Halloween Events in Boston, NYC and San Francisco 🦇
Hand-picked Halloween events, fun and appropriate for the entire family!
What’s New This Week 🎃
Spooky season is here, and we’ve curated some can’t-miss events around the country! Don’t forget to wear layers!
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What We’re Reading This Week 📖
Team Sports vs. Individual Sports for Kids — What Parents Should Know: Different personalities lend themselves to success in different sporting events. Which is right for your children? We’ve got you covered this week at MomBrains.
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The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for Students: The widespread disruptions to students are a testament to how much of modern educational life is increasingly centered on a handful of educational technology platforms. During the outage, students lost access to digital-only textbooks, Google Docs, Zoom, messages and updates from professors, assignments, essays, and much more.
How We’re Feeling This Week: 🧵🪡
I broke out my sewing machine for the first time in three years. Back then, it was to make my daughter’s pink pumpkin halloween costume. This time, it was spurred a bit last minute by a shipment delay of our K-Pop Demon Hunter costume. Too late to order another costume (and I really don’t want to resort to going to a Spirit Halloween store), so making a Nezha costume is our Plan B.
I have spent more money on materials than I would have on a store-bought option and stayed up far too late each night this week sewing. But after the last two months of nonstop work, family obligations and weekend commitments, sewing has been a surprisingly soothing pasttime for me.
A part of me also wants to continue the quiet tradition of sewing in our family. I learned from my mom, who learned from hers. They grew up poor in Taiwan, where most people did not buy clothes. You picked out fabric, and you made your own clothes from that fabric. No one wore the same thing.
When I used to sew in my 20s, it was to make the clothing I couldn’t readily buy, whether due to price or a design I had in mind.
It’s a different time now, where there is an (excessive) abundance of cheap, ready-made clothing. Sewing is no longer a necessity. But to me, it is a nice-to-have sentimental skill — a way to remember a part of my mom’s and grandmother’s lives, and something I hope to teach my daughter someday.
Signing off,
Your Team at MomBrains