Obsessed with my husband + 4 kids. Trying (imperfectly) to err on the side of loving people. Child of the 80s. Cerebral aneurysm survivor. Unsweet Tea. (Sorry.)
My son has learning disabilities. School was always very hard. Then our family had several difficult years. Then 2020. He barely passed 7th, 8th, and 9th grades.
Last night we got an email inviting him to be in National Honor Society for his senior year. 1/
@iconawrites
Someone did this to me with Hunger Games when it came out. Like, “they’re condoning killing children for political purposes.” Um, no, they aren’t?
@MegStEsprit
My 17yo son told me recently that he loves that he sees me as a whole person who messes up and apologizes and moves on and doesn’t pretend to be perfect. 💜
@RCallahanWaco
See also: “there are other attractive women in the world, but I adore my wife and our life together, so I just see them as human beings and don’t find them especially tempting or problematic.”
@TheDeekins
@_david_ho_
I knew a guy, grabbed groceries with him one time, went to put grocery backs in the back of his big truck, and he asked me to put them inside so the paint wouldn’t get scratched.
On the whole “body keeps the score” thing: I felt anxious and unsettled all day yesterday and didn’t know why. Nothing was wrong, but I felt like something was wrong. As I was falling asleep, I realized: it’s July. The month I almost died 4 years ago, received a very scary 1/
@LauraRbnsn
I can worry about kidnapping when my anxiety is up. I think because it’s 1) the most horrifying thing we can imagine being done to our kids, and 2) we can pretend to have some control over it: if I just keep them close, watch them all the time, teach them how to be careful…
@realgirl_fieri
“It’s expensive!”
👍🏼 Almost every boy came back from winter break with $150 shoes. Which is fine! Be generous with your kids in the way you can afford in the way that they’ll be excited about! If that’s a $40 cup 👌🏽.
@ddale8
We have always taught our teenager, who has “experimented” with lying since he was a toddler, that if he just tells the truth, he won’t have to keep his stories straight. 🙄
@emilykmay
When my boys were little, I grieved that the closest I had been with them had already happened.
I was wrong. I’m close with my oldest now that he’s a young adult. I love hanging out with him and don’t see his girlfriend as a threat or that he’s “hers” now. I just love them both.
@cogscimom
@nytimes
They’re not just bikini bottoms, they are minuscule. This is reprehensible.
And anyone making an argument about how playing in less clothing is better for the actual game play - so why are the men in loose fitting shorts and tank tops?
@ratemyskyperoom
@mashagessen
😂 I bet Kid 2 was supposed to be watching Kid 1 upstairs. Good job, Ms. Gessen - just kept on going like the professional you are!
diagnosis, and had a fairly traumatic medical procedure (while awake). I’m okay now (physically and mentally), but it still hit hard yesterday even though I can usually talk about all of it without getting upset. Our minds and bodies are so complicated and confusing 2/
@emilykmay
Like I’ve said elsewhere, I started using, “grown ups,” after I had a few students’ parents die in two school years. It was traumatic and awful and I wanted my classroom to be a safer place for them. It took a little time for it to feel natural to me, but it does now.
@haysjr_9
I can NEVER see or talk about therapy dogs without crying! After one of my daughter’s surgeries, we were having trouble managing her pain, and she just shut down and wouldn’t talk or eat. They brought in this therapy dog and got this tiny smile out of her, then she ate lunch. 💜
@taylorsschumann
Very sweet of mom to make the care package. I do agree with people below that girls are much more open about the topic now than my friends and I were at their age. But still, it is a lot of personal info to share.
@adiiiaf
My dad was engaged to my stepmom in college, then broke up her for my mom. My parents divorced after 27 years and he married my stepmom.
In a journal he wrote to my kids to read after his death, he wrote about his college years, “I was busy dating both of your grandmothers.”
@MZHemingway
I was really blessed/fortunate to find the love of my life young, and I adore being married...but have you considered how hurtful this tweet could be to people who really want to get married and haven’t been able to?
@JasonJAnger
First you teach them to love the worlds that reading opens up for them. Then you teach them about higher level literacy instruction. Kids aren’t generally still reading DWK at the same age they’d be reading MD. This is pretty straightforward.
@PastorBenMarsh
I have seen some parents act as though their children have walked away from the family and “the faith” simply for holding different political positions and/or attending a different denomination. When the children still very much want a relationship and are somewhat baffled.
@HighnessOphelia
My son doesn’t like the color by daughter chose to color her hair for the summer. I said, “the good news is, you don’t really need to worry about his opinion of your hair color!” 😆
(He wasn’t trying to be mean. Just a teenager speaking before thinking before she colored it.)
@TJBerry
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Then that’s just the way it is. In a democracy, often times other people win.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.
@tokyoslumbers
“Maybe the reason you feel like you’ve been through a lot is because you have really been though a lot.”
“What would happen if you forgave yourself for gaining the weight back?”
“If you wouldn’t say it to your best friend, don’t say it to yourself.”
@d_l_mayfield
What if we are responsible, virtuous, capable adults, but have voted for someone they don’t like a couple of times. 🤔 Is that worse? Better?
@LauraRbnsn
I don’t know. I’m just explaining what I think is happening in my own head when I worry a lot about something that I know isn’t completely logical. Not justifying behavior. (And I wouldn’t be the one arguing with you, so maybe that isn’t helpful.)
@jdesmondharris
My son really wanted to get his teacher a 12 pack of Diet Dr Pepper because she drinks it every day. We also included a $10 Target gift card. (Other teachers got cookies in a cute tin - not homemade - and Target gift card.) Feedback?
I already reached out to a few of the teachers who loved him during the hard years. They’re so thrilled for him. I’m thankful they believed in him and looked for the good in him.
I told him to plan on me crying straight through from this initiation until graduation in May 2024.
@girlziplocked
I’m doing this body image journal right now, and the page that was supposed to be today asked about messages about my body during my childhood.
I was like, “nope, not today.”
@SeanInWarsaw
@LibyaLiberty
@jennaep7
Are you an elected official for a state where people will be literally freezing to death in their homes with no food or water?
If not, you’re probably okay.
@sewistwrites
I was so careful with what I fed my oldest. He would eat absolutely anything and loved veggies. People would praise me and I was certain it was all thanks to me.
Then I had my second son. 😂
@thechosenberg
My husband and I are average looking, overweight, teacher/insurance supervisor, lots of close friends, but overall just boring people.
And absolutely crazy about each other and celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary next week. Lots of what we learned about love was a myth. 💜
@AshleyGWinter
😂
Nordstrom will let me buy different size shoes for my daughter with disabilities, so they do have a special place in my heart. Sad there’s not one near me anymore
@jsparkblog
Yes. I had a cerebral aneurysm (suspected) leak that was scary but then went away. We didn’t go to hospital then. The following day, I felt a little off still, so we went to the ER, where I was diagnosed. If I hadn’t gone, I would have likely died at 38 from an aneurysm rupture.
@brianonhere
Women not allowed to dance with friends in shirts that show 2” of abdomen.
Women not allowed to dress completely modestly and mind own business at restaurant with bar.
I’m glad we’re getting all these things clear.
/s obviously 🙄
@Eugene_Scott
Just the language is weird. My husband drives a big pickup, wears jeans and work boots every day (even to church), likes to fish/hunt/sports, etc. I still don’t think he’d call himself “completely masculine.” 🤔
@clhubes
My three biological kids were: exclusively and extended breastfed, breastfed supplemented with formula, and almost exclusively bottle fed. Bet you can’t tell which is which. (Because it doesn’t really matter. Fed is best.) 😘
@sheilagregoire
My doctor told me I’d die if I got pregnant again after my third. Then my life would have been in serious danger if I’d become pregnant while I had my aneurysm and was recovering from brain surgery. What is these guys’ solution to those types of situations? 🤔
@amylorrainelong
@anandalima
I’ve also had receptionists tell me there aren’t appointments, but if my husband tries, there’s mysteriously an appointment. 🙄
Same for medical financing. Me asking - answer is no. Him asking - we can work something out.
@ScottMGreer
Do a lot of congressmen refer to each other in public that way and we all missed it? 🤔 My husband doesn’t speak with his male or female coworkers that way. If he did, he’d get fired.
@emilykmay
@KaitlynSchiess
referenced
@MichaelRWear
on Holy Post this morning to say (my summary) whoever you are in politics is who you are. If you’ll lie to get what you want in politics, you’ll lie to get what you want. I thought that was a sobering reminder to be who we want to be.
@alyssaleann
My husband owns guns. They all all locked up in his closet. The kids don’t know where the key is. If we are away and the kids will be home, he also locks his closet door and takes the key with us.
@laurawritesit
I have a child with limb differences, and I’m not sure I’d be able to have a relationship with my relative for some time if they behaved this way toward THEIR NEPHEW. My first priority has to be to protect my children.
@drewdyck
We have a 3% interest rate and our home has almost tripled in value since we bought it 12 years ago. We can never, ever move. (Which I am 100% not complaining about!) I do feel really bad for people starting out now. 💔
@sewistwrites
Her parents are the ones who chose to make her life public. Her continuing to live her life in public is not dishonoring them. They chose this.
@allis0nr_
Yeah I go to summer camp with elementary school kids every year. I’m obsessive about sunscreen (and hats) and ALWAYS ask the parents before camp to make sure their kids know how to apply: these are 9-12 year olds.