- Warm sunshine
- Sunshine when it’s raining
- Overcast days
- Crisp autumn afternoons
- Rainy spring mornings
- Thunderstorms
- Early summer
- Blazing sunsets
- Balmy beach days
- Blustering windy days
- Super hot Santa Ana winds
- Monsoon season in the Phoenix valley
- Literally anything not snow or ice related
All posts by Lesley
AhhhKtober
- Warm hoodies
- Cold nights
- Boots
- Bonfires
- Blazing colors
- Sharp air
- Brilliant sunlight
- Skies so blue they wrap you up
- Windy days
- Pumpkins and gourds in front of the grocery stores
- Kids laughing
- Space heaters at night
- Shadows
- Short days
Favorite Jobs I’ve Held (in no particular order)
- Secretary / Administrative Assistant
- Shipping/Receiving Clerk
- Program Director
- Homeschool Teacher
- Bookstore manager
- Marketing manager
- Social Media Marketing
- Preschool Teacher
- Grocery Store clerk
- Stocking Associate
- Editor
- Curriculum Coordinator
- Trade Show representative
- Event Coordinator
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Things You Do NOT Need to Feel Guilty About Right Now
- Feeling depressed or anxious
- Being tired
- Missing the people you used to hang out with
- Seeing the people you used to hang out with
- Clinging to your family
- Not being able to spend time with your family
- Sending your kids to school
- Not sending your kids to school
- Having a cheap face mask
- Having the most expensive face mask that exists
- Not having a job
- Wishing you didn’t have a job
- Loving your job
- Hating work-from-home
- Loving remote work
- Fearing the uncertainty of the future
- Being sad about the world around us
- Being angry about the world around us
- Being closed off from the world around us
- Eating at home
- Eating out
- Picking up food to eat somewhere else
- Going for walks/runs/jogs
- Cocooning at home
- Not being able to concentrate on reading
- Reading more books than ever because you have nothing else to do
- Being unproductive
- Being so productive people around you complain
- Sleeping late
- Not sleeping well
- Doing whatever it is that you need to do to survive or even thrive
September Slow Down
- Cooler Nights
- Dappled Sunshine
- Clouds that Glow Silver
- Kids Playing in the Evening
- Favorite Hoodies
- Red Beginning to Blaze in the Trees
- Locusts Buzzing
- Waves of Wheat Fields
- Tassled Corn
- Bonfire Smoke Drifting
- S’mores and Flaming Marshmallows
- Camp Chairs
- Live Music in Outdoor Settings
- Snuggly Blankets
- Dusk Creeping In
- Sunsets on the River
- Crunchy Leaves
- Combines Clipping Along in the Fields
Girls Names That Start With L
- Lesley (shocker!)
- LeAnn
- Lori
- Laura
- Lucero
- Layla
- Leia
- Lelani
- Lekha
- Louise
- Lorelei
- London
- Latrice
- Lineah
- Leah
- Lydia
- Lacretia
- Leticia
- Lakeisha
- Luna
- Laney
- Lacey
- Lwaxana
- Lysha
- Lydia
- Libby
- Liberty
- Loretta
- Lisa
- Lourdes
- Lucinda
- Lola
- Lois
- LaShawna
- Lashonda
- Lynn
- Laurel
- Lyric
- Leighton
- Liz
- Lizbeth
- Linda
- Lachina
- Lupe
- Lola
- Lila
- Lilly
- Lilja
- Leikili
- Laranya
- Loyalty
- Lucia
- Ladli
- Lynette
- Lindy
- Latoya
- Lillith
- Lillian
- Lilac
- Lena
- Lexi
- Llana
- Lindsay
- Levana
- Livia
- Leigh
- Louisa
- Lina
- Larissa
- Ladonna
- Laken
- Liora
- Lark
- Latonya
- Lavern
- Lavinia
- Lauren
- Lenore
- Leticia
- Lorena
- Liddy
- Lucille
- Lujza
- Lulu
- Lada
- Lyra
- LeeSally
- Leeba
- Layna
- Lolly
- Louisa
- Luella
- Letty
Songs From My Playlist That Start With the Letter I
- I Can’t Hear You / Matthew West
- I Could Be Wrong / Lit
- I Don’t Want to Be / Gavin DeGraw
- If the World Was Ending / JP Saxe, Julia Michaels
- If You’re Gone / Matchbox Twenty
- I Hate This / Tenille Arts
- I’ll Be / Edwin McCain
- I’ll Be There for You / The Rembrandts
- I’ll Fly Away / Jars of Clay
- I Melt With You / Modern English
- I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) / The Proclaimers
- I’m Not Who I Was / Brandon Heath
- I’m Your Man / Michael Buble
- I’m Yours / Jason Mraz
- Independence Day / Martina McBride
- I Need a Dollar / Aloe Blacc
- In My Blood / Shawn Mendes
- In Too Deep / Sum 41
- Iris / Goo Goo Dolls
- I Sure Can Smell the Rain / BlackHawk
- It’s a Beautiful Day / Michael Buble
- It’s Not Me, It’s You / Skillet
- It’s Time / Imagine Dragons
- I’ve Been Everywhere / Johnny Cash
- I Wanna Talk About Me / Toby Keith
- I will Survive / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- I Will Wait / Mumford & Sons
- I Wish I Was / The Avett Brothers
Blue
- Out of the blue
- Off we go, into the wild blue yonder
- Once in a blue moon
- Blueberry muffins
- Black and blue
- Blue Mountain Wilderness
- Bluebells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row
- Blue Lagoon
- True blue
- Blue blood
- Blue cheese
- Keep the love light shining in those eyes so blue
- Kelly’s Bluebook
- The thin blue line
- Blue collar worker
- Baby’s got her blue jeans on / Forever in blue jeans (your song choice)
- The deep blue sea
- Rhythm and blues
- Blue Like Jazz
I Bought Stuff to Make a Big Salad (but now I want a burger instead)
- Mixed greens & spinach
- Avocado
- Multi-colored bell peppers
- Green onions
- Cashews
- Mandarin oranges (I prefer fruit juice instead of dressing)
- Shredded cheese (multiple flavors)
Cookbooks on my Bookshelf (As proof that at one time in my life I actually did cook on a regular basis.)
- Lickety Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go (Seriously the best, go buy it.)
- Oh Deer! The Venison Cookbook for Beginners
- Sunset Wok Cookbook
- Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook / Feasting with your Slow Cooker
- 4 Ingredient Recipes for 30 Minute Meals
- Three Ingredient Cookbook Volume II
- Fat Free Living Cookbook
- Miserly Meals
- Pampered Chef All the Best
- Low Fat Mexican Recipes
- Betty Crocker Great Pasta
- Food for the body and for the soul
- Treasured Recipes / Far & Near Missionary Fellowship
- Magazine issues: Taste of Home’s Quick Cooking
- Magazine issues: Kraft Food & Family