Have a beautiful weekend. | cup of jo

What are you doing this weekend? Tonight the boys and I are watching Fernandoand tomorrow Freddie and I will go to the candlelight party. Ancient Air Baths. Have you ever been? We went once and we liked it so much that we decided to do it as a Christmas gift every year. I hope you have a good one, and here are some links from around the web…

Our Best of Everything edition of 2025. I really, really loved this. (Big Salad giveaway link)

These satin pants It would be perfect for New Year’s Eve and I would love to wear it. this cool suit all winter.

Will you see Will Arnett and Laura Dern’s new movie? Is this thing on??

When does a divorce start?? “When my daughter gets out of the car at the airport, she vomits, pasta and strawberries falling undigested onto her shoes. I put my hand on her forehead; she feels hot; I turn to my husband and say, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t go tonight.’ It’s just before Christmas and my two children and I have tickets for a 9:00 pm flight from Los Angeles to New York. For several weeks my husband has strangely hesitated about whether or not he will come with us, although in twelve years together we have never “We’ve spent the holidays apart. When I say, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t go tonight,’ he turns pale and rubs his hand over his mouth, a gesture I recognize as a personal indication that he’s hiding something. I’ll later describe this as the moment my marriage ends, but it actually ends about five minutes later, when, holding my daughter’s hand and pushing my son in his stroller, his backpacks hanging from his arm, I walk into the terminal alone.”

Red and green flags according to the protagonists of Hallmark Christmas moviesha ha ha.

These beautiful shoes always sold out They are back in stock!

I’m destroying this book and I can’t believe It’s a true story.

The best book covers of 2025. (NYTimes giveaway link)

Will you? a paper chain this season? (Fashion)

Hahahahaha.

Also, three comments from readers:

Tracey says about decorating guilt: “If you’re not a perfect parent, imagine your child in the future, when they’re thirty, at Christmas. They’re imperfect and comfortable. They do things they enjoy and celebrate others doing the same. They find meaning in people, not in things and rituals that aren’t right for them. They’re fully formed human beings. They’re content with just enough. And they’re that way because you taught them that more isn’t more when it comes at the expense of a healthy mind. That Relationships matter more than good china or burnt turkey. Model what you practice, allow it; so make sure you practice self-acceptance.”

Lynea says at soup group, seven years later: “My friends’ ‘queer family dinner’ is our Sunday ritual, no strings attached. The host cooks the main course, everyone else brings the sides, or not. If showing up is all you can muster, we’ll see you at 7, honey. If you can’t make it, no problem, we’ll be thinking of you. Sometimes we’re all back home at 8:30, sometimes we chat until 10. This weekly tradition It’s been keeping me warm lately.”

Say Ella about the funny Christmas coupons: “Laugh out loud at the truth of ‘being able to be in your sister’s room for two minutes without being annihilated’ as the best gift.”

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