Comments on: Fall weekend vibes

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:59:52 +0000

In reply to Kamala.

@Kamala – thank you! There are 40 more where that came from…

By: Kamala

Kamala — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:58:33 +0000

Beautiful sonnet. Thanks for sharing Laura. Loved it

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:16:11 +0000

In reply to Cb.

@Cb – oh, thank you! And Paris…yep, I’d eat dairy for a Parisian patisserie too.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:15:41 +0000

In reply to Margot.

@Margot – I’ve so far gotten pretty lucky that way. I’m doing my best to cultivate it — I also don’t know if one can entirely control it. But yes, I think teens can be awesome people and I’m having fun being a mom of several!

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:13:42 +0000

In reply to Erin. @Erin - thank you!

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:43:32 +0000

Beautiful sonnet!!

By: Margot

Margot — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:31:00 +0000

As a mom of a 4 year old boy, I get so excited to hear all the things your 16 year old does with you (voluntarily, it seems). Teen/ parent relationships often are depicted differently. It gives me a lot of hope to imagine my son may still want to hang out with me sometimes when he’s older.

By: Cb

Cb — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:28:50 +0000

Oh that’s a lovely sonnet! I’m definitely a fall colour person, and try to soak it up before I enter my winter misery stage. We had 72 wild hours, no flooding here thank goodness, but between Wednesday midday and Saturday midday, it was some of the worst wind and rain I’ve seen in the UK? I ended up moving teaching online because it just didn’t feel safe, and I knew I’d get wet and be miserable all day. Now it is time to rake up all the leaves and branches from the garden.

I’m off to Paris tomorrow with a pal, a long awaited friend trip, and we are looking forward to urban autumnal! We’ve both been quite a few times so the plan is to wander, see the late Van Gogh exhibition at the D’orsay, and eat pastries (I’ll suffer the consequences of dairy for Parisian patisserie). We don’t live in the same city so our catch-ups are daily WhatsApp and dinner when work takes us near each other, so we are looking forward to setting the world to rights with no anxious waiter wondering when we’re going to stop chatting and pay the bill.