No.513: Every Day in May // Day 2

Day Two!  We started our day bright and early with a 7am appointment to the pediatric dentist.  The protocols are still pretty crazy with who/how many can go in at one time, so it’s all hands on deck: I hold down the fort in the car while Mark takes different sets of kids inside.  I’m grateful that the kids easily roll with the punches and extra grateful that they all are cavity free.  A few other highlights:

Little Avocado and Orange Trees

I fertilized my calamondin orange and avocado trees with with a new-to-me fertilizer by Dr. Earth (affiliate link).  If the nighttime temperatures cooperate, I hope to have them finally out of my bedroom and into the garden by next week!  Also on the to-do list is to get some bigger pots to eventually transplant them in.

The Booktube Spin #2

I played along with the first Booktube Spin back in February.  I never got around to the actual book I was supposed to read, but I did manage to knock four others off the list instead!  So for the next round, I replaced those with new choices (more affiliate links ahead):

1. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende // When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir of Mexico, Maine by Monica Wood
2. The Barefoot Bandit by Bob Friel
3. My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
4. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
5. He Leadeth Me by Walter J. Ciszek
6. Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
7. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
8. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
9. The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand
10. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena // Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
11. The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman // Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
12. Fatherless by Brian J. Gail
13. What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan
14. Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
15. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
16. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
18. Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
19. Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
20. An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler // The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

The host of the challenge spun the wheel and the number was…#1!  Here’s hoping I actually read the book this time around.

Declutter Challenge, Day Two

Day two of the #28things7days decluttering challenge, so I chose two items that I’ve kept for a long time.  I originally purchased these vintage baby girl clothes to resell in the Big White Farmhouse shop, but they never made it to the website.  BWF has been closed for almost four years now (time flies…) so it’s definitely time to get them out of my house.  I snapped a few pictures and listed them right away on ebay.  I think they would be beautiful framed or displayed in a baby girl’s nursery!