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this makes obvious sense from the perspective of population health & a functional system designed to serve everyone involved. if thats your thing. however, being that it's at the expense of unfettered profit for a handful of parties, it's unfortunately not feasible here

baby just lifted his knee across his belly, tooted dramatically, and laughed at it. gods creation so full of wonders

what type of slime mold is that? I love.

sorry

can you imagine how much worse (inefficient) emergency depts would be if they had to also verify ability to pay before they administered treatment? please.

when people say: He's such a good baby!
am I not supposed to say, I know :)
i didn't do anything to make him Good & I appreciate he is relatively easy to care for

similarly: You don't look like you had a baby!
i know. & when I was at wits' end postpartum it made me feel more invisible to hear it

someone gifted us that fissure prise playmat. baby doesn't know it plays songs other than the ones he writes himself by randomly kicking single keys. John legend should cover one of those imo

going to get destroyed for this take, I know. but, to me, the purple monkey in a bubblegum tree song isn't good

he showed me his boxes of plastic army men, organized by color and era. got very serious when I asked if baby would get to play with them one day. "no. maybe. I'm not ready to think about that," he said.

wandered into my bf's lair and was held captive for what seemed like a lifetime

new favorite thing my baby does, now that he can kind of hold his bottle & likes to try, is he clasps his fingers in front of his face & sort of wails at these empty claws until I place the bottle within grasp

what i mean to say is, my baby is like Kurt Cobain; I will always love him & think everything about him is interesting. But one day, I won't have a compulsive need to broadcast it. Maybe.

i used to think, Wow being a mom is your whole identity now? boring.
And now that it looks like that for me, I'm guessing it's like when you go through puberty & discover a band or sport or hobby & your biology is primed for it (obsessive caretaking or differentiation) so you're temporarily annoying

suped up baby bouncer stability-reinforced with nursing pillow & augmented with preferred toy bar.

adding inventor, systems analyst, & resource manager to my CV

seems like the 90s was some golden era for psychological thrillers about an evil elite. what happened to these films? is it like the Twilight Zone depicting an MK Ultra style human experiment? too easy to see the twist coming & no longer passable as clever imagination; just life as we know it 😔

bf mom says I should take up swimming to prevent perineal tear. not finding evidence to support this as a preventive measure, aside from her frequently self-cited n=1 observational study from 1983. should I just tell her I'm getting taint massages from her son instead

I like when the baby does the thing where... ok it feels like he's running around my belly like a hamster in one of those little plastic orbs

two grown cats on one small chair

good to share

left my plants in the sunroom/enclosed porch, where i normally keep them all winter. but today they've all got frostbite. it's too cold out, folks.

hibernating

cat wearing snowflakes

brick cap mushrooms

Ivan and I went out to inspect the snow & i saw for the first time this species of hypholoma

wait, you have to see this fungus, too!! it looks like it's wearing diamonds 💎