Power Nap #56
May is for meal planning! / BIRD THEMED FACTS
In Case You Missed It
#MayisforMealPlanning is here. Here's how you can meal plan 12 times a year as opposed to 52 times. And here's how to find more joy in the meal plan.
How does Kate plan out an entire month of meals? She shows you the 5 steps here. Get the template she uses here!
This is the perfect tupperware for reheating leftovers.
It's sun hat season! Kate's did a sun hat comparison on IG stories last week. All of her favorites are found here.
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive."- Howard Thurman
Things We Found Interesting About Birds
If you don't have it yet, you need the Merlin Bird Identification app. Nate loves it. The kids love it. You can id a bird by either answering a series of questions (e.g., is it bigger than a robin?), submitting a photo (the zoom feature is pretty good, so you don't actually need a super close photo), or – probably the coolest of all – by recording a sound bite and letting the app tell you what bird is making the call. Really great low stakes way to get yourself and your kids learning about the birds in your neighborhood.
This tool allows you to put in your county and explore what birds are migrating over house at night. Looks like Charleston County had around 300k birds cross over last night. Top species: Yellow-rumped Warbler, Eastern Kingbird, and the Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Powernapper Blair Covington shared this article on Cowbirds after discovering “some (what we think are) baby cowbirds while doing yard work.” In case you don't know, Cowbirds are brood parasites, meaning that rather than raise their young themselves, they ditch their eggs in other species’ nests and allow these forced foster parents to do the tough work of chick-rearing.
Things We Devoured
