5 Things I'm Loving Right Now

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1. These nice but not expensive colored pens.

I put them in my Walmart grocery pickup but they're also available from Amazon!

2. Halo Top peanut butter cup ice cream in a 4 pack at Costco.

3. Fresh mango - so good.

4. Traditional Medicinals Lemon Echinacea Throat Coat tea. I'm currently fighting an earache, lingering sore throat and cough, and congestion, and having this soothing tea (which I also love the taste of!) in my Yeti mug to sip is really soothing.

5. Magic in a Bottle arnica menthol lotion. I've been dealing with a sore neck this past week and this is such a lifesaver! Also, it's particularly awful having a sore neck and a cold. Sneezing has been excruciating!

So that's my current list!

What 5 things - or 1 - are you loving right now?

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