Buggin' Street Slang

[botias]

Today I got stood up by a potential tenant (hope nothing bad happened to them), had to come up with a more polite way of saying 'baby mamma' for an obituary, fed cookies to solar installers (solar installers the reboot) and now I'm about to go pick up a tub. I think I would like 'baby momma' to feature somewhere in my obit, personally, but I'm weird like that. Tomorrow 8YO becomes a 9YO. I haven't bought anything. I'm a bad baby momma, and the Mister hasn't had the privacy to make the custom T-shirt he designed. Plus, seeds? Still not planted.

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[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I'd never thought there needed to be a more polite way to say baby mama until this post and now I'm intrigued. The deceased is survived by [baby's name here], but he had no real relationship with [baby mama's name here] sounds pretty harsh!

Make birthday coffee cake or have ice cream for breakfast and call it the start of the celebration!

[botias.livejournal.com]

It's true! Especially as the connection between marriage and child-rearing gets ever more tenuous. I ended up ditching an awkward sort of relationship history that had been attempted and just including the baby mammas with the kids without designating which ones he had or hadn't married: 'the deceased is survived by son, Joe, and Joe's mother Jeanette, by daughter Zoe, son Rob, and their mother June.'

I think I might get him a kitten or two. Reckless and unwise gifting is the classic go-to for the guilty parent.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

That works and I hope it works for the kids he's left behind.

Kittens? Oh, man, I would have loved you as a mom *sad face on birthday*

[botias.livejournal.com]

Me too.

*gives you a virtual kitty* I received a litter of kittens for my fourth birthday. There are pics of me with all four of them tucked under my arm, but mom did the sane thing and sent them home with the person they arrived with. I did go to the local big box on the way home tonight and shop, but I couldn't bring myself to get him yet another toy. My first cat was one of my most vivid childhood themes.