five finds friday (what do you wear with leggings?)

You should know that this post has been powered by the mass consumption of my friend Jo’s homemade caramels.

This week has felt about nineteen days long.

Let’s try to do this thing …..

funny

Both Bergen and Mosely had appointments at the eye doctor this week.

(I like ours – he’s a really nice guy.)

Standing in the lobby, waiting to check out, I noticed one of the posters by the glasses promoting some particular brand.

I had to sneak to take this photo because – well, it looked like a weird thing for me to be doing – but seriously guys. Why is this man apparently only wearing a pair of glasses? Should that make this brand more appealing?

fashionable

I’ve spent a lot of my adult life eating words that I’ve said previously in my adult life.

They taste great.

For years I was a no leggings sort of girl. Then I morphed into a no leggings as pants sort of person.

I still don’t like to wear short sweaters or shirts when I wear leggings, but I’m just getting old enough to not care about oh-so-many things any longer.

And I do love the leggings this year. I’ll blame it on 2020, like every other single thing.

What’s the point of wearing uncomfortable jeans when you hardly leave your home?

So here I am, with a dilemma. Turns out, I don’t own many sweaters that aren’t the open front cardigan-style variety. Which I like. But I want some other ideas. Ideas for clothing to wear with leggings. But clothing that mostly covers my bum.

Besides just regular sweatshirts, which I have mixed feelings about, what do you guys wear with leggings? Where can I find longer sweaters and longer sweatshirts and longer shirts? Do those exist in this crop top loving world right now?

flavorful

We’ve been baking this year. (Another reasons jeans are uncomfortable.)

So far we’ve made family favorites – Needletips and Monster Cookies.

What are your family’s favorite Christmas cookies?

faithful

Pretty much nothing has been regular in a long time.

The fall out from all that low key (and at times high) anxiety is that the standard routines I have used to battle stress or calm fears or whatever either are not in place currently or at not working at max capacity.

I’ve found the pleasant surprise of being reminded in subtle ways that the voice of God and the hope He offers is often most evident in the friendships I have.

This week several of my friends and I walked around a trail in the woods together.

I was a little off. The day was a little off.

And yet. It was still a place to feel absolutely free to just be whatever it was that I was feeling. To not put on a happy face or an anything face. To just be. Occasional sighs and sometimes less than engaging.

I was safe.

What an unbelievable gift.

Plus, I really like the gift of watching our kids grow up together.

feels

Porter turned FOUR this week. It’s quite crazy to see how quickly that time has gone by. What on actual earth!

We had dinner to celebrate his birthday and he let Aunt Piper style his hair and then allowed me to pose him in the little sweet chair that my kids all sat in as babies and toddlers and little people.

And when Maddox prayed he thanked God for Honey.

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