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Have a Stress-free Weekend. | Cup of Jo

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What are you as much as this weekend? Since my boys are away, Freddie and I got here upstate to work through the day, swim within the night, and see 1,000,000 stars at evening. Are you able to see stars the place you reside? It’s wild up right here and makes me understand how the NYC sky is principally clean. Hope you may have an excellent one, and listed here are some hyperlinks from across the internet…

Freddie loves CoJ and Large Salad readers (he’s an enormous fan of the remark sections), so I’m excited to introduce him extra straight. We recorded a dialog between us (I really like his voice!) the place he solutions readers’ questions on relationship on apps, educating excessive schoolers, and getting acknowledged on the road. Take heed to it right here, in case you’d like.

Catbird, my favourite jewellery vacation spot, is having their huge end-of-summer sale proper now. I really like this.

When the icebergs got here to city.

Salmon and tomatoes in foil, yummmmmm. (NYTimes present hyperlink)

An attractive piece on parenting a toddler. “Earlier than I had a child, when individuals talked about how arduous it was, I at all times imagined utter chaos, like the start of Mrs. Doubtfire when Robin Williams’s character let his children throw an impromptu party and by some means barn animals received concerned. In actuality, parenthood is…extra in regards to the relentlessness of the smaller duties, unceasing like a present…Sending this dispatch right now in solidarity with anybody who made a large choice and is struggling to maintain tempo with it.” (Possibly Child, present hyperlink)

Easy methods to make your mattress really feel British.

Obsessive about this new-to-me magnificence product.

Fellow Jane Austen followers, rejoice: Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in a brand new Sense & Sensibility, and Olivia Colman might be in a brand new Delight & Prejudice.

Digging J.Crew’s collaboration with a cool Parisian model. (This prime is so good!)

I’m giving my child a ’90s summer season…the Nineties.

Hahahaha.

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Plus, three reader feedback:

Says Marian Schembari on what cheap issues make life higher: “I completely hate washing my face as a result of the water goes in every single place, dripping down my arms onto the ground. It’s a sensory nightmare. However then I came upon that in case you use sweat wristbands, the water simply drips into the material, protecting all the pieces else dry. For $10, it’s been a whole recreation changer.”

Says Jess on how would you make your marriage ceremony really feel true to you: “We rented a seashore home, the place entrance of which our ceremony would happen. The evening earlier than, all the women had been collectively, and we ran bare from the home and thin dipped within the ocean. At one level, I checked out my mother-in-law subsequent to me and we simply cracked up!”

Says Tracey on tips on how to present up for youths who’ve misplaced dad and mom: “Individuals typically retreat after loss as a result of they’re afraid of doing the fallacious factor. However loving somebody by way of arduous issues means typically accepting you’ll not magically nail it each time. Generally the grieving individual looks like something anybody does is fallacious. Except you’ll be able to carry again the lifeless you’re failing me. Holding all of that messiness is love. Keep. Make errors. Apologize. Breathe.”

(Photograph by Aleksei Toropov/Stocksy.)

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