Day 3171

 For entertaining a six year old, try bubbles, lego, and the delightful Mo Willems.

Day 3170

 Whelp, if I can find a baby bunny in the yard, I guess it’s only to be expected that a cat would too. 

So far no corpses. So … fingers crossed.

Day 3169

 Didn’t mow a baby bunny. Not a blessing I expected to be in the list today, but I’m counting it.

Day 3168

 Exercise biking: now with surprise cobbles!

Day 3167

TFW you’re doing a behavioural assessment and trying to answer the way you would if you weren’t burnt out…

Day 3166

 Another day, another failure to skip the whole “staying up late thing”.

Day 3165

TIL my almost daily bike rides for the last few years were mere saunters in the park.

Day 3164

Foods my children eat: tacos, fish, and broccoli.

Foods my children get grumpy about: spaghetti, pizza, and “melty cheese” in general.

Someone explain these pod children to me.

Day 3163

 That feeling when you watch a movie from your youth with your kids…. And realize you had totally forgotten about the part where people are trying to kidnap a dog to shoot it in the face. 

…and the cycle continues because apparently your kids missed that part. They’re too caught up in the triumph of the dog and how surely if the police witnessed his bravery, they would immediately make him a police dog and give him a police uniform and a police hat.

Day 3162

 Another Eurovision, another batch of incomprehensible voting choices.

Day 3161

 Our boy sat on the toilet, sharted, then started giggling because his butt sneezed.

Day 3160

 A first poem does deserve celebration… but you should have played the crowd and asked for cake or pie.

Day 3159

 In which we discovered that our son thinks yo-yos are instruments…which sound suspiciously like cellos.

Day 3158

 We’ve settled it. Banana has resting mischief face.

Day 3157

How do we teach our cozy son not to wear a hoodie when it’s thirty degrees?

Day 3156

 The time soup is so thick the seasons are confused.

Day 3155

 In Lizard’s vast experience of messaging, people who don’t reply promptly are usually out working in the garden.

Day 3154

 Vaccinated with a science miracle.

Day 3153

The fever breaks; Banana pats herself on the head and says “better!”

I ask for a blue crayon; Lizard takes every blue one out of the box, reads the name of each colour, and draws a test square for each so I have the information I need to make a choice.m

My last full day as an unvaccinated person.

Day 3152

 If Lizard does school activities every day while I colour, I think I’m going to actually enjoy the rest of the month.

Day 3151

It’s been a while since one of my babies fell asleep on me. It makes me miss those early days when I could just sit and snuggle for a while.

Day 3150

Never have I been so excited about shots.

Day 3149

 Happy Mother’s Day, welcome to homeschooling!

Day 3148

The best thing about Mother’s Day is and always will be the crafts.

Day 3147

 I mentioned to our boy that I was a little grumpy this morning too. 

“You didn’t want to put on your socks either?”

Yep, definitely the problem. Yep yep yep.

Day 3146

 It’s not every day you find out you’re married to a big shiny crab.

Day 3145

 Someday I will figure out how to convince a small person who doesn’t want to sit on the toilet that if they pee quickly they don’t have to sit on the toilet anymore.

Not soon enough for it to be useful, of course…

Day 3144

I wonder if all these little corona babies in daycares are going to be better at reading expressions from just the eyes than their older counterparts.

Day 3143

 For the next chapter of Forever March, have you considered broken toe? 

You know, just to spice things up.

Day 3142

 We watched Moana and now we have an in-house expert on demigods. They’re all very strong, they all have magic fish hooks, and one of them is superman.

You know he knows his stuff because he stopped calling them “dummy gods”.

Day 3141

There might be rather a lot of garbage-picking in my future.