Consequences
Learning that you can have a concrete, direct effect on the world around you can be empowering, but also wicked, wicked frustrating.
Yoga
There comes a time when you realize that you are no longer exercising to maximize gains, you are now doing it to mitigate losses.
Demure
It’s always interesting to see which things a toddler will try to keep secret, and which ones they’ll do in the front yard while facing the street.
Crayonuary 2023 – Big Girl Bed
I bought a big box of crayons off of Amazon, but then got concerned that they might not be non-toxic, so I kept them for my adult self. This is a big comic I made with them.
Containment Breach
After Thanksgiving fell, we swore that Halloween would stand as a final bulwark against the rising Christmas tides. Only now, in the warm orange glow of our utter defeat, can we see what arrogant fools we were to think we ever stood a chance.
Goldfish Tea
You know how sometimes the bad guys in movies are like “I won’t believe he’s dead until I see the body” after the good guy jumps off a waterfall or whatever? That’s how I feel about food that’s currently being chewed around here.
Naked Kid
Potty training is currently at like a 4 out of 10, but descriptive speech has gotta be at an 8 or a 9.
Wellness
The Hippocratic oath says that they can’t cover you and your kid with plastic sheeting and make you leave through the hazardous waste chute, but you can kinda tell when they’re thinking about how much easier that would make things.
Auld Computers Syne
It’s way past the first of the year, but have a great rest of the new year I guess.
L I C K
The eldest has figured out that my defenses are down when I’m sleeping. Unrelated side note: we all got Covid somehow.