Methinks me wonders at times the amount of a child’s potential lost because the adults don’t know how to adult. Mentioned (several times) before that theKid is involved in sports, like heavily, like more than one team/sport/activity. Anyhoo … There are some kids on some of those teams who only play intermittently because – get …
costs of kids
The Great & The Horrible
Know what’s equal parts horrible and great? Not knowing the prices of things, and buying them anyway. Not talking cars, or houses, or dunno, jewelry, nothing like that. Just the everyday stuff that winds up in the cart and then on the card and then on home. Instance: theKid has a thing for naan bread. …
Wife, or BM?
Got to thinking (always dangerous) about the difference in a woman who demands to be a wife before becoming a mother, and a woman who defaults to babymama (aka “BM” coz her life has turned to sh—). A woman’s greatest weakness is her only weapon — the ability, desire/willingness to breed. Unlike the sea louse, …
Baby Blues
Read a funny story the other day. Not funny in the sense of high hilarity, but in the sense of “laugh or scream.” Guy got a vasectomy. Then the wife got pregnant. Suitably outraged at being married to a harlot, the man demanded a paternity test and a divorce. Oops. Turns out, the kid was …
Oops Might Not Ever Happen Again (Good)
There’s stat somewhere that says by 2030, 45 percent of US women will be single and childfree. Historically, across the human populations, approximately 80 percent of women reproduced, whereas only 40 percent of men did. Estimates for 2020 put women at about 3.8B women, and 3.86B men, or roughly 101.7 men for every 100 women. …
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Thankful, Grateful
Didn’t get anything for Christmas. No matter. Not my birthday (heh) theKid and Half were well-provisioned, which is really what/who matters, and JESUS was likely born in the spring anyway, so … For a minute there, decided to dispense with the whole “celebration” of Christmas, felt it a little too pagan for its purposes, but …
It’s Official; I Have No Actual Clue
TheKid had dying rear for three days after consuming some takeout that was, as theKid would say, “sus.” Lost four pounds. As a walking, talking, bouncing string bean, theKid does not have that to lose. Prior to the episodic runny butt had scheduled an appt to take theKid to a dietician, so the timing was, …
Like Clockwork … or Herpes
The holidays are inflicted upon us, once again, as the year draws to a close. Mayhap guessed … not a fan of the annual spending traditions. Food prices are up eleventy-million percent, gas is worse (if that is even possible), and average ‘Murricans are expected to repeat the debt cycle with exorbitant expenditures on meals, …
Career, Cats & Companionship
Tucker got puckered (how has no one used this?!?) re sum of the Dums (see, e.g., fumble-tongued Stacey Adams—gonna lose this one too Boo) suggesting that the solution to inflation is to (drum roll, please) … not have kids. Many folks are waaaayyyy ahead on this. Recent report from somewhere someplace says that more young …
Not Ready for This
Half damaged theKid. Not intentionally. Not permanently. No visit to the ER/urgent care (yaaaaay insurance!) theKid’s fine. But still. Half owned the damage, claimed total fault, made apologies, hugs all around. But still. Children are completely at the mercy of their parents. Unless/until the damage is bad enough for the state to step in, children …