costs of kids
theKid started back to school … and how quickly these years have passed. Harking back to the early days of pre-K, diaper changes with strangers, foot and mouth disease. And is it impetigo or vitiligo? Never could keep those straight. Anyhoo, during those formative years always believed the adults were exaggerating when they said time speeds …
Read the full post →“Once More into the Breach, Dear Friends …”
The Fam is back. Half returned with theKid, which is nice. Only been about two months, say 10 weeks, roughly 71 days, but who’s counting? Would be lying if claimed sleeping in, eating crap, and days to self wasn’t highly, highly enjoyable, but an entire life of that? No thanks. And the only reason can …
Half has promised to bring Halfself and theKid back next month. It’s been awhile. Methinks me be lying if me said sleeping in, occasionally fooding, hermitting and yon’midnight late-nights haven’t been nice … most def have. A solitary creature does like its solitude. But. Even Ted Kaczinski needed to reach out. Jim Beam has a …
Ring/buzz/trill. “Hello?” “Hey Dad.” “Hey! It’s my number one son! How’s it going?” “Good, Dad. Good.” “And how are all my grandbabies?” Gentle chuckle. “They’re fine.” “And my daughter-in-law?” “She’s good.” “Planted the next seed yet?” Another chuckle. “Not just yet. The baby’s only a few months old, figured I’d give her break. Maybe have …
Read the full post →“Ballet, Beauty Pageants, and Birth … or Whose Dream Is It, Anyway?”
HA! No sympathy. Nada. None. Zilch. Nyet. Hate to break it to you ladies, but you created your own creature, built your own beast. Made your own monster. To an individual, the audience heard the exact same thing: “I want …” “I wanted …” “I just had to have …” There was never a need, …
There’s a delightful young woman on the Tok of the Tik – the Girl with the List / @z00mie – and she offers birth control advice / cures for baby fever. She (I believe the term) “stitches” other clips together of women describing the absolute horror of certain birth situations. For example, one woman reminisced …
OK so the Amazon Rainforest did not get a whole lotta rain earlier this year and now it is literally on fire. Bangladesh has flooded out after continuous rainfall for at least a month. Hurricane Beryl (July 2024) is the first F-5 hurricane of the season, hitting the Caribbean hard almost two months prior to …
Made the mistake of reading an article on BuzzFeed re the dumpster fire of entitlement, narcissism, and victimhood as it pertains to MFs and her collective justification of infidelity. Really. And this is what the M&Ms (modern mens) have to choose from. Now, to be honest, upfront and transparent, M&Ms have many shortcomings as well …
Half took theKid, left for the other end of the country. Not permanently, at least methinks/mehopes not, but they have been gone for awhile now, with no real plan in place to return. In their absence I have discovered how expensive family really, truly is. My heavens. Been to the gas station once in two …
OK so Arizona just repealed its Civil War-era, pre-state admission to the Union, 1864 (yes, that is an “8”) ban re abortion, and must say methinks … that is really, really sad. No debt owed to modernity there, oh-ho-ho-no. But they did repeal it, so that’s something. Still … the laws in effect remain way …
