Thin crust, pesto instead of tomato sauce, frrsh figs drizzled with.balsamic, feta cheese, arugula OR Little C’s pepperoni. There is no in between.

I’ll give it a go for sure. Thanks

Any tips on how to avoid salad getting soggy? I have to meal prep most of my food and soggy veggies are my nemesis.

I think I might try this. It sounds useful in so many ways.

Galvarino! The fiercest Mapuche warrior. He was captured by the spaniards at the Lagunillas battle, then they proceeded to mutilate him by cutting off both his hands and released him back to his people. There he planned his vengeance against spaniard occupation and became their leader. He headed the Millarapue battle with two machetes tied around where his hands had once been. Talk about badass! He was captured and executed quickly but remained a rebel icon forever.

My mother not loving me and saying it to me outloud at an early age. It was a very heavy burden no child should ever carry. Also she would put on a show for other people going on and on about how much she loved her kids and how she loved being a mom while continuing the abuse behind closed doors. It was maddening.

Taking myself to therapy as a young adult so I could heal, saved my life.

Oh that sounds like a dream!

Weighted blanket for the win!

I workout at home because I am too much of a germaphobe to go to a regular gym but also too self conscious about how I look while exercising lol BUT reading your comment made me glad there are other people out there pushing themselves to do better and not feeling judged for it.

Can relate to the rap video! I like old school stuff mostly but that big dawgs tune is fire.

Oh I hope it’ll work out for you eventually because it will, literally, change the way you go through life ❤️

Trying to stick to my feeding plan as much as I can. It gets difficult at times so every day I can check that box, I feel happy.

Using heavier weights for my workouts. It makes me feel great and so powerful to help my body fight stored trauma.

Using my words to be able to say what I want to say.

Looking this up like right now!

In this same category is Cathedral of the sea by Ildefonso Falcones. It is a great book and one of my favorites! Not a one day read for sure.

Toni Collette or Kathy Bates both horror queens and monarchs of my heart.

Hello fellow non life goal setter! Having that life goal mentality fucked me up for years, went to therapy and learned to live in the present while trying not to obsess about the future. So now little things are what keeps me going: Getting to yoga class, fixing a nice plate of food if I feel like it, petting my dogs, crocheting so I feel thr burden of the stuff that has to get done a little less.

I could not put it down! So yesterday was a dry toast kinda dinner around here until momma was done with her reading lol.

IKR?! All that messed up sh1t he did to his body and some people don’t live to tell the tale. It was a sad thing to learn how the girl from Hole died as I had no idea (and I grew up in the nineties!)

Just finished it. What a great read! So gritty and riveting. The guy had a flare for storytelling.

Just downloaded it to add it to my ever growing list of books. Also, I think t will help entertain me for a while. Thanks for the sugesstion!

First I want to make clear that it is not an option for everybody and I understand what a huge privilege it is to be able to do this in our terms. For some families/ kids, school is/ can be beneficial.

I worked in schools for many years as did my SO, we did our best and had rewards and dissapointments alike and when we decided to start a family we knew we wanted different for our children.

It was a very unpopular opinion to not send our offspring to regular school, both our families were strongly against it and that filled us with doubt at first since we had never heard of anyone doing it. But we kept strong knowing the things we didn’t want and understand that people can be afraid of new things.

It was also hard to find a community that had what we wanted: Non religious, science based, Non violent parenting. We found out the hard way that some families use unschool/homeschool as an excuse to abuse their children in horrific ways.

Socializing was another concern at first, but we sorted out easily IMO with play groups and whatever classes they needed/wanted. Our rule was to choose one class for fun and one for a must so there has been a high rotation over the years: Swimming, gymnastics, theatre, painting,scuba diving, sculpting, horse backriding, yoga, ballet, judo,violin,karate,piano,etc. Last year kid started attending Scouts meetings and is loving it so far.

For academic learning we let kid choose whatever they feel like learning and tailor lessons around the whole thing: One time for biology, for example, when insects were the interest, we went ahead and volunteered at the local botanical garden and got one on one time wih an enthomologist who taught us many interesting things. Me and my SO both have Phd degrees in our areas and that has helped too in a way.

This way of learning has worked beautifully! Kid is eager to learn different kinds of stuff and has passed the obligatory governement evaluations with flying colors, not that we care about grades, but for some people those are super important.

As far as making them do this, we don’t. School is always on the table if they feel inclined to go at any time but so far, we have been school free for years.

The only downside I can see so far is that a lot of content in media is designed/catered to te school experience because that is what most people’s experience growing up looks like so sometimes, especially when they were little, we had to explain what a hallway pass was, for example. This has gotten easier with time and since kid has friends who attend regular school it is not so foreign anymore.

ETA that this choice has not been a walk in the Park at all! Doing it entails much more work than we thought at first and it can be frustrating at times (mostlystuff regarding bureaucracy) , but the benefits surpass the downsides by far. Economically speaking it is also a challenge, some people have the idea that unschooling is cheaper than sending kids off to school. It is not. Emotionally speaking, it can also be a challenge for sure since, as a parent, you have to be always “on”. That is why we have “me” days around here so nobody loses their minds.

Unschooling.

You are in for a treat when the chance comes up. My mom would serve chilaquiles with a side of refried beans, cecina with mexican cream on top, cotija cheese and avocado slices or guacamole.

Are you an eggs or cecina on the side kind of guy?