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Emily Freeman is hosting a link-up today called “Things I Learned in June” so I thought I’d play along. And let’s be honest, since it is summer and June is a month my brain usually goes on a long vacation, I’m way impressed I learned something. Plus, you all know my stalking love for Emily. I’m always game for her ideas.

    • The Voice Translation of the Bible by Thomas Nelson is amazing:  I love it and find my heart drawn to read it every day. I’m walking through Psalms this summer and the language of this translation has captured my heart. I use it alongside the English Standard Version and or the New Living Translation. Are you familiar with this new translation?
    • I can live without Instagram: This month I took one for the team and deleted Instagram from my phone. My team meaning one of my girls. All I will say about the “Why” is it was for her and that decision was easy. She is worth it. In the days since, I have missed it, but not mourned it. I miss it the way you would miss people watching at Disney. I like being able to see life happening with people I internet with. But really, I like love my girl more. So if you’ve wondered where I went over there, now you know.
    • My Nice and Easy hair color really is Light Golden Brown and not Light Neutral Brown:  I learned this trial by error and will proudly bring back the Light Golden goodness in about 6 weeks.

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  • You can reinvent the wheel or blog and people will like it: I hatched a plan a few month ago to revamp the Mothers of Daughters blog into something completely different than it was before. The new “blog” is really a monthly magazine that publishes once per month (2nd Tuesday) with one newsletter (4th Tuesday). All posts go live together – for maximum reading enjoyment. Next month, Emily is going to be a featured guest. Now that is super cool, right?
  • If you want to write a book tell everybody to stop by on Mondays: This was a great idea when it started until I ran out of pre-written chapters and started panicking a little bit on Fridays. But, as it turns out panicking is a good writing prompt for me and right now we are moving towards Chapter 6 of “How to be Ok With Where You Are” and it is actually being written.
  • How to make Brownie in a Mug: What, you don’t know either? It is yum. Just do it. Yes it really cooks in 1 minute and 4o seconds and your kids will think you are awesome.

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This may be all I learned in June. It is possible something else slipped by me, but I think this is pretty significant. Did you learn something in June? I’d love to hear about it in the comments…

xo,

Stacey