The Raw and The Cooked - Simple Rhythms for SAHM, Honest Motherhood, and Books Worth Reading

Moving is one of the most stressful occurrences and disruptions in a persons life, but it’s also the only other time you’ll have the opportunity to touch literally everything you own, twice. When you pack and unpack it. So you get at least two opportunities to toss or donate items. Sometimes you don’t really know if you want to keep something until you see it in the new space.

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Questions for Self-Reflection

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Today I'm sharing my top tip for plowing through lengthy novels, and also I'm sharing  twenty three book recommendations, that are all 450 pages or more, listed in order of length:

1. The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK Jr. — 934 pages 
2. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt — 864 pages
3. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — 720 pages
4. Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz — 608 pages
5. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter — 592 pages
6. Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag — 592 pages
7. The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne — 590 pages
8. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towels - 576 pages
9. The Secret History by Donna Tartt — 559 pages
10. The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo — 532 pages
11. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr — 531 pages
12. Middlesex by Jeff Eugenides — 529 pages
13. The Circle by Dave Eggers– 504 pages
14. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — 490 pages 
15. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz — 477 pages
16. Americanah by Chimananada Ngoziii Adichie — 477 pages
17. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia — 471 pages
18. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah — 464 pages
19. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles — 462 pages
20. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty — 460 pages
21. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn — 456 pages
22. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger — 450 pages
23. The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E. Schwab — 448 pages

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Today's episode is to help you come up with your tools for your tool box, to be able to say, you know what? Today was hard, but I’m a wonderful mother, and I’m doing my very best.  And fall back upon the 3 Pillars to become a poised and confident mother: 

1. Defining a Successful Day
2. Pursuing Your Purpose
3. Connection In Your Own Way

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From cover to cover, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt was a very enjoyable read, and I definitely agree with the current Goodreads average rating (4.4 stars with over 300,000 reviews — as of October 2023). 

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1. Shifting our perspective
2. Knowing you're in a season, setting an end date
3. Keep up with your body: keeping well nourished, daily water intake, sleep, and daily bodily movement
4. Taking a big brain dump 
5. Breaking it all down into manageable steps and action items, putting them in their proper place (month by month)
6. Finding pockets of time in your schedule to tackle these items
7. Seeing what you can offload, outsource, of just push to the back burner for now
8. Building in rest when you can
9. Finding your flow and honoring your energy levels within your cycle
10. Ensuring your home rhythms have a solid system that work when things aren’t so crazy

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The Most Common Baking Mistakes:

1. Using ingredients that aren’t at the right temperature
2. Not rotating baked goods in the oven at least once during the baking process, to ensure an even bake
3. Checking items too frequently
4. Not chilling dough before baking
5. Not reading the recipe all the way through before getting started
6. Not measuring nor prepping all ingredients beforehand
7. Not properly measuring ingredients  
8. Not creaming butter and sugar for at least 8-10 minutes -- when they light and fluffy, they mean it.

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“You are not a machine. You are a human being. You have a soul. You were not made to go and go and go. You were not made to work 24/7. You were made to live into this rhythm that is embedded in creation itself. Rest refills your emotional, mental, spiritual, even physical reservoirs. It refills you with creativity, with wisdom, with a sharp mind, with optimism, with clarity, with a sense of peace about you. Rest is life giving. Why? Because God blessed the sabbath day.” —John Mark Comer 

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1. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
2. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
3. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
4. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkaii 
5. The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson
6. Faithful Place by Tana French
7. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
8. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
9. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
10. Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
11. My Oxford Year by Julia Whelen
12. The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeny

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1. creamy cauliflower
2. carrot & ginger soup
3. roasted pumpkin soup
4. roasted butternut squash soup
5. split pea soup
6. bacon & corn chowder
7. potato-leek soup
8. classic tomato soup (which I like to serve with grilled cheese sandwiches)
9. hearty vegetable soup
10. classic minestrone
11. white bean & kale soup
12. classic tortilla soup
13. lemon chicken & orzo
14. chicken noodle soup
15. chicken & wild rice

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