What are you as much as this weekend? We’re deciding on our Halloween costumes — Anton will most likely be a pile of leaves — and stocking up on Reese’s and Snickers. (What sort of sweet do you go out?) Hope you could have a very good one, and listed below are a couple of hyperlinks from across the internet…
How fairly is that this work costume?
Can’t wait to look at Kristen Bell’s new comedy film.
A yummy dinner to eat earlier than trick-or-treating.
At all times enjoyable to learn Jennifer Coolidge interviews. “I like my home in New Orleans… It’s darkish, and you are feeling such as you’re in one other world. There’s lots of people that may’t deal with that. For those who had a one-night stand in my home, you would say, ‘Would you want to satisfy the remainder of my useless household?’ My home is form of scary. That might be the anti-sell… However I can deal with being alone in an echo-y place.” (Vogue)
OMG THIS PILLOW! That is the motto I say on a regular basis with my boys (about my physique, their our bodies, everybody’s physique).
Would you put on a brilliant pink wedding ceremony costume?
The sixth love language doesn’t exist. (NYTimes present hyperlink)
“5 causes I don’t desire a greater house.”
We’re at all times making an attempt to get the temper lighting proper in our residence, and right here’s my new inspiration. Now that’s crepuscular. (NYMag)
This shirt is on my wishlist.
Cotton sweet monsters!
Plus, three reader feedback:
Says Suze on 11 feedback on parenting teenagers: “My dad, who handed away 10 years in the past, was a superb dad. He was embarrassing and sang on a regular basis. However he consistently advised me how proud he was of me. He’d go away little voicemails and texts; he would scrape my automobile from snow and ice; and he’d go away cups of espresso for me earlier than college. However this one tip sticks. He would are available my room, have a seat, take a deep breath and say, ‘Suze, you could have such a cool room.’ It was a simple one liner that always led to lengthy conversations. I certain do miss him. Grateful he was my dad for 26 years.”
Says Lexie on 11 feedback on parenting teenagers: “‘Holding area’ is a kind of phrases that will get stated loads however I by no means understood the that means till just lately. I’m a center college instructor, and what I inform the dad and mom of my seventh graders is that you could proceed to ask your baby questions, even when they reply the identical approach each time (for instance, how was college? ‘Fiiiiiine’). It issues that you simply ask, invite dialog, and present care, regardless of what number of instances you’re rejected. Youngsters need that management, that capacity to be dismissive, and so forth. as a result of their lives nonetheless aren’t of their management simply but. Hold in there!”
Says Lindsey on an important Brooklyn residence tour: “My mates and I’ve a recreation like Salad Bowl, however we name it ‘Degree 6.’ The primary three rounds are the identical as Salad Bowl. [Everyone puts three words into a bowl; then in the first round, you can say anything; the second round is charades and you act out the word; and the third round is just one word.] However then spherical 4 is only a sound, spherical 5 is a facial features, and spherical 6 is whole TELEPATHY. Degree 6 nearly by no means works, but it surely ends in hilarious eye contact, or individuals closing their eyes and making an attempt to soak up the vitality. And when it does work, it’s simply the very best.”
(Photograph of Paris by Julia Volk/Stocksy.)