#joys of parenting

[sunshinebunnie]

(Talking to our 9.5 y.o. the other night and explaining that he’s going to start CCD so he can make his 1st Communion.)

Me: So, you’re gonna start CCD soon…

9.5 y.o.: Why?

Me: well, so you can make your Holy Communion.

9.5 y.o.: What’s that?

Me: Well, it’s a sacrament because you’re Catholic. If you’d stayed in Catholic school, you would’ve already made it.

Husband: yeah, you already have one because you were baptized, but you’re, like, 2 behind.

9.5 y.o.: 🤔🤔

Me: Daddy’s right. Normally by now you would’ve already made Reconciliation and Holy Communion. There are 7 sacraments and Daddy and I have already received 5: baptism, reconciliation, holy communion, confirmation, and holy matrimony because we were married in the church.

Husband: we won’t get the 6th one for awhile because it’s last rites. You get that when you die.

9.5 y.o.: 🤔🤔

Me: we won’t get the last one though. That’s holy orders. Daddy would have to become a priest or I’d have to become a nun to receive that sacrament.

9.5 y.o.: 🤔🤔

9.5 y.o.: so, why don’t you just become a nun for a day so you can get the achievement and then just quit?

Me & husband:

Me & husband: It’s doesn’t….work…like that. They’re not achievements like in a video game….

9.5 y.o.:

9.5 y.o.: but why don’t you just become a nun for one day, get the thing and quit?

Me & husband: 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

9.5 y.o: i don’t want to be Catholic.

[cursesformostoccasions]

Miracles

[ungiorno-nellavita]

Thankful Tuesday: Heartwarming Moments of Parenthood

Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃 Hope you all had a wonderful one. 😊 We had another great year of celebrating Halloween with our little one. She had so much fun trick-or-treating with her cousin. We went around their neighborhood and both of them got a pretty good stash just like last year. 🥰 It was a joy watching them walk around holding hands and helping each other. It was so cute! 😍 They played…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

oh hey! i was reading a fic the other day where Wangji was once misspelled as Wangu. which leads me to: MDZS Pingu-style??? noot noot!

Do you think love can bloom on the sea ice?

[swottydoodler]

Swotty's DH headcanon no.4:

The Malfoy line has a couple of differing curses.

1. Being able to produce only one son in a lifetime (because of something that happened hundreds of years ago) to prevent any bastards. Draco having a kid with Hermione somehow broke that because his blood disowned him for procreating with someone of Muggle decent—this one was placed by a scorned Malfoy wife.

2. The kids having the signature Malfoy hair and eyes as to know if the wives have bedded another man—done by some Malfoy patriarch along the beginning of the branch.

[kikker-oma]

Fan Joy July - Day 15

@bokettochild wrote this AMAZING piece called The Broken Promise and y'all.

I cannot get over it. I may be slightly biased (I'm not, it IS that good) because I requested Wars and Wind for this Febuwhump prompt, BUT OMG DID KETTO DELIVER!!!!! AAHHHHHH

READ IT

READ IT PLEASE!!

[strayswolf]

When Duke is overwhelmed, he flashes to Bruce—kind, parental Bruce, not Batman—to help him calm down and reorganize his thoughts to get himself back in the game and find a way out of a bad situation. (Also, Duke really just wants his dad. 🥺)

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, Season Three, Ep. 118, One Bad Day Part II

[cubbihue]

Does Mr. Turner like rubbing his “son’s” successful career in Dinkleberg’s face??

He does! He brags about Timmy's success to every person within the neighborhood's vicinity. Mr. Turner loves how successful his son is! It really secures his reputation at the neighborhood HOA meetings they host at their house.

Timmy's worked very hard to gain more successes than failures. The more successful he is, the greater his family's social standing!! And the less he gets to overhear his dad ranting to the neighborhood about his failures.

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[starnerve-fanpage]

Fear gave Anxiety his teddy bear🥹

[somedecrepitcryptid]

Eepy

[angeltheveil]

if we get new music i'll draw funpoison yuri making out sloppy

[arthursfuckinghat]

You know, whenever I see the discussions around Jack Marston possibly getting drafted in world war one, I can't help but physically ache at the thought of it.

Jack Marston, born into a gang that honoured freedom above everything, forced to sacrifice everything he has left for war.

Jack Marston, a boy who read about knights and soldiers, now forced to become one in another fight he never asked for.

Jack Marston, raised to be away from a life of violence, but now the world has found a way to drag him back in.

No matter what happens, Jack would have to face a really tragic dilemma. Does he go to war and sacrifice the legacy of freedom he was raised with? The life his family died for? Or refuse and be labeled a criminal, putting his parents to shame and repeating the same cycle his father went through?

It just tragically mirrors the struggle he’s always had - trying to find his own identity outside the legacy of John Marston, and the violence that came with it. But he's being pulled back in, no matter what he chooses.

He was never made for the violence that shaped his parents' life.

[dogboyklug]

the woes of parenting

[senseearly]

For a moment, imagine yourself in Mithrun's brother shoes.

Your brother - stronger, prettier, more charismatic, but also distrustful and disdainful of everyone especially you - is to be sent to the Canaries. It is the rule, it is the duty of all noble houses. But you know what goes on there, Mithrun knows what happens there. Yet you see him off, bidding a temporary farewell as you do, because someone from the House has to go and it won't be definitely you. Mithrun knows this, you know this. And you wonder, very briefly, if Mithrun hates you now more than he does already.

Your brother - powerful, agile, a good soldier just as he is as an heir, if he could only be an heir - suddenly disappears. The unit he belonged to suddenly disappeared. And you're speechless because - how? why? No one wants to answer you; they will instead try to bring back a body, they promise to you. But that is not what you want. You grieve for your brother. but your own family doesn't grieve with you. Wasn't Mithrun family too?

Then you found out: MIthrun is alive.

Your brother - now weak, despondent, his eyes always looking for something that is not here nor there - is to be sent home where people can take care of him. It is not your first choice, you want him home. But he is - sick. Not quite there. He needs someone who can look after him and you look at yourself - your gait, your constitution - and you know it can't be you. So, you follow the advice of your family and pour out all your resources to find him the best of healers and caretakers. You ask yourself, almost daily, if Mithrun would ever return to who he once was.

Your brother - strong, pretty, uninterested of anything and anyone else aside from what he calls 'the demon' - is now better. He can walk on his own now, eats without throwing up on himself. The color on his skin is back and the scars of his injuries have faded into thick bumps and discolored skin. But he still isn't quite there; still needs help and probably will for the rest of his life. And you can live with that. You can provide that. Just as long as he comes home.

But doesn't. Your brother - now a husk of his former self, and you hate thinking of him that way, but you can't help yourself, the Mithrun you knew is gone - runs straight back to the Canaries. His mission is not over, he says. He doesn't care how long it takes, he says. And you see him off, again, because someone from the House has to go and it still can't be you. Mithrun knows this, you know this, and you can't help but wish, very briefly, if things would've been different if you went instead of him.

[leo-kinnie]

DO NOT SEND THE TEENAGER TO STATEN ISLAND HE WONT SURVIVE !!!!! (Part 9 of bad spy x og au!!!)

AU Masterpost

[skepticismisokay]

Who else saw inside out 2 anyways GUYS FEARXIETY I LOVE THEM ME WHEN FEARXIETY GUYS Fearxiety art dump cuz they canon my parents

They changed my life for the better😍💥