Sometimes I wonder if I'm universalist because I'm scared. Other times I have a brave moment where I feel like I'm willing to burn as long as Rubio does too. I should probably go to confession about this if I'm totally honest with myself. I can't imagine the hell of my dying child begging for food.

I'm realizing every year that I'm closer and closer to genuinely hating my job. Not because of the students, though that's definitely a factor. I'm honestly just sick of being accused of gatekeeping high school diplomas by not auto-passing every student.

All I want in my heart of hearts is for the Chicago teaching union to show up when the national guard does and just quietly outnumber them. Then silently stare at them like they're waiting on the national guard to get quiet.

If anyone is interested in knowing how weird the right is being today, we are apparently going through a whole thing where the oldest kid is getting called the antichrist for hanging out with girls (friends), by the conservative parents of other boys who are upset they're not hanging out with girls.

My husband @fadeno.bsky.social did an amazing job on the first of his kids' science series. This one is kindergarten-standards physics. If you like science...or birds....or fun rhymes and hijinx, please check it out. He is currently only on Amazon, but is planning to expand in time. a.co/d/g5PQJiX

Taking a break from my usual quote child to quote a different one. Running into the bathroom: "It's a nice room. It's sunshine. It's soup....I'm making a brown. It's momato (tomato) sauce!""

"If I splash my hands together, it creates huge bubbles if I go hard enough" ::splashes himself in the face::

"Wait, mom, look, this can block a water gun." ::tries to splash up a wall of water, but splashes himself in the face::

"What if we just didn't pay our taxes and bought a really big dog?"

"Why can't humans scream underwater?"

"How come when you swallow with your mouth open, all the water rushes forward?"

In the same week, our littlest jorts took his first step, said his first word (huge milestone four months after cochlear implants), and.....got his first ear infection. More win than loss.

"How's the writing coming, Beans?" How the writing's coming:

The best part about having a teenager is that when we text each other memes, I'm pretty sure neither of us think the other person's memes are funny, but we keep doing it anyway.

Currently watching our lab material suppliers crumble. Imagine preventing small American businesses from forming by putting other small American businesses out of business.

Feeling torn this morning. I keep seeing the very lax homeschool states start to enact "stricter" homeschool laws. They are not burdensome laws and they are there to protect children from the very real problem of families who don't actually homeschool and just keep kids out of school.

If anyone is wondering how it's going, I just found out one of my therapists that does really specialized work apparently got divorced over those very specialized issues and has stopped practicing. My new rule is no more male therapists for me.

This weekend was the BIG women's recovery retreat that I could not attend live, so I was not privy to any of the discussion portions, but the reflection journals are starting to roll in and here's my megaphone of the week. The following are each victim-blaming stances:

The 12 yo was absolutely shocked today to find out that NSYNC and backstreet boys were NOT the same group. The 10 yo put on my coat and tried to tuck his hands into the one tiny credit card pocket when he couldn't find big pockets. He just assumed because it's a woman's coat there were no pockets.

Take it a step further. Sexual impropriety is pretty much the norm now, to the extent that you are called sex negative when you just want an actually monogamous relationship. No one "using" on Reddit/TT/ph wants to acknowledge having to excuse themselves daily for their statistical use of CSAM.

Gonna dunk on myself this morning and say that all of the quotes from Trump talking about the Colorado oil painting of him that he doesn't like sounds eerily like me looking at any photo of myself pregnant. "It's distorted to the extent no one has ever seen before". 😂😂😂😂😂

This title is such an amazing work of art.

I'm gonna acknowledge the elephant in the room that's on everyone's mind: Trunchbull from the Matilda musical may have been evil, but she was giving absolutely fantastic life advice in her main song. Like, I need it on a poster. It will be 1000% better than the "I teach, that's my superpower" ones.

Sitting here talking about whether homeschoolers should have the egg drop engineering lab included in their curriculum and my husband turns and immediately says "they can't afford it". Trump take egg.

One minute you're trying to make a middle school biology curriculum based on jellyfish, the next minute you're googling to figure out how much to treat the rectum like a rigid container if you want kids to figure out the partial pressure of oxygen needed to make a mouse breathe through its butthole.

We've made fun of "doge" as an internet meme, but fun fact Friday is that doges were medieval Venetian rulers who were elected for life in false elections, came from powerful families, and had almost absolute power over the govt, army, and church. I did not know that until today. Creepy.

Distinctly remembering today how it was to big government for an administration to ban soda advertising on vending machines and to *encourage* the exchange of soda with flavored waters, etc. You could bring your own, you could usually still buy it on campus. People lost their minds.

It's annoying how much pedocons make political support decisions just based on avoiding social backlash. No one ever made them get vaccinated, they just didn't want the social backlash from being unvaccinated. There was always paperwork they could fill out to avoid it.

Realizing this morning that going to the gym very pregnant for two pregnancies and having everyone know we have a lot of kids has caused a lot of assumptions about our politics.

Get, and I cannot stress this enough, the old fuckers out of politics. If you are not old enough at 18 to be president because your brain isn't fully developed, then you are too old at 60, when you statistically will begin a sharp decline.

Continuing my investment in my previously stated theory: I wonder what they have on Schumer and how many gross people we have to primary before we are left with no one they have dirt on. I'm willing to assume at this point that even if my theory is wrong, anyone capitulating is part of pedocon.

Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers? 🕯️

This precious goblin got his ears turned on today! Now all four kids can just CHOOSE to not listen. The surprising blessing of being just ignored when you talk. 😂

Husband said he is filling the sprayer with maple syrup to draw the maple leaf on the garage door for when Canada has to roll through MI. Please spare us.

"boys are xyz-pilled because they're not okay and we don't help them" "Girls manifest their not okayness through eating disorders and bullying" No one is okay. My high schoolers are amazing people who have been failed abysmally in almost every way possible. Them failing each other now doesn't shock.

Okay, but can we leverage charging stations for EVs out of this? Like "oh, we'd love to if only there were charging stations everywhere. Oh no, it's the only thing holding us back...". What if disinformation campaigns were used to trick stupid people into helping the world instead of burning it?

Everyone is asking why the account voted no. They should be asking how many votes the account added to each through manual database modification that resulted in the checkmark appearing on what they def didn't actually vote on. Probably added the "no"s last to make it realistic.

Okay, but our priest gave a really amazing sermon today that got very spicy and I strongly encourage anyone and everyone to give it a listen. I skipped to the sermon for you. I felt encouraged..... and also deeply convicted. www.youtube.com/live/feknNyy...

Parent-teacher conferences were tonight. I tried to ask AI to help me revise "Unfortunately, your student poured a few dozen balls on the floor and systematically stomped on each one" into something less sarcastic sounding. It just changed the first word to "respectfully" and made it worse.

if your church doesn’t sing “the transfiguration” by sufjan stevens in their service this weekend then walk out 😤

Calling it now that Musk has dirt on every single politician that ever engaged with the plethora of illegal material on Twitter. Which, let's be real, will be all of them.

Lord, I see what you've done for others....

Take 2: sometimes I forget why I was so militantly atheist for so long... then a pentecostal opens their mouth.

Sometimes I forget why I was so militantly anti-religion once upon a time. Then an evangelical pastor opens his mouth.

Upbeat: "then I looked into that giant's eyes and I found my strength inside....now I am Goliath, standing on the heads of giants..." My friends...... My dudes.... You gotta at least do the lightest check on your song lyrics..

Culturally, we are not prepared for this. Every person I know who voted for Trump has been somewhere on the range of gun-owning to gun-hoarding. They've practiced for years now. Most of my liberal circle is "be careful with those foam-tipped arrows".

Idk why but I read this in the cadence of “we are the pirates who don’t do anything” 😂

I work to provide my family transgender operations on the table and a transgender operation over their heads.

Hidden roles games are some of my favorites. Secret Hitler (and similar) have always been lot of fun for me. Is it ...weird....that I'm scared to play Secret Hitler in a group now? Seems.... irreverent to the current problems as serious problems.