Friday Favorites

Happy Friday, friends!  I hope you've had a good week.  

This week felt kind of long so we're excited for a three day weekend to rest and relax.  We had some fun highlights.  Olive got named Student of the Month for her class.  She goes to a big school so anytime she gets a special shout out feels really special.  Fletcher has been working on improving his air soft gun skills with Kevin in the evenings.  And Leo was thrilled that our Bible Study resumed this week so he could get back to seeing his favorite friends and teachers.

Did you catch my blog posts this week?

Preteen Parenting: Episode 6 Host Their Friends

Building Kid's Kitchen Confidence

S'more Treats

Now onto the favorite moments of the week:

1. Fall/Winter clothes are my favorite.  Give me all the layers, scarves, good hoops and jewel tones.  I reorganized my scarf collection and am eager to show you more outfit ideas with scarves this year.

2. Trash Day Helper.  Leo decided that he's big enough and strong enough to help me pull in the trash cans on trash day.  He's a good helper.  He loves to stop and talk to anyone that might be walking by while taking care of the trash.  He tells them that their puppies are so cute, tells them he's taking care of the trash and tells anyone that will listen about his fast new shoes.

3. Winter Storm Prepping.  We're expecting some really cold temps and winter weather in Indiana starting today so we headed to Sams to stock up on all the things.  We grabbed extra snacks, fruits, veggies, easy dinners and my favorite bag of Dark Chocolate Crunch pretzels.  They're so good!

4. New semester!  I baked Kevin his favorite cake to celebrate the kick off of a new semester for him.  Homemade Buttermilk Cake with loads of icing is his favorite way to celebrate.

5. Cat guy.  As Leo is approaching his 4th birthday, the cats are warming up to him.  I kept finding them snuggling together all week long.  Hooray!

6. Sick day.  Olive was home from school for a day this week and I'm not sure who loved the extra snuggles more - Leo or Olive.

7. Find mom.  Sit on mom. is back!  Leo has been asking to snuggle in the mornings and I'm thrilled about it.

8. Thrifting finds.  I hit one of my favorite local thrift shops to shop this week and found some treasures.  I grabbed these shoes and flannel for Olive.  They seemed quirky and cute and right up her alley.  Then I grabbed this vintage vegetable basket for my pantry.  I tried on some clothes for myself and am so glad I did - I didn't like either item once I had it on.  I spent $13 and came away with 3 treasures!

It's the perfect happy container to hold our bread.

9. Flamingo Leo.  He's been doing a flamingo pose any time he finds anything he can perch himself on.  It cracks me up.  I'm not sure what has sparked his interest in flamingos, but I love it.  I also look forward to having lunch at the counter with him each day.

10. Kitty snuggles.  Penny loves to be cuddled and she's especially excited when she gets held like a baby.  It's my favorite.  Now that it's winter you'll find her napping on heating vents and sleeping in stacks of blankets to stay warm.

11. My kids love these egg carton meals.  I save egg cartons and then surprise them with lunch in an egg carton from time to time.  It's a great way to use up all the last bits of food in your fridge and pantry.  Then I just toss the egg cartons after we use them once.  My 3, 7 and 10 year old all really enjoy these meals.

12. Frosty sunrises.  The kids haven't been sleeping great and keep ending up sleeping in various spots all over the house.  That means I'm not sleeping great.  I spent the night on the couch one night and woke up to the prettiest sunrise.  I wouldn't have seen it from my room.

Have a great weekend!  I'll see you back here on Tuesday!

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