I got a sewing machine!
... Now, what the heck do I do with it? It’s a hand-me-down Singer Genie 354, alleged to work but nobody’s turned it on in years. I said I’d take it on a whim and am now sort of intimidated by the whole project.
New Tattoo!
I’ve been dithering over a second tattoo for, literally, years. And then over the weekend I saw this by chance and just knew the semicolon was the right tattoo for me. My brain’s been trying to kill me on and off since I was a kid; the least I can do is get some body art to remind myself it won’t succeed. My story is…
Is the biological clock a real thing?
So after 15-odd years of rolling my eyes at the whole concept of a biological clock and thinking it was just a made-up way to make women have kids, I'm starting to wonder if it's for real.
11-year-old reports rapes. Police arrest her.
Completely nauseating and yet somehow not surprising. Here's the story (and, needless to say, trigger warnings abound):
I feel so loved!
It's Friday, the roads are miserable, my kids are sick and the sitter decided to just not show up.
My son is delayed.
So, my three-year-old has some developmental delays. Mainly, he can't talk, and his listening and comprehension don't test particularly well either. We call it apraxia, which is doctor-speak for "the kid doesn't talk and we don't know why." (He knows some sign, but he's not doing great with that either.) Clean MRI,…
Random Kid Issue
So I have a 5-year-old daughter who's finishing kindergarten. Let's call her Ruby. Her teacher was on maternity leave for the last three months and just came back last week.