Friday Things #534

1. Sweet little tennis lady 🩷

2. This has been A WEEK. Last Friday, after not feeling great on and off for a number of days, I took Dominic to get looked at, and it turned out he had strep. A few days ago, down went Isabelle. And now, I’m just waiting to see if Joseph will outrun it or if he’ll go down, too. There aren’t supposed to be germs in the summer!

3. Do you have a laundry routine that you stick to? I try to wash a load of clothes most days and everyone’s sheets once a week. For the longest time, I had been washing the mattress pads and the top blankets/duvet once a month, aiming to do the mattress pads at the beginning of the month, the blankets at the end. It just always seemed like TOO MUCH (especially the top blankets). A few weeks ago, I switched things up and decided that each week, one bed would get EVERYTHING washed (mattress pad, sheets, blankets, etc.) while the others would just get sheets washed. This seems so much more approachable, and I love it!

4. I started a new puzzle this week – the Blockbuster Era puzzle that I shared a while back. I thought it would take me forever, but I’ve made good progress!

5. I forgot to share the last puzzle that we did; as part of a school project, Dominic had to send a letter to a friend/relative in a different state and have them take a little cut-out person around to different places, then they send it back with photos.

Dominic chose an 18-year-old cousin from Chicago (who also happens to be a hockey goalie!); when he sent the project back, he included some souvenirs for Dominic, including this Chicago puzzle. We had so much doing it together (and the puzzle itself was probably the highest quality puzzle I’ve ever worked with; I loved it)! In the photo is also my beloved puzzle board (my husband got this for me a number of years ago for Christmas and I use it year-round for puzzles!).

6. I have been incredibly loyal to the big red bag of Costco’s Kirkland semisweet chocolate chips for years now, but they seem to have been (at least temporarily) discontinued. Gah! What are your favorite chocolate chips?

7. Such truth to this statement! >> “The first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning.”

8. Talk to me about stovetop popcorn (in a regular pot) vs. making it with a Whirley Pop… is there any difference at all? It seems that it would be quite a similar cooking method, but I’m curious because I know some people really love their Whirley Pop!

9. We are SO excited to start watching the Olympics! The boys watched a little bit of rugby the other day, but I can’t wait for the swimming, diving, gymnastics, etc.

10. TGIF! This girl loves attention and snuggles 🩷