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Let It Be Sunday, 45!

-You're Doing So Great

November 22, 2015 by Joy the Baker 14 Comments

Let It Be Sunday!

Hello my friends!  How has your internal dialogue been this week?  All positive?  All complimentary?  All like, you-can-do-it?  Maybe yes.  Maybe mostly.  Maybe nooooo.

It’s cool.  I’m here to tell you something.  You’re great.  Do the very dang best you can do… then try to do just a bit better than that.  There… as long as you’re doing that, that internal voice that might occasionally tell you that you’re not allowed or not enough… that voice is a jerk.  And you know it’s a jerk because you know you’re doing your very best, and then some.

Phew.

Let’s talk about what happened on the Internet this week.  A lighter list because we need it:

•  That voice inside my head that says I’m a baking fraud, a trifling blogging faker, a creative overachiever, undeserving nuisance… that voice has a name.  Learning To Deal With the Imposter Syndrome

•  Inside the world of for-profit snuggling.  I am WAY to specific about how close my body gets to other people’s bodies… there’s just now way.  No way ever.

•  The most Instagrammed spot in every state. Bourbon Street, et al.

•  I found this lyrical and poignant, even in my very-not-pregnant state:  The last days of pregnancy.

•  I mean… this can’t be the answer, right?  I Hired a Millennial Life Coach

•  I’m not going to sit here and boss you about what appears on your Thanksgiving table, but I will say… if you don’t make Dad’s Sweet Potato Pie not really having Thanksgiving at all.  How’s that for passive aggressive?

•  Vogue Says:  Starve Yourself Now, Don’t Wait Until January. Solid Thanksgiving advice, right?

•  Men Eat Nearly Twice As Much Pizza When They’re Eating With Women, which is the title of an actual article, which you don’t really even need to click through to now.  Let me tell you what it really is, Women Eat Half As Much Pizza As They’d Really Like When Eating With Men.  I mean… perspective, people.

•  My friend Heather Christo has a new line of allergy-aware baked goods at Costco!  Heathermade!

•  I’m trying to think about cohesive holiday gifting this year.  Everyone is getting 90’s flannels and burgundy lipstick and Nirvana cds.  We’re taking it back.

Good day to you and yours.

xo Joy

Hats above from Goorin Bros.  Winter hat shopping on point.

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  1. Jennifer

    November 24, 2015 at 12:29 am

    I send that pregnancy article to every friend at the end of her pregnancy, especially if she goes overdue. I went eight days overdue with my second child and my sweet doula sent it to me in the midst of waiting. It made me sob because it WAS me. But there are so many pregnant pauses in life that aren’t even baby related too.

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  2. Ky

    November 23, 2015 at 4:19 am

    I’m also a longtime reader and #1 fangirl for the let it be sunday posts. I lay awake at 3am trying to supress the acid vomit that wants to enter my mouth. Feeling the very large baby inside me ready to come out and I’m also in that limbo state I just read in the very timely last days of pregnancy article. I felt calm until now and have a possible induction scheduled for tomorrow 7 days before my due date and I’m freaking out a bit! Went out tonight with husband for a fancy dinner and a movie and it felt for a moment like it used to when we were young (9 months ago) and am terrified of what’s to come. Obviously excited but terrified! Thanks for all the great content!

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  3. heatherchristo

    November 22, 2015 at 9:39 pm

    Thank you so much for the shout out Joy!! XOXOXO

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  4. Jess

    November 22, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    Thanks for posting these each week! Smart and fun, you are!

    And your dad’s sweet potato pie is life changing. I started making it a few years ago for holidays, Sunday’s, breakfast…it’s good all the time. I have baked probably 90% of your recipes here and almost all from your cookbooks but that’s the one I keep going back to again and again. It’s humble, full of love, and always surprisingly amazing to my family and friends.

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  5. SP

    November 22, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    Hi Joy,

    Thanks for the NY Mag article – I needed that today. Totally made me laugh out loud. Time to go chuck my scale out of my second story window and put down my rice cake.

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  6. Lucy

    November 22, 2015 at 4:30 pm

    On my first date with my husband I ate as much as i could stuff myself with so he would know I am NOT a girl who will starve herself for a man. He was grateful and married me. I’m a big fan of being who you are from the get-go! ;)

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    • joythebaker

      November 22, 2015 at 8:46 pm

      right on x 1 million!

      Reply
  7. Annie Brokenbourgh

    November 22, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    As always, thanks for the Sunday feast. And the sweet potato pie will be made. I’m hoping this week sometime!

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  8. xoxobellablog

    November 22, 2015 at 10:29 am

    Those hats are just too cute!!

    https://xoxobella.com

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  9. tj

    November 22, 2015 at 9:35 am

    …Hi Joy the Baker! :o) I’m a long time reader and sometime-commenter but I just wanted to tell you “thank you” for the link to the article regarding dealing with the imposter syndrome. It actually made me cry. That is me to a “t”, sadly. That really gave me some insight and now I know that that feeling has a name and now at least I have some knowledge on how to deal with it. Again, thank you.

    …I’ve always enjoyed coming here and visiting with you, you are a bright spot, a positive ray of energy. You do good here without knowing the effect it leaves on some of us. I hope you knew that but just in case you didn’t know that – now you do. ;o)

    …Well I am off to do some more reading. Have a most lovely Sunday! Enjoy!

    …Peace & blessings. :o)

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    • joythebaker

      November 22, 2015 at 10:25 am

      thank you so much for your words! the imposter article meant a lot to me as well. too true, those words!

      Reply
  10. Nutty Nutritionist

    November 22, 2015 at 8:43 am

    That vogue article is hilarious and sad, but true!! Totally making that sweet potato pie for my Thanksgiving! Thanks Joy!

    Reply
  11. Pandaonavespa

    November 22, 2015 at 3:24 am

    You have given us quite a lot of things to read, thank you! It´s going to be a perfect lazy Sunday =)

    O, and I LOVE the photo with the hats!

    https://pandaonavespa.wordpress.com/

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  12. Rena

    November 22, 2015 at 2:36 am

    Thanks for the good news in the beginning of the post ;)
    xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
    http://www.dressedwithsoul.com

    Reply

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