Why does November always feel like it came out of nowhere?

Very very surprised by how many kids were chowing down on their treats during trick or treat.

I’m such a square, apparently—telling my child she can have candy from our house only until we have inspected her candy.

Parents out here rolling the dice… and I am not one of them. 😱

That being said, I tossed maybe 7 pieces of suspicious candy. Mostly for being partially unwrapped lollipops or an unfamiliar brand of indecipherable sweets and one KitKat that was not quite the right logo. 🤨

Made it through the dual holiday. Managed to crush the class party as a room parent, got our rangoli done and dinner done before trick or treat. Made it out the door at 6:00 and home by about 7:30. Did our Diwali thing 🪔.

Utterly exhausted. Which means maybe I will not have the strength to stay up stewing in my anxiety and heavy feelings. Fingers crossed 🤞

Happy Diwali to all who celebrate. Sent kiddo off to school with the promise that we would squeeze making our rangoli in before dinner and light the diyas after trick or treat.

😳😅 Don’t we all?
#parenting

Some memes are evergreen.

The prescriptions are in for those meds that MAGA fucks would make illegal if they take power again. Those meds that will give me a little more peace and control over the timeline of this devastating loss. This is an off-label use of mifepristone. I am having what they called a missed miscarriage, not an abortion. Not that that should be anyone’s damn business but mine and my husband’s and my doctor’s.

Not that I need to preach to many here on coso. But #voteblue, I beg you.

What’s worse than finding out you have a blighted ovum (empty gestational sac?)

Finding out that the ultrasound you had 13 days ago was a lower resolution and missed the fetal pole, which was visualized today. (Sudden flash of hope.) But stopped developing past 6 weeks (Fuck.)

Before there wasn’t anything to mourn. Just my body gaslighting me in every way.

And now there is. And they don’t think it will pass on its own but I have to talk to two more people first.

Tomorrow is my husband’s birthday. It’s also the day I get a follow up ultrasound re:blighted ovum. I have been the queen of compartmentalizing all this. But I need them to get all the tissues out ASAP. Give me drugs, scrape it out, I don’t care. Because I am running out of compartments and the ones I do have are flooding like the Titanic’s until I, too, eventually snap in half.

#TFW you are asked if you can charge a patient’s phone at the nurses station and you’re a low-key germaphobe and that phone just looks icky. “Hang on. I’m getting gloves and a sani-wipe and a bio bag. …and you don’t get to judge me for that.”
#healthcareworkers

Just putting it out there… but would there be any reason whatsoever that Joe Biden couldn’t use his fresh hot presidential immunity for official acts to dissolve the electoral college and make sure the will of the people is actually the will of the people and not the electors?

Today is Drug Take Back Day.
If you’re cleaning out your medicine cabinet, please take some time to read up on proper medication disposal so drugs don’t end up in the water table or on the street. Find your nearest take back location here:
https://www.dea.gov/takebackday