Got a big ol’ gravity water filter because, ya know, preparedness. So I assembled that rig today. Feeling handy and accomplished. 💪

Reading before school helps with the #anxiety and nervous tummy. She also ate more breakfast today than she has in the last several school days. You won’t catch me banning books from the breakfast table if it means she feels less stressed.

My brilliant, soon to be 7-year-old finished her first whole chapter book today. 117 pages read entirely by her with only minor pronunciation assistance. She never let me read so much as a sentence to her because she knew she could do it. 🤩

#books #parenting #readers

@Jess alas, that’s a premium service I’m pretty sure I opted out of when I subscribed to Hinduism. Unless the tolerance for other gods has been found to be less of a sticking point.

First grader playground reports are harrowing:
“Mom, I scraped Charlie’s eye today. There was blood.”
“What?!”
“Charlie tackled Liam because Liam pounded on me.”
Wait what?!
“Then Liam tattletaled on Charlie for tackling him.”
“Let’s go back to the eye blood…”
“I scraped him by accident when he tackled Liam to stop him pounding on me.”
“Why was Liam pounding on you?!”
“Because he is Felix’s best friend.”
“I thought you and Felix were friends?”
“We are. Liam was jealous.”
Yeesh.

@amarand lol indeed he would!

My husband trimmed the front hedges the other day because they were as high as the eaves. He thinned them out a little more than I wanted but I think he’s just saving himself some agony next summer.

Yesterday we put out our fall/H’ween scarecrows. And now every time I walk by the couch I think people are lurking in my yard. The birds, however? Still residing, non-plussed, on the eaves and in the hedges.

Scare crow? No. Scare me? Every bleeping time.

#FallVibes #halloween

@blissfulthorn it’s just a number! You don’t sound a day over “elder millennial,” if that helps.

I worked out this morning. Did 36 minutes on my stationary recumbent bike.

Totally not a big deal. People do it every day for longer and in more impressive ways.

But big deal for me with the chronic pain. I feel better than I thought I would and I am hoping to turn it to habit.

So we are all about packing kiddo sustainable, waste-free lunches when she doesn’t like or want what the school is serving… but damn does it get heavy. Luckily she doesn’t have to lug a laptop to and fro yet. That’s next year.

Until then, clean lunch weight training!

@00pi like any conspiracy theorist worth their salt, I shall dig in and double down. Narrative be dammed! (That’s how this works right?)

I’m not going to lie… I feel like the world of upside down and worst case scenarios has made me a #conspiracy theorist. These “assassination attempts” are just too convenient. Hey if the damn radiologist can believe the moon landing was fake and the mail carrier can believe that Covid vaccines are microchipping us, I can believe these are staged…. Right? 😬
#conspiracytheories

@singlemaltgirl You’ve got Mail