they should make a special door tag for people to hang on their room if they want housekeeping services but don't want the sheets tucked in
the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song
i had not intended for the last weeks of summer to be a multi-week course exposing the kid to The Terrors but i concede that it is a little bit on brand
this salmon and cream cheese croissant is a thinly veiled excuse to eat a stick of cream cheese for breakfast
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
this bisque is a thinly veiled excuse to drink a pint of heavy cream for dinner with some bread (complimentary)
beggars belief that no one has created a drink called the monkeyface p(r)ickleback yet
I read this fantastic conversation from threads and now I'm mad that no one in the Bluesky cookbook thread mentioned either the Sonic the Hedgehog cookbook or the Wookie Cookie cookbook www.threads.com/share/BAYhE_... h/t @hels.bsky.social
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*5 minutes after setting foot the climbing gym* carabiner are so practical. i should have more carabiners in my life.
me: imagination and story telling is crucial to a child's development "pretend that this toy snake weighs 2 googolplex pounds and i am the strongest person in the world and only i can pick him up" also me: okay well not even the entire cosmic web added together weighs one googolplex pounds so...
one thing about is me is that I'm going to over-pack for a picnic
"what's smaller than an atom?" hoo boy the kiddo has found the way to hack bedtime "how do you see what's in an atom" did mama ever tell you she interned at a particle accelerator facility
want to make friends with every kid in the playground? Gazillion Bubbles Machine. want to ward off mosquitos? Gazillion Bubbles Machine. trying to meet up with some friends and need to indicate your exact location? you guessed it —
my child is now "this isn't a sword, it's a BLADE" years old
i have been on PTO for 16 hours and i have already assigned myself two new hobby projects on top of the existing backlog
sleep on the wrong pillow and not have it ruin your day challenge
forgot to do the foot bath today and now I'm paying the price
Ronnie Chen@ronnieftw.bsky.social · 11mo agono one warns you that having a kid means your floors will always be covered in a thin layer of sand. children's shoes just produce sand via spontaneous generation and you will be perpetually sweeping and vacuuming.
i have been in meetings for 6 hours straight and i still have so much more talking left to do
every time i've run into my new neighbor for the last few weeks has been as i'm on my bike. he asked me a few questions and i was maybe a little too aggressive in offering him a test ride with his kids, but then he went out and bought two (!) ebikes this week
guys I just had to fish it out of the trash because it was left on the floor next to a piece of bubble wrap
Ronnie Chen@ronnieftw.bsky.social · last wk.the kid brought home a giant snake skin shed from a Burmese python?? what am i supposed to do with this
the kid brought home a giant snake skin shed from a Burmese python?? what am i supposed to do with this
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
I let the kid make water balloons in order to get him into the shower and now I have several new, very wet problems
attention: my first fenestrated monstera burle marx flame leaf is coming in
someone doesn't know their own email address and now I have a fishing license for the state of Nevada