I am not a Librarian but I dress like one! Cardigans for the win!
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That’s lovely! How are you liking Stitch fix? I’ve been very tempted, but have heard mixed things.
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I just ate an enormous bowl of potato dumpling soup from my local bakery. Yum! And… they give you a cookie too!
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The sleeves would hit me about mid-hand if I pulled them down fully, if that helps. I feel I have average length arms. 
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I’ve only got one box so far, but I liked it. I ended up keeping two out of the five things. I usually shop at Kohl’s or Target so the prices were a bit higher than what I would usually pay, but not horrifyingly so. I did set my price range with them for “as inexpensive as possible”. And I wasn’t necessarily looking for the most ethically produced, buy it for life stuff either.
I asked for business casual fall clothes and got:
- soft cardigan (which I kept)
- jeans (Kept because they fit perfectly, amazingly)
- a floral long sleeved shirt (Returned, seemed kind of grandma-ish)
- a cap-sleeved shirt with a cool neckline (retuned, but would have kept if it had real sleeves)
- gray very stretchy dress pants (maybe they were dress pant yoga pants) (returned because the waist was too high and the legs too long)
Even with the pants not fitting in the way I liked, I was pleasantly surprised with how well everything fit. I’m getting another box mid-month so we’ll see how that goes.
Returns were super easy. You just put the stuff in a pre-paid bag they included and dropped it in a mailbox. I liked that I didn’t have to go to the post office or schedule a pickup or anything.
Not to sound like an advertisement, but apparently if I refer people we both get a $25 credit, so feel free to message me if you want to try it and I’ll share my referral link.
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Filling the kids’ holiday stockings is so much fun for me. The first item has been purchased: clip in pink and sparky hair for little dude. He is going to be so happy.
A lot of parts of parenting are shit but buying small items for stockings is nothing but joy.
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I’m pretty sure that is my mom’s favorite part of parenting. Over the top stockings are her love language.
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Unfortunately none of our new chickens are laying AMAZING eggs, lol. This is our current color spectrum. We do have a nice range, from white through dark brown. I’m mostly disappointed in the blues - the eggs in the front are an olive egger, our new ameraucana, and another olive egger.
Our first ameraucana laid some very very blue eggs that I loved, but we’ve gotten two more whose eggs are so light that sometimes I think they’re white. I’ll try again in a few years with more chickens! I think 12 is enough for right now…
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I think those are pretty eggs anyway!
I do still love them, for sure! And I’m very excited for the olive egger eggs, they’re much different than our other colors.
It was Kiddo’s turn to choose for movie night and his “movie” was some 45 minute cartoon thing he insisted on even though we told him he could re-choose. This means even though I’ve been dragging all day, I had just enough energy after bedtime to measure and mark walls to hang up art (yay!) and a small whiteboard (meh) and this year’s cinnamon broom (mmm!)
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What is a cinnamon broom?
Like this:
It has scent added to it, it’s Very Strong at first so mine was banished to the garage until it was at acceptable levels and now it’s just a pleasant background thing instead of facepunch strong. I have mine hung horizontally over a door (and off center I just noticed, but meh.)
Follow up victory: I guess we’re a “hammering at 6:30AM is fine” household? But I got my art up and it looks gorgeous!
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Ooh they are so pretty on the wall!
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I love how your art looks!!
And I think the brooms look cool but scented things can die in a pit.
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They look beautiful!
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I have roasted my first marshmallow of the year. And also my second. And my third.
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So, the fire pit is good?
Now I want a fire pit.
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I saw Kid-3 today for the first time since February. Kid has gained FIFTEEN POUNDS. I can’t even express how not-tiny this victory is (aside, of course, from it being very nice to see my very, very sweet kid). Kid has been labeled “failure to thrive” since about age 4, which really means “failure to tolerate the taste or texture of pretty much any food on earth.”
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The fire pit is a resounding success. Even Husband admitted he was wrong to grump about it. It is beautiful and the perfect size and lives in pride of place near the kumquat tree.
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