I was already shaky from lack of sleep, and now I’m extra shaky from the horrible tantrum. I had to call TCG to come home and help me calm her, and I’m feeling like the worst parent ever.

As much as I am disgusted over Florida, and the huge number of disappeared mail-in ballots, and Miami Cubans, I am delighted for my Omaha family who are happy.

{{{sj}}} You're emphatically not the worst. She's a challenging little teacup, and if you are low on spoons that is more understandable now than ever.

A bunch of my customers are having tantrums too. Everyone is miserable.

But she was just the sweetest calmest baby ever, and I can’t help thinking I made her this way.

Oh sj, I’m sorry.

but at least I'm actively working to prevent election misinformation from spreading online.

Thank you, shrift.

I mostly disconnected last night and I'm only sporadically looking at results today. I'm trying to keep the anxiety at as low a simmer as possible so that if/when it becomes necessary to release the bees it can be at a strategically useful moment.

sj, my mother used to tell stories about the horrible tantrums I threw as a child. And yet, here I am - weird, but non-tantrum-throwing. I very much doubt it has anything to do with how you're raising her, unless you want to consider that she feels safe throwing a tantrum with you. (And from what we're seeing, epic tantrums may be preparation for being president.)

Oh, sj. I feel you. Jane was such a sweet, happy, easy baby too, and now she too is capable of throwing epic tantrums (as is her big sis, who was *not* a particularly easy baby)... They are who they are, and also so much changes from one stage to the next. You did not make her this way, I promise! A kid who never throws a fit is probably a kid who never hears "no." She'll be fine, and this too shall pass, but I'm sorry you're having to put up with it now.

I simultaneously want to hit things, bake, go to sleep, start working on the GA runoff.