The love of a mother and child. ❤️ 

My in-laws: pastor's office

David and me: basic church wedding with dessert reception (at a modest off-site location because the church was renovating the reception hall) 

Total costs for all three weddings roughly adjusted for inflation: $10,000? 

Total years married: About 150 years 

https://youtu.be/2ucWMEwsm7E?si=RHEGQKDJi_aOxAPf  

It wrote the board descriptions for my main 47 boards. They might not be absolutely perfect as I would write them, but they are done and working for me now. And 85% is better than 0% right now. 

It critiqued my new pin designs and updated me on pinning strategies such as timing, types, and group boards. 

Love it or hate it, AI is incredibly helpful for some tasks. In the past two and a half days, I've easily done a month's worth of work. Yes, a month's work of work. That is how much it can help me do things. 

Like many writers and business owners, I've struggle to decide how much to use AI. If my goal is to help as many homeschool moms as quickly as possible, then using AI with some tasks helps me meet that goal literally months earlier than I would alone. 

So does AI fit with simple living? Yes, I think it can. 

https://www.pinterest.com/sallieborrink/_saved/

Sometimes I think this is all insanity. It seems like one more way the family unit is destroyed. 

"We no longer possess phones -- they possess us."

https://hearthandfield.com/grounded-by-the-landline   

This is such a lovely performance. I hope you enjoy it. 

W.A. Mozart: Concerto in C Major for Flute and Harp (Part 1) 

• Rutha Vaitkute, flute
• Ekaterina Dvoretskaya, harp

https://youtu.be/M3scwMzggaA?si=mKvfKsEhacH3JCMH  

To be clear, these are AI generated. But it's so difficult to find charming music to enjoy that I've decided I really don't care. 

Here is one she recommended. 

Heidi’s Winter : The Alpine Atelier | Cozy Classical for Reading & Focus

https://youtu.be/9EBjMX51x-w?si=5aRRyvZ9p_fHT6pG 

This is another one she shared. 

I thought this one was pretty when I explored what else was available. 

Little Women: new beginnings

https://youtu.be/5Z5Snwkk3OY?si=Qy9973AAvu1ZV98e 

Once you start poking around, there are so many YouTube channels with music like this. 

I have other random accounts to delete (Locals, etc.) that are on my list as well today.

The only two I have left are Gab and Telegram

I have zero desire to delete Telegram. It's my favorite. 

I am struggling the most to give up Gab. There's so much information available on there that I can't easily find anywhere else. But I also get mad every time I get on there because there is so much brutal truth available there. 😜 

Field Notes: Flora Edition

Field Notes: National Parks (Series A - Yosemite, Acadia, Zion)

Field Notes: National Parks (Series C - Rocky Mountain, Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone)

(There are other National Park ones at the links as well.)

Personally, I also love the stitched notebooks from The Rifle Paper Company. Swoon! 

Anyway, this is one of the videos I watched that started me thinking about Field Notes and the joy of using little notebooks.

https://youtu.be/pJf_n4ctKnw 

In it, the author explains why she and her husband decided to get rid of their radio after living for a long time with a tv. She felt the noises, opinions, and just the sound of the voices coming through the airwaves were invasive and often went against the goals for their family. This book was compiled in 1998, so cell phone use and the internet wasn’t necessarily assumed or even mentioned. (How much more ubiquitous are those influences these days?) In the essay, she talks about the effects of a radio-free life and her family’s renewed interest in singing for their own enjoyment.

"Human voice fills our house and is richer than any electronically generated sound can be….For over a year now we’ve lived without voices in our home save those of the real, live people who live here or those of visiting friends."

That idea is startling to me. Can you imagine that? A present person attached to every single voice in your home? I can’t. (Does the author never talk on the phone, either?) But it’s only been in this last sliver of history that we’ve been able to listen to voices of people we’ll never meet or maybe would have never intentionally invited into our homes to influence us.

http://ahousewifewrites.com/2022/10/12/the-beautiful-benefits-of-silence-in-the-home/

Here's one video and you can check out her channel to watch the rest in the playlist.

https://youtu.be/9MQyxGwUdkc