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What are you up to this weekend? Tonight the boys and I are watching Ferdinand<\/a>, and tomorrow Freddie and I are going to the candlelit Aire Ancient Baths<\/a>. Have you ever been? We went once and loved it so much, we decided to make it kind of like a Christmas gift to each other each year. Hope you have a good one, and here are a few links from around the web\u2026<\/p>\n Our 2025 Best of Everything issue<\/a>. I really, really loved this. (Big Salad gift link)<\/p>\n These satin pants<\/a> would be perfect for New Year\u2019s Eve, and I\u2019d love to wear this cool outfit<\/a> all winter.<\/p>\n Will you see Will Arnett and Laura Dern\u2019s new movie, Is This Thing On<\/a>?<\/p>\n When does a divorce begin<\/a>? \u201cWhen my daughter gets out of the car at the airport she vomits, pasta and strawberries plummeting undigested toward her shoes. I place my hand on her forehead; she feels warm; I turn to my husband and say, \u2018Maybe we shouldn\u2019t go tonight.\u2019 It\u2019s just before Christmas, and my two children and I have tickets for a 9:00 p.m. flight from Los Angeles to New York. For several weeks my husband has vacillated strangely on the matter of whether he\u2019s coming with us, even though in twelve years together we\u2019ve never spent the holidays apart. When I say, \u2018Maybe we shouldn\u2019t go tonight,\u2019 he turns pale and scrubs his hand across his mouth, a gesture I recognize as a personal tell that he\u2019s hiding something. I will later describe this as the moment my marriage ends, but in fact it ends roughly five minutes later when, holding my daughter\u2019s hand and pushing my son in his stroller, their backpacks dangling from the crook of my arm, I walk into the terminal alone.\u201d<\/p>\n Red and green flags according to protagonists of Hallmark Christmas movies<\/a>, hahaha.<\/p>\n These gorgeous, forever-sold-out shoes<\/a> are back in stock!<\/p>\n I\u2019m tearing through this book<\/a> and cannot believe<\/em> it\u2019s a true story.<\/p>\n The best book covers of 2025<\/a>. (NYTimes gift link)<\/p>\n Will you make a paper chain this season<\/a>? (Vogue)<\/p>\n Hahahahhaha<\/a>. Also, Related<\/a>.<\/p>\n Plus, three reader comments:<\/p>\n Says Tracey on decoration guilt<\/a>: \u201cIf you\u2019re not a perfect parent, just imagine your child in the future, they are thirty, at Christmas. They are imperfect, and they are comfortable. They are doing things they enjoy and celebrating others doing the same. They find meaning in people, not things and rituals that aren\u2019t right for them. They are fully formed human beings. They are content with enough. And they are this way because you taught them that more is not more when it comes at the expense of a healthy mind. That relationships matter more than the good china or the burnt turkey. Model it. What you practice, you permit; so make sure to practice self-acceptance.\u201d<\/p>\n