Third Year Instagram-free;

Third year Instagram-free;

I've had two babies

Taken up gardening

Reading more

Unbecoming who I thought I was

Becoming who I'm meant to be

10/10 would recommend

First day since deleting Instagram;

I did a lot more laundry

I also sat in grass/clover and made a little flower crown🌼

10/10

“Maybe it was the smell of ripe tomatoes, or the oriole singing, or that certain slant of light on a yellow afternoon and the beans hanging thick around me. It just came to me in a wash of happiness that made me laugh out loud, startling the chickadees who were picking at the sunflowers, raining black and white hulls on the ground. I knew it with a certainty as warm and clear as the September sunshine. The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and birdsongs. By a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons. She provides for us and teaches us to provide for ourselves. That’s what good mothers do.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Climbers be climbing

🚨Proud maker alert🚨

I stumbled across these adorable Pop Tart book sleeves on Etsy last week. After tallying up over $60 to have two of them sent to me (reasonable, but I'm a SAHM), I decided to spend that same amount on a crochet class over the weekend and made two myself! A mixed berry for my Kindle, and a funfetti for my eldest son's chapter books. I'm thrilled I was able to learn a useful new life skill while supporting a local yarn shop.

apples - from the tree to the jar 🍎