Good things in life:

// small-town diners with the same customers the same days a week, where the owners serve you and cook for you and ask you how the baby's doing

// vegetarian English breakfasts (for a Friday) with tomatoes, hash browns, mushrooms, eggs, buttered toast, and beans, all drenched with vinegar

// forty-five minutes to sit alone with your planner and your notebook and write down a list of what you want to do with yourself

{pictured: the family at Gillian's from a few weeks back}