My Canadian friends and family are donating to the ACLU en masse. I only wish I could do more than donate money and make phone calls. What can I do?

Apologies for fuzziness. If you’d like a clear picture, go to his Twitter feed. It’s still there because he’s a fucking idiot.

SEAN SPICER CAN’T READ. I mean I’m not surprised, but it’s still funny.

I agree with Jason Kenney and we’ve definitely entered the twilight zone. The thoughts of a Conservative politician in Canada:

If today has taught me anything, it’s that people really are mostly good. This ruling only solves a piece of the problem, but the fact that so many spoke against this and worked so hard to fight it in just one day makes my heart happy. We will beat this asshole.

Oh, no more babies for me. It’s secondary fertility issues in my case. I already have two. But I’d definitely take a baby if one was offered. :P Instead we plan to adopt an older child.

Seriously. I want a baby sooooo bad. If someone came up to me and said, “Here, I would like you to have my baby that I birthed of my own free will,” I would be all over that. But no, I don’t want a baby that was forced into creation. I don’t want somebody to be made to have a baby for me. That’s so messed up. Why…

I just finished saying this to a friend. I think adoption is wonderful. My goal is to get our classes and homestudy done this year. But I have a 45 year old cousin who was adopted 42 years ago and she still has a difficult time being an adopted kid. Life wasn’t perfect. Her family is great, but the what ifs never go…

OMGOMGOMG

Same to my fellow Canadians. Sigh.

:( Our dog died in the summer. We have her ashes in the cabinet and the kids will come and say hi to her. It was their first personal experience with death as well. Not fun. Especially when we knew the dog was going to die. We prepared them for it because we knew she was going to get sicker and sicker. She had cancer.…

Death is the worst. The worst. My kids know about it. My 5 year old doesn’t really get it, but my 7 year old does and it crushes me that sheno longer gets to be carefree. Would rather talk about sex all day with them than have to deal with the death crap. Possibly the one time I wish I was religious. Lol.

I’m still working on leftover Christmas treats in the freezer. No puddings, but I have egg nog cheesecake squares. Really long road trip? I’ll put on the kettle.

Please someone come eat all these treats.

My 5 year old prefers another one we have that’s more general and body part-focused. But her reading is getting better so I assume she’ll break out the Stork one soon! Ha. Squirms.

I am not up to date on any of these shows, but I’ll just say an early weekend hi to everybody. I won’t be here on Saturday because I’m going to the swanky beer fest at the art gallery. I’m going to taste beers for charity. Hard work, but somebody has to do it.

Thought about saying that I hope everyone had a great…

In my experience it’s usually an older sibling playing a nasty joke. I hope that’s true in this case. Man, we told my brother some doozies.

Also this reminds of a thing that came up on my On This Day from four years ago - some status update about the joys of discussing the mechanics of childbirth at the breakfast table. Have you talked about how the baby gets out yet? Dang kids have no breakfast table filter. And of course having had one vaginal birth and…

I went through this with my older kid about the same age. I have some great books on the subject. My daughter is now 7 and her current fave is “It’s Not The Stork”. This is also why she abhors the movie Stork.

Ack. I never even thought about the vision thing. I have glasses for back up, but I also have cataracts. I would just slowly go blind. omg. I think I could live without my med. I’d just be in pain. And blind.

I think my husband could do it without me. He’s very resourceful. He thinks on his feet well. I take too long to analyze and make decisions. That’s an okay thing in this world. Not so good otherwise. And I have no practical life skills beyond the very, very basics. I guess I’d be better at repairing clothes.