Amy Colleen (sewistwrites)

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I Want My Son to Be a Bookworm An old wish, revisited.

I actually wrote this piece almost six years ago, but I'm republishing it today because I'm working on a sequel, and I wanted the original to be available and relevant. (Hint: yes, my son is now a bookworm. However, that's not the point.) amycolleen.substack.com/p/i-want-my-...

I am being the bravest girl in the world today, having people over for dinner even though the house is kind of a wreck!

(Isn't that just embracing friendship and hospitality?)

NO it's called being the BRAVEST GIRL IN THE WORLD

"I just texted while driving one time"
"I only used chatGPT to make a quick meme"
"I know you're not supposed to touch the exhibits but my kids just wanted to climb on it a LITTLE"

Sorry. That came snarkier than I intended. 😅 If you run a red light one time, you might be fine. But if everyone did?

Then it's not about those 😃

Ok. Look at it this way. If everyone, every day, did the thing you say you're only doing this once, just a little bit, just for fun, omg it's not a big deal, would we be in terrible trouble? Yeah? Then stop doing it. You're not special.

I'm on spring break and was determined to carve out something for myself this week so I am watching Jury Duty! I'm so invested but also so confused as to how they filmed this????

Brb, eliminating all men to eradicate domestic violence

You know housework expands to fill the time created? The same rule apparently applies to getting ready for school earlier and earlier and children thinking of every possible stalling tactic to make us late.

People think I’m being alarmist when I say they are trying to make you dumb. They feel entitled to control how and to what extent you can access knowledge. They send their kids to tech-free schools while ensuring public school kids can’t read. They want you illiterate.

Why can we never line up names with bodies. This shouldn't bug me as much as it does, and yet

Nooooo Rachel please don't do this 😭💀

My 2yo is wearing his Polamalu jersey 🙃

I knew motherhood would mean sacrifice. I knew it would mean letting go of what *I* imagined for my kids to follow the way *they* wanted their lives to go. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

-me eating pizza with my 2yo & 5yo and watching, at their insistence, Steelers highlights on YouTube

I'm sorry, WHAT???? This is neglect and abandonment. Meredith. This is not okay. You are absolutely not overreacting. You need a new lawyer or else the existing one needs a new head, because it probably doesn't work too well being shoved that far up her ass.

Stop touching your brother. Let go. Keep your hands to yourse-- HANDS TO YOURSELF. No don't touch him. Take your fingers off him. Take your elbow off him. Take the back of your knee off him. Move aside. Move ASIDE. GET DOWN. Stop. Step back. Stop touching your brother. Yes you WERE. Stop touching yo

Day in the Life of a 38-year-old mom, 27 weeks pregnant with her third child, who works part-time Hang on, I have to pee.

"I feel my half tooth with my tongue. Will I get bacteria in it and die? Is that what crowns are for? My mom has a friend who had a toothache and went on a cruise anyway, and then died. Right on the cruise. Of tooth. I should call the dentist, probably." www.the-pom.com/p/day-in-the...

I think too far, but that's an idea!

Your HAIR 🥰

Instead of March Madness this year I'll be doing a little something called Starch Sadness which is where I just eat potatoes until I feel better

I thought I was cutting down on error and confusion by purchasing a flippable magnet dishwasher sign that says "Sorry we're dirty / Come in we're clean" but I did not take into consideration the fact that my toddler would find it funny to flip it back and forth at sundry times and in diverse manners

a man with a beard and a suit is pointing at the camera ALT: a man with a beard and a suit is pointing at the camera

The thing is, I encourage him constantly to eat leftovers! And he doesn't do it often! But when he does it, it's always when I wanted them 😭

I took two small children shopping during the witching hour and was fighting for my LIFE at the discount grocery, thinking ahead as my blood sugar dropped to the leftover lasagna that was waiting in the fridge. As soon as we got home I would--

Anyway I hope my husband enjoyed his breakfast today. 😭

Just once I'd like to hear about the daylight saving itself. It's 2026.

Not to brag but I am just now finishing my last handcrafted Christmas gift. Yeah from Christmas 2025. Now to tackle the wedding gift to celebrate my brother's nuptials that took place last July 🙏

It's POOHSTICKS season

"I love you, baby," I told my two-year-old.

"I wuv you too, big grownup," he solemnly replied.

Yep