Hello friends!
Happy Sunday.
More importantly… Happy Mother’s Day! Can we talk for a moment about how you really feel about breakfast in bed? Yay or nay?
I’m not able to spend this Mother’s Day with my mom this year but I do get to look forward to a post-church Facetime call with my parent’s foreheads and their dining room ceiling. Listen… getting that camera angle right is tough. I know.
The picture above is, and this isn’t an exaggeration, one of the best pictures ever taken in the history of photography. It most accurately depicts my mom’s grace and calm, inner beauty, sweet sweater style, excellent taste in husbands, and amiable second child. Then there’s me, losing my ever-loving mind because the world wasn’t going my way. Listen… Mom doesn’t mess with riff-raff and I was most certainly being the riff-raff. She’s my life goalz, forever.
Happy Mother’s Day to mine and you and yours. I wish for you, quiche… if nothing else.
Here’s some of this week’s interesting reads from around the Internet:
• What an Immigration Murder in Kansas Says About America. Some perspective, and a long look at nativism.
• This is a really interesting read about Fannie Lou Hamer, food sovereignty, and 1960’s America: The Hidden Radicalism of Southern Food.
• Podcast alert! I’ve started listening to NPR’s First Up every morning and it’s a very informative 12 minutes of news each weekday.
• Amazon is making Seattle folks real real mad. But be honest, Seattle… it’s not like you were all that friendly to begin with. I say this as a loving and honest former resident… ok? Don’t be mad, you have kombucha everywhere and my sister’s ice cream. Life could be way way worse.
• All those tap-backs and push ups and expertly crafted playlists were hard-fought and well-earned. What it’s like to audition to be a top fitness instructor.
• Here’s some inspiration: 12 Millennial Women On Earning Money Through a Side Side Hustle. Now that I’m reading this, it would appear that my entire online career is actually a side-hustle. I’m now currently brainstorming a hustle-hustle. Panic? Only a little.
• Very important. Watching Nicole Kidman real-talk Giada de Laurentiis’ tough old bread is like more satisfying than I’d like to admit, but I’m admitting it anyway.
• Adrianna made this gorgeous Mint Chocolate Chip Cake and I’m daydreaming which Drake lyrics I’d slap on that jammer.
• These are Tracy’s Favorite Art Supplies. Boom boom pow.
• Thinking about Mother’s Day this week reminded me of this heartfelt book. I cried at the end. It wasn’t pretty, but it never is. This is a really great read: Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
• In praise of Bitters and Soda. A very good reminder for summer beverages since we’ll be drinking a lot of those. This article also had me thinking we should all get ourselves a Sodastream as our Happy Summer gift to ourselves. File under: self-care?
• A Case For Hard Shell Tacos. And listen… you don’t even really need to make an impassioned case because I’m already on your side; let’s plate em up!
• Welp… all of a sudden I need gingham bedsheets. That happened quickly.
Enjoy this day!
xo to you,
Joy
The Queen Of Dreaming
Beautiful photo! I love the baby-me photos too :D
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Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land
That picture is pretty much GOLD. You were so not feeling a lil cable car photo action, hehe!! Breakfast in bed: SO paranoid about soiling sheets with jam (which would look like period stains, sorry so gross but so true) or soiling with pain au chocolat (CHOCOLATE stains on sheets? Aiyahh)… an earl grey tea spill, etc – and a 4 year old staring at you while you eat shitty looking pancakes? Ok that part is very very cute. I am already a “must clean up every crumb and drip as they happen” eater so the idea of breakfast in bed is I guess a Nay. That whole Giada/Nicole segment was so uncomfortable, so much talking over each other – intense!! Everyone was being annoying but, I understand, live TV = get that food DONE!
dixya @food, pleasure, and health
with the amount of sparkling water i drink, soda stream is perhaps a good idea. i need to check that NPR things since i have 12 X 5 minutes of commute :(
Catherine
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Rachel
You’re spot-on about Seattle… former resident here, and my biggest regret about moving away is that I don’t get to try your sister’s ice cream! “Seattle Freeze” is for real.
Adrienne
I’ll do a bagel/toast/pastry and coffee kind of thing in bed, but anything more involved (eggs, pancakes, etc) is too much of a big deal (translate: mess)
Margaret Jeddry
What does “118” in the title mean? Thank you.
Margaret Jeddry
I mean 119. Sorry.
Catherine
I love your post and the picture of your family. Thank you for sharing different articles, posts and recipes. I too love Hard Shell Tacos and was glad to see that I am not alone. And thank you for the clip of Giada from the Ellen Show, very fun.
JessicaD
Oh, that picture is absolutely THE BEST. And I, too, now need gingham sheets. Hard shell tacos, eh, but TOSTADAS = YES! Mother’s Day dinner tonight. Yum.
Taste of France
Fab photo!
I worked in a Mexican restaurant, run by Mexicans, with an 99.99% Mexican clientele, in the 1970s. And there were hard-shell tacos on the menu. So it was unhip, for a local, ethnic clientele, no Internet….if they weren’t authentic, then WHY?
Personally, I prefer the wonderfully puffy fried shells of flour tortillas (including homemade!!! Yes! Did it for France–whose forces lost to the Mexicans on May 5, 1862…..) but as far as fried, hard corn shells, meh. I prefer the soft ones like at the food trucks in my hometown. Made by real tortilllerias. I brought a few hundred home to France; they lasted a couple of months.
Lexie
Ugh … that Sidehustle article is equal parts infuriating and inspiring. I LOVE seeing women pursue their passions, but I hate capitalism and the fact that stagnant wages have kept people from being able to just do what they want to do without having to monetize it all.
Abbi
Right? I’m so over “hustling.” I’ll work hard, but I’m not killing myself over side-projects, or really anything in life. Not anymore.
Kate
Right? The whole side hustle thing sparks so much anxiety. I just want a job that doesn’t kill me with stress, provides insurance and covers my not lavish lifestyle. Apparently that’s no longer a thing :(
Cy
Another great Sunday with Joy! That family picture of you all is beautiful and classic. Thanks for the article on Mrs. Hamer, a heroine of our nation who should not be forgotten. I love Seattle, but sorry kids sometimes progress sucks. Also join the club, in the Bay Area we’ve been dealing for years! Lol! Owning a Sodastream is the best. You won’t regret it.
Thomas D
It looks like the bigger sister has to walk now, carrying time is over. What’s next, feeding myself?
Amy Young Miller
What I love most about this picture: though you are wailing and struggling to have your own way (apparently!), your folks have gentle smiles and a bit of humor in their faces. No anger or frustration. You are blessed, indeed!