Seeing Venice #CitySpies style. We retraced Cairo & Paris’ steps, looked at lots of beautiful masks, bought a small (carryon compatible) snowglobe, and enjoyed Kat’s view😊 Thanks to @jamesponti.bsky.social for books that give us an extra incentive to see some sights!

Traveling to Venice and Rome and excited to visit some of the locations featured in the #CitySpies books w/ kiddo! @jamesponti.bsky.social let us know if you have recommendations for spots not featured in the first six books fans should be sure to check out 😊

Special shout out to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for giving us an opportunity to talk with our 1st grader about the social construction of gender and gender norms 🫠😡🤬 We had a lovely conversation about the best way to answer question #6….

Kiddo rolled up a new character for an upcoming adventure; rolled 15, 11, 14, 13, 10, 18. Kiddo then rolled for my new character; rolled 9, 8, 9, 13, 9, 15. Kiddo was SO apologetic, but I was just tickled!

TIL the history of thanksgiving!

According to a recent survey, 100% of the power rangers in our neighborhood want more bike infrastructure and a less car centered culture 🥰

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Just introduced 6yo to @dndbeyond.bsky.social’s Roll in the Family, w/ @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social @kelly-knox.com @bdavewalters.bsky.social @badeye.bsky.social & their amazing kids 😍 Kiddo was absolutely smitten, and wanted more. Any chance you might make/have more amazing #ttrpgkids content?

TIL (from a kids book) that Ben Franklin wanted the wild turkey as the US national symbol instead of a bald eagle, and that it took six years to settle the debate. Apparently Franklin thought wild turkeys were more “respectable.” I am not sure about more respectable, but certainly more apt of late!

The number of Tesla’s pulling into the JCC continues to surprise me. Somehow their “we stand with Israel” signage is consistent with driving swasticars?

If Trump sends Elon to fix things in space, do you think Elon could take Mark, Jeff, Sam, and Peter along? Because I feel like that would fix a lot of things down here too….

This has got to be my favorite use of AI, by a substantial margin. But I wonder how long we have before the whole system is just AI on both sides talking to itself 🤔

New super power unlocked! I put a friend to sleep while GM’ing a #ttrpg for our kids! So if you have trouble sleeping…. (They were apologetic, but I took it as a compliment that they felt comfortable crashing on the couch while kids played at the table nearby.)

Just ran a #ttrpgkids game with hexbots in a magnatile maze the kids built 😍 Will definitely be incorporating hexbots into more of my games!

We were bummed that Kelly and Sara lost today, but we had fun playing for the gold metal anyways💜

Scariest ttrpg session I have read about in a while. Let’s go team coconuts!🌴🌴

This weekend I GM'ed the #lego #dnd adventure, 5yo’s first adventure. When 3 of 5 PC’s crit failed a perception check, they heard the owlbear ask them to jump on for a ride. All three made the check to get on (two w/ nat 20's). We were dying, especially when the wizard riding it cast levitate 💀

Am so excited about seeing how this narrative arc of @faeforgeacademy.bsky.social wraps up, and where the story goes next🍿 player.captivate.fm/episode/cc9c...

Thing #327 I love about TTRPGs: when your 5yo comes home with off the wall hypothetical questions, you can suggest rolling some dice :) Who would win in a fight between an elephant and a lion? What about five elephants against two lions, a tiger, a cheetah, a jaguar, and a rhino? #trrpgkids

I was explaining recent developments in world politics to 5yo at bedtime tonight, and 5yo said somebody should go steal all the bomb-making parts and destroy them. When I said it was a good idea, 5yo asked me very earnestly if I would tell Joe Biden, so I said I would post it….

So excited to listen to this weeks @faeforgeacademy.bsky.social episode, but I am being a responsible adult and going to bed instead 😭

5yo and I recently did Pokémon research by flipping three coins and counting the number of heads, and graphed our results. It was such a hit that it was requested again-I love this little nerd so much 😍 #parentingwin

My 5yo recently asked when we get to play #dnd together 😍 @thebaddm.bsky.social how soon can we get you to DM a kids game?

Please take my money😍😍😍

Ever wanted to play with a TTRPG celeb? Now's your chance! Back for a Seat at the Table to play with one of these superstars: @latiajacquise.com @joshuamsimons.com @naladraws.com @camillewolfewood.bsky.social @cypheroftyr.bsky.social @thebaddm.bsky.social @jesthehuman.bsky.social Link below⬇️

Was playing the card game creatures (where you create chimeras), and drew the cards to make the ferocious maga-head. 5yo couldn’t figure out why I was dying 😭

5yo asked if we were rich (a kid at school said they were). I asked if 5yo knew what rich meant, and 5yo didn’t. I said it meant you had more money than you needed and hadn’t shared it, and that it was kind of sad, but yes we were. 5yo thought for a bit, and said, “But dad, I don’t want to share.”

People who are famous in our house (according to 5yo who just learned the concept): van Persie, Messi, and Ruby Bridges.

Any suggestions for resources for a #dnd one-shot where you magic school bus style shrink down and go into a body to help fight #covid? (I’m preparing a holiday one-shot for my kid and thought they’d enjoy this, but would love to know if somebody else has done this or something similar!)

So I just had Detroit pizza for the first time, and I hope I don’t lose too many of my NYC and Chicago friendships next time there’s an argument over pizza preferences 😍😍😍

Not me sitting around smiling a smile bigger than any human should be allowed to smile because tomorrow is #FaeforgeFriday at the @faeforgeacademy.bsky.social 😁😄😊

I love those motivational guys that are like "I wake up every day at 4 a.m. to go running". Like dude, who do you think you are fooling? You are just going to sleep earlier. It's the same thing. You are just jogging in the dark for no reason.

Is this why all my neutral characters keep dying?

Starting to make plans for 5yo’s first 5e dnd game 💜 (we’ve played a lot of Heroes and Treasure)!

Standing in line at airport security and my mind started wandering. I found myself wondering how many people still remember what airports were like in the before times….

TFW your 5yo asks to listen to one of your favorite songs that your indie band friends wrote a decade ago😍 (Goodnight, San Francisco by The Bittersweets)

Becoming an adult is great because you can do whatever you want. Except get a good night's sleep. Or be happy.

Hey, do you know what goes well with tryptophan? @faeforgeacademy.bsky.social does. And even if you like tofu more than turkey (like me), it turns out that it’s still a wonderful way to recover from the holidays!

Just when I think that @faeforgeacademy.bsky.social can’t possibly get better, they provide something that I didn’t know I needed. I mean, how do you say no to cottagecore Tieflings?

Just finished watching the latest @faeforgeacademy.bsky.social recording session - I thought there was nothing that could make me love this show more, but watching @thebaddm.bsky.social, @tinypoison.bsky.social, and others be the awesome humans that they are is just amazing 😍

We went “camping” last night 💜

9/11 was a tragedy, but luckily America responded to it the same way we always respond to adversity: by coming together as a nation and doing racism domestically, and bombing people overseas.

Seriously, I am jealous of you if you haven’t listened to the @faeforgeacademy.bsky.social yet because it means you can binge so much amazing content! It’s SO good!