You Ask, We Answer: The One With The Callbacks

Doree Shafrir (0:12)

Hello, and welcome to Forever35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Doree Shafrir.

Elise Hu (0:19)

And I'm Elise Hu, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

Doree Shafrir (0:23)

And this is a You Ask, We Answer episode where we respond to your questions, comments, feedback, concerns, insights, observations.

Elise Hu (0:34)

But we should remind folks that we are not medical doctors.

Doree Shafrir (0:38)

We are not.

We're not experts. I mean, we're experts in some things, but definitely not like mental health or physical health experts. So we do encourage you to seek support from someone with actual expertise in those areas. And we're not like a do-your-own-research kind of vibe. Right.

Elise Hu (1:00)

There are so many caveats, right? Because there are so many ways that things are going in the larger discourse, if you will. Yes.

Doree Shafrir (1:08)

Yes.

Elise Hu (1:09)

I hope everybody's having a good summer. We are now in, like, fully in summer.

All the folks that were still in school have finished. And all the folks who are returning to school in early August have not quite returned just yet.

Doree Shafrir (1:25)

Yeah, I was going to say, I realize, like, our kids go back in less than a month.

Elise Hu (1:29)

It's wild.

Doree Shafrir (1:30)

Which is wild.

Elise Hu (1:32)

But my summer has felt long already.

Doree Shafrir (1:35)

Fair. That is fair.

Elise Hu (1:38)

This is a time for just leisure and catching up, though, for me, this mid-July season. So I'm really glad. And you just got back from vacay. Highlights, lowlights. What do you want to share?

Doree Shafrir (1:51)

Well, as we discussed on the casual chat, I wouldn't totally refer to it as vacay. Like, it was vacay in the sense that, like, you and I weren't recording.

So it was like a work vacay, although I did write my slate column. Um, but it wasn't like a relaxing, like, sit on the beach and have a piña colada kind of trip. It was more of a trip.

Elise Hu (2:13)

Yeah. Yeah.

Doree Shafrir (2:14)

Um, which is not to say it wasn't, like, fun and great, but I was, like, ready to sort of, like, get back to my real life by the end, you know? Um, we went to Boston. Well, first we went to Connecticut to see my brother, which is great. Great to see him.

Then we took the train to Boston and Henry had never ridden Amtrak before.

Elise Hu (2:38)

Oh, fun.

Doree Shafrir (2:38)

So that was fun. Um, and, you know, I much prefer taking a train to sitting in traffic. So that was, that was nice. Um, and then we were in Boston for a little over a week and that was great. It was, it was just, like, a nice trip. We got to spend a lot of good time with my parents. We saw some friends. We saw the tall ships.

And, yeah, it was, it was a good, it was a good trip.

Elise Hu (3:11)

Tell me what you did for food because, uh, A, I'm very food-motivated like my dog. But two, when we're all here as a family together, you know, my mom really loves cooking for everybody. So did one of, did one of your parents, like, prepare meals? Did you guys eat out a lot?

Doree Shafrir (3:28)

Yeah, my mom cooked for us, like, almost every night. It was very thoughtful and, like, she had clearly put a lot of thought into, like, planning menus and, you know, thinking about what we would like. And that was really, really sweet. And, like, nice to sit down to a dinner, you know? Like, I try to cook, but, like, a lot of times, I'm just tired and don't feel like making a whole dinner. You know what I mean? Like, I'll be like, I'm going to heat up some chicken nuggets for Henry. Like, that's kind of the extent.

So that was nice to just, like, sit down, like, as a family and have meals.

Elise Hu (4:08)

I was saying something similar because, but for my parents being here, I don't feel like we have a good routine of all sitting down together as a family. Because especially during the school year, everybody's going in a million different places. Right. And right during mealtime. You know, volleyball practice is between six and eight. Okay. And dance is between four to seven.

And so it's really hard for all of us to get together. And that was, that's been something I'm very grateful for during the summer. And also something I want to be a little bit more intentional about.