how tf💫 did humans not go extinct 🧬🦖 (a christmas special) 🎅🏽🎄✨
it’s christmas eve 🎁🎅🏽
—
i am actively praying💫,
my kid falls asleep
🙏 please
🙏 please
🙏 please
…fall asleep
👶🏼😴🌙
not because
i want silence 🤫
nah—
but because
i need
thirty uninterrupted minutes
to finish lying to my child
about elf magic
before my soul
fully exits my fucking body
🎄💫
and like—
yeah, sure—
technically she has
a bedtime routine. 🫶🏻💓
but my toddler??
girl is a benevolent dictator.
sometimes
she blesses me
with 7:30. 🧸😴🛌
sometimes
she chooses chaos
‘til midnight.
🛏️✨🌙
you just never know.
in the meantime:
yo.
i didn’t sleep last night.
again.
like did not
lay down.
🥱➕☕🚫=😩
—
i have mail 💻
i haven’t opened
since the fucking
biden administration. 🇺🇸👴🏻🍦
the laundry
has become
a concept 💨📢
bro.
i have not
washed my face
because my child
is at that age where
👶🏼😠2️⃣✨
//
⭐️ option a:
she stands,
stares,
and screams
while i barricade her away from
whatever adult task
i foolishly believed i could complete
👶🏼😭💥
—
⭐️ option b:
she politely—
but relentlessly—
demands participation
👶🏼☣️⚠️🙅🏼♀️
??
🤗 “oh you’re hanging a shelf?”
cool.
she is now
emotionally invested.💫
😭🍼🧸
—
homie.
i am trying to use a level. 😭
like…
christmas decorations?
lol.
🎁🎄⏳🙂✨
what’s left
of what i’ve got
lives in the garage
like an abandoned dream.
everything happens
only when she decides
she is choosing
peace for the night 😭😤
being all alone as a parent is
so fucked up
🏃💨🤪
💥 it is overwhelming
💥 it is exhausting
💥 it is carrying a tiny civilization on your back
while people look you in the face and say
🗣️ “no one has to help you”
and i’m like
damn
is this how
the human species survived
or are we
just speed-running into
being feral individualist trash✨
⛵️🗺️👨🏽🔬
because
the shock isn’t
that it’s hard
nah.
the shock is
that i really thought
they’d be there
🦎🧬🦖
like…
my family
in real life
i thought
when i had this baby—
at least
my mom
and my stepdad
would come through
🦠🧬🦖💥
they didn’t
my kid was
🔥 a burden
🔥 a stressor
🔥 an inconvenience to their schedules
but somehow
they still want
the right to proximity 🥺
despite whatever bullshit
they’re pulling this decade.
✨💫🥰
so it’s just us
and honestly?
i don’t remember
it ever feeling
like it was supposed to anyway💫
🧬✌🏼️
✨ no matter how hard i tried
✨ no matter how good i was
✨ no matter how much i carried
so fuck it.
now?
🕯️just me
🕯️my kid
🕯️our sammi dog,
the half-hung shelf
the santa magic done in secret
at the edge of fucking collapse
🎄😴📉
💀✨
—
merry christmas 🕊️✨
from the women
holding the world together
with no goddamn witnesses
🎄🖤
