Sunday Scroll #87

THE perfect dinner party dessert, my new favorite cleanser, gentle book recs, and a marriage mental-load swap

Happy Sunday! How are you today? Is the Maycember train beginning to ramp up in your house? It is in ours. Solidarity to all of you shepherding kids to recitals, attending awards banquets, slapping together a last-minute “oops, I forgot to tell you about this project!” at 10 PM, and relying on takeout and a prayer to get through it all.

(Is it bad to ask for alone time on Mother’s Day?? Asking for a friend!)

But you know what? We’re not here to think about all the stuff on our plates. We’re here to mindlessly scroll for a few minutes.

So let’s get to it!

1. 30 things you can do without your phone (you know, when you’re done with Sunday Scroll). The author of this post was born in 2000, which makes me think: the kids are gonna be all right. (plus, what an interesting voice to hear from about phone-free living!)

2. The best dinner party dessert. They’re make-ahead and everyone loves them. Truly the best!

3. When the world feels like too much, read these gentle books. Just placing these here for you. ❤️

4. How Liz Gilbert, with one phrase, changed the way I show up for myself. Talk about a perspective shift! I think the phrase in this link is a more loving way of saying something I often quote to myself from one of my favorite books, Greg McKeown’s Essentialism: “Protect the asset.”