What are you as much as this weekend? My dad is visiting, and we’d see the film One High-quality Morning (have you ever seen it?). We additionally bought some slice-and-bake cookie dough as a result of the boys are hooked! Hope you could have a very good one, and listed here are a number of enjoyable hyperlinks from across the internet…
Every time folks ask me the place to buy in Brooklyn, right here’s my #1 suggestion. (These guys are on the prime of my wishlist.)
Cheese and broccoli for the win.
Wow, how beautiful is David Harbour and Lily Allen’s home? Dying over the wallpaper.
The definitive information to elevating preteens with out letting them get to you (lol). “Allow them to be in unhealthy moods, however allow them to know you’re right here to assist. Their hormones are nuts, their pores and skin and hair is the ugliest it should ever be, their tooth are jacked, they’ll’t put collectively an outfit for shit, and so they don’t know the place they belong on the earth. They’re changing into impartial and nonetheless strapped down as younger youngsters however really feel like they don’t seem to be youngsters. It’s laborious for them. For my youngsters, generally, I might simply say, ‘It’s clear you had a tough week, let’s simply make popcorn and watch a film that makes us cry.’”
pay attention fully. #bookmarked.
Sweater vests are in every single place proper now — how cute is this and this?
A sixtieth birthday journey to Antarctica.
Who needs to make pottery with Seth Rogen?
A two-person sport to play on Valentine’s Day.
Keep in mind this birthday quiz? I made one for my sister final week and forgot how a lot enjoyable they have been.
Plus, three reader feedback:
Says Rachel G. on my greatest $8 parenting buy: “Impressed by Sophie Blackall’s Issues To Look Ahead To, I posted a clean piece of paper on the toilet wall and taped a pen subsequent it for folks so as to add their very own issues they’re trying ahead to. My youngsters, in-laws, mates, and mates’ youngsters have all contributed, and I like that I get to really feel stoked about their anticipations, in addition to my very own.”
Says NMK on slice-and-bake cookie dough: a style take a look at: “My favourite cookie tip, realized from highschool chemistry: As soon as cookies have cooled after baking, put them in a storage container with a very good lid, then break aside a bit of sandwich bread and slip each halves in. The cookies keep tremendous gentle and the bread will get rock laborious. Dunk in milk for days to come back. Get pleasure from!”
Says Ari on a love letter to my canine: “This yr, our firm supplied us well-being stipends, and I spent mine on adopting a canine, who fully has my coronary heart. I’ve been affected by burnout, melancholy, and anxiousness, and this canine is saving my life. I’m strolling all day with him. He’ll lie all 50 kilos of him on me like a weighted blanket after I cry. He’ll run as much as different canines and get a dialog began. He’s additionally a darling to my son. Once I playfully requested my son whether or not he thinks our canine is an older or youthful brother to him, he merely stated, ‘He’s my twin.’ SOB.”
I Ask Percy How I Ought to Reside My Life
by Mary Oliver
Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as quick as you’ll be able to
alongside the shining seashore, or the rubble, or the mud.
Then, fall asleep.
Quit your physique warmth, your beating coronary heart.
Then, belief.
(Photograph of Norway by Sergey Lukankin/Stocksy.)