Friday Things #462 - Brown Eyed Baker

Perfectly, howdy there and joyful Friday, buddies! It’s been a even though, has not it?

Following almost eight months, our lives have settled again into relatively of a little bit of a predictable plan and I’m so, so joyful to say hello to you on a Friday again! (For a lot more about my hiatus, you can examine my first publish about Dominic’s prognosis in this article, and then updates just one, two, 3, four, and 5.)

Thank you all for your never-ending assistance, prayers, e-mails, excellent feelings, encouraging mail and packages, and everything in concerning. It has meant the world to our family and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Now, let us get on with a Friday Points! 😊


1. The kids received to go trick or managing jointly! We weren’t positive if we would be house or if Dominic would be in New York obtaining treatment method, but we ended up leaving the following morning. They experienced so a great deal entertaining, and I’m so glad they could appreciate this alongside one another.

2. A quick Dominic update: he experienced a different spherical of immunotherapy procedure previous 7 days. The infusions went effectively, even though the previous one particular strike him a little bit harder than earlier kinds, and he ran two fevers above the system of the time we were there, which is a facet outcome of the procedure. All in all, it was a profitable trip. We will go back in early December for a further round, and then he will have a battery of scans afterward to gauge the progress of the therapy.

3. Tis the season >> How to Apply Gratitude Every Day

4. A year or two ago, we started off the tradition of a “thankful tree” in which each day the youngsters wrote on a leaf what they were being thankful for that day. Then last yr we switched it to the “thankful turkey” and did feathers alternatively of leaves. I am placing up the turkey nowadays and I adore that they are thrilled to do this!

5. Speaking of, do you have your Thanksgiving menu prepared? I am doing work on ours over the up coming handful of times and will share it when it’s concluded! What is a will have to-make for your food or dessert? I feel like the tacky creamed corn casserole is the group most loved at our Thanksgiving each calendar year.

6. I’ve been doing a great deal of looking through since the spring, many thanks to investing a significant amount of money of time in waiting around rooms, hospitals, in clinic during blood transfusions, and many others. The textbooks I’ve finished:

  • Unbroken (experienced begun it previous calendar year – savored it)
  • The 4 Winds (really preferred it!)
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (I was shocked by how considerably I liked this one, I was attempting to determine out the relationship concerning Evelyn and the reporter the entire time)
  • Verity (I study this in fewer than a week, which is lightning speedy for me it was super suspenseful but I also observed it seriously, really disturbing)
  • The Nightingale (started off gradually for me, but the very last third of the ebook or so, I flew by means of, it was wonderful)

I just begun It Ends With Us. I also have queued up Code Title Helene, which was picked as section of a e-book club a friend of mine began, but I wanted something in among Globe War II feminine spy guides 😉

I employed to be a voracious reader and it feels wonderful to have that looking through urge sparked all over again! I adore obtaining lost in a excellent story.

7. The past few many years, we have set up our Christmas tree ahead of Thanksgiving and I am Completely ready. I want to get the most out of these warm, cozy lights. The young ones begun inquiring to pay attention to Xmas tunes on the way to school a couple of months back we are all-in on holidays listed here!

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9. We have to talk Tv set, of training course! I JUST identified out that the new time of The Crown dropped on Wednesday and I just cannot hold out to observe! I am also counting down the several hours to Yellowstone’s season 5 premiere on Sunday night. My faaaaaaaaavorite 🤩

10. These two are still the greatest snuggle bugs ❤️