’ve spent loads of time these days headboards, testing mattresses, researching sheets, and so on. I’ve splurged on Boll & Branch bedding for the primary time after listening to so many rave opinions and am actually hoping it’s as wonderful as I’ve heard! The mattress itself has been tripping me up essentially the most. I can’t resolve if I like wooden, upholstered, or a mixture of the 2. I’m open to suggestions on this if in case you have any. Currently I’m leaning in direction of this look under (simply the mattress itself)- ideas? Our partitions within the new bed room are painted Magnetic Gray if that helps.

Currently Looking Forward to

Family time! The ladies and I get to see Mema and Grandpa tonight after which subsequent week we’re happening a household journey with mother, Kris, Cara, and my nieces. We normally do that in summer time, however opted for fall this 12 months and I’m very a lot wanting ahead to some enjoyable and catching up with everybody. David is touring all this week and can meet us on Friday; I can’t wait!

That’s all I’ve for now. Time to take Finley on her morning sniffari, get the ladies up, and begin our day. Thanks for making my weblog part of your day; I hope it’s one!