Good things: How much the toddler loves tulips, reading while cuddling with the baby and the dog, tiny coffees, lists, jumpsuit weather.

Don't they know I am on maternity leave and have enough stressing me out!

Really either way I say orca, because it’s going to be faster in the water at both chomping and dodging. Also their yacht count is way higher than T. Rex’s.

How deep is the water?

Two weeks later, the baby is finally home and the toddler is obsessed with him.

I’m so sorry to hear this, Nancy. Your dad sounds wonderful. I’ll be thinking about you and your family.

Nooooooooo potato!

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The mysterious Redditor who’s changing the way we do laundry How a man who calls himself Kismai built a cult following around lipase and “spa day.”

The Wayback Machine saved a copy: web.archive.org/web/20260309...

Truly I’m over here wondering if we should drive the toddler to daycare.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social Today is pretty much the ideal day for a surprise Christine Fellow cover, thank you so much. (And congrats on the MCC collab, omg!)

So we are having this baby tomorrow! Six weeks early. Send any spare positive vibes you've got. (I'm OK, he's OK, we're aiming to keep it that way, but it's still very stressful!)

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I was hoping you'd be coming!

Should have made the nurse wait to take my BP until like 20 minutes AFTER I bought my Mountain Goats Carnegie Hall ticket.

Good things: The toddler is obsessed with my hospital food (mac and cheese! steamed carrots!), modern medicine, squeezy boots, my village, bows.

The toddler's middle name is Ada!

Quotation marks are a good innovation. We will discuss.

Oh very good kitty, hello!

Omg hi Dragon and bonus shrimp!

Very excellent cat! And thank you!

Also send middle name suggestions, the wilder the better! We have a very normal back up option but I feel like we can do better.

A+ cat! (I was hoping to get Harold framed in advance of baby #2, but we'll see, I guess!)

At the hospital for observation until sometime between Tuesday and when I have this baby, I guess. Send pet photos, positive news, etc.

More 2026 Fridays could use cool news I think. Thank you!

Five of us had our ears pressed against the crack in the door to lose our minds to this one.

355 hits in their catalog on Thomas Pynchon books alone! (Once I spelled it right. :D)

I'm just gonna leave this here. (But like, actually look into getting yourself a public borrower card. They're cheap.)

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Good things: Clementines, nearly done with Christmas shopping, the toddler putting raspberries on her fingers, You Are Doing A Good Enough Job, stickers.

SUV marked for Canton (MA) Animal Control parked in a driveway. A large tabby housecat with a collar is hanging on the rear passenger door and peering in suspiciously at the inside of the cabin.

Become ungovernable