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garden / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrreedildy dooooo. You know what will always be? No matter how old I get, the parents on sitcoms from my childhood will always be older than me. Always. This shan’t be argued. Cliff and Clair Huxtable? Much older than me. Uncle Jesse and Joey? A lot older. Aunt Becky? Someday I’ll be her age and […]

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backyard roses / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrit’s SUMMER. How. You guys, I need help. (shocker!) Tell me how I can lighten my hair, mainly my bangs, but for like five pennies. (also did you see that next year the US is going to stop making pennies?! Natalie and I saw that news on IG last night before bed and both our […]

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spring flowers / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrah! dah. Hey, thank you all SO MUCH for your thoughtful, meaningful and supportive words from last week’s post. You have no idea how touched we were, how far they went and how warm we felt. Thank you. Endlessly, thank you. And so many asked how you could support me. And I have answers for […]

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tree peony / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-so this is what’s going on. Last week I posted a four-leaf clover that we found in our back yard while doing some lawn work. And with it, a vague caption about being thrown a really scary curveball in life. Because are you really an Instagrammer if you’re not posting mysterious, cryptic messages about hardships? […]

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spring morning / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrehdehhhhhhh! This might be a dumb-dumb question but, where the hell do candles even go? Like taper candles, when they burn down, some of them turn into molten medieval beauty-and-the-beast style dripeedos, and some straight up DISAPPEAR. And I’m perplexed every time yet too lazy to google it. Where do they go? Yes I’m breathing […]

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tree peony / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrit’s been a while! I feel like I say that often. I’ve been so out of sync with this space for some time. I go in and out, riding the micro waves of inspiration, only to fall back into little valleys of meh. But ya know what, we persevere and churn on! Because today is […]

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blooming tree / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrow’s your bracket?! Let’s start there before I reveal a shocker of all shockers. FIRST OF ALL, did you see Arkansas last night? I did not, I’m a grandma and went to bed. But I got up and Aaron gave me the heartbreaking details. How sad! To have such an intense lead, only to lose […]

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moody bedroom corner / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrring break! I mean spring break! Speed Queen washer and dryer users: what settings do you normally use? Yes I read the manual. But I want to know what normal people use when they do normal laundry. For now I’ve been using the eco setting, warm water, extra rinse so that I can use fabric […]

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pretty wall / bev cooks

Frrrrrrarrrararararar! (<—?) What do we think 3am means? I mean, I KNOW what 3am is, but what do you think it means? (besides an odd way to start a blog post.) Like, why do people wake up specifically at 3am on the dot? Or do you ever? Or have you never? Or do you always? […]

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snow day / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrreeedeee. This is going to feel a bit different today. Partly because I don’t have much silliness bouncing around up in the noggin lately, but also I’m kind of in the mood to just be real with you all. Not that I’m not ever not real. Not really. (huh?) But this is definitely a season […]

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