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Recently Growing Pains
Thanks so much for all your encouraging words last week. I needed them. We’re doing better, but it’s been a major hormonal adjustment. For about five days, I basically just laid on the couch and stared at the wall or at Steve Carrell. It wasn’t great. Other contributing factors include: winter and hot flash inducing drugs. But more on that next week.
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Recently On Instagram
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Recently Welcoming
We’ve got a new sponsor up in here (and she’s amazing).
I love a lot of things (hot chocolate, It’s a Wonderful Life, reading, the beach, having everything put away, looking pretty, soundtracks, fireworks, laughing really hard, and road trips), but mostly I love my little family. Right now that means my husband and our three babes under the age of two. Life is crazy with so many little ones, but we’re happy. I’m very quiet around people, and a terrible conversationalist – part of the reason I started a blog was so that when I come into contact with people I know, we’ll have something to talk about. (Read more about Mary here.)
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Recently Nostalgic
Who loves the 90s?
(Thanks to everyone who sent this and remembered my nostalgia)
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Recently Linked
I’m My Own Contradiction (a raw post on weaning) via On The Rhodes. “I know that parenting is mostly about letting go. You equip your children with the tools they need, and slowly, but surely you let go, bit by bit. It started as they first clipped the umbilical cord. So this isn’t a first, and it isn’t a last. There will always be more letting go to do.”
HANNAH BARBARIC: “Girls,” “Enlightened,” and the comedy of cruelty by Emily Nussbaum on The New Yorker. “Girls” has been attacked, and lauded, and exploited as S.E.O. link bait, and served up as the lead for style-trend pieces, to the point of exhaustion. The authors of these analyses have often fretted over privilege: the show is too white, Hannah’s a spoiled brat, or a bad role model for Millennials, or too fat to qualify to have sex on cable television. But when there’s a tiny aperture for women’s stories—and a presumption that men won’t watch them—when almost no women are Hollywood directors, when few women write TV shows, of course it’s the privileged ones who get traction. These artists have what Dunham has referred to as Hannah’s Unsinkable Molly Brown force. (Molly Brown, after all, was a mouthy rich woman who survived the Titanic.) To me, the whiteness of “Girls” is realistic, although the show is slyer and clearer about class than about race. But, as Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote recently in The Atlantic, “the problem isn’t the Lena Dunham show about a narrow world. The problem is that there aren’t more narrow worlds on screen. Broader is not synonymous with better.”
For Birth Photography lovers. (Thanks Bethany)
The Light That Shines. “How meeting Jill changed my world. This is not a story about cancer. This is a story about love, and it’s a story for all.” (Thanks Carrie)
I Am Damaged Goods by Sarah Bessey. “Virginity isn’t a guarantee of healthy sexuality or marriage. You don’t have to consign your sexuality to the box marked ‘Wrong.’”
NPR Valentines. (Thanks Katie)
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Recently Rewatched
I hear you, L. I hear you.
(Thanks Dad)
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Recently Ugly Cry
Favorite new commercial.
Subaru lifers in this house.
(Thanks Suzie)
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Recently Kid President
(Thanks all.)
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Recently Remembered
One Year Ago
I’m Not Constipated, I’m Just Hiding
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And finally, our Friday Funnies from the Internets
This couple REALLY loves Disney.
(Thanks Anna)
Downton Recap
(Thanks Dad)
Best Bachelor Review Ever and this one and this one.
(Thanks Katie)
& the latest Downton Sixbey.
Happy Friday
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Those are some great bach recaps.
Cried at the suburu.
I thought choosing to go to Disney on your honeymoon was crazy. But being Ariel for your wedding day. Oh. Oh my.
I don’t know how you can’t cry at the subaru.
And Ariel…I was REALLY into her, when I was like….10.
Friday Snacks PS: Deaf Woman Hears Her Son Speak For The First Time. Good luck.
http://bzfd.it/TKNYJK
loved the bachelor recaps. hilarious!!!
Thank you for keeping me entertained during a ridiculously long wait at the doctor’s office. Could not be more excited about another Downton Sixby! I was just wondering last week if they’d make another one…
I want to die HERE.
I’ve never been into The Bachelor, but now I hope it never stops. That was hilarious!
The Bachelor is the worst.
Wow, I loved The Bachelor links. This is the first season I’ve ever watched in full, and this recap was way better than the actual show!
And what a treat to wake up and find a link to my post embedded in your delicious snacks. Thanks for linking to me. You inspire me to be a better, more frequent writer. I am humbled.
100 million times better than the show. The show is lamesauce, but I watch/mock it with a group of girls every Monday, which is good for my soul.
First of all, I look forward to this post every week. Second…the disney wedding is out of hand. I don’t think my dad would have worn a Triton crown even if I’d paid him $1,000. Finally, “I’m my Own Contradiction” was exactly what I needed to read this morning after my teething son and my nipple had their 500th disagreement of the week.
Yes. Hilary’s post made me cry.
And I’m laughing thinking about all the dads I know wearing a Triton crown. Not for a million dollars.
It’s always thrilling to be a contributor to End Of The Week Snacks–thanks for liking all of the same things as me. ALSO, YES to the last sentence of that excerpt from the Girls article! I’m so tired of reading gripes about that show being exclusive and narrow. Is it Lena Dunham’s job to be a voice that encompasses every experience and interaction that every “girl” has? Is it the title that makes people react this way? Would it be more accepted if it was called Some Girls? These Are The Experiences Of Four Specific Fictional Girls So Relax I’m Not Saying You Are More Or Less Of A Person If Your Life Experiences Do Not Line Up Exactly With Theirs?
EXACTLY.
snacks for the blizzard. also, have you seen this?
o God, not sure why it wasn’t a link…sorry this is obnoxious!
Yes! I think a few snacks ago? It’s a good one!
Also I love that it embedded!