This week Mosely acquired a Wii. Yep, we’re a handful of years behind on any technological advance. Which is exactly the pace I prefer.

So I have allowed more screen time than normal and have seen more Mario Cart and Just Dance than I’m comfortable with.

But I’m grateful they are satisfied and enjoy the delayed entrance into video games and are not currently concerned with keeping up or having the best and the greatest. It’ll hit us, I’m sure. But just not this week.

funny

Talking about going back in time or not keeping up or something like that. One night at dinner this week we had Hannah and Caleb at our table and I started reminiscing about childhood stories. I told the kids about my family’s telephones – first the rotary phone with the long twisted cord and then the cordless miracle. And how one night I silenced all of the ringers on all of the phones so that I could quietly accept a late evening call from a boy, which was sort of against the rules although not explicitly against them. His name was Phoenix and I found him charming beyond measure in all of his early high school glory.

One story led to another and finally dumped us right on to the topic of the shamefully popular band New Kids on the Block.

I might have been a tad obsessed with this boy band before boy bands were a manufactured commodity. (Or, before we recognized we were being sold a commodity anyway.)

Of course Hannah and I had to pull up the videos to show all of the kids, who were entertained and appalled and filled with uproarious laughter as Hannah and I danced our way through a handful of videos.

Which were terrible. Of course. (Both our dancing AND the videos.)

But for your viewing pleasure —- take a peek into the past.

fashionable

Should I give some sort of prize for people and businesses that I share over and over? Or wait, should THEY give ME a prize? (I’m down with either I guess.)

A Gilded Line is owned and operated by my friend Allison and I’ve been buying her bracelets as gifts so many times I have lost track.

She just added two new offerings to her line of stamped jewelry and I LOVE them. (You know I love words and I love jewelry so it’s no wonder at all that these are some my favorites!)

First – rings!!

And second – necklaces with bars. With FOUR sides. Which means more words!!

Aren’t they great?

flavorful

London is slowly working through a series of projects that will eventually equal a culinary arts or specialty elective course for high school credit.

This week she conquered beautiful colorful homemade butter mints.

They’re lovely and they’re delicious.

For Christmas I received a cookbook that I regularly checked out from the library called Back in the Day Bakery. (It’s a real bake shop in Savannah that I’d love to visit one day.) I love owning my own copy now and not having to worry about keeping the library’s edition tidy.

This is the recipe and the way the book says they should appear.

I think hers turned out pretty spot on.

Our friend Brent says they taste just like his mother used to make to serve at weddings. I’d call that a success.

faithful

This is a long article about kids and an app called Musical.ly that I know nothing about and have never heard of. And about smart phones in general and about social media and how it is affecting the hearts and brains of our children. And it’s not riddled with guilt-inducing commentary. But it’s really important.

And I think you should take the time to read it.

https://medium.com/@anastasiabasilcunningham/porn-is-not-the-worst-thing-on-musical-ly-5df07ab842af