A small cucumber and a cherry tomato sit next to one another on my kitchen counter.

First cucumber and tomato of the season! Insert Veggie Tales reference here.

“God should’ve not made mosquitos!” -my 4yo.

Binocular shot 1: A mockingbird with his beak wide open, cooling off from a hot TX day. Perched in a desert willow

Binocular shot 2: A mockingbird with his beak wide open, cooling off from a hot TX day. Perched in a desert willow

I have barely posted on here since greatly reducing my time on the other place, and I know my circle on here is pretty tiny…but! I got some fun binocular shots of this guy taking a rest in our desert willow yesterday. Had to share the cute birdy pics 🤩

You had me at pierogi 😍

My 3yo’s commentary on the inauguration speech: “Mama, before bed, Donald Trump will have to brush his teeth.”

YES.

Idk if you’ve seen the TT about buying hoisin sauce? Chocolate chips are my hoisin sauce. 😅 I buy a bag and then realize I have like two other bags hiding in my cabinet.

Still pinching myself that we just got a new (to us) vehicle. It has ✨heated seats✨, which I have dreamed about for the past few years. Why, you might ask? Because we live somewhere cold? Nay— I am merely approaching my mid-thirties and have chronic pain.

Coffee mug selfie on the back patio, wearing my secondhand store pom pom hat.

Just here sitting outside, telling my son to stop dropping snow down his shirt if he’s going to keep asking me to fish it back out

Behold: the ugliest snow day 🤣 still perfect weather for zoomies, though!

Our holidays were bookended by sickness. I’m the last to fall ill in this round and it’s a fun reminder that if you’re the primary carer, no matter how much support you are blessed with while you’re down, your kids are still apt to say (or cry), “I want Mama!” and come looking for you 🙃🫠

An internet classic.

Oh my GOSH, Pecos is a beauty. 🤩

a woman says let 's not count our poultry in front of a wardrobe Alt: Moira Rose says, “Let 's not count our poultry before it’s incubated,” in front of a wardrobe.

Exodus:

Stuck in a drs office for labs and praise the Lord, they have quality content on the television for me. Bluey. 🩵🧡

Little quiches Lorraine in a muffin pan. I have been spending a LOT of time watching Great British Bake Off recently.

What do you do when you have pie crust that’s too short for a regular pie? Mini quiche! Hopefully they don’t crumble when I remove them from the pan 😅😅

Simply
Haaaaving
Some marzipan at bedtime

Three loaves of focaccia, adorned with rosemary, olives, and tomatoes. With some surface space left plain for particular children.

Merry focaccia. I tried to think of a pun but focaccia is a tricky one. (This is my first time making focaccia and I think I did okay!)

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Happy Christmas! 🎄

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Well that was a frustrating one but I got there eventually 😅

Why have I never thought of this 🤯
(…probably bc of the minimal snow that falls in west TX)

Alrighty, putting myself out there! 🎄 #shareyourwishlist
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A big, circular crack on my passenger side windshield, and a view of a rural west TX road.

Well, my life just flashed before my eyes. 😳 now singing the Safelite jingle in my head. Happy Monday, y’all!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a newly emptied wrapping paper roll, must be in want of someone to bonk on the head with it.

My son standing over his kid-sized table, looking at two big bags full of shelled pecans from our pecan trees.

Just in case anyone was wondering. This is what 24 lbs of shelled pecans looks like. 🤩🤩

Finally coming out of the week-long haze of a stomach bug that gut punched each member our household. 😵‍💫 it’s so much worse when you have two kids throwing up rather than just one.

I’ve done it! I have migrated to Bluesky. I have nothing clever to quip right now, but here’s my proof of life I guess. Howdy 👋🏼