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Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

#choo choo

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To add an addendum to this:

The toddler has at random moments looked at me and said in all seriousness “Mommy, Fuck is a bad word that I shouldn’t say!”

To which I have to maintain a straight face, nod, and agree. “Yes, that’s right, we shouldn’t say that word.”

I swear, if my husband breaks and giggles even once that man is getting his own personal dog house built in the backyard.

So my nearly 4 year old learned a new phrase... can you guess?

Apparently, my husband and his mother were bickering over how to set up the pack and play for our 1 year old, when he, in a rage, started just shaking the thing hoping to get parts to lock.

In response to the rage, his mother proclaimed "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

With the 4 year old in the room.

Since she didn't seem to react or notice they thought they got it under the radar, until it was time for 4 year old to come home. Once in the car she proclaimed "WTF!!!" which startled Gramma, who then ignored it to try and make it not such a big deal and hopefully go away.

Upon getting home, 4 year old was expecting my father and his wife to be here (they were staying with us over the holidays), however they had not yet arrived.

Gramma stated "well I guess they aren't here yet like we thought."

4 year old enters, throws her hands in the air and states "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!"

To which I responded with the ultimate parent statement "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!?!?!?!?"

Once she repeated it, very clearly, I calmly expressed that this was not a good word and she wasn't supposed to say it. (Gramma got on my case a little bit, but 4 year old understands bad words and quite often tells me off for stating 'darn it'.)

Thankfully, so far, she has listened and hasn't used it again.

I'm just impressed that she took a phrase that was being used towards an action and appropriately used it for a situation.

#parenting #toddler

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

#41 baybeee #ultimate Tumblr granny

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So my nearly 4 year old learned a new phrase... can you guess?

Apparently, my husband and his mother were bickering over how to set up the pack and play for our 1 year old, when he, in a rage, started just shaking the thing hoping to get parts to lock.

In response to the rage, his mother proclaimed "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

With the 4 year old in the room.

Since she didn't seem to react or notice they thought they got it under the radar, until it was time for 4 year old to come home. Once in the car she proclaimed "WTF!!!" which startled Gramma, who then ignored it to try and make it not such a big deal and hopefully go away.

Upon getting home, 4 year old was expecting my father and his wife to be here (they were staying with us over the holidays), however they had not yet arrived.

Gramma stated "well I guess they aren't here yet like we thought."

4 year old enters, throws her hands in the air and states "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!"

To which I responded with the ultimate parent statement "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!?!?!?!?"

Once she repeated it, very clearly, I calmly expressed that this was not a good word and she wasn't supposed to say it. (Gramma got on my case a little bit, but 4 year old understands bad words and quite often tells me off for stating 'darn it'.)

Thankfully, so far, she has listened and hasn't used it again.

I'm just impressed that she took a phrase that was being used towards an action and appropriately used it for a situation.

#parenting #toddler #cussing #cursing #adulting

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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

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Went to see Santa last night.

Munchie was SO Excited she scared her brother by shouting at him, so his Santa experience was... less than great. He like the lights but was very iffy about sitting with Mrs Clause.

Munchie is old enough to finally tell Santa what she would like from him for Christmas.

She asked for a cupcake because her birthday is coming (it's the 30th), Santa was charmed.

This Santa is done by a couple on their front porch to collect food for the food bank and they have been 'our' Santa since Munchie's first Christmas in 2020. Munchie left such an impression over the years (with her incredible cuteness) that they remember her.

It's a very sweet relationship to get to see them for 10 minutes a year but having them be so meaningful in those 10 minutes.

#santa #mrs clause #meeting santa #all i want for christmas #christmas #kiddos

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I used to work in tech support for a software company, but I was the admin. This meant I was the support robot who sent out form emails for standard errors or when a system was down with eta information. I also answered switchboard.

I had a client call in one time and I answered with my name. She asked to be transferred to someone else and probably thought I immediately put her on hold. I heard her mutter “[My Name] is a person?!”

Me: “Hi yes! I am a real person!” (Very chipper)

Her: “Oh well! I always get standard emails from [My Name] so I thought that was the name they gave the support robot!”

Queue me spending the rest of shift doing my best robot impression to my coworkers.

Me: Hi, this is Ebony at work; how can I help you today?

Customer: Oh wow

Me: Is everything alright?

Customer: Oh yes, it’s just that you’re so good at this, I thought you were a recording at first

Me, internally: Your, “most people only call me a robot *after* they know I’m Autistic,” joke is an inside thought until you can get to Tumblr; same with the, “script writer,” bit.

Me: Ha, can you tell I’ve been doing this for a while?

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We are 2 hours away from the new Doctor Who special and I’m just hoping my kids go down for their nap so I can join the collective trauma we are about to have.

#doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor donna #I don’t know if I’m ready

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+ put in the tags where you're from

#Ontario Canada #but I can honestly say #I only use it because I drove standard #growing up with an automatic #my parents never used it #poll #tumblr poll

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Gotta admit it’s the Babysitters Club books as that’s where I first learned of the name.

Reblog for a bigger sample size.

Say in the tags what you voted for and if you live in or outside of the US

#state poll #poll #tumblr poll #babysitters club #Mary Ann was my favourite

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Adding to the tally:

Cleaned living/play room

Vacuumed living/play room

Cleaned kitchen

Swept kitchen

Get that bird some treaties!!!!

Alright, I'm dragging you all into doing tasks with me today.

I've gotta do a bunch of laundry and dishes and clean floors and stuff, and I hate working alone, so here's what we're gonna do!

When you reblog this and tell me your completed task, I'll add it to a tally and update periodically with a progressive total. Before I go out tomorrow, I'll grab a final count, and that's how many whole food "treat" pieces the birds will get when I get home (a mix of fishies and crickets and mealworms and blueberries and nugget treats and banana pieces etc, all stuff that is a good part of their diet). Tasks can be anything you need to do, but it would make me especially happy for folks to do things they've been putting off or are hard to find motivation to do alone, so the birds can help you back.

So! Let's get to work together today!

Do it for her!

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Doing all the things

Today is a day for getting. stuff. done.

So far I have:

Finally cleaned up the play/living/family room which will totally be demolished again by the two crotch goblins but it was clean.

Vacuumed the play/living/family room which is a feat, this room is the entire back half of the house, it’s a big room.

Cleaned the kitchen.

Swept the kitchen which is a big task as crotch goblin 2 is learning solids so most of his food ends up on the floor.

Now I have 4 bajillion loads of laundry to do, but can get that done for tomorrow too when the husband is on his weekend.

Have Mother coming over on Friday to help with finally organizing my new craft area, which means going through ALL my craft supplies. Mother in law is taking the kiddos so we can just buckle down and get it done.

We are hosting one of the big family Christmas events here on Christmas Eve and have a lot to do to get this house ready for it. Getting the craft stuff to its proper home will help immensely, then it’s just getting the dining room back in order.

#adulting #cleaning #organizing #chores

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#the Christmas shoes #I don’t need to be sobbing #in the middle of Christmas songs

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Old abandoned grocery store repurposed as a library

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Deer, coo, or something’s up with your lights. Either one is out or you’re an idiot who still has their high beams on.

#poll

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#I never wear makeup #I hate shopping #polls #tumblr polls

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#my engagement and wedding rings #are currently off #so I don’t #scratch my babies #tumbler polls #poll