GAH.

Weirdos who hate cheese and SN kids with sensory issues. I have both in the family.

I would LOVE to serve a potato dish other than mashed, but my husband, kids, and father-in-law would riot. I can’t even add cheese or sour cream or something to them.

Turkey is delicious when done right!

My husband and I took over Thanksgiving as soon as we married precisely for this reason. He was tired of being sent out by his parents on Thanksgiving morning to look for a turkey.

My stirring is more chaotic, but it often incorporates figure 8s so this is probably the closest approximation.

“Colin Robinson is exactly the type who would pause in the middle of reading something aloud to note a spelling mistake. Good thing there wasn’t an apostrophe in the wrong place.”

Same. It’s freeing, not giving a damn what other people think.

The advice to get a headcount made me laugh out loud. We had hundreds in 2019; I’m sure as heck not going to sit on my porch and count.

There were chickens running loose in my neighborhood of Queens, too! But fortunately, the owners eventually caged them before we lost another to their pecking.

He’s really coming into his own, and I am here for it.

Even my love of books cannot overcome my hatred of slideshows. Please at least keep them confined to movies and tv!

Argh. I was really hoping the airtags would work (but good I read your article first!). My oldest, with global developmental delays, really needs something because his busing is screwed up, he can’t reliably tell me what’s going on, and I’m not about to give him his own iPhone.

Seconding the reading books thing. And suggesting creating something, whether it’s Art with a capital A or an ordinary craft that results in something pretty and/or useful. Creating with my hands has been crucial for my mental health.

I am ridiculously excited for this, on my own behalf and on my son’s. He’s developmentally delayed and has had a really hard time of it with the pandemic but Muppets always make him happy.

I never get tired of this scene.

I just finished The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox, which was unlike any other fantasy I’ve read. I’m looking forward to starting Tim Powers’s Hide Me Among the Graves.

I missed it! What was it?

“Take that absurd sequence of scenes where the female henchman explains her tragic backstory as a sex slave who was sent there on threat of death to seduce Bond (subverting the “Bond seduces female henchman” trope), then in the very next scene Bond seduces her - ie., very trope they just tried to subvert - in this…

I’ve never watched an episode of that show, but I’d watch that.