It’s been an eventful week, and this morning I relished in a long morning in bed with the kids, reading and opening Halloween candy wrappers because the goodies from last night are absolutely breakfast from this morning. It wasn’t an intense week work-wise, thank goodness, but I’m realizing the combination of Will’s birthday and getting Halloween costumes squared away brings its own deadline-driven intensity, and I’m glad to be on the other side of it. It feels like we did it all: hosted a big birthday dinner, went out to the pumpkin patch (on a chilly, drizzly day, but we had the place to ourselves and managed to beat the snow that came a few days later), and went to a socially distanced brief trick-or-treating set up in one of the neighborhood parks. I’m grateful to the parents who organized that and set that up because I’m not sure what I would have been able to plan for the kids (and the usual door-to-door route is obviously not an option).
I’m hoping the day can bring rest and transition. I’m not sure what to expect from the week ahead, but I think I’m going to try to avoid Twitter for awhile.
Here’s what I have been reading and enjoying:
