tonight our 2 yr old said “live with arms wide open and hug your seltzer” so true
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tonight our 2 yr old said “live with arms wide open and hug your seltzer” so true
she’s fucking amazing.
last week we transitioned our toddler from her crib & into a toddler bed. first couple of days i ended up sleeping on the wood floor next to her. but i just heard a “clunk” & checked the camera. she clearly fell out of the bed & looked annoyed, but she just crawled back into bed & went to sleep.
i’m pretty sure the whole building is part of the same medical group.
it was the fanciest office he’s ever gotten blood drawn at too. the had a beautiful waiting room with big windows and fancy sofas and cube shaped marble tables. very different from the bare cement labcorp with folding chairs, if you’re lucky. i would think they could afford a fedex pickup 🤷♀️
matt got blood taken today. we
see a lot of doctors and have gotten a lot of blood drawn, but i’ve never experienced this before. they put a vile of his blood into a box, gave it back to us, along with a fedex bag and told us to drop it off at fedex. it was bizarre.
staring at the blank post before you. i wrote about explaining “unwritten” by natasha bedingfield to my 2 year old. but it’s really about the power in facing discomfort head on.
open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
it’s national caregivers day. about 1 in 5 people provide unpaid care to a loved one. you probably know one. it’s hard to understand until you are doing it (and you likely will) but it is heart wrenching, backbreaking work. do something nice for a caregiver you know. no advice please.
i wrote about the way strangers approach matt and the way it makes me feel open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
i am so tired of ai on google. not a promo but just switched to duckduckgo and it was super easy to turn off all the ai features in the settings. you can hide ai generated images too. still unfortunately plugged into google for email, but nice to have a simple way to search.
i don’t want to brag but our fridge has been broken since last friday and i still didn’t buy anything today 💁♀️
oh also, if you have a library card you can print up to 25 black and white pages a day for free!
you know what, i’ll just post it here! the point is to keep it broad, this could be sent anytime because you felt like it. hope
it helps! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
can you send me a message? i tried to send you one but it won’t let me
here is the substack link for an easier read if you like open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
consider me on the picket line in LA jan 30th! ✊ and also here are some things i think we should consider moving forward ❤️
I just wrote to my sisters about a letter I’m writing to my daughter about stopping breastfeeding and I wonder if I would be this dramatic if my life wasn’t so dramatic. I bet I would. I’m grateful I’m not in another timeline making a romantic substack about my matcha latte routine.
Every one of these announcements reads to me as "we don't have enough people and supplies to occupy more than one city at a time"
bringing my 2 year old, she’ll love it
because connecting w/ people who do that work is the only thing i can imagine will help.
was up all night because my husband is sick. i’m infuriated by ice murdering another person (important to remember Renee Good is by no means the first and won’t be the last). i’m exhausted. so, going to volunteer today w/ mutual aid.
yes i put this on two platforms with the same typo because i wrote it as i thought it and then copy pasted it. its the level of thought and respect social media posting should get
sitting on the couch listening to my husband fight for his life to read our 2 year old cinderella while she talks over everything word and i can’t help but think it’s perfect karma for his work as a podcaster.
Happy New Year! May your connection to the greater mushroom feel strong! open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
i love how regular grocery shopping is like buying food at a theme park level expensive now. capitalism works so good.
my daughter is trying to put her hair clips on her dad just now and she says, no joke “primping is so hard” i don’t know where she learned that word. but she’s not wrong, primping ain’t easy.
i was about to be stressed this morning and then i remembered it was because of, checks notes, “last minute poetry edits for a podcast” i couldn’t bring myself to take something so made up seriously
my daughter keeps embarrassing me by asking “who’s that? what’s their name?” so loudly the other person hears. how am i supposed to remember every single classmate’s parents’ name? or that one cousin i see every 7 years?
the thing is he doesn’t keep anything! he just throws it into the distance for dora to find
this is amazing!