Herstory
In case you haven’t heard, the course of history changed just a bit this week, when #MVP Kamala Devi Harris became the first woman inaugurated into national office. It’s monumental because she’s the first but also because it was only 100 years ago that women could vote at all, only around 45 years ago that women could open a credit card in their own name and not be fired for getting pregnant, only 30 years ago that spousal rape was criminalized in all 50 states, and only eigh
Twinagers
I know nothing of thirteen year old boys. When my brother turned 13, I was already away at college. I have heard tell of his reckless high school years but honestly, it was always a second hand story from my mom on the phone in my dorm room and not something I experienced myself. When I was 13, I had no interest in boys at all - and by the time I did get interested in boys, the boys I was interested in were 16. When I think of 13 year old boys, all I can picture is Peter Brad
Screen Time
Anyone else get a doozy of a screen time report this week? Between schools releasing their reopening plans (we heard one school is reopening but not allowing the kids to talk? Whaaat?), the government insurgency, and Bridgerton, there have been a lot of hours logged on screens small, medium, and big this week. Is there anything that can be done about it? Our family’s socializing is strictly outdoors, and baby, it’s cold outside. We miss our friends and we miss our families an
No Regrets
Winter break has been a real break in this house. We have often had to check what day it is by asking Alexa; we got take out and took walks and rode bikes and watched so much television OMG. Like, so much. I spent the entirety of New Years Day binging Bridgerton and I have NO REGRETS. We did a puzzle, played a few games, baked, cleaned up, baked, cleaned up, cleaned out a closet or two, saw friends around a fire pit two times and did very little else. What else is there? But,