Have a Cozy Weekend.

What are you as much as this weekend? My dad is visiting, and we’d see the film One Fantastic Morning (have you ever seen it?). We additionally received some slice-and-bake cookie dough as a result of the boys are hooked! Hope you have got an excellent one, and listed below are just a few enjoyable hyperlinks from across the internet…

At any time when folks ask me the place to buy in Brooklyn, right here’s my #1 advice. (These guys are on the high of my wishlist.)

Cheese and broccoli for the win.

Wow, how attractive 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 dangerous 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 would 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 this planet. They’re turning into impartial and nonetheless strapped down as younger youngsters however really feel like they aren’t children. It’s onerous for them. For my children, generally, I’d simply say, ‘It’s clear you had a tough week, let’s simply make popcorn and watch a film that makes us cry.’”

Learn how to hear fully. #bookmarked.

Sweater vests are in every single place proper now — how cute is that this and this?

A sixtieth birthday journey to Antarctica.

Who desires 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 had 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 lavatory wall and taped a pen subsequent it for folks so as to add their very own issues they’re wanting ahead to. My children, in-laws, mates, and mates’ children 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 check: “My favourite cookie tip, realized from highschool chemistry: As soon as cookies have cooled after baking, put them in a storage container with an excellent lid, then break aside a bit of sandwich bread and slip each halves in. The cookies keep tremendous mushy and the bread will get rock onerous. Dunk in milk for days to come back. Take pleasure in!”

Says Ari on a love letter to my canine: “This 12 months, our firm provided 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 once I cry. He’ll run as much as different canine and get a dialog began. He’s additionally a darling to my son. After I playfully requested my son whether or not he thinks our canine is an older or youthful brother to him, he merely mentioned, ‘He’s my twin.’ SOB.”

I Ask Percy How I Ought to Stay My Life
by Mary Oliver

Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as quick as you possibly can
alongside the shining seashore, or the rubble, or the mud.

Then, fall asleep.
Surrender your physique warmth, your beating coronary heart.
Then, belief.

(Photograph of Norway by Sergey Lukankin/Stocksy.)