I'm driving to Michigan to get my babies tomorrow and will be driving to Virginia with them on Thanksgiving Day, right through Cleveland with its winter storm watch. 😐 Not super jazzed for the prospect of bad weather on the turnpike, but: MY BABIES.

Rian Johnson gets to re-make Rise of Skywalker and continue what he started with The Last Jedi. 😤

Me when I overheard a guy remark to his wife at Aldi, "Wow, that's not a lot of money for a lot of food"

Wake up babe a new translation of Isaiah 40:31 just dropped

“You’ll be visited by three spirits” The three spirits:

Non holiday but my mom cooked a Jenny O turkey randomly and kept saying she didn't think it was done, and ha ha we'll probably all die of food poisoning, etc. We were little kids! I was 7 and had (undiagnosed) anxiety. I finished eating then promptly wrote my will on construction paper with crayons.

Oh God bless

Should've named this kid Gavroche the way he's getting through my barricades 😑 Time to order another baby gate!

Day 2 of a pretty bad sinus headache 🫠

The toddler this morning

@atinsman.bsky.social the first time he saw/heard me blow my nose in the shower, probably

Emerging from Purity Culture™️ like

A movie that takes place where you're from:

Officially in search of vintage "chunky" little people for the toddler for Christmas since I found the little car at Goodwill today for $2!! I have the dump truck and two guys for it, but I cannot find them post-move and the "new" car I found seats 4 little folks. Wish me luck! 🤞🏻

@atinsman.bsky.social can relate I'm sure 🫢

"If & when preachers get control of the [Republican] party -and they're trying to do so- it's gonna be a damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. [They] think they're acting in the name of God so they can't & won't compromise." Barry Goldwater, 1994

Chat, what do we make of this?

"Fit check for my napalm era" but it's just me and a can of Poppi tucked into bed at 8:30pm in a t-shirt and no pants, Tums on board and ready for more Office reruns.

The baby and I do this song and dance nightly now where he unlatches early and won't relatch unless I offer him the paci. PACI???? More like PASS! He'll take milk instead. 😂

🎵LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH. EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH🎵

This is deeply funny to me and I love the playful spirit of it all but also I can't imagine being 1) awake this late as a 75 year old or 2) wanting to hear loud music and see flashing lights as a 75 year old.

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

This toddler is a bringer of joy. The amount of smiles that he garners when we're out together, just... 🥹❤️ The world needs him, and so do I.

Paging @danijustmight.bsky.social

Thinking about this meme for no reason at all this morning, definitely posting this from the couch and not the bathroom

My almost-7 year old had made it known that he really, really, really wants a Labubu for his birthday in a week and a half. 😑 Do you know how much those things are even secondhand???

Those viral "not everything is a two person job" videos but it's just our dog being offended when our arms are being used independently.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

It’s so cool that our kids get to experience authentic illnesses more commonly seen in Oregon Trail Maybe someday they’ll ford a river

"I will [go]... though I do not know the way." This little secondhand Frodo figurine lifted my spirits tremendously during a really painful situation this week, silly as that may sound. Not only is he extremely adorable, but he represents an indomitability of spirit as well. I need that. 🥹

Me: I want to listen to peaceful seasonal music while I try to get some work done this morning! The baby/toddler: Best I can do is activate every musical toy I have at the same time.

The Charles Miner storyline in The Office is super triggering for me and I think it's having been raised by an authoritarian dad more focused on control than relationship. The way he talks to Jim - the way Jim cannot do a damn thing right - super familiar.

Twelfth Night (EEEEEEEP!) and work with a proper cuppa 😌

🎶🎶🎶 Bonus 5yo son: UGH, no! Not Takedown! 🎶🎶🎶 (Same child): HUNTR\X GIRLS TO THE WORLD! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

The vibes this year gave “waiting for the air puff test at the eye doctor’s office”

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Could a depressed person do THIS? she asks as she lives her life and gets things done And the answer is YES

The only commentary I need

Laugh tracks have never made up for mediocre jokes

The baby (17m) loves to nod at people now. Folks in the stores & out and about usually comment on how cute he is, and he just sits there nodding. It's wholesome and delightful and a blueprint for kind words and compliments, maybe.

I am brave. ❤️

Working with friends 🫠💕 (Did you know if you use the "clean up" function to protect the info on your screen, it will make it look like the computer isn't on? At least, that's what happened to me 😂)

My children: "My room is clean, the basement toys are put away, my towels are hung up. We just have to get the parents understanding."

You expect to get Rickrolled by your friends. You don't expect to get Rickrolled by NPR's Marketplace Morning Report. 😂

Okay but now it's even funnier to me that Aaron was ad-libbing this evening as the baby watched some Ms Rachel during dinner. Ms. R: "MA-MA! CAN YOU SAY MA-MA?" Aaron, brightly: "Did you know that Jews started all wars, ever?" 🤩 Wild when saying children should LIVE in PEACE is controversial.

Going through boxes from the move - some of which hadn't been touched since I switched jobs, nearly two years ago - has been super tender for me this afternoon. There's the top I wore to my interview at the insurance agency. There's the Moana hooded towel my daughter, now 12, got at age 3.

Him: Are you enjoying your "Zalad" from Zaxby's? Me, eating: I mean I don't love that they call it that. Him: I think they have to, for legal reasons.

Morning sun at 7:30 hits this little corner just so, and I appreciate it so very much.

When you're British but can't spell

The PBS passport gives an embarrassment of riches, honestly.