Have a Lovely Weekend. | Cup of Jo

What are you up to this weekend? Tonight Freddie and I are going to see the play Waiting for Godot. (I’ll report back!) Other than that, I’m hoping to take it easy after a busy week. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web…

I was thrilled to interview Sarah Jessica Parker for Big Salad! We talked about raising teens, secret talents, and favorite novels. “My mom had eight kids and always had a book in her lap to read at stoplights.”

How pretty is this floral sofa?

Love the bookish glasses from Warby Parker this fall — Ali McGraw wore a pair like this in Love Story.

The sweetest family dinner rule. “I asked them to try their hardest not to ever brag to their friends…but! In their own house, under their roof, and especially at our dinner table, there would be no limit on the boasting and the bragging, and in fact, we wanted to hear every single accomplishment or moment of joy, delivered with as much swagger as they’d like.”

Dallas’s bubbliest wedding officiant.

Real people’s tips for dating on the apps. “Joseph, 42, from Liverpool, is an advocate for finding your niche: he met his partner on…vegan and vegetarian dating app Grazer.” (The Guardian)

I want to live in these sweater sweats.

A beautiful calendar for 2026.

In Peppa Peg, does Daddy Pig deserve his bumbling reputation? “Daddy Pig…may be slightly overconfident but is also a warm, caring and attentive father, beloved by his family and seemingly everyone who lives within the topographically demented hills of Peppatown. He’s also a civil engineer, like my own dad, so maybe I’m drawn to forgive warm, caring fathers their foibles if they include the sort of overconfidence which once led my dad to proclaim he ‘could speak most European languages at a push,’ because he’d learned Greek and Latin in school.” (The Observer, via Pandora Sykes)

Digging this color combo.

Omg, this is how bumblebees nap.

Plus, two reader comments:

Says Eva on kids in conversation: “Here’s a recent gem from my six-year-old:
Dad to kid: ‘You smell like broccoli.’
Kid to dad: ‘You smell like lasagna.’
Me: ‘Do me! Do me!’
Kid to me: ‘You smell like love.’”

Says Kirsten on what are your simple pleasures?: “I always wanted to be a super successful, ambitious, ladder-climbing adult. I’m in a comfortable career, and a few years ago, I had the opportunity to level up and step into that fantasy version of myself. But after mulling it over, I said ‘no’. The thing that kept tripping me up was, who will take care of my dog? I would’ve had to use some of my new money to pay someone to do the thing I love doing. It turned out I didn’t want to give up anything I love in order to have more money. That inner voice was very surprising to me.”

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