My kids are still youngish enough that I can get away with limiting their internet access to screens I can see and hear. They have the TV in the living room and an old laptop beside dad’s desk. I tell them that there are a lot of bad things on the internet and I need to be able to help them if they find something bad by accident. Whenever they stumble on something questionable, I tell them why I don’t like it and we look for something else. Luckily they really don’t argue about it (yet, I’m sure). I feel like it’s working, though. They seem to be developing a healthy relationship with tech and screens. They love to watch arts and crafts tutorials on youtube and have been teaching themselves to draw and play piano, and they’re actually doing well!

Was going to go this morning but I’m too sick. Yay. Hopefully tomorrow.

I miss living with family. Lived with my inlaws for a few years and then with my grandmother for another few before moving out on our own. We’re selling our house soon and moving back with our inlaws. I’ve never been so burnt out and exhausted and I’m so looking forward to having extended family around to help with our kids again.

I love misgendering them.

I agree it’s obvious he meant to say “gagged”, but it absolutely sounds like he said “gay”.

I once found a chewed up disposable razor handle. The head was missing.

(I found it later, not inside my dog.)

Why is it always romaine specifically

So much has happened but the second someone asks me that question, my memory gets erased.

I would literally rather stick my nose in a dirty diaper than smell a cigarette. The flavour scents are such a huge improvement that I don’t have the words to properly express this.

Wow when and where did you grow up? Paying to be allowed to have lunch break at school is insane

Well, my family is the target audience for this. Guess we have something new to watch today after school.

I don’t. I have five, all decently large. My tastes have changed since I got my first one ~15 years ago but I like to see it. I was 18 when I got it, so it’s been with me my entire adult life. It was the first thing I did after turning 18, and it reminds me of who I was as a kid and what was important to me. I’m a parent now and I like the reminder, since it’s so easy to forget what it was like being a kid. I spent months researching artists before getting it. My husband regrets his, though. He got his on a whim in high school at somebody’s apartment. They were not sober. It wasn’t done well and just doesn’t look good and he wants it covered up.

There’s one in mine too and all the kids on my kids’ school bus make fun of it.

Parenting reminds me of the abusive relationships I watched my mom and friends go through. Children scream at you and hit you and treat you like absolute shit, and then they turn around and lovebomb you by acting like the sweetest little angels. Never knew my coping mechanisms from my shitty childhood would be so helpful.

Oh I vote every election.

My riding has been conservative for decades, so I get to vote for whoever I want. Not that it matters. :\

I can’t blow my nose at all. Some weird mental block. I sniffle incessantly and drive everyone nuts instead.

Thank you! I love yours. I want to make a fancier one like that eventually but I keep making clothes.

Only blanket I’ve made.

Edit: I used this pattern.

Going on Canadian TV and saying that “everything is up for negotiation” when it comes to what Canada is willing to discuss? And Barton just sits there saying “I have no opinion”?!

Maybe I’m turning into a conspiracy theorist but I feel like Trump and team have been making personal threats against our (Canadian) politicians. The way they come out of those “meetings that are better kept private” (paraphrasing Dominic LeBlanc) make me uncomfortable. Something feels off. Totally not unlikely that I’m just being paranoid, but idk. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to operate like a mob boss.