Weekend Reading #36

My spring capsule, what I'm buying and watching, Feb top sellers, new tech backgrounds, and whatever happened to just being honest?

Happy weekend! Hope you all get to relax a little bit. I have a sitter here until 1:00 today and plan on a mix of work and a little downtime. We’re supposed to get together with my friend and her boys tonight, and have another playdate with Kate’s best friend from school tomorrow. Conor is gone most of the weekend since he has open houses both days, so I’m just trying to keep these kids busy.

My big girl lost her 7th tooth last night – the first one she pulled out on her own. She was so proud! These moments always feel so big.

And a PSA for parents with kids in the tooth-losing stage: keep some $1 or $5 bills somewhere for the tooth fairy. I’ve always done a dollar or two, and had to leave her a $20 because it’s all we had. 🙃 Although she didn’t wake up and check under her pillow, and I did not mention the $20, so I’m going to try to switch it out for $3. I think we’re still in the stage where 3 $1 bills is even more exciting an 1 $5 bill.

What’s new this week

My spring capsule is live, and I couldn’t resist ordering a few things. I just got these jeans and love them. They run big, so size down. I caved and bought my third wells dress (in the blue and white floral print) and the rails jacket. I did a bunch of “get the look” graphics in the blog post and on LTK, too.

Shopbop hearts are updated and I added a few extra spring capsule pieces here. This tote is 40% off, btw. I just ordered it.

Easter basket ideas, pajamas, and backgrounds are up, too.

And my updated spring backgrounds are live.

I feel like I’ve been doing a pretty good job with content and minimal childcare, and that I should take that energy and put it into my podcast. Am I avoiding this new, scary thing? Probably. But now that I’ve told you about it, paid the producer, gotten the headshots, ordered the mic, and asked 20 people to be guests (and they all said yes) I’m thinking I should just do it?

I’m really hung up on an intro and outro – I do this. Just need to get over my own fears and realize it doesn’t have to be perfect which is kind of the whole point, right? To have real, unfiltered conversations with people. Someone needs to give me a pep talk.

And here are this month’s top sellers.

I didn’t share this on the actual day, but I did the math and figured out exactly how old Margot was at diagnosis and Jack hit that exact age the day after we got back from our trip to Punta Cana. I did the same with Kate, too, but this feels so different since we were still really isolated and in treatment when Kate was that age. These reminders don’t make me sad. I mean, the thought of Margot being sick and this young breaks my heart, but there’s such a dissociation with it. I was talking to a friend about this and realized that this is the first time I’ve gotten to do this stage normally. This is the first time I’ve been able to really enjoy it and do normal things with a toddler who’s almost two.

On being honest

I’m so proud of myself. I scheduled a dinner with two friends, and one friend suggested inviting her friend, who I met once for a few minutes, and I said I’d actually prefer if it was just the three of us. I was really hoping to catch up with these two friends and I feel like our conversation will be so different if there’s someone new. I was really hesitant to say anything and didn’t feel 100% confident and comfortable saying it, but I’m glad I did, and it was well received.

Then another friend invited me to an event, and I really don’t have the time to go to an event on one of the two days that I have a sitter but I also don’t like events (to be direct, I hate them), and told her that I really didn’t want to go. I’d much rather get together with her one-on-one.

There’s just something to being upfront when in a former life, you would have not said anything, or come up with a story to get out of something. It isn’t always comfortable, but it feels so much better to be honest.

And on that note, I’m going to go start my day. Have a great weekend.