The Saturday Stack

silver wired earbuds, becoming a mom, a some shows to watch

I’m up early most days, but on Thursdays after 2 full days of teaching, I like to linger in bed just a little longer and it is perfect

If you caught last week’s Saturday Stack, we celebrated our son with a big concert/ brunch weekend palooza, and the festivities have continued all week because, like mother, like son, we both love finding reasons to celebrate. His actual birthday was yesterday (if you’re reading this on Saturday), and we reminisced about his birth story. How my parents flew into Türkiye to be with us. How I walked around a gorgeous new park in the town where we lived, my ginormous belly leading the way, hoping for any sign of labor.

That evening, we introduced my parents to a traditional Turkish dish called Iskender: shaved meat over a bed of bread with a generous pour of melted butter on top. And that meal did it. I barely made it through dinner. We got home and tried to sleep, but let’s just say I saw that dinner again a time or two. A few hours later, in a foreign hospital where I spoke barely any Turkish, my firstborn made me a mom.

Sadly, I was never able to eat Iskender again. Years later, I tried walking into an Iskender restaurant once more… and promptly walked right back out. I can be so squeamish sometimes.

But enough nostalgia, let’s get to the links:

1 trying to cut myself from my airpods habit, so I got this.

2 I know we all want Spring weather, but I just got this — I know I’ll be glad to have gotten in on sale come October and there’s still plenty of time to wear it now.

3 but in the Spirit of wishing Spring to come, I got this and I can’t wait to wear it in our upcoming trip to Brazil.

4 I read the books and enjoyed them, since I loved Jennifer Garner, I can’t wait to catch up on Season 1 so I can watch the Season 2 that just came out.

5 If you missed it, you’re going to watch to catch up on this

6 Also, I’m sure if you were an ANTM fan back then you’ve seen the documentary already but in case you haven’t. It’s been so interesting to look back at it through the 2026 lens. Yikes is all I have to say.

Have a lovely weekend,

xx Priscila