Moment of zen. Did you know there are super fluffy monkeys who just hang out winding their tails together? Now you do! You’re welcome.

This whole ’hobbies’ thing ppl have been talking about is pretty great actually! And when I’m done sewing this thing I get to hit it with a hammer!

Wrote a very polite letter to Disney explaining that me and my many children will be boycotting Disney everything until they tell government censors to pound sand, and will be encouraging every parent I know to do the same.

Lake Superior never disappoints.

Deep cut. The new one is so shiny! (Yes I am showing off.)

Always. And forever.

Apparently we are now the Venus flytrap family. The kids begged and I had just denied them a cat for the 1000th time and well, that’s how we got Chompy.

Chicken sitting as taught me I am absolutely not equipped to take care of chickens for real life. They’re pretty cute though.

In spite of-gestures wildly- managed to make a birthday cake for my kid who can’t possibly be as old as the candle says. I forgot the absolutely insane amount of frosting it takes to do a layer cake.

I will do basically anything to avoid buying a minivan.

I have given up cramming stuff in panniers on my normal bike-it all just goes in the bucket! Also, biking this time of year in MN is delightful. We are all like little crocuses, peaking out to see if the snow is really gone.

Why hello tiny hopeful babies.

Andrei Dmietrievich, forgive us. -An Unquiet Ghost, Russians Remember Stalin