What are you as much as this weekend? Tonight we’re having a sleepover with pals (each mothers and youngsters, will probably be chaos!). And on Sunday the boys and I would 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 number of enjoyable hyperlinks from across the net…
How dreamy is that this English cottage?
A grandma’s good oatmeal crisp cookies.
The final 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 easy hair.
GREAT guide about elevating youngsters.
The world’s first airplane bunk beds in financial system.
My good friend wrote a hilarious checklist of 40 issues she discovered 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 might be” and “Wherever you go, have a nemesis. It makes issues enjoyable!” (Subscribe to her free e-newsletter, in case you’d like.)
A basketball participant’s nice response to a reporter’s query about failure.
Absolutely the greatest approach to make onion dip.
A case for ghosting typically. “I firmly consider {that a} swift, painless ghosting looks 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. If you happen to go on a date, have a convo that’s dry as toast, after which alternate 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 slender them down!):
Says Carol on a visitor bed room makeover: “I’m an enormous believer in framing the written phrase: household telegrams, my grandfather’s stunning Steamfitters License, and so on. Top-of-the-line, nevertheless, was the letter my seven-year-old daughter wrote to her future cousin (the anticipated little one of her beloved aunt): ‘Expensive Licky Licky Boy’ (fortunate boy). Then she enumerated all the good issues he would be capable of do together with his mom and ended with ‘and she’s going to all the time have gum.’”
Says Tee on a visitor bed room makeover: “My husband, our three youngsters and I steadily host folks. (I’ve seven siblings, so we get a variety of friends!) Wouldn’t it be bizarre to place a guestbook in our visitor bed room?”
Says Meg: “My good friend had a guestbook in her DORM ROOM after we have been in faculty, since folks have been always crashing on her flooring. Go for it, it’s so enjoyable! ”
Says Emily: “My mother and father have saved one on their espresso desk since 1970. It’s enjoyable to flip by means of and see the children who scratched their names at age seven who now have their very own seven-year-olds, previous faculty pals who got here to crash for a weekend, and loads of different guests whose visits we absolutely would have forgotten by now if not for the visitor guide!”
Says Emily: “My good friend had a peak wall in her residence and added everybody who visited. It was so humorous and was the one factor they have been unhappy to depart behind after they moved.”
Says Sarah on 10 humorous celeb sightings: “I was a flight attendant and I as soon as had Ryan Reynolds in my top quality cabin. We have 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, then again, was far shorter than anticipated. He slept for many of the flight and the particular person subsequent to him (not with him!) watched a Jason Statham film, ha!”
Says Nicola on 10 humorous celeb 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 people, so I can’t think about how a lot these interactions imply to individuals who see him.”
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