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[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Playing Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library, and I had no idea how enthralling and motivating I could find placing 3,072 individual books on shelves by category and in set order.

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

5-year-old came home from a Sacraments-themed VBS today with a vial of holy water - he said his teacher told him to "bless everything" with it, so now he's asking to baptize his and his siblings' stuffed animals ... 😅👍🏻💜 I mean, they do attend mass with us regularly, so ...

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Had it not been for Joseph of the Ocular Fibre, long ago wouldst I have been wed. Whence camest thou, Joseph, and whence hast thou gone? I ask again, Joseph, from whence thou came - thou of the clothly visage?

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PS Today is a really good day so far, we're chilling. These sentiments are mostly PTSD from yesterday, which was a Very Bad Day™️

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Before you have kids, they say, "It's different when it's your own kids," as though your own are somehow easier ... but that is NOT my experience. How did I manage a classroom with 12 of other people's two-year-olds, but I can't manage ONE two-year-old that belongs to me? 😅👍🏻

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Send help lol 😆 Two under two is insane at any age, but we almost 40 over here 😵‍💫 I don't have energy for this!

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

5yo: "Mama, if you can buy me a 21x21 for my 17th birthday, that will make me so happy ... cause ... I am a cube-ing man!"

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Thankful that our rental company has been absolutely on the ball with repairs, at least 😆👍🏻

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Since moving in less than a month ago, we've had a broken water heater, a leaky toilet, and THREE power outages - two within the last two days ... including right now lol 🙃

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Watched Hoppers a few times, and now my 5-year-old is saying things like, "Mama, I think Nature is speaking to me."

[Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun]

Out of the darkness of my life,
so much frustrated,
I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:
the Blessed Sacrament. . . .
There you will find romance,
glory, honour, fidelity,
and the true way
of all your loves on earth.
-J.R.R. Tolkien

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I love that practically no one I know follows me on Twitter, so I can just come here and scream into the void sometimes, and it feels nice.

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Can you tell Mass was hard this morning? That I'm sitting in my car with the babies while William finishes the service with the oldest, who openly wept and pleaded not to be made to leave when the littles became uncontrollable. There's such an easy solution to this, smh.

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"Have more babies, y'all!! ... but ... don't expect us to offer ANY help with them or programming for them until they're like at least 5." Great, yes, thank you. Never realized before what a rare and consequential blessing it was to have a nursery readily available.

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

I am once again BEGGING Catholic churches to offer nursery services for toddlers 😭🙏🏻 Two under two during mass with an autistic 5 year old in tow is just nearly impossible.

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

every day of my life rn

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Yesterday I spent 40 minutes trying to get the baby to sleep.

Rocking.

Singing.

Walking.

Praying.

At last, success.

The child closed his eyes.

Peace returned to the castle.

The birds sang.

The wind was gentle.

The gods smiled upon us.

I sat down.

The floorboard squeaked.

The baby woke up.

The gods laughed.

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

Trying to figure out how on earth you find babysitters in a new town where you don't know anyone yet lol 😆 ... and your kids are 1, 2, and 5 ... 😅

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

TWELVE YEARS 💜✨️

[ShyViolet | 💜🐼🐸🍓🩵 @0ShyViolet0]

The 5 year old has recently become obsessed with music videos and is forcing us to relive all the millennial meme songs - it's just pen pineapple apple pen over and over 😅🖊🍍🍎🖊

[Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun]

The Spirit comes
with the tenderness
of a true friend
and protector
to save,
to heal,
to teach,
to counsel,
to strengthen,
to console.
-St. Cyril of Jerusalem