Have a Scrumptious Weekend. | Cup of Jo

What are you as much as this weekend? We’re driving as much as Vermont to see the autumn leaves. They could nonetheless be fairly inexperienced, however both manner, we’re excited for cider donuts and these alpine slides. Shana Tovah to our readers who’re celebrating the Jewish holidays! Hope you might have a great one, and listed below are just a few hyperlinks from across the net…

Our girl Stella Blackmon was featured in the NYTimes! Her brief movies about teenage life are wonderful. (NYTimes present hyperlink)

These thank you cards made me chortle.

“Should I bring anything to the dinner tonight or just my crippling anxiety?”

Very, very chocolate-y brownies.

Is there something cozier than an outsized turtleneck you may play hide-and-seek in? Striped, mustard, green.

This Goodnight Moon essay introduced me to my knees. “Our son arrived on the earth like a comet breaking the sound barrier, or Kramer skidding into Jerry’s house… He was bewitching, candy, playful and wildly entertaining, the sort of child strangers admired within the grocery retailer. However his night routine nearly broke me,” writes Elizabeth Egan, who tried every thing to assist her son sleep. Nothing labored, till one evening, when she learn Goodnight Moon. “A heat, doughy starfish hand got here to relaxation on my wrist and remained there as I turned the pages. A aromatic, damp head plunked onto my shoulder. On the finish of the ebook, my son took a finger out of his mouth and stated quietly, ‘Once more.’” (NYTimes present hyperlink)

Small bedroom ideas. (Drooling over #2.)

Loving this flirty text exchange.

The sexual assault activist who finds joy in fashion. At NYFW, “a generally requested query is, ‘What are you carrying?,’ and as I used to be speaking about what I selected to put on that day, I had this outstanding second the place I used to be like, I’ve been requested this actual query, nevertheless it was the exact opposite expertise. It was after my rape. That point, that sentence was shaming me and presuming guilt for the violence that occurred to me. It was very full circle. I then created the Survivor Style Present in order that survivors can take again this query.” (NYMag)

Funny clouds, of all issues.

Plus, three reader feedback:

Says Jen on what’s made you chortle these days: “This made me chortle at present!”

Says Lauren O. on a trick to staying current: “I deleted Pokémon GO from my telephone a few years in the past as a result of I noticed I hadn’t known as my mother on one in all my every day walks in months, and the primary time I went, with out I noticed A LIVE EEL SLITHERING ACROSS THE SIDEWALK! (I used to be strolling by means of Chinatown and it had sloshed out of a tank at one of many fish markets.) I sprang into motion to rescue it and buddies, ‘slippery as an eel’ is not any joke.”

Says Maeve on let’s discover this reader a back-to-law-school outfit: “Anne, because the daughter of a mother who went to regulation college whereas my sister and I had been little (I used to be beginning kindergarten), I would like you to know what an unbelievable instance you might be setting on your little ones. I’m immensely pleased with my mother for 1,000,000 causes however one in all them is the bravery she displayed in that call (and every of her choices to continue to learn — she is 62 and simply took up rollerblading and German courses!). She had all the time needed to be a felony prosecutor, however her father informed her to ‘settle for her lot in life and discover contentedness in it’ (he’s a product of his context, as all of us are). My recollections of her time in class largely include particular moments with my dad. He was a lawyer already, however he took a step again from his profession in some ways in order that my mother may take a step ahead in hers. And when my mother did the opening of her first homicide trial earlier than a jury a number of years later, my dad took my sister and me to see it. We had entrance row seats to the proof that it’s by no means too late to start out a brand new chapter. And, maybe unsurprisingly, I grew to become a prosecutor, too. I simply needed to be my mother. Nonetheless do. No matter you put on, Anne, you might be so courageous and alongside your youngsters and husband, this entire group is rooting for you.”

(Photograph by Laura Austin/Stocksy.)