After resisting the urge to buy this goodwill gem twice but it was still there weeks later and its price tag is the 50% off color, it's fate and can't be left on the shelves a third time

My college bff-turned-sister-in-law is from Roswell and her mom is such a bitch and knowing how pissed off she must be about their mayor race is exactly the holiday cheer I need rn

Both kids and husband (teacher) have a snow day today 🙃 I got snow tires put on yesterday, considering braving the roads for some peace and quiet at the office 😆

Snow the 2nd day back from Thanksgiving break is too soon. I'm not yet ready for even one more unstructured full day at home with these mini-me hellyuns 🫠

"about how much longer til it's ready?" "he's just finishing it up now" 🧐

My mom wants nothing to do with turkey carcass after buying and roasting it and me, same, but my husband? He'll cook that shit down and we have stock for all of soup season bc we get ALL the carcass from a giant farm fresh bird that fed the whole fam #blessed

Me to my brain when making a daily "short list" from my to-do list that's just the whole to-do list

7:15 and my husband just set the kids up doing painting before he leaves for an hour to drop off his car and walk home while it gets new tires Kids painting is my least favorite indoor activity. I'm still in bed behind a closed door and already my stress level is skyrocketing 🫠

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.

A thing about raising a daughter that nobody told me was the sheer number of hair elastics and clips we go through. Like, I thought I lose them quickly but this girl disappears her hair tie before daycare dropoff almost daily 🤑🤑

This Tuesday day off for the entire household is really fucking with my head. Feels like I should be changing linens for clean sheet Sunday but I just did that 2 days ago and there's a strong chance I'll forget to go into the office tomorrow since I WFH on Mondays

Disassociating on this snowy day watching Land Before Time with my son, haven't watched since childhood, another journey down the road of how'd this classic age since I was my son's age

My dad retired and transferred most of his clients to a local attorney but saved a few handpicked referrals for me, including one who he suggested we chat about before I meet with the client. This is how my notes start from that chat with him, should be a fun new client meeting this morning!

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

We also passed a red flag gun law! Proud of steps in the right direction scattered all over the country 🙌🏼

Today we went to a ski swap, church, walk in a bird sanctuary, playground, fiddle concert (big band vibes but strings), with only one stop at home to drop off husband to rest his back while the kids and I did the latter 3 without him. I am finished but still have to power thru dinner and bedtime 🫠

Was wondering why Ghostbusters was starting to hit just right and then remembered the 5 mg I ate before dinner 45 minutes ago 🤩

My husband's back seized up while getting ready to leave this morning and he was visibly uncomfortable standing or really doing anything so he called out and took a valium and has been horizontal for hours. I tried imagining doing that and...I can't. My job would be fine, but my mom guilt? Lol NOPE

Are you smarter or even as smart as a 2nd grader challenge (No deductions for adult not knowing the Blanche example)

I worked for a small food pantry for a while. The can of beans you paid $1 for would cost us 20 cents through our connections. Give money directly if you can. You can literally multiply the amount of food your donation can provide by 3-5x just by giving cash directly.

Well, platner made quite a splash and had us optimistic in the national spotlight but can't say I wasn't cynically expecting something to burst that bubble. On to the next, Mills is a firecracker but 78 is too old!!

My brother got married this weekend (yay!💘) and it was a very communal effort of an event/weekend and these are the Mondays I'm so grateful to work from home on Mondays and Fridays. Laundry is going, I'll get kiddo to school, then space out til my 2:00 zoom with an old family friend/new client

He all but refuses to tell anyone he went to Harvard except among select family and friends he 100% knows won't hold it against him

Did big kid-free house project yesterday so today we get a guilt-free hang out and play day with the kids 🥰 part of that is a father-son Halloween decorating mission that I've been explicitly (and gladly) excluded from so during toddler nap time I get to do ✨nothing✨

Absolutely destroying the work bathroom before even checking my email this morning 😬

Couldn't remember if I took my Adderall before leaving home this morning and felt like I hadn't so I took one on my drive in but based on my 💓🫨 rn I'm now pretty sure I did in fact take one before leaving home

As an estate planning etc lawyer, I cannot be more enthusiastic in endorsing this

re last skeet: I'd like to go back to precedented times of not feeling the need to livestream the Senate floor proceedings in the background (and tbh sometimes foreground) of my workday

Ok @schatz.bsky.social just dragged the House for their stupidly long vaca WRT shutdown/healthcare and then specifically requested to switch to a different journal to record his remarks calling BS and not holding back with accurate labels of authoritarianism, terrorism, etc by DJT and his cronies

We're now 4/4 for COVID and flu 💉 in our house! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Just once, I'd like to walk into my kitchen to find every cabinet and drawer closed

This is (I believe) a huge obstacle to people understanding what's at stake. They don't know they're talking about Medicaid benefits bc every state calls their program something different. Here, it's MaineCare, and lots of folks reasonably think it's under Medicare bc of the name similarity.

Not fighting my son on pants vs shorts yet bc it is unseasonably warm but more importantly I'm not ready to face to reality that all his pants will likely be too short after 6 months of exclusive shorts wearing 🫠

Change your settings to require it before posting an image, you'll be used to it and not feel inconvenienced before you know it 👍🏼

PUNCH AND MACE NAZIS

7 y/o had his first social studies lesson today in 2nd grade and announced at dinner that the next protest he attends he'll make a sign that says "kings are idiots" This feels like one of those Things That Never Happened but it really did 🥹

In good news, finally found a COVID 💉 appointment for our 3 y/o! Walmart is scheduling them in Maine, in case that's relevant/helpful for anyone reading this!

Really struggling to just sit here and send my silly little emails and write silly little trusts to help people get Medicaid that may or may not exist when they need it Related, when clients call and ask about the status of their drafts, I struggle to not explode at the absurdity of everything

7 y/o wants his Halloween costume to include a pumpkin on his head. I said we need to try it beforehand so he knows what that would actually feel like (and presumably change his mind) Behold: yesterday's pumpkinhead trial run, which somehow did not deter him from his dream 🤣🤣🤣

I asked one small thing of my husband for my bday last year (literally to do the planning for the evening that I did every other week on that same day) and I cried multiple times on my bday bc he fucked it up royally so this year I took no chances & planned what I want and won't disappoint myself 👸🏼

Parenting a 3 y/o is wild. I reminder her that tomorrow's my bday and she immediately and genuinely said "I love you!" with the biggest smile. Not 5 minutes later she said she wants to make me sad 😵‍💫

If you have the opportunity to see @therevivalists.bsky.social on their current tour (started 2 days ago), don't hesitate to go. They're 🔥🔥 right now (as they have been for over a decade!)

Client emailed surprised about a bill bc they misunderstood what to expect and I was ready to quickly write it off until the last point that if they knew it would take that much extra time (.5 hr) they'd have declined my offer to follow up bc "we could have researched those questions ourselves" 🙄🙄

Space Jam She's the One

Toddler has been home with me all day on my wfh day bc daycare is closed. We went to donuts at her brother's school and then got our hair cut and she napped, I worked, we played. Husband came home and I tagged out to finish up work but am just sitting at my desk disassociating in near darkness 🫠

Important PSA for parents of white boys. If you don’t want you sons radicalized do these 5 things.

Skyline cleanse - my babies in 2011 when 8-week-old Penny first came home and 8-month-old Luna seamlessly transitioned from only child to oldest daughter 🤣🥰

Everything is shit but my friend from college is in a band that's opening their tour 30 minutes from me on Sunday and that's how I'm starting my birthday week with my BFF and our husbands and hopefully we can go backstage to catch up and feel cool 😎