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Hey, Long Hair, Lookin'Luscious!

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People like me don't come around too often. Don't lose me. Gabriella 25. Instagram gabby_d00
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Life has been hard. I’m writing this in hopes the friends I haven’t spoken to can see and understand without having to explain and re-explain why I’ve been absent.

I moved out of a toxic household 3 months ago. The plumbing didn’t work half of the outlets didn’t work my friend/ land lord/ roommate decided to move in a manipulative friend with her 3 kids into our 3 bedroom house. Mind you we did have another room mate. Waaaay too many people without a fully functional bathroom. In the mean time i bought a shed to get converted to a tiny home on my boy friends 40 acres back in June and if still isn’t done. I was supposed to move into it by august but clearly that hadn’t happened. I had to get out of that house so I temporarily moved into my boyfriends moms house but I’ve been there since. She was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma. We don’t know how long she has. The next day a fire rolled through our town snd we had to evacuate. I’m so happy I got my dogs out in time before they closed the road. I ran out of gas trying to flee. Spent days traveling between a hotel and the hospital an hour away. Ended up staying in a church. This was the semester I decided to go back to school and it didn’t stop. I had to evacuate from another fire 2 weeks later. All the while taking care of my boyfriends mom. He works 12 hours a day plus he’s emotionally constipated. So for the last 3 plus months i get up at 5 do what needs to be done to help his mom and the house hold. Go work 8+ hours, come home do what needs to be done for his mom and the house hold and do school work then go to sleep to start it again. Then! Because I had to move my stuff out. I moved almost all of the things I own into a shed on the property and it got broken into and they keep trying to break in. My whole life. All my boyfriends tools. Then yesterday I get news that my papa might not make it past 24 hours. I drove over 4 hours to get to him and I write this from his hospital room as he sleeps. He told us he doesn’t want to die here by himself. I’m not ready for him to go. There’s more but I can’t even collect it all. I have several messages from my birthday I haven’t replied to and I’m sorry but I don’t have the mental or emotional capacity or energy to hold up a conversation. I’ve fallen off. I’m sorry. But I hope you understand

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The two year-old is now a solid two and a half. Just now, he was sitting on the couch playing with his pretend flip phone and he frowned and said “for gods sake. My battery is empty.”

The other day at breakfast I asked him if he was going to eat any more of his oatmeal and he said “no, I think I’m just gonna move on with my life.”

Today we were walking along and he asked me “How many Octobers is it today?” I told him it was the 21st. 

He tried a bite of his hot soup at dinner and made a face and said “Mama, my soup is a little too temperature for me.”

Upon being served 1% milk for the first time, instead of his regular 2%: “is this water?”

Me: “no, it’s milk”

Kid: “but are you sure?”

Came up to me the other day, the middle of his pants totally soaked, and said “mama, I’m having a situation called ‘I peed in my pants.’”

I don’t think I even told you guys about the six months he spent saying “fuck” instead of “truck.”

I have to laugh at the folks in the notes claiming this is fake because “no 2-yr old is that advanced”. My guys, I work at a daycare almost exclusively with 2-3 year olds and let me tell you some of the wild shit I heard this last week alone,

“Uhhh, i ASSUME we’re going to the playground soon??” -2.5 year old girl

“[3 year old boy] pushed me because he doesn’t have a manners.” -2 yr old girl

“Did you spill your water?” “No no no no it’s not a concern” -2 yr old boy (while running away, dripping wet)

Kids are hilarious and smarter than you think

If you don’t have a lot of interactions with young children:

  • Kids are smarter than you think
  • Six months makes a really big difference when that is 1/5 of the total time you’ve been alive

All this, and also, they can tell you lots about their favorite things. My 2 year old nephew can tell you all about Star Wars (the 8 movies he’s seen at least) and loves going out of his way to bring up how Anakin was good and bad and good again when he died. Trust me, little kids learn and mimic and reenact all the things they get attached to. Also, he named his first fish Jengo Fett, and all following fish Boba Fett, so juries still out on how much he understands clones.

Kids pick up the language that’s used around and to them. Mannerisms too. They are tiny, efficient mimics and it will come out at the WEIRDEST times. Young kids will ABSOLUTELY say all the stuff listed here.

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bundibird

My cousin was somewhere between two and three, and I’d just arrived at her house, and she’s animatedly telling me a story of some kind, and I listen as I make my way through the house, get to the couch, and kick my shoes off. She stops dead in the middle of her sentence, puts her hands on her hips, levels me with a glare the likes of which I haven’t seen since, and goes, “WHAT are they doing there? Do you think the box at the front door is for DECORATION?”

Her mum, standing in the kitchen and watching all this, was GOBSMACKED. Apparently she said that exact phrase more often than she realised, and her kid had picked it up verbatim and started using it on unsuspecting guests (me).

(I got up and put my shoes in the box at the front door immediately)

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lasrina

My family’s lore includes the time my mother offhandedly said to Cousin’s son–who was maybe five–that Cousin’s wife certainly did have strong opinions about some minor thing, and the kid let out a sigh and said, in the driest and flattest and most world-weary tone you’ve ever heard, “Tell me about it.”

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