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Happy Friday, dear ones! I hope your weekend is looking wonderful 
Coming Up in the Liturgical Year: Today is the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul!
In the Garden: So many beautiful tomatoes. We don’t really buy tomatoes from the grocery store so summertime is our one chance to cook with tomatoes and it’s such a treat!
Links:
8 Weeks to a Less Cluttered Home: Keeper of the Home (I started following this 40 Day long decluttering plan of only 30 minutes a day and I can’t believe how much stuff I’ve thrown out already after only tackling some kitchen drawers and cabinets.)
Simple Ways to Look Modern When Wearing Vintage: Simple Design by Megan of SortaCrunchy
My Guide to Perfect Summer Reading: Fountains of Home (I love Christy’s recommendations. Yet another post showing me we must be kindred spirits.)
Homemade Iced Coffee: A Beautiful Mess (Yum!)
Behold God’s Love for You: Catholic Mothers Online
Toddler Tutu Tutorial and Top 10 Multipurpose Must-Haves: Mama and Baby Love
The Quotable Benjamin:
“Whoa! That’s enough for the neighbors!” (after I gave him a meager helping of honey for his cornbread.)
“That means, you gave me tooo muuuuuch! That’s what ‘enough for the neighbors means.”
“Why do you think the Little Red Hen wouldn’t share her bread with the other animals, Benjamin?”
“Well…because it probably had gluten and dairy in it and they might be allergic.”
Pictures Worth Sharing:
Bathtime play during Tropical Storm Debby when the wee ones couldn’t play outside for days and days…
Good fashion sense.
Playing at the park after the sun finally came out.
Park swingin’, Lucy wearin’
Lucy helping me declutter all our mismatched lids and containers.
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I recently found your blog and just wanted to say how much I enjoy it!
Also, the “8 weeks to a less cluttered home” sounds fantastic! I’m looking forward to trying it. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, Lynn! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it.
We’ve only lived in this house for two years so I thought that there was no way I would be able to keep up with the “10 items a day” to throw or give away part of the decluttering but holy cow! I’ve already thrown away so much stuff!
Thanks again for the lovely link Haley!
I love summer reading…I’m such a nerd…and you’ve gotta let me know what you’re reading! Yay kindred spirits!
You’re welcome, Christy! I just loved that post. Right now I’m still plugging away (in a delightful way) at Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy. I’m in the second book, Officers and Gentlemen. I also just started a book about Praying with Icons by Jim Foster. And I’m sneaking in a little Redwall, too