Tea:

I sent an e-mail to the writer of the SB mom blog this morning just to thank her for writing it, and I received a very nice response this evening. Reading her story makes me very happy and more hopefully than I have felt about the future in a while.

In unrelated news, I worked myself up into quite an anxiety attack tonight by overdoing it with errands for the new place and Mother's Day shopping. I was compensating for doing too much by drinking too much caffeine which is a good recipe for an anxiety attack. The good news is I now have a new shower curtain, new bathroom accessories, and new curtains.

Hey Tep, Daisy, Brenda...Next time you're in SF we're going here.

Oh YEAH we are!

My child is a dork: [link]

Plei, it was inescapable that any offspring you had would be a dork.

(You know I mean that as a compliment, right?)

That means I should eat them myself, rather than inflicting mangled cupcakes on my friends, right?

Mangling causes the calories to leak out.

I was compensating for doing too much by drinking too much caffeine which is a good recipe for an anxiety attack.

Eee. I did that last week. I know not to, and yet some days it feels like I can't avoid it.

I ate two mangled cupcakes, put one in my lunchbox for tomorrow, and the rest in a container to bring in to the office to share tomorrow. Lunch for tomorrow is leftover soup, some bread to dip in it, a cupcake, and strawberries. Maybe I'll add some carrot sticks. (I'm trying to get back in the habit of bringing my lunch rather than buying it. I calculated what I'm spending on lunches, and it's kind of ridiculous.)

Man punches camel at 6 Flags.

t packs bags, catches plane to Vallejo

t finds asshole, punches him repeatedly while spitting on him

Asscake.

The cupcakes are Mexican hot chocolate flavored,

ooh, sounds good. I'm assuming deep chocolate, cinnamon spicy goodness?

food got expensive

I know! I went out to get a pound of butter, and the good stuff was $4.69! FIVE GODDAMNED DOLLARS for butter. But, I'm making pie crust, so good butter is important.

ooh, sounds good. I'm assuming deep chocolate, cinnamon spicy goodness?

Yep. Chocolate and cinnamon, with a bit of cayenne, though you can't really taste that. And the batter also has coconut milk, flax seeds, and almond meal, which gives it a kind of nutty undertone. Powdered sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on top, because I hate making frosting.

I realize I am coming late to the conversation, but as a parent of a cross dressing boy who loves to pretend he's a girl just as much as he loves to play with rockets, the NPR story totally pinged me. The mom saying so plaintively "He still really struggles around pink." So let him have his pink! WTF is wrong with people?!? And as for the other kid, MAYBE he's transgendered, but maybe he's just a little boy who likes dolls and dresses. Why make him choose at age 6 between having those things and being a boy?

Okay so Sunday Isaac wore a dress for pretty much the whole day. Wore it to the store and everything. He and his sister were playing that she was a friend of theirs, Sophie, and he was Frances. If at that moment I had asked him if he was a boy or a girl, his answer would have been girl. My attitude is he has his whole life to be a boy, why force the issue right now?

MAYBE he's transgendered, but maybe he's just a little boy who likes dolls and dresses. Why make him choose at age 6 between having those things and being a boy?

Exactly. Honestly, until you start talking about puberty and hormones, nothing is irreversible. Let the kid do whatever, they'll change their mind or they won't.

I played with my brother's toys and dressed up as Darth Vader for Halloween all the time. So glad Mom didn't have a gender panic over it!(My dad actually might have...he's constantly hitting both Bro and me with "So, uh, if there is any thing you want to tell me...") In my case, he might get partial credit, but actually I think we are both gun-shy as hell, plus being Introvert Spawn, we don't have, you know,mad game to spread around.