The Weekly Wrap: November 14, 2021

The Wrap looks a bit paltry this week. That's because we are potty training our kiddo.

This is one of those parenting milestones that I've dreaded. I built everything up in my head and, frankly, reading the internet about this does not help. There are more horror stories than wins.

We're only a few days into this but it's not as bad as I feared. (Take that anxiety!) Sure, we still have a ways to go but I'm no longer afraid. Accidents happen and big changes take time. We'll get through it. 

What thing have you dreaded doing that, ultimately, turned out fine?

​Share in the comments! I'm sure we can also use a list of wins to read.

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• The hidden history and myths behind eating like your grandparents. [Burnt Toast]
• A look at the year's best inventions. [TIME]
• After reading this, I am now reexamining last week's intro on coziness. [Mothers Under the Influence]

• A look at how the COVID vaccine hit the market so fast. [Planet Money]
• I am adding this house to my travel bucket list. [Atlas Obscura]
• The benefits of gamifying training, learning, and work. [Hidden Brain]
• Crashing into the cost of climate change. [Short Wave]
• How we got away from eating offal and the attempts to return it to the menu. [Gastropod]

• I love videos of ballerinas breaking in their pointe shoes. [Insider]
• Season three of Narcos: Mexico showed up on Netflix recently. We've already watched four episodes. Some of the plot lines are starting to converge and I can't wait to see if one of the new characters is a good guy, bad guy, or somewhere in between. [Netflix]

• One of the food blogs I follow recommended Mealime as a meal planning app. While I'm not sold on the app itself, the deep recipe archives are intriguing. This week, I made the sausage, spinach, and artichoke frittata for a dinner. (I subbed Italian chicken sausage.) It was filling and the leftovers made a decent lunch  a few days later. [Mealime]
• Never underestimate a quick stir fry. I cooked up some chicken breast, added a bag of frozen Asian vegetables, tossed in a can of baby corn, and finished with teriyaki sauce. Served the meal over rice. Anything with water chestnuts - which I believe are universally known as "crunchies" - is a win in my book.