My 7 y/o may be dressed in a grim reaper costume but he just asked his little dressed-as-royalty sister if she wants help saving the queendom so I think we're doing something right 👸🏼

We are 1 hour into February vacation for 2/4 of our household and I'm already wildly overstimulated and depleted of patience 🫠

Son wants to copy his buddy's Valentine's class gifts from last year, which were ready-to-gift individually packaged polished rocks. Realizing my last-minute DIY version basically would have my son putting a loose rock in the hand of everyone in his 2nd grade classroom 😬

My dad had a major accident to his eye a few months ago and has become a regular at Mass Eye & Ear, and I still can't get over the name of the cafe in the main lobby of this 16-floor hospital dedicated to eye (and ear) care 👀

Our high school planned a walkout protest today. How surprising that the whole district has a 2-hour delay (at least) to investigate threats made toward multiple schools. I can explain a snow delay to my 7 y/o, but a threat delay? I know it's small potatoes among *everything* but add it to the list🙃

Not my toddler puking at daycare at 8 am to force me to partake in today's general strike by snuggling on the couch with her 🙃

Last week, my uncle told me the problem is that younger folks "don't want to get out and march" and, relatedly, they just spend their days staring at their phones. He's intelligent, involved, liberal, reads the news, and listened as I politely and firmly corrected his misunderstanding. But still!

WUT THA FUCK

Senate Republicans are on the floor talking about abortion rn. Like, the gift of life directly from God himself, that you can't decide whether to carry but the government can steal and imprison and torture after you've given birth. And that's their contribution to debate of government funding? AYFKM

Me: oh good, we can use the snow day for some play with the kids and unpack and reset from our weekend with family 3-year-old: 🤮🤮🤮🤮

I hope every ice vehicle that tries to drive today slides into a snowy ditch and nobody comes to tow them out 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I'll take credit here, my strongly worded voicemail the other night tipped the scales for him no doubt. Which means he'll also be invoking the 25th amendment any day, since that was the 2nd half of my message 🙏🏼

If you're not sure how, I'm always happy to walk someone through it! (And if you want to activate the setting that makes Bluesky remind you before you post an image, I can help with that too!)

Heating pad on my back to ease the whiplash from falling ice skating yesterday, watching shows about weird amazing animals, let's keep this PMS at bay 🙃

Graham Platner fucked up with his Nazi tattoos and somehow still has fans keeping him in the running but at least in doing so he's brought the conversation to reality and making other candidates say things like abolish ice and not just empty platitudes

Trying not to spiral into a menty b as I cry driving both kids to school/daycare instead of walking 7 y/o to school bc husband's back is acting up and he's staying home today when I'm supposed to have the house to myself for WFH before a long weekend with plans that don't include a fucked up back 🙃

My husband had to stay after school today for a staff meeting about unwelcome visitors next week. Students already asking if agents can come into school. At least admin said teachers can do whatever they choose outside school hours (as in community activism without jeopardizing their jobs 🙌🏼)

Damn, I was hoping they wouldn't get wind of our incredible Somali immigrant community. Thanks to mother nature for lining up some cold temps this weekend to make for some extra slick streets and sidewalks

The ADHD urge to simply 💫sleep through it💫

That this message didn't hit is kind wild when you look at the time stamp on it

Bringing children anywhere is challenging in general, the added element of having to answer the hard questions about politics and why we're protesting and what does that sign mean etc etc while surrounded by many listening ears is a whole new level!

This looks exactly like the driveway from the neighbor's house to my parents' house that I walked countless times growing up (sometimes in pitch black when house lights were off and it was cloudy or a new moon), and why I'm still a bit afraid of the dark tbh

Past the holiday brain scramble feeling an inkling of respite before realizing we're actually diving straight into the summer camp wormhole Oh and the fucking world is a dumpster fire occupying exactly zero mental bandwidth

For the past ~7+ yrs I've been strictly outdoor & home workout girlie. After a few weeks of eating w/o working out bc [weather/holiday/kids/etc] I decided to finally try planet fitness next to my office (not bc new year, it's been an idea for a while but new year deals 😍) and TVs are showing murder😭

This is a long thread I posted last month about people who need to make sure they have a will, even if young and healthy. It's maybe worth revisiting in light of Renee Good's killing and discussion of her son's custody. tl;dr: If nothing else, please specify guardians for your minor children.

stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

My ABOLISH ICE sign is too big to put in any prominent window of my house And that's something I can fix. Start small. Need bigger windows, obviously

Welp, we got 2 days back in school before a snow day 🥴

Heads up parents whose kids finally go back to school tomorrow - they'll still be a wreck tomorrow night. We're not out of the weeds yet but we at least catch a daytime break. Keep those expectations low for dinner/bathing/bedtime (we didn't and have REGRETS)

I'm sorry feels like WHAT

Take down your tree! Twelfth night is not supposed to be celebrated by burning down your house!

Heard about other schools not starting again until tomorrow and intentionally didn't confirm our kid's calendar, just dropped him off this morning hoping someone would receive him

Adderall and Robitussin and WFH and school is back in session LFG

Told my son we're walking to school tomorrow morning unless it's frigid outside (it's just shy of a mile away) Tomorrow morning's hourly forecast said HA

We decided we'd had enough of bedtime struggles and tested out dropping our 3 y/o daughter's nap on the last day of this marathon holiday break and hoooooo boy none of us needed that. Early bedtimes for all tonight!

Napoleon Dynamite's final dance would've gotten into julliard before Julia Stiles in save the last dance

Kids are at Grandma and Grandpa's for a sleepover and we envisioned a date night out on the town but reality is actually homemade fried rice and trader joes gyoza and Napoleon Dynamite 💃🏼

Going in to the office today to remember what life is like outside this house and these kids, not for any scheduled appointments, basically a fight or flight response to 2 weeks of holidays and no childcare 🫠

Annual Dad post: Please do not drink & drive. It is monumentally dumb. At best you get away with it. At worst you kill yourself or someone else. Every outcome in between is bad. Some are life-alteringly bad. If you're stuck and can't afford an Uber, I will pay for it. I will not pay for your bail.

My children had a bitchin' time at our neighbors' NYE party 🥳

MILLENNIALS ASSEMBLE for the New Years anthem youtu.be/G1xs47bX928?...

Someone observed that lol we all just IRL witnessed our parents struggling with basic tech etc over the holidays - KC Davis 🎯 with a repost reel that hey you're probably actually seeing early dementia signs And I remembered our elder law practice is about to get that annual post-holiday wave

"working from home" today i.e. disassociating with full torso heating pad and space heater blasting behind closed door of home office after lovely but seemingly endless family and kid and friend time with a total of about 20 minutes of actual alone reset time since school vaca started 11 days ago 🫠

Not me eating my kids' broken gingerbread house pieces that came home from daycare and never got repaired 🥸

I had such terrible dinner service tonight that I tipped $0 for the first time ever in my life. While telling the waiter it was disappointing as he walked away without an apology or second glance. I feel like an asshole but every adult at our table agreed and we've all waited tables enough to know

These post-xmas poops, good golly I feel like a shadow of my former self

At a comedy show that starts at 9:30 out here like we're ever even awake at this hour when the kids are home 👯‍♀️

"No" is a complete sentence, 2nd grade challenge

Thought a client no-showed so I unfroze from my paralysis leading up to an appointment and got some shit done then realized I just misread the time and she's due in 15 minutes but what a helpful mistake for my brain to unstick itself and do stuff instead of waiting in limbo!!

Our lovely receptionist got everyone this beautiful "touch of spring" for our offices but as soon as it bloomed it became so pungent 2 people already evicted theirs to the conference room and I feel bad adding another to the exiled flowers so instead I'm stuck in my office that reeks of pee & feet 🤢