Mini T-2’s boyfriend came to visit. He’s keeping the spare bedroom JUST like I prepped it! Such a nice young man!
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I’m confused at what I’m looking at here. Are the pillows floating?
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in my day I knew enough to mess up the covers
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There’s a dresser with a shiny top that is reflecting such that it is creating an optical illusion. Took me a second.
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Possibly because he’s not using the bed at all? 
Is that what you’re implying?
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OMG, it’s a dresser! I was trying to figure out if there was a mirror… ok, I see it now, thank you!
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He’s sleeping in MiniT-2’ room. I am trying to be a dad and be funny
I did it back in the day!
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Yes, I got that this is what you were implying. I think we’ve all been there. But yeah, at least make it look like the bed has plausibly been slept in!
My 8 year old was bored the other day and looking for something to do. She opened the veggie drawer, found bell peppers and onions, and declared that she wanted to make dinner. So I taught her how to slice and sauté the veggies. She already knew how to make mac n cheese, and I taught her how to make salad dressing but she did the rest of the salad by herself. And presto, dinner!
She did it again last night too, with less guidance. The salad dressing confused her slightly – she got out oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper, and I had shown her how adding a dab of mustard helps emulsify the vinaigrette. But she couldn’t remember the 5th ingredient and asked where the hummus was.
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My 9yo got a perfect score on his math state testing this year (and in this case, that’s not a 6!).
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time to have “the talk”!
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I posted this earlier but the link broke. Now, it’s been fixed.
This is boss’s daughter (he brags about her to me all the time (video should start at 1:07:50)):
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After almost 20 years living in London, my middle daughter is getting her UK citizenship on October 14. Not sure if it is something to brag about but it was a surprisingly long and expensive process. She will always be 
though.
Her goal was to get EU citizenship but that dream died with Brexit. Two of my grandchildren have German citizenship through their father but no one else in the family is interested in a second citizenship.
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My older son got admitted to his 1st choice medical school for fall 2026 entry. 
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My daughter published the first ever standards for Treatment of Nicotine Use in Adolescents Under 18 Years of Age: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.
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that is 100% cool and interesting.
Youngest daughter has been busting the curve in her philosophy course at uni (no I can’t scale it, someone got a 98). Invited to a luncheon to consider becoming a philosophy major. She said it’s interesting, but I’m staying in the graphic design program, tyvm. I said watch out, they’ll pitch a double major.
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My son scored very very well on his cogAT test this year (they do them in 5th grade in our district). We are still waiting on the full report, but percentile wise he’s in the 99th.
Not that it means anything, and not like I’d be any less proud of him if he scored anything lower. I’m just glad that he’s finding his “thing” (and yeah I’m a little bit relieved that it seems to be math!).
He’s a lot like me, good at memorizing, not so good at nuance. But he loves learning and enjoys applying himself, so I think he will have an easier time in middle and high school than many.
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Younger son participated in a team math competition with 3 other kids from his math class. They were selected as the top of their class in math scores. They competed against several other schools. His team got 1st place in 2 of the 3 categories and 2nd place in the other, and 1st for overall. He was super proud of himself, and I’m of course crazy proud of him, too (with or without the medals and trophy).
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Kids got math and science state test results back, they both did extremely well.
Younger son got the max possible raw score in math for the 3rd consecutive year. He will be very happy to hear that.
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