What are you as much as this weekend? Tonight we’re having a sleepover with associates (each mothers and youngsters, it will likely be chaos!). And on Sunday the boys and I’d see the film Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, which has been getting nice evaluations. Have you ever seen it? Hope you will have a very good one, and listed here are a couple of enjoyable hyperlinks from across the internet…
How dreamy is that this English cottage?
A grandma’s good oatmeal crisp cookies.
The last fertility taboo: “Chloe, 39, finds herself pregnant once more, however not speaking in regards to the course of [of using a donor egg]… Even her father doesn’t know. ‘My dad actually loves our household tree and our household historical past,’ she says, worrying that this penchant for family tree would possibly issue into how he treats one sibling over one other. ‘It’s prefer it wouldn’t be his genetic grandchild.’” (NYmag)
My new trick to getting smooth hair.
GREAT ebook about raising teenagers.
The world’s first airplane bunk beds in economic system.
My good friend wrote a hilarious record of 40 things she learned by age 40, together with “A matinee with M&Ms dumped instantly into the popcorn is a staycation and nobody ought to know the place you’re” and “Wherever you go, have a nemesis. It makes issues enjoyable!” (Subscribe to her free newsletter, in case you’d like.)
A basketball player’s great response to a reporter’s query about failure.
Absolutely the best way to make onion dip.
A case for ghosting typically. “I firmly imagine {that a} swift, painless ghosting seems like a welcome reprieve from the dreaded post-date breakup textual content the place somebody explains why they don’t need to meet up once more. In case you go on a date, have a convo that’s dry as toast, after which change an ungainly air hug earlier than parting methods, shouldn’t that be sufficient data to know you aren’t a match?”
Plus, seven reader feedback (since you guys are the very best and I couldn’t slim them down!):
Says Carol on a guest bedroom makeover: “I’m an enormous believer in framing the written phrase: household telegrams, my grandfather’s lovely Steamfitters License, and many others. Probably the greatest, nonetheless, was the letter my seven-year-old daughter wrote to her future cousin (the anticipated baby of her beloved aunt): ‘Expensive Licky Licky Boy’ (fortunate boy). Then she enumerated all the nice issues he would be capable of do along with his mom and ended with ‘and she’s going to all the time have gum.’”
Says Tee on a guest bedroom makeover: “My husband, our three kids and I regularly host folks. (I’ve seven siblings, so we get plenty of friends!) Would it not be bizarre to place a guestbook in our visitor bed room?”
Says Meg: “My good friend had a guestbook in her DORM ROOM once we had been in faculty, since folks had been continuously crashing on her ground. Go for it, it’s so enjoyable! ”
Says Emily: “My mother and father have stored one on their espresso desk since 1970. It’s enjoyable to flip via and see the youngsters who scratched their names at age seven who now have their very own seven-year-olds, outdated faculty associates who got here to crash for a weekend, and loads of different guests whose visits we certainly would have forgotten by now if not for the visitor ebook!”
Says Emily: “My good friend had a peak wall in her condominium and added everybody who visited. It was so humorous and was the one factor they had been unhappy to go away behind once they moved.”
Says Sarah on 10 funny celebrity sightings: “I was a flight attendant and I as soon as had Ryan Reynolds in my first-class cabin. We had been serving a meal, and he declined, which meant there was a leftover first-class entree. So, I ate it, as a result of I used to be broke and hungry. Later within the flight, he got here as much as the galley to stretch his legs and mentioned he had modified his thoughts about dinner. And I needed to inform him no, as a result of I had already eaten it. I wished to die and I provided him soup. He was extremely gracious. He requested if the meal has been any good and I gave him an ‘ehhhh’ and hand waggle, and he laughed and accepted the soup. He was a lot taller than I anticipated. Jason Statham, however, was far shorter than anticipated. He slept for a lot of the flight and the particular person subsequent to him (not with him!) watched a Jason Statham film, ha!”
Says Nicola on 10 funny celebrity sightings: “RuPaul as soon as mentioned in an interview that he typically rides the subway and typically a passer-by will silently mouth ‘I really like you’ to him throughout a crowded practice carriage, to which he responds ‘I really like you too’. One thing about that story simply made me really feel so heat inside – Ru is a hero to so many queer and non-stereotype-fitting of us, so I can’t think about how a lot these interactions imply to individuals who see him.”
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