My husband, hauling in my 2 fall seasonal decor totes from the garage: “This is a lot of stuff. Do you really need all this stuff?”

Also my husband: “Meteorological fall is Sunday. I can change the garden flags now if you want.”

Also my husband: “We don’t have enough wreaths. Or fall welcome mats. Oh, what about a shower curtain?”

Does anyone else go to YouTube and watch videos from early COVID to check that it all really happened and to have a solemn ptsd cry while reflecting on that terror and uncertainty and utter devastation?

No? Just me?

Do you know your parents’ favorite songs? When you think of your parents what’s the first song that comes to mind for each?

🚨Big deal alert🚨
We are having a first grade friend over after school today. I’ll be serving apple slices, popsicles, and cool mom energy. I am reaaaaalllly hopeful this helps to tamp down some of Kiddo’s #anxiety and build confidence.

#parenting

Todays breakfast is:

What a week for #coso birthdays! Happiest birthday and congrats on your recent solar circumnavigation, @amarand! I completed another just yesterday, and the lovely @LPH6 did the day before that! You are a wonderful human and I am glad you’re here.

Here is a textile triptych I made several years ago as an artistic interpretation of Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory.

This reinforces my phobia of swimming in natural bodies of water. Ya know. That and the toxic bacteria produced by climate change.
https://wapo.st/4cMiCvU 👈🎁article

My 38th circumnavigation of the Sun has been completed with only a handful of incidents and zero casualties.

The US Surgeon General coming out to acknowledge that parenting in our time is a public mental health crisis is the god damned validation I didn’t know I needed.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/28/surgeon-general-parents-mental-health-advisory
#parenting

How to make your child’s bowl of roasted eggplant, peppers, and onions with quinoa, chickpeas, Greek yogurt sauce and feta disappear: 👇

6yo: *sneaking, scurrying, hitting pseudo-martial arts poses* “What is even for dinner today?”

Me: “Can’t you tell? It’s 🥷 ninja food!”

Clean plate club tonight! 🍽️

#ParentingWin

Do solicitors make good money or something? Because I absolutely could not go door to door bothering anyone at their home for a living knowing full well people have been shot for far less offenses. Just a thought after the second solicitor in as many days showed up at our house in the blazing heat. Also, do they respect no soliciting signs? Because I’m going home to make one now.