You're listening to the Beautiful Mass podcast, your cozy comfort listen.

And this week, we are sharing lots of updates about books.

We are going to be sharing what we've been writing and also what we've been reading so far in 2025.

Woo-hoo!

Okay, so before we jump in this week, I wanted to share a little bit about our family vacation that we took this summer to London. It was our first time to go overseas with all four American passports. That was a new experience because we did adopt our youngest daughter like a couple

months before COVID started. So we had a couple years where we just weren't planning to travel.

And then after that, honestly, we just kind of had to get re-energized about the idea of traveling overseas with kids. So we finally got our

passports and we made ourselves a schedule that we're going to try to go to a new country every

year for the rest of their childhood into adulthood, like as kind of our like family adventure.

So the first place we wanted to go was London because

some of our dearest friends have been living there for a couple years and, you know, we miss them so

much obviously. And we just like wanted to see what it was like. I had never been to London

before. I think none of us had. Yeah. Jeremy hadn't been. I had been to England before, but not to London. And, you know, whatever. You have to go. Yeah. So I knew it was going to be amazing, but it was even like 10 times more amazing. I love London. Oh my gosh. Like I can't wait to go back. It's gorgeous. It's so beautiful. Everything's so fancy. And I have to say like the thing that left the biggest impression on me in an envious way, this is for our English listeners, is that I do think that English people get cuter book covers than we do.

Like the book covers are all different.

So it's just such a delight going through the bookstores in England.

And next time I go, I'm going to like bring a suitcase and try to have like a book suitcase or do something weird with.

Because I felt like I didn't have enough like I couldn't bring home as many books as I wanted.

So that was really, really hard, but I made it through.

What else we did when we were there is our friend Ryan, who's his project is called

Sleeping at Last.

So he performed at the Royal Albert Hall, and it was our children's first time to

go to a concert. So it was their first concert. Fancy first concert. It was such a fancy first

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