Emily Ley

Emily Ley

5-Minute Meals for When You Just Cannot Even.

We're not cooking. We're *assembling.*

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Emily Ley
Apr 23, 2024
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Hello again from crazy season. 🔥🫠

How’s it going in your neck of the woods? I decided to capitalize on my Big Spring Energy over the weekend and dove into all kinds of MUCH NEEDED chores. I spent a WILD Saturday night updating kid devices and getting family screen time restrictions back in order before Summer Mode starts.

Fun times with our family of five. 🎪🎠🎢

At the moment, I’m looking at my calendar and watching the blocks of margin squeezing smaller and smaller to accommodate all the End of School Year activities, two cookbook photoshoots, a Tent Sale with nearly 500 people RSVPd, followed by a June book release, then taking the kids to camp and all the prep that goes into that. Needless to say, the treadmill is speeding up.

If you’ve been around here for a minute, you know what I start to do when life gets busy and my priorities begin to shift:

I do what matters. And I forget the rest.

Right now, what matters is: getting the things done, and getting good rest.

What doesn’t matter is: COOKING FANCY MEALS.

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