Love List #19

Small joys and micro-pleasures that made me smile recently:

💚 Taking days off when I need to.

💚 Making a Paper Mache hot cross bun Easter parade hat with my boy.

🌕 Being able to take decent photos of the moon.

🌼 Afternoons spent with my Nan watching the kids play in her garden.

💕 Seeing myself in my girl.

💚 Crafting that doesn’t go to plan, but ends up just as fun.

🌱 A little plant growing through concrete.

🍫 ‘when the chocolate hits’ facial expressions on grubby Easter faces.

💚 Impromptu Sunday lunches with Nan.

😊 Days where everyone smiles back.

💚 Speaking with a friend about essential oils and finding them on my desk the next morning.

💚 Creating friendiversary gifts.

🥣 Late night baking {cinnamon scroll edition}.

💚 Finding the perfect chair for my patio on the side of the road.

✨ Whimsical upgrades at home {champagne glass for hairclips, mouthwash decanted into glass whiskey bottle, vintage tin cigarette holder for lipsticks}.

🥂 Preparing a 3-course meal for hubby’s birthday {complete with custom menus + themed table décor}.

💚 Feel-good programming {Great British Bake Off, Shrinking}.

🍂 Nature Mail subscription for small curious minds.

🐤 Baking a ‘Birdie’ birthday cake for my sweet bird-obsessed girl.

💡 Uncontainable excitement of a 2yr-old for a colour-changing lightbulb.

💚 Tiny pig-tails.

⭐ Sprinkling edible stars on mocktails, coffee, water..

🌿 Free plants from neighbours finding a new home in my front garden.

👩‍🌾 A morning spent getting sweaty in the garden.

💚 Baking giant sausage rolls.

🥪 Making Reubens at home to take us back to America, if only for a moment.

🦷 Becoming the Tooth Fairy for the first time.

❤️ ‘I love you, Mummy’..

🌙 Moon-bathing.

💚 Walking into the backyard to discover my husband climbing trees.

🔎 Family mystery picnics.

🖍️ Hand drawn notes.

What has made you smile of late?

Big love,

Renee x