I promise it's not all Chiefs links

But maybe it should be! Also in here: my sister's 3-word parenting tip + a Valentine hack

Hi! All we can talk about around here is the Super Bowl; Nate is already there for work and I finally found something to wear to the game. It’s been so fun reminiscing with the kids about our Kansas City days. Look at this photo I found from the week before we moved in Fall 2019:

How bout those Chiefs!! // Kodak Portra 160 film

Also, welcome to our new readers! Thank you so much to the

Platonic Love

hostesses, Aliza and Aja, for having me as a guest in their newsletter this week:

Links we sent our friends #35

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mom talk

My sister Emily taught me this trick years ago, it’s like waving a magic “good mood” wand over your household. Thanks, Em!

Special occasion where each child was permitted exactly one beach toy /// Kodak Portra 400 film

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today’s bouquet

• Omg, can’t believe I’m saying this — now booking Heirloom Portraits.

• For the one-year-olds: this push-button toy belongs to Mick, but every person in our family wants to play with it. Fyi it’s about the size of a paperback.

• Best thing I read this week: I’ll share a life but not a bed.

• AYKM with this gardeny pie dish?! (via Hannah P.)

• Tropical panna cotta, yum.

• Behind the scenes of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. I love you, GC.

• Big yes to a fruity phone bracelet. (via Emily H. of

  Good Egg
  )

• This Seattle city guide has me so excited for our family trip there this summer. Tempted to get everyone one of these and force us all to match :-)

• Made me look: photographs of library books on the shelf.

• Gosh, these paintings of people are breathtaking. (via

  Ali LaBelle
  )

• Alison Roman opened a grocery store. Inexplicably made me cry.

• Practice + suck less yess honey!

“There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”
—Corita Kent

• Plastic-free, sugar-free, nut-free, biodegradable, under-$1 Valentines my children shall distribute henceforth until the baby graduates from elementary school.

• Rifle Paper Co x Target, can you please become a permanent collection?! It’s all so good. This hydrangea box is about to become home to our mail pile. Adding these candlesticks to my order too.

• One of the best kid shows I’ve seen: Stillwater on Apple. It’s gentle, sweet, and borderline boring (read: very soothing on long afternoons). Zero annoying songs, violence, or snark.

• Oh my gosh, I can’t stop laughing at this Meryl Streep reel (someone sent it to me but I can’t remember who it was — lmk if it was you!)

• Next week will be a Deep Dive on my favorite pages from kids’ picture books.

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last thing

• Most clicked link from last week: a dress I’d wear everyday if money were no object

• Readers today: 1,443

• Grateful for you!!! xo

• GO CHIEFS!

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.”

—George Bernard Shaw