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spike wrote:She assessed that the only way to drop you to the mat was to fight dirty. Elite competitiveness, you should be proud.

10 of 10 chance of her sweeping the leg johnny

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:My youngest (almost 5) is now old enough to play basketball out in the driveway by himself. It's funny how these little milestones sneak up on you, but it's the absolute best to hear the bouncing and shouts of "buckets" after each made shot.

Is he pretending to be Derrick Chievous

I understand that reference!

In the midst of the kid’s two week term break, though after the long holiday weekend, today is the first proper day of just the two of us.

We had a busy morning taking the dogs to the vet, then I had to get the guys cleaning out our gutters set up, but otherwise it’s just been us hanging out and she’s been really great. The too frequent requests for food and complaints of boredom have been replaced by a more mature and self sufficient kid who’s been quietly doing self play for a couple hours now. If this is how it’s going to be most of the time now, I may actually start looking forward to these holiday breaks as relaxing and not a slowly building exercise in parental exhaustion.

I’m no fool, I fully expect her to be more of a handful tomorrow, but I shall enjoy the moment.

Just got back from a weekend I've been waiting for for years. First camping trip with my kiddo.

This was a Cub scout thing on a ranch, scheduled meals at a dining hall and activities all day. Not my ideal context for a camp trip, but great to get him some exposure. My wife came along and I thought she'd hate it, but super happy to report that everybody was enjoying it. It was a good warm up for a more freeform camping experience sometime in the future. Hopefully before it gets too hot.

You really can't beat seeing kids run around in open spaces while sipping a cup of coffee and turning the phone off.

washing machine wrote:Just got back from a weekend I've been waiting for for years. First camping trip with my kiddo.

This was a Cub scout thing on a ranch, scheduled meals at a dining hall and activities all day. Not my ideal context for a camp trip, but great to get him some exposure. My wife came along and I thought she'd hate it, but super happy to report that everybody was enjoying it. It was a good warm up for a more freeform camping experience sometime in the future. Hopefully before it gets too hot.

You really can't beat seeing kids run around in open spaces while sipping a cup of coffee and turning the phone off.

We’re vacationing by the ocean and took the kid to a killer whale museum, saw a seal in the water today, a bunch of birds and fish, and are going on a sea life spotting board tour tomorrow. She’s loving it and it’s great but oh my lord the endless questions, of which some are awesome but many are just wtf.

Can you clarify "killer whale museum" ? Was this an especially awesome regular whale museum, or was this specifically an orca museum?

In any case, this sounds like an epic trip.

Haha, it’s orcas. There was a pod that hung around here in the old whaling days that helped the whalers herd whales into the bay for capture. Wild stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_wh ... outh_Wales

My six year old has some chronic constipation issues that mean she sometimes can’t control her bowels and it just comes. So, whenever she’s fluffing around and drops ass, I know it’s coming and I ask her to get to the can. Of course, every time she fights me on it, then like clockwork, poops herself within twenty minutes. So fucking annoying.

My youngest finishes daycare at the end of the month. We've had a kid there for almost nine straight years. It will be bittersweet when say goodbye.

Yeah but you won’t have that monthly expense anymore, either.

wease wrote: Wed May 06, 2026 7:41 pm Yeah but you won’t have that monthly expense anymore, either.

Well, sure. I'll miss the people. We still have after school care and summer camps to pay for, so it's not like the cost completely goes away. It will certainly nice to have one location for drop off and pick up again. That's like 30-45 minutes back to our day.

We spent three days in Sydney, and both there and back the kid has been complaining of jet lag. It’s an hour flight in the same time zone.

It’s all too much.

We’re so lucky.

my oldest graduates from high school on thursday. his give-a-shitter broke about 4 months ago. he's been getting up early and watching episodes of series that he hasn't seen before (the wire, sopranos, game of thrones) before going to class. he wants to do the same with movies before he leaves for college. he may end up looking like chris farley in that hibernol commercial after everything is said and done.

Chris_H_2 wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 6:55 pm my oldest graduates from high school on thursday. his give-a-shitter broke about 4 months ago. he's been getting up early and watching episodes of series that he hasn't seen before (the wire, sopranos, game of thrones) before going to class. he wants to do the same with movies before he leaves for college. he may end up looking like chris farley in that hibernol commercial after everything is said and done.

What is he doing after high school? College? Work? Crime?

Monkey_Driven wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 7:58 pm

Chris_H_2 wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 6:55 pm my oldest graduates from high school on thursday. his give-a-shitter broke about 4 months ago. he's been getting up early and watching episodes of series that he hasn't seen before (the wire, sopranos, game of thrones) before going to class. he wants to do the same with movies before he leaves for college. he may end up looking like chris farley in that hibernol commercial after everything is said and done.

What is he doing after high school? College? Work? Crime?

college to earn his degree in finance bro vests. then crime.

Chris_H_2 wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 1:13 am

Monkey_Driven wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 7:58 pm

Chris_H_2 wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 6:55 pm my oldest graduates from high school on thursday. his give-a-shitter broke about 4 months ago. he's been getting up early and watching episodes of series that he hasn't seen before (the wire, sopranos, game of thrones) before going to class. he wants to do the same with movies before he leaves for college. he may end up looking like chris farley in that hibernol commercial after everything is said and done.

What is he doing after high school? College? Work? Crime?

college to earn his degree in finance bro vests. then crime.