You know given how many times I say “This is a dog!” in a day about my dog, I can only imagine what I’ll be like when I have kids. I may end up stuck in a permanent loop of “THIS IS A DOG!” “THIS IS A BABY!” announced in a very excited tone, round the clock, until I die of exhaustion.

Well after a week or so in Western Ma

I’m home and it’s good and I’m pretty happy.

D’s little cousin just sent me a picture of the stiletto gumboot she just drew in art class. She’s adorbs.

I had a tough relationship with my mom growing up, but like talking to her as an adult, she’s actually such a super fucking funny, cool lady… My mom’s awesome to hang out with as a person but being her kid is tough.

I Just Still Love The Fact

That my parents have three children and not one single one of them is straight.

Well I made D’s little cousin look like she belongs on toddlers and tiaras

She’s overjoyed

My Ultra Snarky Gay Brother

Wants to go to seminary, to be an Episcopal priest because they have the elaborate theology he likes (he likes this medieval conception of god as the point where you can no longer follow a chain of logic.) but will let him keep his boyfriend.

He’s a freaky RISD grad.

He’ll be either the best vicar in the world or the fucking worst

My Family Has Some Weird Stories

The time my mom accidentally married the son of a Nigerian diplomat and had to get the college chaplain fired

The time grandma smuggled weed over the Mexican border under her pregnancy clothes in the 60s

The great great grandad nearly died in a trench regretting not finishing a can of corned beef.

The time my parents were offered a job working for the CIA

Great Grandma’s brother chopping half her thumb off while chopping wood.

The time the Texan branch of my dad’s family owned that gay bar

The time great grandma disowned grandma for marrying grandpa because he’d been married before

The time Janis Joplin threw rocks at Grandma

The time the Canadian police brought a murderer to other Grandma’s house to weather a blizzard

The time Abraham Lincoln lost our libel suit.

The time great great great great Grandpa killed a bear with a knife when he was 83

My mom is really cute, also I accidentally put her in my phone as mon and thought it was funny so I kept it

Yeah, I’m weirdly “home, family, babies” for a far lefty.

But honestly, home, family, babies aren’t conservative or reactionary, reactionationaries are the ones who want to leave children starving, families emotionally isolated and only acknowledged if they take a certain form, and drive people from their homes all while claiming these are the things they stand for and wish to protect.