Amanda

Oh god the 3 yo has just discovered Caramelldansen

Oh god the three year old just made first contact with 100 gecs

#Toddler dinner: vaguely Thai (coconut/peanut sauce) stir fry with rice (red lentils snuck in). Plain tofu on the side.

#Parenting tip: get an old timey wash basin, a sponge, a bunch of Ikea baby wipe towels, and a bar of soap. You now have a decently convenient way of washing hands of a kid who refuses to stop playing.

I’ve been taking my three year old to swimming classes. Now to understand what this means for me as a trans woman you need two pieces of information.

1. I have to be in the pool with my kid, as essentially her floating aid, and
2. Swedish public bath culture expressly requires binary gender separated naked showering. In open, uncovered showers.

Americans and your bathrooms eat your hearts out.

#Toddler lunch: traditional Swedish cuisine (brown food). Meatballs are fake meat. #Food

#Toddler summer tip: pour some cold water over frozen maize, have it freeze solid, and let them pick them apart.

Probably also works *great* for rats.

One of the scary aspects of the sheinification of society is that in addition to bypassing environmental and labour regulations (by now a generation old hack or so) they now also bypass basic safety regulations.

Congratulations, you now have to check if your children’s Christmas presents or the second hand clothes you bought will self destruct in five minutes, be entirely untested and have unsafe levels of god knows what in them, all while the only contact is drop-shipper @ outlook.com.

One of the things I really miss after children is the ability to take vacation from work to work on a project that needs doing, at home or in the world generally.

I used to take vacation from my boring research to do Polonius, the fun research. I can’t do things like that now because if I’m on vacation we don’t have childcare. This would have sucked a lot more if I didn’t get to do the fun research for work, but I still have other things and it does suck.