#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

[lilybug-02]

Explaining that this mountain of a creature is a juvenile. pt 2

Bug Fact: Cucubanos are a type of Click Beetle native to the island of Puerto Rico. They can emit light from their thorax and two top “headlights”. Pictures Below

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[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:

[weaselmcdiesel]

work for class :p

[luyo-mi]

🐙❤️

[clawmarks]

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

[trasho-pando2011]

[froqpi-art]

mash! mash! mash!

[cosmic--static]

sleepover

[calcium-chan]

the boys play magic the gathering.

characters belong to xxacidnekoxx btw, very cool and epic

[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 )