Keepers After the Pandemic

 First of all, thank you for all the sweet comments about the blog.  I appreciate you all being willing to pack your blog bags and move with me to our new website.  If you missed the announcement, go back and read Monday's post.    

I will keep you posted on when we will all move over!

But today I want to share a few things I hope we keep after the pandemic.

1) Sanitizing Shopping Carts - anyone else feel like maybe we should have been doing this all along?  Just feels like a good practice to wipe down a surface that the public has been touching all day.

2) I feel the same way about the frozen food door handles and the card readers.....let's keep up the cleaning on those

3) Giving everyone some personal space.  Honestly, have you ever been standing in the check out line with someone breathing down your neck and every step you take forward, they take a step forward.  I hope we keep those dots on the floor and can maintain a little personal space.

4) Staggered college move in/outs.  Yes, to not every college student with 18 plastic bins and 5 family members showing up on campus the same day.  Please, please can we keep this!

5) No waiting room at doctor/dentist visits.  How nice that we have figured out that you can show up for your appointment, go in, be seen and leave so the next person can arrive for their appointment.  It is a wonderful concept that I fully embrace.

6) Drive by birthday parties and showers.....I don't mind them.....I really don't

7) Being home more.  I think we may have all over done the being busy thing.  It has been nice cutting back on the running around to something all the time.  I may need a new sofa more often....but I feel it is a good trade off.

Have you found some things that you would like to keep too?

I think we all have.  See you back on Friday!

Welcome to Monday

 Hope everyone had a great weekend.  We had a busy but good one.  Still lots to do, but a lot of progress was made.

I mentioned an announcement on Friday that I would have for you this week.

Well we are moving......not me personally.....all of us on this blog.  When I started this blog a little over 3 years ago I wasn't sure if or how long I would last.  I honestly wasn't sure if anyone would tune in to read and if I would have enough to say.  I am humbled and honored that you guys show up here.  This creative outlet has turned out to be such a blessing to me.  And it would mean absolutely nothing without each of you ..... a BIG thank you to each of you.  Since I wasn't sure about our longevity I started out on a free blogger platform.  But now that I think we are here to stay....I have purchased the domain which means no one else can be called On the Couch Under a Throw! And we are going to be a real dot com very soon!!!

If you go and look at www.onthecouchunderathrow.com, you will see a Coming Soon!!!

And it really is coming soon.  Many of you subscribe, so you will continue to get the blog sent to your email.  But I know some of you just pop in so you will need to eventually change the address you type in.  I will let you know when we officially pack our bags and make the move.

Right now we are in the process of moving over all 500 plus blog posts to the website and making it nice and pretty.  Hopefully, this will make searching things easier, leaving comments easier, hopefully everything will be easier.

I am very excited to make everything better and better for you all!

Just a quick little note of a find we had over the weekend.  Huntsville now has a Crumbl Cookies and we gave them a try

We tried an oatmeal chocolate chunk, a rocky road, a sugar and a pina colada.

They were all good.  They are a pretty good size so we all cut a piece from each and sampled them all.

If you need a quarantine treat.....here you go.

Have a wonderful week!!!

Coming Soon

 Short and simple post this week because I am off working feverishly on a BIG announcement for next week.

So wishing you all a great weekend.  Stay safe, stay cool.....and wish me luck for bringing this across the finish line and having it ready to roll out to you next week.

August Gift Guide

 Are you in need of a gift this month? Well let's do some gift shopping.......

If you need a gift for the beauty lover, check out this beauty bag

Rosmax Beauty Bag is the perfect organizer for the friend (or you) who has a lot of products to organize.

If you need a home gift, try the 

Echo Show - I think the quarantine has made this even a more fun thing to own.  

You know what else we have needed while spending more time in our homes?

This 

Extended Charging cord and it's this month's idea for the guys on your list.

For kids on your list consider this

This paracord comes in several different color options and will be perfect to help carry around that hydroflask.

And lastly for that girlfriend who has a birthday this month

Apple Watch band......this one comes in several color choices, but I think this pink would be fun to give.

Hope that gives you some great ideas for you or a friend.

See you back on Friday!