What are you up to this weekend? After a long week, the boys and I are excited to do absolutely nothing. Maybe watch TV? Maybe order pizza? Maybe stare at the ceiling? If it requires zero thought or energy, we’re in. Hope you have a good one — I loved catching up with you this week — and here are a few links from around the web…

Catherine Newman — polar plunger, chickpea enthusiast, and national treasure — shares 12 favorite things on Big Salad today, and we made it free for anyone to read. Love her to the moon!

Omg, the trailer for Mothers’ Instinct is creepy.

Nearly every elementary school student in Japan carries this particular backpack. (NYTimes gift link)

Summer orzo. “If you like the crisp edges of lasagne…you’re in the right place.”

“When I see a friend or a relative who is just plain worn out, I intuitively know what to offer; a cool drink of water, a chair in which they can do the sacrament of ploppage, a bracing cup of coffee or tea, chocolate or a mandarin orange, a mandatory time out. I try to help them keep the patient comfortable, and it remind me to do this with my own baby self all day,” says writer Anne Lamott. (via Morning Person)

Finally nabbing a pair of these, on huge sale.

Going to try to recreate Daisy Edgar Jones’s exact blush placement.

How dreamy is this Airbnb? The water views, the scalloped bedframe.

Also, these homemade quilts. (via Block Shop)

Made me laugh. I love being a woman.

Plus, four reader comments:

Says Rose on what vocab words are you into: “‘Vigorous.’ I birthed my second (last) baby in June, and when I read my OB’s notes in my chart, she described my babe as a ‘vigorous infant.’ It made me weep. I’ve had a rough year of loss and death — there were long stretches where I felt weak and uncertain — but during all of that my body grew this strong little human.”

Says Stephanie on what vocab words are you into: “I love the line from Peter Rabbit when he’s stuck and the birds ‘implored him to exert himself.’ When you read that out loud to kids, they immediately know what it means.”

Says Kristy on welcome to your cronehood: “I felt like *scream emoji* *anguish emoji* while reading this, but I think it’s a post meant for people to commiserate about something they’re experiencing. I recently went to see Babes, which was SO over-the-top and would have terrified me to have a baby if I didn’t already have one. Since I’ve already gone through that, I loved it and found it hilarious and relatable and perfect. Every time I think about that movie, I laugh. I hope there are some menopausal people who read this and felt similarly!”

Says Erin on three flirty outfits: “Happily single and with no plans to date here, but I enjoy picking out fun work outfits. I bought a long poplin skirt last winter because a (negative) review online said it made the wearer feel ‘like a ship in full sail.’ I thought, I want to feel like a ship in full sail! So, I bought it, and boy howdy, it’s a lot of fabric. I feel so important when I go swishing around my office.”

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