You couldn't (and can't) file a claim for someone unnamed & unborn. So no prenatal care, no coverage for her complications, no postpartum care for her.

Yes, I know, this is an utterly unflattering angle on my face. Who cares. CAT is cute!

Once all of my kids are fully out of the house I will have a more accurate baseline on that. But I haven't had a single odd sock of mine in many, many years! Plus I got this nifty little sock hanger thing that makes it super easy to match them up. All of the sorting & matching & drying in ONE step!

Sometimes I just mumble something about watching grandpa drink himself to death and usually they leave me alone after that. Bec that slow pan thing always makes me squirm. Even after 10+ years not drinking.

How about eating something delicious the other one didn't have so as to inspire envy with extra sweet breath?

Clothes driers are so gross, costly, and time consuming. Who wants to have to remember to go un-ball the sheets every few minutes? They could just be properly hung once and forgotten about until tomorrow.

After a little practice, it is faster to hang your wash than to fuss around with a drier.

I thought breathing on was the proper escalation for looking at. And walking your fingers across the ridge in the backseat upholstery was the proper retaliation for breathing on.

I don't think I have ever eaten Cap'n Crunch so I have zero reference point. I, um... actually like plain oatmeal and grape nuts and unfrosted shredded wheat in the giant biscuits. Please don't tell anyone I am this level of weird.

Fair. Toasting is for bread that needs to be crustier.

Oh, oh dear. I was hoping to pick a fight over how sourdough HAS to be toasted but I can't be mean about roof-of-mouth reasons, whatever exactly that is it sounds uncomfortable and I hope is a temporary thing?

Is this sourdough cold or toasted?

I just straight up ask for first morning appointments for everything. Also deprives my brain of opportunities to overthink. And increases chances the office hasn't gotten behind schedule to leave me in a waiting room. And decreases chances they had someone contagious in before me.

Kid me didn't really understand that part. But I did understand that this was tiny-town gossip about a family struggling to survive and that somehow shame was implied by it all.

I REALLY feel this.

Told my HS senior child to check colleges AI policies and consider that a criteria for what kind of education he wants to get: does he want to spend the next 4 years replying to LLM posts on an LMS or does he want to have actual conversations w actual people?

My favorite part of these is looking up names I don't know and being like oh, that's just Green Stuff.

This is a thing in my family too