Have a Cozy Weekend. | Cup of Jo

What are you as much as this weekend? Tonight we’re having a sleepover with buddies (each mothers and children, it will likely be chaos!). And on Sunday the boys and I’d see the film Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, which has been getting nice opinions. Have you ever seen it? Hope you have got an excellent one, and listed here are a number of enjoyable hyperlinks from across the internet…

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 may 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 ebook about elevating youngsters.

The world’s first airplane bunk beds in economic system.

My good friend wrote a hilarious listing of 40 issues she realized by age 40, together with “A matinee with M&Ms dumped straight into the popcorn is a staycation and nobody ought to know the place you’re” and “Wherever you go, have a nemesis. It makes issues enjoyable!” (Subscribe to her free publication, if you happen to’d like.)

A basketball participant’s nice response to a reporter’s query about failure.

Absolutely the greatest method to make onion dip.

A case for ghosting generally. “I firmly imagine {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. When you go on a date, have a convo that’s dry as toast, after which trade a clumsy air hug earlier than parting methods, shouldn’t that be sufficient data to know you aren’t a match?”

Made me snigger.

Plus, seven reader feedback (since you guys are one of the 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 lovely Steamfitters License, and so on. Probably the greatest, nonetheless, was the letter my seven-year-old daughter wrote to her future cousin (the anticipated baby of her beloved aunt): ‘Pricey Licky Licky Boy’ (fortunate boy). Then she enumerated all the nice issues he would be capable of do together with his mom and ended with ‘and she is going to at all times have gum.’”

Says Tee on a visitor bed room makeover: “My husband, our three youngsters and I ceaselessly host individuals. (I’ve seven siblings, so we get a whole lot 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 had been in school, since individuals had been continuously crashing on her ground. Go for it, it’s so enjoyable! ”
Says Emily: “My mother and father have stored 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, outdated school buddies who got here to crash for a weekend, and loads of different guests whose visits we certainly would have forgotten by now if not for the visitor ebook!”
Says Emily: “My good friend had a peak wall in her house and added everybody who visited. It was so humorous and was the one factor they had been unhappy to go away behind once they moved.”

Says Sarah on 10 humorous movie star sightings: “I was a flight attendant and I as soon as had Ryan Reynolds in my top notch cabin. We had 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 needed 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 a lot of the flight and the individual subsequent to him (not with him!) watched a Jason Statham film, ha!”

Says Nicola on 10 humorous movie star sightings: “RuPaul as soon as mentioned in an interview that he typically rides the subway and generally a passer-by will silently mouth ‘I really like you’ to him throughout a crowded prepare 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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