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I recently let my 6yo watch the first three Disney Descendants movies. And oh man. Now it’s all we watch or listen to. She has it blaring on her yoto player for hours on end. Knows all the lyrics. And now she’s dragged her tap shoes out of the closet and dusted off her tap moves and married them to her sweet little interpretations of Kenny Ortega’s legendary choreography.

More coffee. ☕️

More coffee is required.

Obsessed with Mulan, 6yo: “Mommy can girls be in the army NOW?”
Me: “Yep.”
6yo: “Oh good, cause I wanna be a guard.”
Me: “Oh. What would you like to guard?”
6 yo: “The Emperor of China, are you even paying attention?”
Me: “um. I think you need to be born in China to do that job. Also there isn’t an emperor anymore.”
6 yo: *groan of disappointment* What can I even guard then?

Here I am smashing dreams. #parenting

Good morning #Cosonauts. Slept very poorly last night between anxious feelings and anticipation of early morning Doctor's appointment to prep for #IVF. Waiting now in the medical office building which is becoming less and less deserted as the minutes tick by.

The journey this morning (walk, local transit, walk) was brisk like a beautiful fall morning in late October. I am here for it. I am not, however, here for the pungent aroma of skunk that had me constantly sweeping the peripherals.

My child’s anxiety is extremely and personally soul-crushing. The intrusive thoughts are worries of abandonment or fears that I am an imposter. I feel so helpless and horrible and jealous of every mother who has never been asked by their own child if they are their real mom. 💔

In a dark fucking place.

Holy moly, kiddo ate all of her salmon and wild rice at dinner. She drew the line at broccoli, kale, feta and kalamata olive sautéed salad. Swapped for a bowl of raspberries. #ParentingWin

Hubs found his wedding band! Whew. 😅

Husband lost his wedding band today. No idea how or where. Also the big canvas print of our visit to the Taj Mahal (from the day we got engaged) decided to fall off the wall. 😬

Wow, if I believed in ill omens… today would be a really bad day.

Power restored. 🙌🏻 Now the heartbreaking task of discarding spoiled food. 😭

I’m having just the worst deja vu. Going on 12 hrs with no power. No estimated restoration time.

https://counter.social/@MotherDucker/110951657312066606

Big thunderstorm rolled through. Power is out. Hubs on his way to get a bag of ice. Estimated restoration time is 11:00pm but when I look at the outage map, our neighborhood is in a massive orange triangle of about 1000homes with outages—making me skeptical about that ERT.

#TFW your coworker asks you how you plan to spend your birthday and you dissolve into a tearful meltdown about your kid’s #anxiety.

Well it finally happened, the discussion about chicken (🍗 being the same as 🐓.) It started out a little wide and crazy-eyed for a minute… then dipped into a super gross line of questioning… but we overcame and asked for the other drumstick. #parenting

Making potatoes O’Brien from the backyard harvest of bell peppers and potatoes.

Not me, sitting here counting down the minutes to 3:00 pm when the teacher assignments and meet the teacher sign-up drops as though it is New Year’s Eve ball! 😭 What have I become?

Kiddo asked if we can paint her room a new color. I said, “How about we rearrange your furniture instead? That went over well.

Then hubs comes home and asks why we rearranged her room? I told him so we didn’t have to paint her room. He laughs. Then not even five minutes later he said he would go get some pain color books.
I honestly should have known he would want to do the thing I was trying to avoid. #parenting #Marriage

I’ve loved this family since their early Covid era songs. This one is brilliant 🥹
Parody of Dancing Queen “Vance VP”
https://youtu.be/vYILYILPrXs