Tag: kids
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Dueling Journeys
Here’s a timeline of my journey to become Zander: Age 4 – I vividly remember sort of waking up and becoming conscious of myself as a person, a male person. I started choosing my own clothes and toys and I remember loving Spider-Man and other superheroes. Age 8 – My parents bought me a pink…
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Daily Prompt 7/22/24
For me, yes. But only in that every day for me is untypical. No two days are ever the same so it’s always a bizarre variety or experiences and things that make little to no sense, but in the best way possible. I like my day like that, although I do try to have some…
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Giving Back
The universe is already showing me opportunities for 2024! I joined a group for transgender parenting recently and today someone posted about a camp for trans kids. They are opening a location nearby! They will need staff and applications open up sometime this month. I am so hopeful that I could get hired for the…
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Household Labor
I started watching this documentary about the division of household labor and how men tend to overestimate their contribution while women underestimate how much they do. It pissed me off for a ton of reasons, but mostly because I’ve seen it exactly as described as a child and as an adult. I’ve lived it from…
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Handling Boy #1
Boy #1 is struggling. He’s with his friend, trying to live on their own in an apartment, getting VA Ch 35 money, going to school full time, and getting jobs. They’ve been on this journey since August. It took us until October to get the VA money flowing. And it’s not the right amount. He’s…
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Girl
Girl had a breakdown last night. We haven’t started school yet and are slowly working back to the normal timing for when school does start in two weeks. We are all staying up too late and it’s wearing us all down. I was running behind last night and taking out my contacts as the last…
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Piggies!!
Three weeks ago we made a deal with Girl and Boy #3…keep your room clean for one month and you can get a small animal in a cage like a gerbil, guinea pig, chinchilla, hedgehog, whatever. They went back and forth for awhile about what they wanted and settled on a guinea pig. Then the…
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SNOW DAY!
The kids are off from school today and my wife decided to close her workplace as well because of the weather. We got some snow and there is rain projected for later on this afternoon. It’s nice to have an unexpected day off in the middle of the week! Girl had her physical today and…
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Math
Boy #3 is headed back to the Math Tournament this coming March! He’s very excited to go. He participated in the mental math category, where you write your answers in pencil and get no scratch paper to figure things out. He won second place and got a trophy last time. He’s hoping for first place…