#swiftieparentsquad

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My youngest Eva has been playing the guitar for a few years now. First she played the music the teacher provided her but last year she realized she could play anything she likes by looking up tutorials on YouTube. And that made her so much more excited!

@spartanswiftie even sent her a Lover guitar pick to practice with, and here’s her version of Lover! Oh and notice happy dancing Julia in the back... 😂😂

Fun Fact:

I didn’t know that I was veeeerrrrryyyy early pregnant when I met Taylor. I mean, I was literally wine drunk singing Taylor karaoke at the piano bar the night before...🤷‍♀️🤪

Someday when this baby is older, I will remind them that when they were just the size of a poppyseed, they too met Taylor. I hope they realize how truly special that is! ♥️

I now lovingly refer to this baby as my:

💖LOVER BABY💖

@taylorswift

The cutest, most scrunchiest nose evarrr.....

The other day, after about an hour of just walking around my mother’s home in the quiet (my mother was currently in the hospital) in tears, looking at the life my mother has lived with my father & feeling such fear but also the deep knowledge that sometime whether now or in time coming too soon my parents will be both together in another space I felt so lost, alone , wondering how one goes on without their deepest supporters in their corner.

I locked up & turned on my iPod to accompany me home. “Soon You’ll Get Better” was the song that came on, one I’ve avoided. Yet in that moment I knew that somehow we’d handle every medical adventure we’re facing, that I would dedicate as much time to my relationship with my mother that I could.

My mother is currently in a nursing home & today I stood outside the home holding my sign against the window looking at the one she had colored to put in the window for me, both of us on our cell phones, both living in the delusion of the moment as though it’s the most normal thing in the world.

TS7 Album name theory

Kaleidescope

1. Butterflies are clearly a theme.

2. @taylorswift mentioned Kaleidescope in the IG live today.

3. The Kaleidescope in the ME! video.

4. A butterfly stays in its Chrysalis for between 5 and 21 days. 5+21=26

5. A butterfly has 4 stages in its life cycle.

4.26

Prove me wrong (please don't. I so badly want to be right)

Additions:

6. Taylor's army (caterpillars/snakes) turns into a kaleidoscope (thanks @badbloodwonderland). Just like in the beginning of the MV.

7. April 27 Merch video prominently features a kaleidoscope.

8. The snake explodes into a kaleidoscope of butterflies in the ME! video.

9. The background graphics during the Wango Tango set.

Happy Swifties of Color night from an OG Chaperone Dad and member of @senior-swiftizens ! Got my t-shirt to be ready for Lover to drop Aug. 23!

My kids all surpassed me musically by far. There is no proof that it was not due to a steady diet of TS/Fearless/SpeakNow/Red/1989/Reputation in the house when they were little. :)

Before my son Zlatomir played his first round at the Tchaikovsky Competition on the cello in June, my pep talk to him was to play his truth with the glowing, palpable sincerity of heart of Taylor Swift at Wango Tango. (Shameless parental bragging: he won!)