The most wonderful review of The Big Activity Book for Anxious People EVER. Ever! (You can pick up a copy here.)
Paintillio - the company that makes those amazing custom paint-by-numbers kits I've been loving - is offering 30% off and free shipping for their pre-made Mural Artist Series Kits until March 30th. Use code MURALARTIST2020 at checkout.
I've been looking for the perfect eye cream for years, and this is it: The texture is great and deeply moisturizing, plus it's light and cooling.
My son, attending a Zoom meeting with his class.
(This went exactly as well as you think it did.)
First of all, I have got to encourage you to watch Jimmy Fallon's home broadcasts, because for reals, he is all of us trying to work from home right now.
I used to have really pretty hair. Then - suddenly - it was gone. All of it. I should feel sad. Or angry. Or something. But I don’t.
In early January 2018, my hair started to fall out. Every morning when I brushed my hair, I would end up holding handfuls of it. After a week or so, I went to my hairdresser. She confirmed I was suffering some hair loss, and artfully arranged my cut so it wouldn't show. After another week or so I couldn't hide the growing bald spots.
I bought a hat.
I woke up this morning to the news that all of California has been put under shelter-in-place restrictions, wherein residents are only permitted to leave their homes for "essentials." This news is understandably jarring for a bunch of reasons, but it poses some additional questions for those of us who share custody of children with another human being who is not, currently, sheltered in the same place.
As with...oh, everything else, this is an unprecedented situation, with no hard-and-fast answers. So I reached out to attorney Cheri Bell of Daprile-Bell Family Law Offices and parenting and relationship coach Graziella Simonetti of Your Parenting Pals to get some guidance on how to proceed in the best interests of our kids.
What issues specific to divorced or separated parents with children can you imagine arising during these times?
The little "schoolhouse" I put together late last night because anxiety = insomnia.
Remember the other day, when I posted that it was okay to handle this in whatever g-d way you want? My way is apparently to become a scheduling beast. Now, to be clear, that doesn't mean that I'm sticking to the the schedule I put together for us hard-and-fast - I've been adjusting daily based on sleep/energy/mood - but it is unbelievably helpful to be able to point to a piece of paper hanging on the wall and say "See that? That says lunch is in ten minutes. Give me TEN. MINUTES."
Here, in case you'd like to copy/paste, is our daily schedule (based on the template that you can find if you scroll to the end of this post - it was suggested by my friend Erin, who is both a third-grade teacher and the parent of a third-grader and a first grader). Please note that nowhere in this schedule does it say "Time allocated specifically for Mom to write her book that is due in one month." We're working on that part. (Holy Jesus this is stressful y'all.)
