Elizabeth of the Library
Library management, Mom, Alaskan,
I talk about that plus crafts, knitting, and books
- Reposted by Elizabeth of the LibraryIt should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
- We have been showing our daughters Hamilton. 8 year old is struggling with the fiction versus non fiction line. She has lots of great questions “How long was George Washington President?” And after sadly learning the founding fathers didn’t rap, “how much of it did they sing in real life?”
- Raising warrior women.
- Sleeping in while your kids are up and able to get their own Saturday breakfast is lovely. Being up first and having peace with your cat and coffee and book is also lovely.
- Helping my kiddo with math. She’s in the advanced class and doing amazing. I’m not positive I’m going to pass as my advice has led her astray a time or two.
- Reposted by Elizabeth of the Library"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
- Used a sharpie to write my mom’s phone number on my arm and headed down to the protest.
- Happy ADHD Saturday. Started by folding laundry Realized my drawers won’t hold my clothes and half of them don’t fit. Emptied out all my drawers to sort them. The movie I put on to watch is about to end and I’m losing all motivation for this project.
- We explained the concept of Rick Rolling to our 8 year old and played Never Gonna Let You Down for her. She legitimately fell in love with the song and plays it all the time now.
- I’m late to the Heated Rivalry show. Just finished episode 2. Admittedly know nothing about Hockey. Is it early for them to be team captains so early in their career? I thought it was a thing for older players.
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- Watched Jurassic Park with the girls. They were amazed to recognize The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) in it. They’re huge Wicked fans. “But how did they make him look so young?” Well they did it by making the movie when he was 30 years younger.
- Sitting in the pickup line to get kiddo and carpool kids after middle school sports. It’s -9. Maybe 1/4th of the middle schoolers are in coats.
- I can not get the vinyl to transfer. I’m a very mediocre cricut crafter.
- Finished a romance and started reading Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. I had to look up a word (votary) in the first sentence.
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- Ambivert married to an extrovert. My husband has reminded me no less than four times that we are invited to an ugly holiday sweater party tonight. He’s so happy to go alone but doesn’t want me to feel left out. I’m good babe. We have done four other holiday activities today. I’ll stay with the kids
- Weird that it is another end of November earthquake. Only a few days shy of the 2018 anniversary. Thanksgiving reminder: if the earth is shaking, you should be baking.
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- 6.0 and 9 miles west of susitna, probably 20 miles from us.
- Holy cow! That was a big earthquake!
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- Apple Music keeps trying to suggest new Christmas songs to me. And I think the algorithm fundamentally misunderstands what I want from Holiday Music.
- Drove oldest and her friends to a before school club. Highly recommend starting your day singing along to Christmas music with a car full of middle school girls.
- The third graders still like their labubus but if you’re tracking trends, they’re quite into tabasquishy toys right now.
- I love the snow plow names. My favorite one is “Sorry Kids”. My kids were sad at how well they worked because there was school today! anchorage-street-maintenance-muniorg.hub.arcgis.com/pages/snow-p...
- If it legitimately keeps snowing until 6am as my weather all predicts, my children may not have school tomorrow.
- First real snow. Be safe out there Anchorage.
- Used my lunch break to go to Girl Scout office. Their internet was down and the GCI guys showed up to fix it pretty sure they were also about to buy some cookies. They were so disappointed to find no cookies for sale.
- One of my favorite annual work tasks is brainstorming ideas for the bingo cards for our Winter Reading Challenge for adults. My suggestions this year include: A book you were assigned to read in school A book with a food in the title Time travel book Novella We will see if my prompts make the board
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- I don’t care which we keep, but if we could stop the changing, I’d be really happy. End daylight savings time.
- “I protect the family”, she mutters as she does open enrollment, selecting health insurance and life insurance plans.
- Mama and two baby moose taking a mid morning nap.
- Big day for third grade Bible Study. They’re learning about the prophets and Isaiah starts on page 767 in their Bibles. SIX—SEVEN
- Earthquake! Little bitty shaker
- Just texted my husband an agenda for our conversation after the kids go to bed because I have THINGS to tell him. Texted my siblings an agenda for a group phone call. I’m not the chillest person to love but I get you the info you need.
- I made it through my late 30s without ever developing a celebrity obsession. Then I parented and led a library through a pandemic, about a dozen crisis local and national, and more unprecedented events than I can count. I get to just enjoy the Taylor Swift fandom lifestyle.
- Our kiddo and her innocence
- My fifth grader just asked me if when I was a kid, I had ever wanted to do something big and important when I grew up. Excuse me. What I do is big and important. Not cover of Time Magazine big and important. But changing my city and improving the daily lives of my community important.
- Reposted by Elizabeth of the LibraryThe new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.
- Every marriage needs two people. The extrovert talking to every neighbor at the block party. The introvert reading on her phone while waiting in the food line.
- I went on vacation with my siblings. I left my husband unattended for a week. First thing he told me when I got back? “I’ve been studying and I can pass my ham radio test to get my license”
- Went to grab my (physical) book for lunch time reading and accidentally pulled out the book mark. Fortunately I’m obsessive about marking my progress daily on StoryGraph.
- One of my 7 year old’s vocab/spelling words was rampart. Had a nice conversation about why Anchorage doesn’t have ramparts (defensive walls) and how that’s probably okay. But it would be cool.
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- My 7 year old, “it’s not lying. It’s just sometimes I don’t listen to questions and just say yes”
