Category: life
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These Cute Problems
Seriously huge props to the people who step-up and make the Girl Scout cookie sales happen for my kids’ troop.
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Invisible Girl Scouts
They’re just kids! The girl scouts do receive specific guidance to try to prevent their being a nuisance like to not ask people on their way into the store and not to hound people who don’t want to buy. So if you just say “no, thank you” you should be able to escape unscathed.
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Personality Gauge
Similar to how you might not know how to say a word because you’ve only seen it written down, you might grab the wrong word in a phrase you don’t use very often. And maybe only saw written down.
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I’m In Charge
After so many times of us saying the eldest kid is in charge (if a parent isn’t around), it’s no wonder our youngest kid was so excited for his chance to finally be the eldest kid in the house.
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Under A Rock
Please consider the soundtrack for this week to be the song “Sports Go Sports” by Garfunkel and Oates.
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Stay Strong
I recall one of the last times we kept a kid home from school because they said they weren’t feeling well in the morning (no fever, but hard to quantify symptoms like sore throat). They then proceeded to spend the whole day running around acting perfectly normal with no further complaints.
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Internal Maps
Hey, I get it, my husband usually drives us around and I have embarrassingly low recollection of how to get to places I’ve been multiple times.
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Wake Me Up
Behold! The student has become the master.
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Disaster Zones
Teams has a fun “Decorate” feature that lets you quickly substitute in an AI-augmented version of your actual background, so… now the in-camera-view area of my home desk might also be a disaster.
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Dangerously Grumpy
Later, when my son heard of this exchange, he told his sister: “That is very rude.” She responded immediately, with zero remorse, “She’s dangerously grumpy.” Like, “Yeah, so? I said what I said.”