Season 2, Episode 9

I'm solo this week and covering a random assortment of topics. I'm going to talk about our Spring Break trip to Broken Bow and some adventures we had while there, some things that are driving me crazy right now, my favorite protein bars, Aidan turning 18(!!!),  Ella Langley, being a Trad wife, Molly the Mom, my favorite books of the year so far, and of course I finish with my favorite parts and song of the week. I hope you enjoy this roller coaster episode! 

Links for this episode: 

Riverman Trail Rides 

Holly's Cabin in Broken Bow

Barebells Protein Bars

Choosin' Texas Video

Ella Langley

Molly the Mom on Instagram

Petal and Pup Easter Dress

Cream Soda Ollie Pop

"Judas" by Josiah Queen

Favorite books so far this year: 

"Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better" by Brant Hansen 

"Anatomy of an Alibi" by Ashley Elston

"The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife" by Anna Johnston

"This Book Made Me Think of You" by Libby Page

"Lady Tremaine" by Rachel Hochhauser

Transcript

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Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Sorry Whatever over sharing an NWA podcast. I am by myself this week. This is episode nine. So for really most of the episodes of this season, I've had somebody on with me, which has been awesome. So I apologize that you are stuck with just me this time. You know what? I'm not even going to say it because every this, everybody's doing this. I guess I am going to say it. I'm lying. But life is really crazy right now in the Addington house. Really great, wonderful things. I can't talk about all of them right now, even though this is oversharing. But it's just been a go, go, go time as a spring for literally every single person. So please do not think that I think I'm any busier than any of you. I just think that you can relate it probably to what I'm saying. So for that being said, I dropped the ball on getting a guest to join me this week. But honestly, I was like, you know what? I haven't done a solo episode in a while. And I have some things that have been on my mind that are random. So you're getting a random list of topics from me today. Um I hope that they make you laugh. Um, some of them are a little serious. Some of them are just y'all, literally my brain, because I live in a random state right now. I don't know if it is emotions. I don't know if it is hormones, which I did get those checks checked. I have not heard back yet, but we'll keep you in the loop for those as well. I actually may have that doctor come on and talk with us. Um I just think that my brain, like I'm having a hard time focusing right now. Anyone else feel me? Um, maybe I'm just crazy, but that is how I feel. So this list um is basically my brain that I'm about to throw out there to you all. Um I am really excited to be back on. I really do love recording episodes. Um in the last one I did with Tatum Aklin, who is a school board member here in Bentonville, which was awesome. If you haven't listened, that's the last one that just came out. It came out two weeks ago, but like we recorded it like two weeks before that. Um, and so I have not been on the mic in like a month, which it was nice. We had a lot of stuff filling up our time, but it's fun to be back. Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna move on. Sorry. I'm being rambling a little bit. Um, but with all that being said, so that episode came out over spring break. And this spring break, we needed to kind of stay close to home. Um, and plus we have some like kind of big trips coming up with Aiden with graduation and stuff. We're gonna take him on a trip. Um, so we just kind of stay close to home. And my dear lovely friend Holly Sturz, who I have had on here before, um, the one that has the cabin in Brokenbow, she um she let us stay in her cabin. And um, so we got to go to Brokenbow, just the five of us, which was fun because Aiden has not been out there. Um the boys have been, and you know, Trent and I have been and stuff. And so um, but her cabin's just it's so pretty. And it was nice to be out there. I've never been out there in the spring and the weather was awesome, but we went like the first part of spring break. But one thing that was funny, and I mentioned it to Trent, um, is I have apparently reached that stage of life where I need an AM pillbox and a PM pillbox. Um I normally have been able to get by with just like having the one and just calling it good because there's not a lot in there. But like I said, I went and talked to like a hormonal doctor, and so I was prescribed some other stuff. Um, mainly one of them is um spernolactin. You guys, I don't know, girls, I mean, boys if we're listening to this, I don't know who is besides Trent, but um, spinolactin is like for like to help with like your hormonal acne. And I'd been dealing a lot with a lot of that. And so that was kind of that has been a stinking game changer right now. Like I I just was really struggling with it around my chin, and it just is an eyesore. Like, and um, she prescribed me that sprinolactin, and I am so so grateful for it because I feel like my skin is finally like not all broken out all the time. Um, anyways, told you this was gonna be random, so prepare yourself. Um, but yeah, so with that, and then I got some more vitamins um because my hair is falling out. Um I hope that I'm making people feel not quite so alone in there, maybe, or maybe I'm just making you feel better that you're not dealing with all of this. But so all that being said, I was like setting it all out and I had my boxes and I looked at Trent and I was like, I think I'm officially here with needing the two pill boxes. It's fine, everything's fine. Um, another thing that we got to do when we were in Broken Bow, and actually just Ace and I did it because nobody else wanted to in our family. But we went on a trail ride out there. We went with Riverman Trail Ride. So if you ever go to Broken Bow, like they were great to work with and um just made it so easy. But I scheduled us for a two-hour trail ride because he and I both take lessons. Like we've, you know, we've been on a horse before, so we were like, well, instead of one hour, like let's just go for two. Okay, so so fun. Um, we had the best time, they really did a good job. And it was fun to get to do a trail ride and then like get to like walk through rivers and you know, it just it was it was different than the lessons that we normally have. Um, but you guys, I could barely walk the next day. Like when they talk about like how like a like you're walking like you just got off a horse, like I have felt pain like that before because even in my lessons, like we use our legs a lot. Um, and so my like insides of my legs have been really sore, but this was like a whole other type of pain. Like I was like walking, it just it was it was crazy. Um, and also poor Ace. I mean, we had so much fun, so don't get me wrong, but poor Ace, like the last 30 minutes he had to um pee like really bad. And you're walking on this horse, and like a horse isn't like a smooth, I mean it's pretty smooth, but like he's like kind of bouncing around and stuff in the seat. And every time I would like turn around and look at him, I could just see in his face, he's like, This is great, but I knew he had to pee so bad. Poor buddy. Um, but it was so fun. Like that was something that we've not done, and it's something I definitely see us doing again in the future. Um, and last little bit about this spring break trip leading up to it. I had had what I thought was allergies. I now think it was probably some type of virus, cold, something or other. Um, but I I have been like I'm prone to like if I get like congestion and stuff in my head, to get like sinus infections. And so I had been dealing with, I was not feeling very good for like a week leading up to spring break. So we get there and like Tuesday morning I woke up and like I just felt this like pressure and like the left side of my like upper cheek area, like literally right where my sinuses are. And I was like, oh, that's not a good sign. But I kind of was thinking throughout the day, maybe it'll work its way out. Like, I don't know. We went on a hike, so like we were outside on a hike. I'm just pushing through, you know, because that's what you do, that's what a mom does. We had a great hike, it was it was wonderful, like the weather was beautiful and it's gorgeous. There's like a river with that, it's actually the Arkansas River that runs through there. I think. Ooh, I don't know about that. I think it is so. Um, you know, so pretty. Just had like the best time with the boys, but we were literally, we were driving back. I told Trent, I said, I I need medicine. Like, I need an antibiotic. I know what this is, I need to get in. Thankfully, they have like a local, it's not an urgent care, but they just have a local doctor's office that takes walk-ins. They got me in pretty quickly, gave me her steroid shot and an antibiotic, and I was like good to go. So shout out to shout out to the McCurtain Family Medical Clinic in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. You guys took care of me, and it was, I am so thankful for that steroid shot. Actually, the nurse was like, Are you are you a fan of shots? And I was like, is anybody a fan of shots? Um, I was like, not particularly. And she's like, okay. And then the doc and then the doctor came in and she was like, Well, we can give you the steroid pack or we can give you a shot and you'll feel better in like hours. So I was like, I will take the shot, please. Um, it worked and we had a great rest of our trip. But you know what? Like, a little unexpected, but it all worked out fine. Um, so that was kind of our spring break and it was really great. So if I I know I talk about it a lot, but I highly recommend getting out to Broken Bow. There's a lot of outdoor things to do and a lot of fun restaurants and stuff. So if you decide that you want to go out there sometime, just like reach out to me. Or honestly, a Holly, I'll like link all of her stuff on here too, because there's there's just a lot of fun to do. And honestly, it's a good like downtime place to visit. Like you're not gonna be going nonstop. So if that's the trip you're looking for, this is probably not it. Um, but it's just it's chill and it's fun and it's relaxed. So I recommend it. Um, we're gonna move on. This is something that happened the other day. It actually happens a lot, and it's not a big deal. But I just kind of had a moment, I kind of wanted to like scream. The boys weren't home, but I wanted to like scream in the bathroom. I was walking through to get their dirty clothes or something, and y'all, there was literally a empty toilet paper roll on top of our of their trash can. So, like the lid is on, you know, we have to have a lid because we have dogs and they just will, you know, they'll get into anything. So we have these like little trash cans with lids on them. I walk by, it's literally sitting on top of the trash can lid. This is not the first time it's happened. I'm not gonna name any names, but I'm pretty sure every single man in my house has done this before. Trent has not done it in a long time, probably, but every other one of them has. And I just stood there and I don't know if you ever feel this. And it's like I can keep going and going and going and going. And I I stood there and I maybe said a bad word. Forgive me, but I was just like, what the actual heck? Like, can we you literally lift it up and put it in there? It takes two more seconds, and this is not the only thing that happens like that in our house. And I know I'm not alone, and I know that this is like an ongoing thing that people talk about all the time, but it just for like that minute, it was like I could not take another thing. You know what I mean? Does anybody like do you understand? Do I know people understand that where it's just like seriously? Like, could you not just help me and do that, do that thing? And I am not griping. I love my family. I'm so very thankful for healthy boys and healthy family, but that about pushed me over the edge that day. So another thing that drives me a little crazy, um, maybe this is like a little rant time for me. I don't know. I I'm actually recording this on Monday, it's coming out tomorrow on Tuesday. Um, as a little last minute, like I said, I was trying to, I don't know. I just was I was struggling with time management last week, I guess. And there was just a lot going on. But I ordered groceries. Normally I order them on Sunday. Well, yesterday was Easter. I love Easter, favorite holiday. Like we had the best Easter. It was wonderful. Um, but having a holiday on a Sunday, that is like my day to like meal plan and grocery plan um and order and get everything in. So that didn't happen yesterday. It's kind of like on Mother's Day. It's like when you don't want to do any of your regular chores on Mother's Day, but then like you're paying for it for like the first part of the next week because you weren't able to get the stuff done the day before. Like that's kind of like what I'm dealing with right now. So I ordered groceries this morning to be delivered in like a three hour, you know, whatever, three hours or less from Walmart. If you're not in Northwest Arkansas, but like your Walmart does this, like delivery, grocery delivery, do it. Like I seriously do it all the time. I take full advantage of it. I I still go into the store probably every day, but it's like to pick up one or two items or whatever that I miss or that I forgot to order or whatever. So like a bulk grocery order is like literally life-saving for me. Well, I ordered those literally right before I came on here. Um, I've already, they are shopping for them. Listen, this is not like this is this is not an actual problem. Okay. So like please just don't, please don't roll your eyes at me. I it drives me nuts when I order groceries and I hear like a like text messages dinging off of my phone. And that's what happened. Things were substituted. I realize that not every store has everything that I'm probably looking for. But every time that I get a text and it's like this item was substituted, I just like want to maybe, maybe I just need to like, you know what I need to do? I just need to like get in my car and just probably scream for like five minutes. Like that'll probably help a lot of my problems. But I feel like every time I get that like text alert, I'm like, duh, gosh, like I just have the stuff that I need and don't make it difficult. It's not their fault, okay? And I'm fully, I'm fully capable of going to the store myself to get things, but it just I don't know. It's a thing that it's just a thing that like kind of digs into me and bothers me. I don't know if anybody else feels that way. But on that topic, one of the things that they said they didn't have and they have to substitute, which is I should have this is kind of a favorite of this week, but also like everybody in our family eats them. Um, well, not everybody, me, Aiden, and Trent eat them. Um, but they're the Barabell's protein bars. Um, we are obsessed with them. We love like we love most of the flavors that they have. Um, but my favorite, I can tell you kind of what everybody's favorite is. My favorite is the cookies and caramel, and they had to substitute it, and I was very sad. And so now I have added it to my ongoing Walmart notes list in my app that I need to pick some of those up because they did not have them in this particular store that I'm getting groceries from. But they are so good. The cookies and caramel is really good. I think Aiden likes the creamy crisp, and then the peanut butter ones are like our favorite, but they are all really yummy and they, I'm pretty sure they have about 20 grams of protein in it too, which Aiden and Trent are like really like hardcore on getting enough protein right now. I am too, but like I just I only have so much, I only have so much mental capacity to keep track of that. But they're really yummy, they taste good. I they probably have crap in them that we shouldn't be eating, but they are our family's go-to. So just heads up. And grocery delivery, I'm very, very thankful for you. And I am very grateful for Walmart, but uh it does kind of just irk me a little bit, even though I know it's not their fault. That's all I'm gonna say. I'm gonna move on. Um, another really big thing that is happening this week, and I'm going to try not to cry. I have literally cried every time I've talked about it. Um, Aiden is turning 18 this week, and that is a big deal. Um I am so, so proud of him. He has just grown so much, probably just really, especially in the past couple years. Um, but man, time flies so fast. It really does. Um 18 is a really big age. It's so funny because you know, like when they turn 18, like they they are like a legal adult. So it's that's gonna change like him going to the doctor, or um, I know when he goes off to call, I have to do more research. I maybe we'll do an episode about this with somebody. Just like added stuff that I feel like I probably didn't even realize was a thing. But um, yeah, he's gonna be 18, and that is nuts. Um it's nuts, it's just crazy. Um, he I knew that this spring was gonna be crazy. It is crazy whether you have, it does not matter what age your child is, springtime is crazy. There's a reason they call May like May Simber. Like, I don't think it gets enough credit for how nuts everything is. Um, especially, you know, with sports and you know, whatever it is that people are doing, like there's just a lot going on. Uh graduation, obviously, is gonna happen and that's a big deal. Um, and so we're just working on that. I actually just got his like grad party invitations that I really hope I can get mailed out like by Wednesday. Um, and that's a thing too. I'm I'm sending out, so this is like just what I'm doing. I don't know if it works for other people that are have seniors, but I'm sending out like graduation party invitations and not like um actual graduation invitations. And a lot of that is I would, you know, obviously I would love for everybody that wanted to come to come to his graduation, but he goes to a really large school. And so you're looking at trying to get seating for a lot of people. And in our just like our family alone, we have a lot of people, like even just like our immediate like grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles, like we there are like a lot. We have a lot of them. And so I'm just kind of holding off on, you know, I want as many people to come to the graduation party, which honestly that will be more fun. That will be more fun and more like people be able to talk to Aiden more. Um, so that's what we're doing. We're just sending out like grad party invitations. And then like for the family or whoever that that wants to come to the actual graduation, like I'll just send them the information out. Um, so that's what we're doing. I think that there are other parents that do that too. I do not think I'm alone in that because I've I've I'm kind of following in the footsteps of people that I've talked to about it. But I did just get his, I just did just get his invitations in, and he's so handsome. And we had senior pictures taken, you know, a while back, and he's just really handsome and he's really grown. And like I I think I like I am very emotional about it. Like my mom asked me yesterday, or I brought it up to my mom yesterday, and I just immediately started crying. Once again, hormones are kind of crazy right now, so that might be part of it. Um crying about him turning 18, and I think it is 100 million percent okay to be sad and happy. Like that, I feel everybody knows that, everybody feels that. But like I I try to remind myself and I try to remind Aiden because I don't want him to just see me and be like, oh, mom's just so sad all the time. Like, I can't be happy because mom's so sad. I don't want him to feel that way. Like, I I'm so proud of him and I'm so excited for what's to come for him. And he is, he's just just so proud of him. Like, I'm I'm excited that this is the next stage. I'm excited for his next new adventure, but like I'm also sad, you know. I'm also I'm just sad because this time has flown by so fast. Our relationship is gonna change, which is fine. It's totally fine. Um, but I it is just a big transition, and I think it's okay to feel sad and emotional about it, but I'm also so, so proud of him and so excited for him. So I'm gonna move on because that I could sit on that forever. Um, another thing that just came out that I'm super pumped about, and we've I've watched like 10 times. Um, so I've talked on here a lot. Like Ella Langley is a country music singer, and she's got she's like hot. She's like on it right now. Um I and I am obsessed with her. I'm obsessed with like all of her new songs that she has out right now. Um, she's got Choose in Texas came out. Um, I really like Dandelion. I really like Be Her, um Life or Loving Life lately. I just butchered that, but that's a really good one. Like she's just like, she's just real good. Like she's a real fun new female country star right now. But she just came out with like the music video for choose in Texas, and it's so like it's it's basically like a little mini, like mini movie, like it's like seven-minute long video, but it has some big, like cool people in it. And some of you may not know, okay. So she created this music video for choose in Texas, and I it it popped up and Ace and I actually watched it together because it so obviously Ella Langley's in it. Uh Miranda Lambert is also makes a an appearance, and I love her. Like, she might be my she's definitely top three favorite female artists, like country music artists, probably female artists, period. Um, and then there is so Reese Witherspoon's daughter. I don't know her name. Um, she is like, she's in it. Um, and then you have the guy, y'all. I just know like what they've been in, so please. And then you have Casey Dutton, the guy that plays Casey Dutton on Yellowstone. Um, he is also in it. He's like, he's the guy that's choosing Texas over her. Um, and then on top of that, you've got there's a little cameo by Dale Brisbee, who is a bull rider. He has like a he's got a really big YouTube channel and he has a Netflix series. Now I've talked about him before. Ace and I love watching him, and he's goofy as all get out, but we love him. And then JB Mooney, who is a really famous uh bull rider. So like Ace was like all about getting to see them. Um, it's just it's real fun. So I'm gonna link it. Please take it's I think it's less than seven minutes, but it they just do a good job and it was just fun. It was fun. Because I love that song and I just I really enjoy her music a lot. So I actually real one of my favorite stations right now to listen to on Spotify is the Ella Langley um station because it's got her music, but then you've got, you know, Miranda Lambert and you know all these other people that I really like. So it's real fun. Check it out. On top of that, so I obviously love country music. Um and I just got some actually, I don't even know why I said that. That does not like fan over into this. Um I just got some baby chicks. Um, if you follow me on Instagram and stuff, you probably saw them because I'm obsessed with them. Um they're they're just real cute. I got six of them. Um, because we already have five like hens that are laying. So I got six of them, and we've got like a special little coop for them, and it's just a whole thing. But I was thinking the other day as I'm like re-recording them for the 10th time, um, that I, you know, there's like, I don't even think it's a trend now, but like the trend of like the trad wife or whatever. Um, that is me. Like that is who I am. That's who I like to be. Um, and I like to have my chickens and I'm thankful that I get to stay home to get to do those things. Um, I like to be home to, you know, do all the things for the boys and you know, take care of all the laundry and all this stuff. And but I was like, I'm full like trad wife mom mode right now as I carry my eggs in and then like take care of these little baby baby chicks. And I'm already thinking about like putting um or what we probably will in a couple of weeks, like planting our garden and you know, doing all those things. And this has this has been a progression over time for me uh to be this person that I am, but I'm so thankful that I get the opportunity to do that. But I just it just made me laugh because I was like, I I am the definition of that and um I'm thankful for it. It's not a life that everyone wants to choose or what every woman wants to do, but for me, it's great, and I am thankful that I get to do it. And I sometimes have to remind myself of that because sometimes I feel like I don't do enough um for our family because I don't have a job outside of the home. And I think I don't even think that people do it on purpose, but sometimes people even make me feel that way, which I'm also extra sensitive, sensitive to that. But I am so grateful for a husband, especially who God love him, he constantly is reinforcing, like, you do so much for us, please stay home. Like, I think that he, I think he knows that if I am not, like, you know, he he's just very thankful for it, and I'm very thankful for a husband who supports me in that and who also wants me to be here. Um, but if you're a stay-at-home mom, if you are feeling that way sometimes, I totally get it and I relate. If you are a working mom and you're having to do all these things and you still love your job, I'm not saying it's bad, but like kudos to you for being a working mom and still doing all the mom things. Like, I I don't know of my personality. I mean, I could probably if I had to, but like I would be so overwhelmed and I'm impressed. And I know that you guys don't do everything, and that's the whole point of it, is like you can't do all the things. But like I'm impressed by you. So I just I just think just supporting each other and whatever role we are, and also not thinking or like giving stereotypes to those types of moms, um, whether you're the working mom, the stay-at-home mom, or the both mom, or whatever, like just like let's try to avoid the stereotypes and thinking that, you know, I should be able to do this because I'm at home all day, or of course you can't do that because you're working. You know what I mean? Like, we're all trying to do what we can do and like figure it out. So kudos to all of us. That wasn't even meant to be this, this meet, this message that just came out, but I just I'm thankful for all the women I have in my life that have so many different roles that they play in. Because as you've seen, even through doing these episodes, like I have all these women that play different parts in my life, and they all are in different seasons and different areas and what they do. And I'm so thankful for that because it'd be so boring if we were all just doing the same thing. And you know what I mean? Like, just so thankful for that. But, anyways, um, speaking of moms, there is one lady on Instagram. I literally laugh out loud watching her videos. Um, and I follow her now, and of course I like look her up, so she pops up all the time. But she's Molly the Mom on Instagram, and my favorite videos that she does are when her and her husband try to do these like athletic like feats together. Like they'll like see a video of this like couple and they're like with the guys like swinging the wife around or she's bending this way or that way or whatever. And they literally like laugh out loud, like watching these videos, like they are so funny. She like just gives, I get the impression that she gives like zero F's, like what people think about her. She just goes for these athletic things that they're doing, and she looks so goofy sometimes, and I think she's adorable. She's red haired, like she's like a cute, very cute lady, but like I love that she just like goes for it, and she's like, I don't care if my butts like sticking out in the are sticking up in the video or whatever. Like, I am just impressed by her, first of all. And her husband seems to love her so so much, and like when they do these videos, it just I love it. I love it so much. Like, if I'm ever like sad, I can just like scroll through these videos and watch her, and she's awesome. So um, I'm gonna move on real quick. I'm gonna try to be fast. I was trying to make this a fast episode. I wanted to kind of review, I guess maybe I'll do a I was gonna say a quarterly review of my books, but I think I've already pass that time. Um I'll do a a third, every third part of the year, I'll do a book review, maybe. I'll try to get better at it. But so far this year, beginning like the beginning of January, I have read 17 books. Um, so I just wanted to throw out a few of my favorites that have read so far. If you are a reader, this will be fast if you are not. Um one of the first ones I read, they're kind of actually quite a variety of different types of books. So that makes me happy, like to see it out that I'm not just reading the same. Um, so one of the first ones I think I talked about before is called Unoffendable, just or how just one change can make all of life better by Brant Hansen. Um, he is a Christian author. Um, I will say this, I don't feel like like it is it it all comes from a biblical perspective, but it is not like your regular Christian book, I guess. Um, but he basically is just talking about how not, and Trent tells me this all the time, you guys, how to not get so offended so easily, and how to not let other people be in control of your happiness or how you are feeling. Um, and maybe that's why this book hit so hard to me. So if you are super unoffendable and if and if you can let things roll off your back easily, I am jealous. I do not, I do not do that. Um, I do not let things roll off my back easily. I get upset about things, I worry about what other people say, I worry about things that I have said, which is quite funny because this is called oversharing in NWA. Um, but he, I feel like this like Brand Hansen, I feel like he does a really good job of just reminding you that, you know, our goal is to be kind and love others. Um, but also that we are not meant, we are not meant to hold hate towards people. So if they do something to wrong you, to hurt you, um, are rude to you, or even if they do an inadvertently, they may either be having a bad day or also you can just let it go and not care anymore. Um, so yeah, you know, remind my remind myself of that all the time. Um, the second book I read is kind of if you've been listening to this, you know I do not like scary books or scary movies or scary shows. I'm a big fat scary cat. Um, but this book is called Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston. And it is, it's definitely not a thriller, but it's definitely kind of a I don't know what it would be titled, like a mystery kind of, or I don't really even know, but it was real good. It was a quick read. Um, but it wasn't scary, it wasn't gory. Um, it was suspenseful. Maybe that's the word, that's the word I was looking for. It was suspenseful, but not, I did not stay up at night or wake up in the middle of the night or have nightmares about it. Because y'all, that actually does happen. I'm telling you for real. I'm a scaredy cat. So if you're a scaredy cat like me, like I'm hardcore scaredy cat, okay? Um, just know that this book will be fine for you. If I can read it, you can read it. Uh, the next book, and this is actually a book club um that I'm part of, and somebody picked it and I loved it. It's called The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife. It is about an octogenarian, so an 80-year-old man, um, and it's just kind of it follows a series of events that happens to him, and you just kind of get to see it all play out. Um, if you liked Theo of Golden, which was my number one favorite book from last year, um, this kind of follows right along that path. Different storylines, but apparently I just really love like people in their 80s. And I think, I think we have so much to learn from people that have lived so much life. And talk about zero F skiving, given, you know what I mean? But also in both Theo of Theo of Golden and this book, um, you just there's so much kindness. And I think a lot of that is like when people get older, they just you don't hold, I just I don't know. I don't know what it is. I think it's wisdom. I think it's wisdom, I think it's living life, but I think we have so much to learn from the older generation. Um, so apparently I love books about octogenarians because this is like the second one I've read in probably the past six months. So that I've just I've just loved them. So it's real good. Um this book, this next book is This Book Made Me Think of You. That's the name of the book. It's by Libby Page. Um, it is kind of a romance book, kind of a not sad, but um, there's definitely some meat to it. It's not a chiclet book, but it's also not like suspenseful or um a self-help or anything like that. Like it's a fiction, but it's not like my like I love a good chiclet. Like during the summer, like I am reading that nonstop. But this one had a little bit more meat to it. It's about a girl who um loses her husband and then he leaves a book for her to open once a month for like a whole year. So she has 12 books to open that he like pre-planned before he passed away. Um, and it's just kind of the story of how that all shakes out, and it's really good. I really enjoyed it. Um this last book I just finished last week. Um, and it is of Reese's book club pick and is also another um book that I'm reading in a book club, but it's called Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser, Hochhauser, Hochhauser, I'm not sure. Um, but she it is supposed to be a retelling of the evil stepsister or evil stepmother um from Cinderella. And I really enjoyed it. I read it fairly quickly, and I was thinking about it afterwards too. I really enjoyed it. It will um probably cause you to like the evil stepmother, is all I'm gonna say. And it does not follow like it's different than like this, you know, cartoon Cinderella that everybody has seen. It's a different storyline than that, but um, I just I really enjoyed it. I thought it was really good. So I'm gonna end there. I'm gonna move on to my favorite parts of the week. Favorite parts of the week. I have two of them. Um the first one is I for Easter, um, I got my Easter dress from Petal and Pup. I'm gonna just link them, link their site. Um, but I was very impressed by it. It was not crazy expensive. It came pretty fast, if I can remember, but like good weighted material, it was really cute. So I will link the dress that I got, but they also have a lot of really other cute dresses on their website. Um, I'm just and that is something around here in Northwest Arkansas too. We don't listen, that is one thing. If you're listening to this, and if you have made it this far of my rambling, if you have any cute boutique stores around Northwest Arkansas that you are a fan of, that you feel like you can always go there and find something, please let me know because I am struggling to find shops that I that I can find stuff in to wear um in Northwest Arkansas right now. So please do that. But all that being said, right now I feel like I'm just ordering a lot online. And this pedal and pup has really cute dresses. Um, the last favorite, this is not new, it's been around a long time, but I follow a lady named Mallory Irvin on Instagram, and she the other day was like doing a story and she was drinking a cream soda olipop. Um, and I was like, you know what? I don't think I've ever even tried an olipop. And so I went to the store, I got a cream soda, I got a strawberry vanilla, I got a grape, I don't remember what else I got. But all three of those were excellent. The cream soda was so good, and Trent was pumped because he is, we both are, but like he is really getting on board right now, like kind of a health kick, and he loves a cream soda. And it was, I'm like, here's your alternative. Enjoy. It's got you know, whatever probiotics, prebiotics, whatever is in it, that's good. Um and he was he was pretty excited about it. So I'm taking that as a win, and I thought it was delicious as well. Um, and then last but not least, my song of the week this week, um, uh he has a it's from Josiah Queen, who is a Christian artist, and my boys really like him. He has uh there we found him through Forrest Frank because he has a song with Forrest Frank, but now my boys really like his music too. Um, I know like after we got back from New York, uh Garden in Manhattan, I think was my favorite song of the week then, and that's also by him. But he has only one out, and it is called Judas, and it just came out, I think the weekend before, like a couple weekends ago. Um, it's called Judas by Josiah Queen. And he's basically talking about how we are all, we've all got some Judas in us. You know, I think I'm reading through the Bible, and I I think I read these stories about gosh, there's a lot of really screwed up people in the Bible, right? So I read all these stories, and I'm so quick to be like, like, come on, like, come on, David, get your act together. You know what I mean? Or there's so many, so many. I just read one today, and now it's just like it's just one after another, just sinful people doing all these things, and like it's easy to read it and be like, come on, Israelites, like literally, you are God's chosen people. Why are you screwing stuff up all the time? But then I remind myself, and this is the whole point of his song too, is like we all we all screw up, we all deserve death. And this all this came this song came out right before Easter. And so um I know that there was a reason behind that, but we all screw up, and it's easy to see Judas and how he got paid the 30 pieces of silver um and betray Jesus. Like it's easy to see him and be like, evil, bad guy. Like we are all bad, we're all evil, we all we're all you know, just we're nobody's living life perfectly, and so good job, Josiah Queen, of reminding us of that in this song, but also reminding us that we we've been given the gift that we don't have to live under that anymore. Um, and I am so thankful for that. I am thankful that even though I screw up, even though I mess up, even though I, you know, maybe mad at people or uh just not living life the right way all the time, like, oh thank you, Jesus, that I do not have to live under that weight anymore. So on that note, I hope that you all have a great week. We are in April. The time is moving fast. I'm gonna do my best to soak it in as much as I can and re and just be reminded to do that. And I hope that y'all have a really great week. We'll see you in a couple weeks. I don't have anything planned yet, but I will. Um thank you for listening, and I will see you next time. Bye.