Working from home today I am having ALL.THE.FEELS. Both of my teenage daughters doing their remote learning keep catching me crying and I am telling them it’s happy joyful tears.

She looks amazing and I agree that the long hem is the look.

This whole thing is such a shit show. Imagine being in the NG (like my son) and being scrutinized as a lunatic right wing nut job. Yet, it is smart to vet everyone at this point, especially after a domestic terror attack.

The hike took us through a long rocky beach of coral that I called ankle breaker beach (I am honestly shocked I didn’t injury myself). Such beauty in dead coral

Trash in St. John is out in public dumpsters (no residential trash pick up) and the farm animals are PLENTIFUL around the island, including

They did not, but I honestly swam away from them and gave them space. I also encountered a 5 foot barracuda and peed my pants but luckily was underwater so no one knew🤣.

I vote for doing something outrageous and not waiting.

St. John USVI. We left early New Years day and there was no one at the airport and the plane was 1/4 full. It was honestly so beautiful and perfect weather- 80's and sunny and water temps in the 80's too. Kids caught fresh tuna and some type of jack fish that was amazing.

So we are back from paradise. We skipped Christmas and spent money on a private beach home for the family as we were so burnt out from the confines of Covid.

Fact.

I know of several moms that went to DC on January 6th as part of “Women for Trump” and tried to defend that 99% of the people were just “peacefully protesting” and tried to blame antifa for the violence.

And don’t KNEEL. That would be disrespecting our country!

For sale in the White House gift shop!

How about the aesthetics of beating a police officer with the American flag? 

Just read American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins and loved it. Reading The Guest List by Lucy Foley now. Waiting in the wings is a reread of Love in the time of Cholera because I feel like I just need it now. 

Amazing grass roots effort to register Georgia voters and explain the voter suppression rules in the state and turn it Blue. I hope her genius and talent are utilized by the Biden administraton. 

Parenting goal for me is to focus on raising a competent child, not a clever child. If they want to be clever, that’s on them. I am covering the bare minimum here. I have no time for over parenting and passive aggressive ways to raise manipulative kids.