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💛 A long Easter weekend with my family
💛 Luthien & Gracie (my sister‘s dog)
💛 Mushroom hunting with my dad & my niece
💛 Easter nests
💛 Fresh asparagus
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Overflowing with joy from this past weekend!
My niece Jolene turned 4 & had a princess tea party to celebrate! 👑🫖
My parents came to visit for the occasion & Lewis cooked a feast on Sunday while we played outside in the sunshine.
My present to Jo was her own wooden tea set which she wanted to paint immediately.
I also was able to give my dad his belated Christmas present, some new custom Spider-Man shoes that I painted
Happy #5JoysFriday ☺️ This week seemed to fly by! @DebinHawaii
1. Lunch at a great new Mexican place 😋
2. Love being back to regular aerial practice again
3. Met up with my sister's bookclub at the new all romance bookstore. Fun people and a great store!
4. Many bookstore trips for the Charlotte Book Crawl! It's so fun but I always buy too many books 🫣
5. Took a chance on a mystery book that turned out to be one I wanted 🎉
💛 I planted a couple broccoli and an early tomato plant.
💛 My strawberries are blooming & violets are popping up all over my yard.
💛 The tulips are beautiful! 🌷
💛 The pets! Luthien ran for miles yesterday, and LaGata got some snuggle time.
💛 It‘s Easter weekend and our spring break for school.
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It‘s been a good but busy week and weekend.
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Joy doesn‘t seem like a big enough word for me this week…
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A day late this week, but still worth acknowledging
💛 A weekend with my family
💛 Helping Dad clean up a field and burn brush piles
💛 Plants continuing to green up and bloom for spring, even if it‘s turned cooler again
💛 Fixing my dishwasher
💛 Pets, of course
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My #5JoysFriday are from our recent camping trip in Georgia. I got to read most of my book in front of the fire. We went hiking to Brasstown Bald, the highest point in GA, and also trekked to a few nearby waterfalls. We saw a huge snapping turtle in the lake of the park we were staying at. The trip was a meetup for my husband's Coleman lantern collector's group, so we got to visit with them. Spotted a few new birds in the mornings!
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#5joysFriday Hard hard week at work so I‘ve got to think really hard on this one.
1) attending a friend‘s award ceremony for her book
2) even though I‘m 57, Mom @Doll8455 still checks up on me 🥰
3) going to my daughter‘s induction into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society this morning
4) it‘s close to only 1 month before son comes home from college for the summer
5) I may be close to hiring a new paralegal (my previous one retired)
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💛 Pets!
💛 Our HS quiz bowl team placed second in their conference tournament.
💛 My daffodils are blooming!
💛 Wild ramps are coming up.
💛 A weekend with my family
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1&2. My husband had to work over the weekend so I took the day to get a pedicure and eat at my favorite Mexican restaurant on my own 😋
3. Perfect weather for reading out on the porch 🍃
4. Sally is also loving the warmer weather 🐶
5. Browsing the library after work
Happy #5JoysFriday! ? @DebinHawaii
1. Jolene asked me to do her hair when I visited and she was so delighted with her "Anna braids" ?❄️
2. My newest comfort rewatch show, Parks and Rec
3. Virtual book chat with some online friends ?
4. Flowers blooming along the driveway ?
5. Trees in bloom everywhere! (Even though the pollen is killing my allergies ?)
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Happy Friday, everyone! If you‘re reading this, consider yourself tagged. 😃
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1. I was complaining about lack of shelf space one night & the next morning my husband cleared off one of his random shelves for me. That's love, y'all
2. A couple friend of ours gifted me this gorgeous cat blanket just because! My husband also received one with a D&D style dungeon map on it. They know us both so well
3. Game night with said couple friend
4. The kitties, always
5.The anticipation of waiting for book mail
Here are just a few of the many joys we experienced on our Caribbean cruise this week! 🏝️
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I'm terrible at posting my #5JoysFriday ...on Friday 😅
1. Costco trips with the nibling. Her love of berries is adorable 🍓
2. I don't talk about Sally enough. She's the best dog ever and I love her enthusiasm whenever we return home 🐕
3. Harry the local heron sighting at the pond!
4. Reading while covered in cats 😹
5. Been reading two amazing ebooks this week that I haven't wanted to put down! 📚
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Bonus joy ⬇️
💛 Sourdough cheeseburger focaccia
💛 Enjoying a HS conference band concert
💛 My team had 2 mostly successful nights of matches to start their Scholar Bowl/Quiz Bowl season!
💛 The pets, featuring LaGata this week
💛 A Friday night out for supper with friends
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1. I bought a new (to me) car!! It's hard to tell in the picture but it's a beautiful blue color, my favorite 🩵
2. First jonquil blooms and signs of spring 🌱
3. Cat cuddles 😻
4. Catching up with an old friend who is planning her wedding! So happy for her 💒
5. Lewis, always ❤️
My photos are a bit food centric this week, but there were lots of joyful things.
💛 I went to town for a few groceries and tried a new to me local place for supper, and it was delicious.
💛 I made sourdough oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies to have in the freezer.
💛 Luthien ran for hours and came home happy but muddy.
💛 I made a strawberry cake for a carry-in meal at school.
💛 We had a full week of school!
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💛 A long weekend full of pets and books
💛 Baking on cold, snowy days
💛 Getting caught up on grading
💛 Simple snack lunches of sausage, cheese, and crackers
💛 Reliable heat during cold weeks
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1. Book mail 📚
2. We ate at our fav little Mexican place on Valentine's Day & they gave everyone carnations 🌸
3. Car shopping this past weekend was a bust but I got some good reading time in the car 🚗
4. Ben experiencing bubbles after my bath 🫧
5. It snowed a little this week (rare here in NC) & there was a moment at work where we all went to watch the snow fall out the front windows that felt magical & child-like ❄️
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1. We bought a new mattress and it is glorious! 😴
2. Oakley tried a paste treat for the first time, it was hilarious to watch 😹
3. Arthur's new favorite nap spot is in a basket of clean laundry - adorable if frustrating lol 🧺
4. Mental health day + Jane Austen 🎬
5. After rewatching the Good Place for the nth time I was sad it was over until I remembered the Good Place Podcast & have been relistening to it during work
Just realized I never posted last week‘s #5JoysFriday ! But it‘s never too late for joy, right? 😘
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💛 I spent a day with my family cutting up pork and making sausage.
💛 I canned pork, pork broth, and peach BBQ sauce.
💛 One of the jars of pork didn‘t seal, so I got to try it in a carnitas taco.
💛 My math classroom door is decorated for February.
💛 The pets, of course
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1. The kitties being cute as always 😻
2. Shopping dates with old friends 👯♀️
3. Finding a cute new shirt/overall outfit I'm obsessed with 💃🏼
4. Doctors that listen to you ❤️🩹
5. Getting back to a milestone in aerial class 💪🏼
1. I found the Daily Beans podcast.
The rest of #5joysfriday is related to the same event and may take more than 451 characters to relate.
The TV in the study crapped out the night of the plane crash above the Potomac. Of all nights! This led to aggravation but then to some joys.
2. We got a new TV and set it up with only minimal arguments. We just needed to phone a friend to help sort the Roku remote.
3. Then we went out for pizza! ⬇️
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Considering my joys at the end of the week always adds a little extra joy to my Friday. This week they included:
💛 A new and delicious chicken soup recipe
💛 The pets
💛 Flowers in the middle of winter
💛 A fun and successful math activity with one of my classes
💛 A fresh loaf of homemade bread
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Most of my joy this week has come from looking through our wedding photos from October. We FINALLY got them back from our photographer and it's been fun revisiting that joyful day.
Other things that helped this week:
- bookclub with friends 📚
- therapy ❤️🩹
- snuggling my cats 😻
- Lewis 😘
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It's Friday and the last day of January #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii. I hope you get your power back soon!
1. Saw a beautiful pair of foxes on Sunday on my way to do ice fishing at a different lake. No camera, of course.
2. Got some Microgreen growing kits with seeds.
3. Got all my Valentines Card Swap done
4. Oakley playing in fresh snow
5. My new canvas sign for my summer markets.
My #5JoysFriday this week is all about the “this never happens here” snow & ice storm.
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I didn‘t take many photos this week, but there were several joys!
💛 Watching my niece play in a volleyball tournament
💛 My niece and sister spent the evening at my house
💛 A full week back at school
💛 Starting practice for quiz bowl
💛 The pets
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Thanks for the tag, @DebinHawaii
If you‘re reading this, consider yourself tagged. Let‘s celebrate joys big and small! 🙂
