Brought and Born

Okay babies what are our summer reads?? I'm going to the Jersey shore next week and need some recs.

Is there anything funnier than doing an extended bit with your partner to annoy your kids?? My new thing is waiting until Andy is doing something dumb to make the kids laugh and then when they go "oh my god, Dad, stop" I go "let him cook!!" and it makes Andy laugh every time and that makes me laugh and then both kids tell us we're so weird and why are we even laughing it wasn't even FUNNY and then we're in tears and are kids are convinced there's something wrong with us

I complained recently that all of our spatulas smell like onions or the dishwasher. I know you can bake them to get the smell out of the silicone but I have a really sensitive nose and Andy doesn't so I'm the one who's in charge of that and it pisses me off every time I go to make a dessert and all the spatulas smell like alliums. So last week Andy was at a store and grabbed two different kinds of spatula for me, good brands but ones that look nothing like the rest of our spatulas so they can't get mixed up, to hand wash and keep in with my baking stuff so they'll always smell neutral! Such a tiny thing but it's been so nice to not have to smell them before I use them!!

It is really hard to watch middle school mean girl shit affect your kid!!

My parents took five of their six grandkids out for ice cream and my dad spent the entire hour on hold with the trash collection company they cancelled last month that changed them anyway (with the call ported through his hearing aid so he def wasn't interacting with the kids). Now they're back at my house and the kids are split into groups playing two different board games and my dad is scrolling on Facebook on his phone, probably posting about how great it is to have the kids all together.

I woke up with a very weird feeling of sadness about the upcoming 4th of July because, in my half-asleep state, I was imagining how we'd be celebrating in a different timeline with a different president and how much FUN it would all be

I seem to be having some sort of allergic reaction to a lip balm I've used for years (the Going Places lip balm by Ursa Major). It started on Thursday with my lips just feeling really dry, then I realized they were feeling kind of sunburnt, like that feeling where you know they're going to peel. On Friday I realized it was worse after I used the lip balm. I haven't used it since but my lips are all puffy and have peeled and sting. It looks like I used a very cheap plumper that didn't agree with my skin. Very cool, very fun. I've been slathering my lips in a calendula salve and they're definitely slowly improving but every time I eat they get irritated again!

Guys I just got this great book from the library, have you heard of it? It's called Project Hail Mary and I really think it's going to take off