The Skeptical Witch

08/30/2025

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08/30/2025

It’s the end of August, and I’m freezing right now.

And I’m only a little bit sorry about the fact that it makes me feel happy.

08/29/2025

Fall, my favorite season, the one that out of all the seasons always stirs something in me. But it doesn’t offer easy comfort - it’s raw and honest and full of reminders.

A reminder that nothing stays.

A reminder that another year is coming to a close.

The stillness of autumn acts, in a way, as a mirror held up in the golden light, asking what you’ve done with your time. The goals you swore you’d chase, the promises you’ve made to yourself.. all of it feels that much closer now.

All those goals and promises… They watch. And they wait for you to acknowledge them.

You start to take more notice in your own story; the chapters you didn’t write, the things you didn’t say, the life you imagined that got quietly left behind. There’s a melancholy in the air that sharpens the edges of regret - not in a cruel way, but in a way that insists on honesty.

But many times, honesty is exactly what is needed.

Fall. A season that doesn’t hide the truth, but wraps it in gold and tell you, “So maybe you’ve missed some things. But the story isn’t over yet.”

08/28/2025

I have always been pretty lax with mealtimes for my kids. As babies, they get their food and some utensils and they figure it out, no matter how big a mess they make.

As they get older, they can eat when they’re hungry. They don’t always have to eat in the kitchen or dining room. A lot of the time the TV is on. I don’t force any kind of family time that’s linked to food. Sometimes breakfast is eggs and toast, sometimes it’s leftover pasta, sometimes broccoli and rice. There’s no such thing as food that is only breakfast food (or any other meal) in my house. There’s been plenty of times I make separate meals for each kid in my house.

My children can form their own relationship with food and meals.

08/27/2025

So glad America came together to correct this so very important wrong 👍🏻🙄

08/24/2025

When you start cooking dinner and realize you ran out of onions AND garlic and need to dig out the “powders”..

08/19/2025

dO uR rEsUrCh!!!1!11!!

ALT TEXT: a text meme from the page Scientia Logicae - The Science of Logic. It reads:

It's strange how conspiracy theorists generally believe there's tremendous intervention by government or other authorities to "cover up the truth", while also believing that "the truth" is easily exposed by any YouTube video with a title along the lines of "The truth exposed!"

08/19/2025

I am an entirely different person with an entirely different life than 20 years ago. So why did I dream all night of someone I spent my entire adolescence in love with and haven’t seen or spoken to in over two decades?

Something in my heart hurts.

08/19/2025

If you’re one of those people who thinks that giving affection to an actual child is “spoiling” them, please just see yourself out of my life.

“You’re making him too attached.”

That’s what they say when they see us like this.
As if closeness is a bad thing.
As if the goal is to raise kids who don’t run to you, who don’t light up when you walk into the room.

But here’s the truth one day he won’t need me like this.
One day he won’t reach out to hold my face in his tiny hands.
One day these bedtime cuddles will be just a memory.

So if “too attached” means he feels safe, loved, and absolutely sure that his mama is his home…
then I’ll take it.
Every single time

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