1- Catherine Price on Substack. I don’t subscribe to many paid substacks (just Laura!! hers is great, BTW) but I’m considering adding Catherine. I loved her How to Break Up with Your Phone from 2018 and am excited to hear she’s releasing a revised version. For those wanting a digital detox type experience it looks like she hosts support threads each month for phone breakups!
I also love emphasis on focusing on what you’re doing when you’re NOT on the phone, which is the whole point.
2- THIS BOOK IS SO INTERESTING.
Ever wonder who decided what “good” parenting looks like? (Want to guess which gender most of them are/were)? There are so many mic drop moments in this book. Nancy weaves in her own early motherhood memories with historical sections in a really effective way. I’m about half done but definitely recommend.
3- We snuck in a date dinner out before the end of the month (wasn’t intentional it just worked out and the stars aligned last night)! AND it ended up being at a new restaurant, so yay! Was drinking a margarita on a Thursday night the world’s smartest most practical action? It was not. But we had a fun time. This place was cute! I will say picking up your tween at gymnastics is not necessarily the most romantic ending I can imagine for a date night but . . . logistically, it worked.
4- PLANS PLANS PLANS. The planning never stops, does it? I guess that is a good thing. Currently trying to solidify about 5 different things, from C’s bday party (that one kind of snuck up) to a girls’ trip (!) to Josh’s 50th bday Final Four excursion (I’m not going on that, but helping to plan it is part of the gift!). It is nice to have fun things to look forward to, I have to say.
5- I think we might all watch Wicked this weekend. I’ve already seen it but Josh and Cameron have not and we’ve been playing the songs on the way to school a LOT lately so I think it will be kind of a singalong experience. I loved it the first time, so will HAPPILY watch it again.
$20 rental is steep but . . . cheaper than going out? (OR maybe we’ll just buy for $30? I know the minute we spend this, it will be free on Disney+ or something because that’s just how this sort of thing works.)
We only have ONE soccer game and ZERO gymnastics meets so it should be a chill-ish weekend . . .
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I went ahead and bought Wicked since it was only $10 more haha! No regrets.
We are going to Dogman this weekend, which my boys are so excited about! The four-year-old is too young for the series, but the almost 7-year-old is a super fan who re-reads the books multiple times. I contemplated not bringing the four-year-old with, but he was not happy about that so he’s going, too. We rarely go to movies in the theaters so I’m excited for it as well and figure if I’m bored by the movie I can read on my Kindle app or doze off!
I definitely want to read that motherhood book and look forward to hearing the interview on the podcast! We need more positive realistic, representations of parenting and especially mothering!
We are going to Dog Man, too! The books are not my favorite, but I’m grateful for them. They’ve been the reading gateway drug for all my kids.
I feel the same way about the books, Chelsea! I refuse to read them out loud to Paul (graphic novels are awkward to read out loud!), but I love that it’s made my son into a book lover! I have heard good things about the movie though so I’m hoping that I enjoy it too.
haha for us it’s Wimpy Kid and Dory Fantasmagory!!!
Our family loved Wicked! We actually saw it twice in the theater, which is big for us because we rarely take all 3 kids to any movie. My youngest has special needs and a short attention span, and that movie is long! But is it so engaging, and she absolutely loved it both times. We also listen to the soundtrack on repeat.
Our downtown library has an amazing gift shop, and I found a Kokuyo Campus notebook and uni ball 0.38 pen that I think is my new favorite. I know I’ve heard you mention the notebook, fun to find in real life. Have a great weekend!
Definitely buy Wicked! The deleted scenes are fun to watch and you know you will want to do a re-watch before Part 2 comes out in November!
that is so true!!
We also have a chill weekend, which means my daughter is going to get bored and start nagging me about… something. Maybe I’ll boot her out of the house to see a movie with friends or something.
That book sounds excellent- I have a feeling it’s the type of thing I should have had when my kids were little. I definitely bought into all the good mother myths, and have one kid who’s amazing and one who’s endlessly problematic… so it just goes to show, it’s not so much what you do but rather who they are to begin with.
My kiddo LOVED Wicked and has been singing the soundtrack ever since. I am a little weary of “What Is That Feeling”!
I am super intrigued by The Good Mother Myth! It feels so impossible to be good at mothering — there are so many expectations and the bar seems to change daily.
the songs are SUCH EARWORMS!!! GAHHHHHHHHH! today it’s the “no one mourns the wicked” in my head . . on repeat . . .