Weekend favorites

Friday! We made it through the very first week of kindergarten with flying colors. It has been the toughest piece of acting of my whole life, pretending to be cool and confident about school so that my son would feel confident and excited. Underneath, I was thinking:

Please give him a kind teacher.
Please let him make friends.
Please let him be happy and excited about school.
Please don't let him be scared.

And all of these hopes came true. I'm exceedingly thankful.

The quote above by the wonderful Ms. Brown is about facing your fears and showing your vulnerability. Go out there and show up. Stand up. Say yes. Tell someone you love them. Have a beautiful weekend.

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Be on the lookout for some of my work to go live at Mom Babble and She Buys Cars in the next week or so!

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Now for some high-quality reading over the weekend.

Marriage, at its very best, by Lisa Rosenberg: The Vows.

This post from Danielle at Martinis and Minivans gave me some food for thought. My son had some experiences with friends last year that taught him about handling conflict, and I'm grateful that his new kindergarten teacher is starting the school year with a talk about "filling each other's buckets" and being kind to each other.

Thanks to Devon Corneal for sharing this hilarious and perfectly awesome "guide to killer confidence" from Mindy Kaling.

I wish, with all of my heart, that Vikki and her partner could be themselves, always, and not have to worry about safety and risk for her and for their kids. 

This essay from Melissa of One Mother to Another is beautiful and may require a tissue or two: When We're Not Together.

As a postpartum anxiety survivor, I know this piece by Katherine Stone is important: Why no one invests in maternal mental health

Oh, Josette, this one ripped our my heart strings and put them back together. Good Bye Summer, Hello Hectic Mornings...

And another farewell to summer from the lovely Christine Organ.

I cannot wait to read Brené Brown's new book, and this interview at Texas Monthly covers it very well. 

Love,
Kristin