Budgie smugglers indeed! share.google/IwYCAiQuHDk2...

Sour cream and onion Pringles with pink sugar because that's how #Eckmancita rolls on her last day as a 6-year-old. We are watching the "Family meeting" of Bluey on repeat.

A little girl #Eckmancita's age in Minnesota, the state my dad grew up in, lost her mom yesterday. Half the country immediately said her mom had it coming. How are we supposed to live with each other when we don't even exist in the same reality?

I have a six-year-old so...yeah.

This is amazing and everyone should make this: Split up browning the butter and mixing if you like. I added 4 Tbsp of dry milk powder to my 2 sticks of browning butter. smittenkitchen.com/2023/12/brow... Did not need icing. @smittenkitchen.bsky.social

@courtneyellis.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DRp8M6u...

Yellow-headed caracara spotted near me! Poor lost little guy. www.delawareonline.com/story/news/l...

@courtneyellis.bsky.social I found what your husband ought to get you for Christmas. (Provided you like coffee this way.) www.instagram.com/reel/DQy-TAe...

Nothing like playing Candyland and being told to look away while my daughter stacks the deck.

It appears this genre has found its very own Eye of Argon.

My husband roared laughing at this. He has friends for whom medication was life-changing with ADHD, and thought maybe that would help him and his autism diagnosis was an unexpected result of an assessment designed to diagnose both.

@courtneyellis.bsky.social ❤️ Thanksgiving plan for a family that has members with celiac disease and need to be GF. ♥️ www.facebook.com/share/v/1HHN...

@www.jrrjokien.com I think they found Shelob or Ungoliant's lair. Discovering the works largest spiderweb was not on my 2025 bingo card. www.nytimes.com/video/scienc... All kinds of nope.

Wordle 1,603 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@jasonsanford.bsky.social hey did you write the "Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola?"

Strands #607 “Good bones” 🕯️🦴🦴🦴 🦴🕯️🦴💀 🦴🦴

@courtneyellis.bsky.social I saw an ad for a Benedict Cumberbatch movie, "Thing with Feathers," and hoped for a delightful avian documentary where he mispronounces "Penguin." It's a drama where he is a widower and father of two little boys, his grief manifests as a terrifying crow. 😱

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We made a lifestyle change in diet because our bad eating habits and lack of exercise was being passed to the kids. I am meal-prepping 4 hours on Sunday and it's week 3 and **I am exhausted**. My husband did grocery shopping the first two weeks, but I did the shopping and prep this week.

@courtneyellis.bsky.social you would appreciate today's nyt threads. www.nytimes.com/games/strands

No, #Eckmancita, toiletries are not trees made of toilets. Thank the NYT Threads for today for that lesson of the day.

Tonight is #Eckmancito 's first overnight trip (with 3 grades of his elementary school). I miss him, but my hubs is in worse shape, "No one will sing him to sleep tonight." 😭 It became my husband's duty since our son started sleeping in his own room and I put our dd to bed. ❤️

From FB

@smyercomics.bsky.social Hey, I picked up a copy of Monstrous from my local library. I grew up in Harford county not far from you probably around the same time. I want to thank you for sharing your deeply personal story, we share some parallels and it made me feel seen. ♥️

To everyone who filled out the survey for my niece's academic paper on church trauma survey back in 2022 (back when I solicited your help on Twitter). Thank you. It is published in the Brethren in Christ Historical Society journal. "Learning from Those Who Have Experienced Church Trauma"

Is it just me, or is there no person on earth who is as desperately thirsty as a child who doesn't want to go to bed?

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

@holypostmedia.bsky.social For Animal News: Ants are crazy: These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species share.google/aRV297PhJGsO...

The Mediocre Gatsby Or Gen alpha: The Mid Gatsby Gen Z: The Meh Gatsby

The Lion, the Witch, and the Armoire

Sometimes #Eckmancita (age 6) gets her energy out after sitting still for a long period of time by silly yelling, thrashing with aggressive hugs and kisses to whoever is sitting closest to her. Last night, she was bonkers and was yelling, "I'm so loved!" over and over again. Yes, you are. 🩷

Excellent

Will farting always be funny to the kids? I got a kid squatting and straining in my bedroom saying she needs to eat food to fart. She told me she farted in her hand just now. Send thoughts, prayers, and febreeze.

Apparently, there is a pizza competition tomorrow and I have to purchase gummy worms, chocolate sauce, pink sprinkles, pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese and a lot of dough. My 6 yo is so excited she's beside herself. Adding pepto bismol to the list, too.

"Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands." www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Dog detects bacteria to preserve bee colonies www.facebook.com/share/p/1EEe...

This is where my parents got their parenting advice prior to the advent of parenting magazines or the internet. My mom recommended the strong-willed child to other parents. Dobson wasn't as bad as Gothard or the Pearls, but it was the same dye in different concentrations.

Settle an argument with my husband for me. When I say, "the good ice,"do you know what I am referring to? Hubs says that's not a thing, and certainly not a generally agreed upon thing.

Attempting to finish this by the end of the week. "... Of the 842 women working in ministry...only 17% receive any sort of remuneration." "The[SBC] that voted in a landslide to disfellowship churches with female pastors depends on female labor that is not financially compensated." pg 7 👀 Wow.

"I want to go to Target to get patella." - #Eckmamcita (age 6) "You want to buy kneecaps? They don't have patellas at Target," I replied. "Why not?!?" She asked

This morning was like any other. School is still a couple weeks away & DD was dropped off at camp & DS was still in the van, hubs & I paused to pick up coffee with him in tow. Happy to report that DS still gives the best hugs ever & has no qualms doing so in public. Age 9 is awesome.

Forbidden olives. I don't get why my dad left them out, said,"Don't eat these," and left the house. Should I clean out the jar and recycle it before he gets back? Why isn't it in the garbage yet.

"This is getting good! I am like Ah-Casso [Picasso]" #Eckmancita Hubs painted the garage walls with primer and we promised she could paint a spot however she liked.

Ah, we have entered the age of our 6yo daughter walking around saying "Deez nuts" laughing hysterically and not knowing why it's funny. 😂 Hubs is determined to get video of this for posterity (and to keep safe until she teenager dead stare or eyerolling stage to break it up).😅 #Eckmancita

@malcolmbfoley.bsky.social you get a follow for perhaps being the only person I have ever heard speak of the God Emperor of Dune as what they were reading. Your book is on my TBR, BTW. Thanks @erbks.bsky.social for the podcast.

Making art every day this month with the Delaware Fun A Day. This one is from yesterday and we are halfway through the month. Most of the 4"x4" paintings have been tutorials that I have seen on social media.

@courtneyellis.bsky.social What do you think? The tutorial was harder than it looked.