My kids and notes: Year 10.1
May 14, 2025
Life with JB
JB and I had an interesting conversation the other day. Would we help white people in need? I laughed, of course we would! We have been helping white friends and acquaintances for years. I know where this is coming from, I talk about helping vulnerable people a lot, race comes up a lot, and we’ve definitely talked about white supremacy. I’m not surprised they’re exploring the lines of where and how that wraps around our life choices.
What if they voted for Trump? Oh, hell no. Unless they have deep regrets, would do things differently given the chance, and are doing something to fight back against what they chose for all of us, I don’t care what race or ethnicity they are. They’re not getting our money or our help. Too many of those Trump voters are shocked, shocked!, that they were included in the hurt because “he was supposed to hurt other people”. The kicker for me is that they still wouldn’t do things differently because they still subscribe to his cult and they still think that the promise of his hurting trans people, women, minorities, all of the rest of us, is worth the cost they bear. Let them bear it, then.
That’s not about people like Larry in Wisconsin who was both ignorant of LGBTQA people and their humanity, attended an assembly to support a bill against gender-affirming care, and in attending, listened and learned something. He not only learned something, he publicly apologized. Now that’s something.
There are so many people who did NOT choose this for us who are being hurt badly by the actions of this administration and need help, they come first.
Life with Smol Acrobat
I was singing silly songs to SmolAc while brushing their teeth, and I forgot the words to the itsy bitsy spider. I had to ask them what the spider song with the waterspout was. 🤦🏻♀️
Smol Acrobat is learning how to sort the laundry. They’re responsible for helping me sort all the laundry and putting away their own clean laundry. JB remains responsible for putting away everyone else’s laundry.
Precious Moments
Smol Acrobat: my ear isn’t working! I cannot hear!!
I cover their left ear and whisper in the right: do you like cake?
SmolAc: YES
Cured.
*****
Smol Acrobat, sick and sad, sitting on my lap before dinner. Boldly: I’m going to eat here!
Wait now, what makes you think you’re going to sit here?
Because I wuv you!
….Well played.
*****
Smol Acrobat: how many fingers do you think this is? Four?
Me: Maybe.
SmolAc: Hey!! How did you know??
Me: Maybe Mom just KNOWS THINGS.
SmolAc: Hey! That’s cheating!
*****
Me: Why do you always need to use the same door? Then you bicker. You two don’t make sense.
Smol Acrobat: I make sense.
Me: You make very little sense.
Smol Acrobat: I make very big sense!
