5 Friday Favorites: March 1, 2024

It's time for my Friday link up with  A Little Bit of Everything and Momfessionals. 

On Fridays I share things that made me happy from the week - a photo, a song, a quote, a beauty product, a recipe, a pair of cute shoes, etc. If it's a product, sometimes it's something I actually own and sometimes something I just saw online that gave me a smile. Sometimes it's serious and sometimes it's silly. I suppose I believe that God is in the simple details of life and yes, I can even find Him in a tube of lipstick 

Hello, FRIDAY AND hello, MARCH!! We're inching closer to spring. Keep putting one foot in front of the other, kids.

Here are some of my favorite things from the last week of February.

1. Slow Cooker Thai Peanut Turkey Meatballs

Photo: www.whitneybond.com

Drew is allergic to nuts so since he went to college, dinners in our Empty Nest are so exciting because I can cook with all manner of nuts without risking someone's life. Perhaps "exciting" is too strong of a word? The bar is low, friends. 

Anyway, I made these Slow Cooker Thai Peanut Turkey Meatballs this week and they were so good. In full disclosure, I used Trader Joe's frozen meatballs and just made the sauce from this recipe. I'm sure if you make the meatballs from scratch they're much better, but that was a bridge too far for me this week.

2. Kelsi Dagger Brooklyn Dover Platform Sandal

I came across these adorable sandals somewhere on the interweb and my goodness are they cute. And kinda pricey. Also, side note: why so many names? Maybe the price goes up per word in the name? Seems excessive.

3. Vintage Beaded Glasses

I don't know what happens to all of our glasses, but I imagine they are somewhere with all the pacifiers and socks we've lost over the years. I need to get us some new ones and I think these are so cute. I'm also wondering if I might get a set of clear and a set of colored ones. 

4. The Wild Boys

Steve and I have been on a bunch of road trips traveling to watch Drew play baseball lately, so we have been in search of podcasts to listen to. We started The Wild Boys and haven't finished yet, but it is CR-AZY. If any of you have recommendations, please let me know. We have lots of miles to drive in the next couple of months. 

5. Kelly Corrigan Wonders: Thanks for Being Here: When a Friend Loses a Parent

The day after my mom passed away I was walking in her neighborhood talking to a dear friend on the phone. She had lost her mom a couple of years before and her dad many years prior. I distinctly remember that walk. I was sobbing and scared and overwhelmed with my own grief, but I had the strongest sense that I needed to tell her how sorry I was about her own losses. "I didn't know. I didn't know. I'm so sorry that I didn't know how bad this is." I kept repeating that over and over. I also knew full well that there was nothing I could have done to take her pain away even if I had known because there was nothing anyone could say or do for me either.

So many times in the days that followed, I felt compelled to message everyone I had ever known who had lost a parent and tell them the same. Kelly Corrigan puts more eloquent words to this exact thought on her podcast Thanks for Being Here. For any of you who have lost a parent and those who someday probably will, it's worth a listen. And to all of you: I didn't know. And now I do. And I'm so so so sorry.

Have a blessed weekend, Friends. 

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