Friday is right here. How are you? How was your week? This week was fully overtaken by efforts to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and it handed by in a flash. (See extra beneath.) It’s been every week that’s felt intense and heartwrenching to say the least.
Now the weekend is almost right here and Ryan’s birthday is on the horizon on Saturday. We have now a birthday cake to make and a few surprises to wrap right now and hope to make him really feel further particular. I’ll do my greatest to snap photos to share with you guys on Monday however till then, carry on scrolling for this week’s roundup of favorites, Issues I’m Loving Friday type!
Issues I’m Loving Friday
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Assist for Hurricane Helene
(Photograph from yesterday after we targeted our efforts on serving to animals impacted by Hurricane Helene.)
It’s been such a heavy week for thus many communities in NC, SC, GA, TN and FL and we’re actually feeling the heartache right here in Charlotte as we see so many photos and skim so many tales in regards to the influence of Hurrican Helene within the western North Carolina mountain cities so many people love a lot. (Actually the tales I’ve learn involving the lack of family members, lacking folks and kids have ripped my coronary heart proper open.) Actually, I’ve had a tough time considering of a lot else and am becoming a member of our neighborhood in donating as a lot as I can. I can’t start to inform you how many individuals I’ve seen filling overflowing carts to donate and what number of native companies are opening their doorways as donation drop-spots to assist get important objects to the locations the place they’re so desperately wanted. One man I talked to who labored at one among our native grocery shops stated this previous week reminded him of Covid days when issues had been so rapidly wiped off cabinets as we’re all making an attempt to ship important objects to WNC. I’m hoping and praying these communities are feeling love and help from us from afar, although I do know it is going to by no means be sufficient.
For these of you studying on the market who could not dwell in areas the place objects are simply collected, Operation Airdrop has been doing unbelievable work offering aid and life-saving help and Samaritan’s Purse is a corporation that’s been repeatedly really helpful as a resouce to help, as they’re headquartered in Boone, NC (an space instantly impacted) however they’re additionally serving to Hurricane Helene aid efforts in a number of places exterior of Western North Carolina as nicely. Thanks for any assist you possibly can present these communities that misplaced so, a lot.
My score: A- / Style: Fiction / Science Fiction
I’ve been in a e book rut over the previous few weeks and it’s been such a bummer. Ryan laughed just a few instances after we’d end watcing an episode of Ted Lasso earlier than mattress and I’d say, “Effectively, I suppose I’ll go learn my dumpy e book proper now,” as a result of I simply couldn’t discover a winner. He’s a giant advocate for abandoning dangerous books in the event that they’re not for you however I admittedly generally maintain out longer than I ought to. After three back-to-back subpar reads, I lastly threw within the towel on a fourth dangerous e book when The Measure turned obtainable via my native library. One in every of you extremely really helpful this e book to me, touting it as the most effective books you learn this yr, so my hopes had been excessive. Once I inform you this e book consumed my ideas, I imply it. I learn it in two nights as a result of I used to be so invested within the characters, the plot and the result.
The Measure begins when packing containers are delivered everywhere in the world to each single individual. Everybody awakes to discover a string inside their field, a string they rapidly understand is meant to inform them the size of their life. The e book follows a handful of characters with completely different string lengths and completely different approaches to their strings and the best way they select to dwell their lives. The Measure wasn’t suspenseful or mysterious or something like that but it surely was gripping in the best way it made me take into consideration how I might deal with the state of affairs the characters discovered themselves in all through the novel. It was the type of e book I discovered myself wanting to speak about continuous!
I’m a choosy one relating to plant-based protein shakes. I don’t love the overwhelming majority of plant-based protein powders and haven’t discovered many plant-based protein shakes which have known as to me. I used to be very pleastantly stunned when an impulse purchase of BOGO Koia pumpkin spice protein shakes at Publix led me to making an attempt their shakes as a result of I’ve truly loved them. Hooray! They’ve been nice for popping into one among my Pack-It frozen snack pouches and bringing together with me for a mid-morning or afternoon snack together with an apple or banana.
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Your High 10 Favorites
- Epicurean Chopping Boards (mini, medium, giant): I’ve and love all three! The chopping boards of my goals! Non-toxic, doesn’t retain smells/flavors of meals, dishwasher secure and tremendous skinny.
- Oversize Tee: So many oversize tees add bulk and aren’t in any respect flattering however this one is cozy and drapes so, so nicely. I believe it matches true to measurement for an oversize match.
- Retainer/Mouth Guard Pure Cleaner: Apparently I’m not the one one who was horrified by the state of my mouth guard and retainer. These items WORKS and that’s all there’s to it.
- Gentle-Up Reminiscence Dice: An enormous hit with our large youngsters for highway journey leisure. Suppose Simon from our youth however with extra video games.
- Pack-It Freezable Snack Pouches: A pouch you set instantly within the freezer after which use to maintain chilly snacks readily available. I exploit our Pack-Its most frequently for yogurt, string cheese, protein shakes, fruit and veggie slices… you title it!
- Personalised Attraction Necklace: I personalised this one with charms to characterize every of our boys and like it a lot.
- Stainless Metal Snack Containers: I exploit these to pack fruit (berries, pineapple, peach slices, clementines, and many others.) for the large youngsters for his or her faculty snacks.
- StickiKubes: Such a gem for entertaining our boys in eating places, on highway journeys, whereas watching Chase’s soccer video games, and many others. They use them to make so many various sorts of imaginative creations they usually wash clear!
- Striped Oversize Sweatshirt: The slouchy outsized sweatshirt I really like for cozy days! I’ve the small and medium in two completely different colours and like the match of the medium.
- Form-Shifting Dice: Consider this like a fidget toy for giant youngsters. It’s one other highway journey gem Chase (9) and Ryder (6) love.
Pumpkin Paleo Oatmeal (Aka not oatmeal! This one is made with egg whites, almond milk, flax seeds and pumpkin and is voluminous and really excessive in protein making it tremendous satiating.)
Oatmeal Pumpkin Protein Pancakes (Protein-packed and the proper strategy to begin your day this fall!)
Query of the Day
Did something occur this week that made you smile?
