My kids and notes: 10.8
December 17, 2025
Life with JB
JB desperately wanted to table at the local kids craft fair. I very very much did not want to deal with it. But they had to skip the spring one because I was way too busy to deal with anything but survival back then so I reluctantly agreed to this one on the condition that they be done with all their merch at least a month out.
Sigh.
They were not. It was a lot harder to make time to go to the library to test out the equipment in the Maker Space than I’d anticipated. I foolishly thought I’d make some time on the weekends but when said weekends arrived, my beaten-down body and soul simply could not muster the energy to leave the house. Before I knew it, game time was nearly upon us and I was having to order supplies and we had only one day left to work on everything and I was so sick and PiC desperately needed several hours to work. I girded myself, delivered several stern warnings about this being a Working Session No Playing, and carted the kids to the Maker Space where we sweated over their crafts for a solid 3.5 hour session. Precisely the thing I had very specifically did not want to do. Once I figured out how to do it, they did the rest of the work but it was an entirely exhausting day.
The event itself was just under 4 hours and a reasonable success, they sold 17 of their art card and 19 sets of KPDH fan art magnets.
I think the wise thing to do is to prep their art now well ahead of any new craft fair dates, and start making stock so that most is ready to go before we even make any commitments. I know they’ll want to do it again.
Life with Smol Acrobat
JB defends SmolAc’s honor claiming they are not annoying to other people and they are repaid by SmolAc being a giant pain in their ass.
“Wee, did you wash your hands?”
YES.
“I did not see you”
WELL I DID.
“Mom, did you see her?”
Me: (Non accusatory disinterested) Nope.
“Does Wee need to “twy again”?”
(We both know that’s SmolAc’s shady way of pretending they did wash in the first place but they didn’t)
JB stomps to the bathroom: IF IT MAKES YOU SOOOOO HAPPY I WILL “TRY AGAIN” UGH.
They really didn’t have to but clearly SmolAc wasn’t gonna let it go.
This is SmolAc in both parts: koala for JB and Panda for me.
Precious Moments
I want to ski, I wish I could ski! I just don’t like the downhill part.
☠️
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SmolAc: Mark aweady wearned all da phonics. Dey know all the phonicses.
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SmolAc: Who cooked dis meal because I want to say thank you.
Dad did.
Thank you daddy for cooking.
But mom made the cornbread.
Thank you mommy for the cornbread it is dewishous even dough I did not eat it yet dis is not cooked.
Hey! It is definitely cooked!