Fringe Friday: Week 5

Welcome to Fringe Friday, an opportunity to share what you have been doing in your fringe hours during the week.

Sorry it has been so quiet here on the blog this week. If you have been following me on Instagram you know that last week Ezra, my friend Katie and I were in Canada doing two days of media for The Fringe Hours. I was on four television shows in two days, which was incredibly fun. In the evenings we ate good food and relaxed in our hotel room. It was a pretty awesome little girls getaway.

My favorite experience was probably being on The Social, which is similar in format to The View. Check it out below (click here to see the other shows I did).

Then I was home long enough to get unpacked and repacked for a trip to see my family in Wisconsin. Adeline, Ezra and I flew up Wednesday and have been having so much fun visiting. Yesterday I did another television interview for the local show The Morning Blend, which you can see below.

In between the flurry of travel and media opportunities, I have squeezed in some time to read. A perk of writing books is that you have the opportunity to read advance copies of other books. Last week was Hands Free Life: Nine Habits for Overcoming Distraction, Living Better, and Loving More and this week I read Anchored: Finding Hope in the Unexpected, the new book by Kayla Aimee releasing in July. I read it in one day – it was that good. Anchored chronicles Kayla’s story of navigating her daughter’s premature birth. I found myself crying on one page and laughing the next – the perfect memoir every mother should read.

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Another book that I dove into is the new devotional Savor by Shauna Niequist. This is the kind of devotional you want to read yourself and give to everyone you know. It’s beautiful, practical and unlike anything else out there. It’s been in the top 10 books on Amazon all week for a reason. I love that Amazon says that people who buy Savor also buy The Fringe Hours because they really are the perfect pairing. Highly recommend!

Lastly, I started my Project Life 2015 album by starting to go through all the photos from this year and organize each week into folders. My plan is to get a huge batch of photos ordered by the weekend using this Snapfish deal. Can’t beat 100 photos for $1!

The combination of a hard end of my pregnancy, Ezra’s birth and my book has meant it has been months since I worked on Project Life. Just going through those photos got me so excited. I am not worrying about editing photos or having perfect pages planned. Instead I’m simply focusing on getting caught up. Project Life makes it so simple.

What did you do in your fringe hours this week? Make a new recipe? Read? Craft? Exercise? Share your  blog posts or Instagrams below.