Have a Relaxing Weekend. | Cup of Jo

What are you up to this weekend? Freddie and I are having pizza and playing games tonight, and I’m SO excited to see the boys when they get home on Sunday. I’ve missed them so much and can’t wait to squeeze them. Hope you have a good one, and here are some links from around the web…

How to be funny at a dinner party.

My favorite shape of jeans.

Nerd alert: My dad and I thought this Connections puzzle was especially fun.

I Am a Midwestern Girl from a Movie and/or TV Show So Excited to Be Here in the Big City. Made me laugh.

“I went swimming in the Seine.” The photos are so cool!

A Chipwich ice cream cake.

Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson are the ‘it’ couple we didn’t know we needed.

Hard things are supposed to be hard. Loved this.

With summer fruit, the big question is: galette or crisp?

Would love to wear my hair like this all fall and winter.

Celine Song — of Past Lives fame — is writing a sequel to My Best Friend’s Wedding. Will you watch?

I laughed so much listening to Amy Poehler’s podcast episode with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.

Would you try ‘Japanese walking’? (NYTimes gift link)

Plus, three reader comments:

Says Jorie on what cute things do your kids love doing: “My kids are five, three and one. Earlier this summer, we were visiting family in the Midwest, and everyone kept commenting, ‘I can’t believe you’re starting kindergarten!’ to my five-year-old and ‘I can’t believe you’re walking!’ to my one-year-old. After the third interaction with relatives, my middle child three-year-old daughter quickly started chiming in at the end with, ‘And I can’t BELIEVE I’m THREE!’ Sometimes, you gotta gas yourself up!”

Says Emily on what cute things do your kids love doing: “I knew I was changed forever when a really good fire truck drove by, and I was alone in the car shouting, ‘Wow, look at that one go!’ Twentysomething me could not fathom noticing such a thing, let alone developing a strong affinity with certain trucks. In the words of Elphaba and Glinda, ‘I have been changed for good.’”

Says J. on how do you mother yourself: “I mother myself through the parenting advice I learned right here on Cup of Jo a decade ago: ‘just add water!’

– take a long shower
– run your wrists under cold water for the length of a full song (this is also a great trick if you feel a panic attack coming on and can be done privately!)
– slowly drink a glass of water
– sweat with a hard workout
– go on a walk as close as possible to a body of water
– run an ice cube over the back of your neck, collarbone, forearms, etc.
– let yourself cry

‘Just add water’ is up there with ‘babies be babies’ – the hymns and recitations and inside jokes of this gorgeous, sparkly, warm, welcoming, loving community that mothers one another so joyfully every day.”

(Photos by Freddie.)

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