Running to my dolce far niente

~Today’s Affirmation *

Ladies and gentlemen, take a moment to learn about vaginas. Men, take an interest into your woman’s menstrual cycle!

I’m not sure if I am hating or loving peri-menopause. Seriously confused about it.

and she would say “because it was just a thing- even if its a nice thing, or an old thing, or an expensive thing, its still just a thing. it can be replaced, or we can live without it. there is only one you. there will only ever be one you. you will always be more important than just some thing.” 

It bothered me a lot that the kid was clearly primed by a lot of adults to deal with anger and blame when a simple mistake was made. I offered her a hug, which she accepted and finally laughed.

Now I’m a step-mum myself and my go to reaction whenever I hear something break is to shrug and say ‘Well, it had a good run’ and then I go fetch a broom and we’ll clean up because if my grandma could laugh off a 100 year old crystal dish, I can laugh off an IKEA mug lmao

Just unfollowed over 150 inactive blogs and need new ones to follow!

1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to? 2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who? 3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. 4. do you like your name?  is there another name you think would fit you better? 5. do you think of yourself as a human being or a human doing? do you identify yourself by the things you do? 6. are you religious/spiritual? 7. do you care about your ethnicity? 8. what musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime? 9. are you an artist? 10. do you have a creed? 11. describe your ideal day. 12. dog person or cat person? 13. inside or outdoors? 14. are you a musician? 15. five most influential books over your lifetime. 16. if you’d grown up in a different environment, do you think you’d have turned out the same? 17. would you say your tumblr is a fair representation of the “real you”? 18. what’s your patronus? 19. which Harry Potter house would you be in? or are you a muggle? 20. would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else? 21. do you love easily? 22. list the top five things you spend the most time doing, in order. 23. how often would you want to see your family every year? 24. have you ever felt like you had a “mind-meld” with someone? 25. could you live as a hermit? 26. how would you describe your gender/sexuality? 27. do you feel like your outside appearance is a fair representation of the “real you”? 28. on a scale from 1 to 10, how hard is it for someone to get under your skin? 29. three songs that you connect with right now. 30. pick one of your favorite quotes.

— Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

I M LIVID

offer them “medicinal chocolate” if they stop crying it’s fine if they carry on crying/refuse the chocolate then it’s serious

For things that are clearly a minor bump we give kisses instead

Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do and sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s something that requires a trip to the hospital or not

This is important….we’ve had 20+ years of injuries and can compare some pain to other pains and be like this doesn’t hurt nearly as much as this other thing that happened. Pain is an experience that’s new to kids, especially little ones. Some overreactions are to be expected

aimless efforts

Close your eyes and feel the universe within you making a way for you right now.