For reasons I have yet to understand, my 8 y.o. has recently become OBSESSED with puns. So now, several times an hour, he’ll have these random outbursts like, “Oh! I GET IT! That’s WHY [xx thing] BECAUSE [yy thing — that is completely irrelevant and is absolutely NOT a pun]. 😂😂😂
TL;DR—I have spent WAY more time than I ever thought I would saying the phrase “Nope, still not a pun” to a disbelieving 8 y.o.
Anak saya ini gak paham jajanan. Dibawa ke warung juga gak tau apa itu kemasan berjejer-jejer. Ngambek minta ikut ke warung pun karena dia bosen di dalam rumah, sampai warung ya anteng, cuma nemenin ibunya beli telur misalnya.
Hingga suatu ketika, dipaksa jajan sama mertua. Alih-alih momen ngumpul di hari raya, pas di toko saudara. Saya yang bingung. Minuman es yang serbuk manis-manis, sosis seblak otak2 dll makanan upf, jajanan kemasan berjejer jejer, parah-semua itu udah kayak setan di mataku. Memberi hal itu ke anakku? Apa iya saya harus membunuh kebiasaan baik selama dia hidup dengan memberi makanan sembarangan pas hari raya? Sungguh tidak bisa kuterima itu.
Biarin semua orang tau, aku, suamiku, anakku, gak makanan makanan seperti itu. Kami lebih bangga cemilin buah duku yang melimpah kala lebaran tapi gak banyak disentuh orang. Biarkan kami memilih, biarkan kami menentukan makanan kami sendiri, tanpa dihakimi.
Lebaran momen hari raya, harusnya semua happy. Bukan malah ngasih PR ke saya setelah momen ini.
Ttd,
Saya, ibu yang amat mencintai anak saya tanpa tapi.
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I know you have a super busy real life on top of all of your writing! How do you balance personal life/work life with your writing? Do you schedule writing time?
I’m going to tell you I smiled hard when I saw this ask because 1) thank you for actually noticing Anon, and 2) “balance” is such a tricky thing.
I strive for this
But most of the time it’s this
Squish is older now, but still...
I try to carve out writing time in the evenings after she goes to sleep and especially when the Mister is with friends or playing WoW. (WoW Widows Unite!) He’s not keen on my writing the... spicier stuff, though he does know about it, so I try not to shove it in his face.
I have, on occasion, told them I’m going to my PRN job for longer than I actually needed to and go to a coffee shop instead. *SHHH*
It can be hard when I have a really long day at work and don’t feel like doing much, even after bedtime. But I try to at least reread something or proofread from my phone. The beauty of Google Drive!
I am pleased to announce I have pulled my daughter Kaeigh-Laeigh-Maeigh out of Kidnergarden after she informed me she was learning about pronouns. No pronounce in this good Chrsitian house hold!!!!!1
So, my 4 y.o. daughter loves “dancing” with us (I.e. my hubs and I pick her up and dance while doing uppies), and her musical taste is pretty varied. Recently, she’s really gotten into the Beastie Boys’ “Brass Monkey.” Well, she started asking about the song and “what those boys singing about, Mama?” and I (because I am not a moron and wasn’t *actually* going to explain the lyrics of that song to her) told her it’s about Brass Monkey and how he’s hanging out having a party with his friends.
My daughter is now *convinced* Brass Monkey is **REAL** and *every* time she hears this song now she tells me that she wants to meet Brass Monkey & his friends, and she wants Brass Monkey to meet her teacher and her brother and all of her friends and our puppy and to come see our house. I now have to politely (and repeatedly) explain to her that although I’m sure Brass Monkey would love to do all of those things, Brass Monkey lives in NY, which is pretty far from us, and that it’s really not possible for him to come visit us.
TL; DR—I have completely anthropomorphized a Beastie Boys song and established an elaborate head cannon about its existence all to keep my 4 y.o. happy.
My little one was born via emergency inducement on the 27th.
Prenatal care is important and I cannot stress this enough. I was getting NST twice a week and Saturday they caught my baby was not breathing like she was supposed to in the womb and once I gave birth they found that my gestational diabetes destroyed my placenta. If I would've listened to the free birth community my babygirl would've been dead within a week and so would I (I lost a lot of blood and still recovering)...the hospital was amazing and gave my daughter and me the care we needed.