#children are magic

[mommapaytana]

Bedtime - my favorite time of day

When Pregnant Me told people I was going to quit my tech job to stay at home with the baby, the responses from those who knew me well weren't surprising.

"You'll be bored and back in no time!"

"It's not as fulfilling as you think it will be."

"You're going to really miss talking to adults. Work is an escape from your kid!"

Quite a few people told me to thank my husband which I can appreciate and agree with.

Pregnancy hormones were raging when I made this decision and I fully expected myself to miss corporate life by the time the fourth trimester was over. Seeing reddit posts and pinterest blogs about how un-glamorous and downright hard being a SAHM is just confirmed my bias.

So tell me why

I am more fulfilled now than I ever was at any job (& I have had jobs I LOVED). Caring for this baby - MY baby - sparks creativity, fuels my drive, and ushers in buckets full of joy multiple times a day.

I am shocked. I didn't expect this to be for me. If this job was a meal, pouring into this baby is the main dish that gives me purpose. Side dishes include finding ways to save money, all the chores, and having an immaculate, functional home basically 24/7. I love that I have the flexibility to support my husband in his career and his hobbies and have time to visit my grandmother in her old age.

Friends and family have checked in to see how I'm getting on and laugh when I tell them bedtime is my favorite time of day. Of course I tell them I love being home and I feel incredibly fortunate for the opportunity to do so, but how can I explain the sheer magic of my day? My baby is noticing more, playing more, and developing so rapidly that I look forward to bedtime because I know he still fits in my arms. My embrace is still his safe space where he gets the most peaceful sleep. My heart expands every time he peaks an eye open and smiles to check that I'm still holding him.

I just wanted to throw this into the internet for the person that's thinking about quitting corporate to raise children and reading what I was reading and hearing what I was hearing.

Why did no one tell me staying at home would make me magic?

[shiftythrifting]

My Little Pony book with a death spell inside. Yes, it most definitely came home with me

[weaselmcdiesel]

work for class :p

[luyo-mi]

🐙❤️

[glacias-transformers-blog]

Commission post

I am not doing so well financially - I am currently sleeping on the floor since my bed broke. Please consider commissioning me.

payment: p*ypal

will do: OC, canon, nsfw

won't do: illegal stuff, hateful stuff, etc

price depends heavily on the art style

examples:

[clawmarks]

Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll, Charles Robinson, ill. - 1918 - via Internet Archive

[some-pers0n]

[dryemiddi]

Every time I think about the Tree of Feelings I can't help but be a little underwhelmed at how the most popular depictions of it is just. the tree. on a hill. surrounded by miles of nothing but grass and maybe a few houses in the distance.

Yeah, no thanks. I'll just go with my own interpretation on this one

[coatl-cuddles]

I think it would be very cool if Hopeful Steward's cape laid flat like ribbons when calm, but fluttered out and acted like dragon fly wings when flying because they look lame as hell otherwise

[ryllen]

" so promise me you'll be born & grow healthily in the future "

( sequel x before she got sent home to her time )

[mommapaytana]

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

[froqpi-art]

mash! mash! mash!

[hamsterdads]

isolated and hellbent <3

collab between me and @starrytrees

[turtleblogatlast]

Been thinking about how Donnie and Leo’s insecurities juxtapose each other.

Donnie is insecure about his place in the family, but confident in who he is outside of it.

Leo is secure about being a part of the family, but thinks he’s nothing outside of it.

I think it’s a very interesting comparison that reflects their respective personalities, Donnie’s “Will all I have to offer be enough?” versus Leo’s “Do I even have anything else to offer?”

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 183

There’s a loud snarling noise outside the window. 

Not that Jazz is concerned. She’s just also trying to study for med school and would appreciate some quiet. And preferred her brother not contracting rabies whenever he tried to square off with the local rogue or three who tried to use the alley. 

As he had put it, it was his alley, he’d claimed it for tinkering. Though perhaps she should maybe ask him to quiet down on his insisted territorialism, even if she understood it. She would also probably maul someone if they tried to enter their apartment flat. It came with the territory of being ecto contaminated, or as the rest of them were now calling it, with being a liminal. 

Once the more draconic aspects started to emerge well, one wasn’t just contaminated anymore after all. Hence the whole school-worth of them leaving Amity while all their parents waged war against the guys in white. Last she heard it was going well. 

Which meant she could focus on her studies as soon as- okay it wouldn’t be quiet, it seems the rest of the kids joined in on mauling the poor idiot who tried to steal their things from the alley. Damn…