YAY! Lacy I’m speaking too, we will get to meet! So exciting! I can’t wait to see the entire lineup. ♥

Hooray for Waits’ love of camping! And road trips, and bear sightings, and the new hashtag. We roasted veggie dogs over our small fire pit the night you started the hashtag, but I didn’t get a picture because we were too busy stargazing.

This week, I’m loving: home grown film festivals as we count down the end of summer break // harvesting more garden produce that I know what to do with, and then figuring out how to use it all up – preserving doesn’t count! This is the summer of baking, which means roasted tomato galettes and zucchini muscovado streudel muffins // it’s also the year of cheese, so there may be a cashew-based mascarpone tart in my near future // nabbing the last three boxes of EB mac&cheese at Whole Foods this morning before heading in to work // my law books have been arriving all week long in the mail and Mar set up my home office last night to surprise me and he left one of Nina’s Lego work stations set up in the same room which is INSANE but I love his optimism

Happy weekend!

My very first (!!) ~le love list~: being newly 21, aka newly able to come home after a long day of work and pop open wine in front of my folks (and not feel like I should be hiding it from them, haha); nice customers who come into my work (Starbucks) and tip well, but more importantly make me smile (in a beyond-customer-service way); VEGAN customers coming in and asking what’s vegan at Starbucks, so basically the question I’ve been waiting my whole life to answer in depth; seeing and reading about awesome little Waits on here because it reminds me that wonderful little people are coming into the world every day (and being reminded that really wonderful parents like you and Damian exist!); and, finally, for YOU Miss Sayward, because I am fresh out of college and therefore in an incredibly confusing and heartbreaking and scary part of my life, and little constants like your blog make me so happy and remind me to listen to my heart and be myself. (As does Amanda Palmer, who I never would’ve known if not for this blog, who is helping me through all sorts of madness like no musician ever has helped me before.)

oof. le love list, in full~

Love this post! As I commented on your IG, I’m planning a trip through California and the Pacific Northwest next year, and thanks to your post, General Sherman and the Giant Sequioa park have been firmly added to my must-see list.

My love list: Planning my move to New Zealand, and my round-the-world adventure – learning to go easy on myself, and realising that it’s *ok* to be in a constant state of mild panic over making such a huge life change – booking in an interview to start my PhD when I come home from NZ – almost criminally cheap theatre tickets – nettle tea – weekend naps – quinoa chips – quality time with friends and family, which is even more special than usual because I’m about to up and leave for more than a year!

When I was young, our family vacations involved piling into a Volvo sedan and driving up to either Yosemite or Sequoia (depending on the trip) to camp. To this day, I still feel very connected to the giant redwoods and am elated to see your pic! I’m not so outdoorsy, but I do still feel a romanticized pull toward camping in those parks again someday (at a campsite with amenities like restrooms and showers ;)).

For some reason, your Love List this week reminds me of the little “wills” we wrote as HS seniors that were published in our yearbook that year. They were always full of inside jokes and cheeky things to bequeath.

Amazing, I just found your blog.. A little new to the party I know, but I have devoured it like the apples and almond butter I am eating right now haha. Waits is adorable!! And I have the same pair of green converse haha prolly the same size (11) cause I’m pretty damn tall too.. But tall (and short) girls kick ass!! Oh and I loved the faierie costume.. So refreshing seeing pictures of kids being happy when allowed to do what every damn kid wants to do.. Love it!!