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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It is possible the beauty shop healed my soul today.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Ohmygod I was talking to Twin B about his ashy knees and Twin A yelled at him: "You have a Black mama!" ☠️

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

My oldest boy is 8-years-old today!!! 🎉 He asked for a YES day. As you can see, he enjoyed it.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Read in Love: Centering Joy, Justice, and Black Girlhood was a success!

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hi my name is Jessica and my desk is always messy.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Twin B has started calling me sir and it's hilarious. "What are you cooking, sir?" "Sir! I peed on the potty!" "I like your pretty pink dress, sir."

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

One of these days I'm going to answer the "what do you do all day?" question with a series of day-in-the-life video diaries but today is not that day.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

And here I was thinking the most popular posts among my white friends today would be about pumpkin spice lattes.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

My friends are about to take me to brunch to celebrate my birthday and I look cute as hell.

Jessica wearing a green and white tennis outfit and white tennis shoes

Jessica wearing a green and white tennis outfit, white tennis shoes, black and yellow purse, and sunglasses

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Donations for my @donorschoose.bsky.social project are doubled today for my birthday!

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

First day of school - year 16! (And my birthday)!

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Hope I get to see some library friends at AASL in a couple months!

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I really enjoyed Wednesday when I watched it in 2022 but making us wait more than 3 years for an 8-episode second season is diabolical. I don't even wanna be bothered at this point.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey! Hey! I've been working really hard to expand my student romance book club, and this year I'm focusing on accessibility. I'd love for students who need a little more time to read the books to feel comfortable borrowing a book from our permanent collection, and you can help!

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Back to work today! Processing lots of new books and meeting new teachers. I actually really like these early days before everyone gets back because I can get the library in order with minimal interruption.

Jessica sitting in her office in front of a cart full of books

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

10 years ago, we committed ourselves to marriage. This man has loved me in every way, in all my forms. I am beyond grateful he chose to be my husband and the father of our children.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The gardening community is cool because you can randomly post a picture of yourself chillin' in your garden and someone will turn you into a coloring book.

Jessica sitting cross-legged in a chair in the middle path of her raised garden bed

A coloring page of the previous picture titled Kansas City Gardeners: The Coloring Book

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Found a cicada shell on a tomato leaf this morning

Cicada shell hanging upside down on a green leaf

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I got my wisdom teeth out (yes, at my big age) and I am swollen and sad and sleepy.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My flight got cancelled and I'll be in the airport for a billion hours so AMA from now until my thumbs get tired.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

"Have twins," they said. "It'll be fun," they said.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you're at #alaac25 come see our poster presentation in Ballroom A!

Jessica wearing a pink suit standing and laughing in front of large posters

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My husband and I both have a layover in Atlanta today and I was hoping we could meet up and hug and kiss like we're in a Hallmark romcom. Alas, my flight is about to board and his hasn't landed yet.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I found my copy of The Poisonwood Bible from 2002 with my sticky notes still in it. 🙌🏾

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

And weeding let's me buy new titles that are relevant to the school curriculum or what's of interest to my readers. Don't need 10 shelves of books on a topic that hasn't been taught in years and likely won't be added back into the curriculum anytime soon.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Snapdragons are annual flowers but if you've never grown them, you may not know they are prolific re-seeders. These are my volunteers this year from the ones I grew from seeds last year. I had no idea what colors I'd get and I am far from disappointed.

Snapdragons in bloom in a variety of colors

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It's water shoe season at my house.

Water shoes in a variety of sizes and colors

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I don't usually use the term gentle parenting because I think it has developed a negative connotation recently, but I yearn for more Black girls and boys to have gentle childhoods, to have softer lives, fewer struggles. Because why would you "snatch up" a 2-year-old for fussing?

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The Adriana Smith story has triggered me bc of the government's history of using Black bodies for medical experimentation without consent especially Black women's bodies in gynecological research. This is setting a bad precedent that will eviscerate Black women's bodily autonomy.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My twins are 3 today! Happy Birthday, sweet boys!

Fraternal twin boys sitting in a double stroller each holding a plant

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I had consecutive miscarriages after I had my oldest son so a lot of people (wrongly) assume I had interventions to conceive my twins. I get so many questions about Clomid, Letrozole, IVF, etc. and they're always so gagged when I tell them IDK because my twins were spontaneous.

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danielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

also you guys the library??? We all gotta be using it more. An incredible public good. Walk in, get anything that interests you, check out for a total of zero dollars, walk out. anyone against it is my nemesis

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Quality over quantity in May. I only read 7 books, but 4 of them were 5 star reads. 📚

An infographic showing the statistics around the books I read in the month of May

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Just your friendly neighborhood English teacher turned librarian here to remind you that literacy has always been political.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Last day of school! End of year 15 for me!

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Guys. I'm walking around school taking pictures with a disposable camera and after I took a picture of a group of girls, one of them goes, "Can I see it?" I said, "The picture?" She said, "Yeah." I said, "Oh, honey, no." 🤣😭😂

Jessica holding a red and yellow Kodak disposable camera

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

One of the things I've learned since becoming a mom and making mom friends is there are more women than I could've imagined who had a baby because they like babies and literally did not consider what parenting would look like after the first year.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The neighbor girl told my son that Justin Bieber was looking for his drone out in the woods when Katy Perry's rocket blasted off and a piece of the rocket hit his arm and he got lost because he was injured and he's still lost in the woods today a month later.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Lol at being a twin mom because I don't think I have any pictures with me holding a single baby until they became independently mobile.

Photo grid of Jessica holding twin babies in every photo

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I fully concede this may change as my kids get older but as it stands right now I am not a "Because I said so" mom. They want to know why? I tell them because it wasn't arbitrary and they deserve to see the process of rational and reasonable decision-making.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 15/05/2025

As an educator, I have some thoughts on how children show up in schools when parents enable dangerous behaviors, but that’s completely secondary to my resounding thoughts of WHAT THE FUCK

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

One of my graduating library babies gave me flowers! 💐

Jessica holding a bouquet of flowers wrapped in plastic

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I was standing outside the library with a group of students when one of their friends walked by wearing sandals with no socks and they absolutely roasted him. "No socks, Don?!" "What is this?!" "Barbarian!" "Nah." When I tell you Gen Z hates sandals with no socks. 🤣😭😂

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I love being these boys' mama. Happy Mother's Day.

Jessica with 3 young boys all wearing Royals jerseys

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A spider crawled across my face and now my kids want to play with it. Happy Mother's Day to me.

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Jessica Grider @mrsgrider.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

White passing is not the same as white presenting.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]

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