Thank you so much 🥰

Nowadays he takes great pride in caring for his Pokémon & Squishnallows, having memorized much of the official Pokémon encyclopedia & the needs of each type & evolution of creature. He’s beyond excited to meet his new baby cousin & help care for him. Boys are just people, if we let them be.

Our son asked us for a baby doll when he was 2 so we got him one for Christmas & he adored playing daddy, & teaching us how to take care of his baby boy. He’s always loved vehicles & would read to his toy cars before tucking them in for naps+

Seriously, one of the things that has long-bonded my now-husband & I is that we both adore children, & have since we were teens. He enjoys being in a caregiving & teaching role, & giving selflessly of his time & energy the sake of little ones. Our 7yr old is much the same so far+

Adding to this, one of our favourite blankets also featured ties on the corner so we could attach it to our stroller or car seat. This helps prevent it from slipping off & ending up on the dirty ground under tread or on the chaotic backseat floor!

These are stunning!

ebook adventure update: traded in iPad mini for Kobo Clara BW via Best Buy & have 0 regrets

I can’t crochet most days lately & can only lie still in bed, so trying to read between “naps” (narcolepsy attacks) & so far black & white e-ink has proven easiest on my eye & muscle fatigue vs paper or ipad

This is badass & I need to make one now

Love love love

Kid watched his first Werner Herzog film today. He is mystified.

I think of that baby girl often lately, when trying to wrap my mind around the loss of my niece, bc that experience was a profoundly spiritual one for me. Since then I’ve lost many friends & some students, all younger than we imagine they should have been. There is no satisfying reason. It just is.

What it taught me (as someone who was already adultified by more immediate & personal trauma at that point) is that suffering is a universal & senseless experience. That regardless of your faith or knowledge, there are things in this world that are beyond comprehension for the human heart.

When I was around 12yrs old, my mom did something very controversial (which I’m sharing not to open abstract debate, but as my lived experience) by bringing me to the funeral of our family friend’s infant, who was born w severe heart defects. I was mentally prepared & distanced enough.

Traveling thru this dark time, I’m glad my mom exposed me to many different faiths, cultures, & traditions when I was a kid—especially when it came to death & mourning. Nothing breaks you like the death of a child you love, but I’m glad it is not my first time confronting profound mystery.

My first experience with it was when my son was only 5 months old & my Nonno passed away, & he was giving everyone such big hugs & smiles.

Grieving as a parent of a young kid is such a bizarre experience bc one second you’re alone in your room crying & the next you’re laughing hysterically bc your son has made up a new song about butts.

First day in a week or more that I’ve been able to crochet without my heart thinking I’m doing intense cardio & I just wasted it on a hexi cardi panel that was done wrong 3 rows in & had to be frogged & why is this happening to me (it’s the brain fog)

The Art of Crocheting : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 143 p

The Art of Crocheting - 1891

It's rather funny that the book opens by referring to crochet as a "pastime," considering that we often still more or less refer to it that way well over a century later.

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Maybe. I was projecting a bit on that one bc it’s such a work trope. Also maybe personal experience. Sore spot.

Don’t make me pull a Laura Mulvey about Mel & Langdon cuz I swear to God it’s like no one realized she existed until Langdon started to “see” her

Exactly! Plus I hate the idea that Mel must be in love with him just bc he’s good looking & nice to her like hello we are way past that She’s All That bull, weird girls can go out and get it for themselves if they want to

They can be friends & Mel can go get some hot man candy somewhere else maybe the karaoke place MAYBE SHE’S GAY we don’t even know yet ok let my girl LIVE

I need the internet to stop shipping Mel & Langdon. Have we learned nothing from Meredith & Karev? From Peggy & Don? Hell, from Don & Joan??

I need that messy middle aged potentially impending divorcee man to leave my girl alone SHE IS TOO GOOD FOR HIM even if he is nice to her & went to therapy.

I also used it today to help show my son how I determine when I can or can’t do something. He finds it hard to understand why some days I’m able to do something but the next day I’m not, even if I don’t try to do it first to see how I feel. But we had a good discussion this morning & he’s getting it

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Yeah, I get if for Xmas each year from my spouse & for me it’s useful bc I’m not great at pacing but really good at gaslighting myself. It’s also been helpful while I’m going through my legal action w insurance.

The great thing about the Visible app & wearable is that it uses data to trace a clear pattern that accurately describes the experience of living with post-exertion symptom exacerbation. The bad thing is that it makes it undeniable so I have to try to live within restrictions that feel impossible.

But hey I’m more educated than anyone else in my family before or since so 👍

I can’t say I fully regret turning down the job but I will say I regret not taking the money I made at the bank & using it to buy a townhouse in 2008 that is now worth 5x as much as I would have paid for it 😭

If I’d taken that job in 2007 I’d probably not gotten long covid & would be making six figures by now but que sera sera follow your passion amiright