Wow this dude was a slow learner. That’s a lot of eels.

(I need to up my alt text game, clearly!)

trip - truly NOT. Mainly to explain. Possibly to myself. Rejected is my default position. It’s safer to be prepared, you see. For the inevitable time I fuxk up and lose someone because I was…too something or other, probably.

- my brain goes straight to the idea that I must have done something wrong. There’s concrete reasoning in my history (it absolutely has happened) but it leaves me a mess in the corner. I haven’t solved all of this yet and I am working on it. Just know this is where I go - not to give you a guilt

I keep a little tin of Vaseline just for this.

Oh I’m certain of it. Sometimes it’s just hilarious, and some times it’s completely on point.

It also makes me feel like I’m curating my feed about right ;)

Channel it! Whatever makes the world go round, honestly.
C used to unpack the shopping to the closest approximation of where stuff went (she was v tiny) and understood things fitting together very early. Now she bakes and makes a massive mess ;) (but: cake)

You are doing great babes @thefluffybat.bsky.social

See what the kiddo will do. Some like sweeping, some like fetch and carry, ours liked recycling 😆 and unpacking shopping.

Small goddaughter when 2, and asked how she was:
Daddy says, i’n a pest!
Are you a pest?!

YES!