Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I really need to figure out a punishment for my kid that isn’t also a punishment for myself 2191
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I need someone to buy this house, because every time I drive by, I think I’m looking at an old election sign and having a stroke 060
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026James came home from his first day of 2nd grade with this picture of “what a mathematician looks like” 290
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026James wrote this program in scratch and just left it running while he went to play with his toys 170
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026So, the popsicles taste good, but the two darker colors are nearly indistinguishable through the wrappers, I can’t remember which is which anyway, and the third flavor looks like this… 180
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I’m dying, but it may be a while before we actually get to the reveal, because today James learned how to make his own Baba is You levels and that‘s all he’s been able to focus on since then 180
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The house on our street that burned down under mysterious circumstances a couple years ago is finally back on the market! 2152
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 01/06/2026He later clarified he meant the art style of the strips where Calvin and Susie play house 😆 090
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 01/06/2026James told me the cover of my library book reminded him of Calvin and Hobbes. TF kind of Calvin and Hobbes have you been reading, buddy?!? 190
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 17/05/2026me: time to go to sleep James: no! I’m not done reading about malware! me: you what? James: 090
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026he even drew me a puzzle in the style of the game on the gift bag he decorated in class 1110
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The kids at James’s school have been raising baby salmon since January, and tomorrow it’s time to release them into the wild 😭 0121
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026She’s so cuuute!!! I was up way too late last night finishing the skirt, but I got her done in time for James to give to his teacher before the end of teacher appreciation week! 3110
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The braid on this little Frida Kahlo doll I’m making for James’s teacher came out perfectly, but now I have to cover it up with flowers 😭 270
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It comes in a little locked shed that opens to reveal this thing 150
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026this is what happens when you give middle schoolers a week off 070
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026My 7yo set up his spring-loaded pokeball to look like a space ship, then called me in and read a passage about the 1986 Challenger explosion before throwing it at a chair. How’s everyone else’s morning going? 2141
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I’m not feeling great and forgot to cut off James’s reading time and make him go to sleep. By the time I got there, he was writing out Scratch code by hand… 190
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026omg that's exactly what it looks like! although in this case it was based off this weird office decoration 020
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026James keeps asking me why the Scratch logo looks like it’s in the Animal Crossing font, and now I can’t unsee it 050
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Hey @benfrosh.bsky.social, want to explain to me why James has been “drawing warhammer” all morning? 1101
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Hey, why the fuck is my 6yo making me read this for his bedtime story AND WHY IS HE CHEERING IN RECOGNITION WHEN THEY MENTION CANTOR 0100
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Here’s another angle that shows off the red part he found the perfect pieces for! 040
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025My concerns were unfounded. Nothing I did in the past month could put a dent in this… 170
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I thought I heard James say Luigi was in the audience with a bunch of booze 😂 0102
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025The Windows lock screen actually showed me something cute for once, so I clicked the “like what you see?” button and it said “log in to learn more!” Then after I logged in, Edge automatically opened on a Bing search for “turtle” 🙃 290
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I went to the “selfies” section of the photo app trying to find a picture of a sweater I knit a couple months ago, and instead I got jumpscared by James showing off all his missing teeth 060
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025sitting here watching my lights flicker every few minutes like 😬 160
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025also I am *not* playing that game any more since I beat all the levels and had to move on to designing these fucking chips 040
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025James: I need help cutting out a lot of circles of brown paper me: what are they for? James: pizza crusts. I'm making that food game you're always playing that food game I'm always playing: 170
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025James’s class pranked another class by making “creepy carrots” and covering the classroom door in them, but they were only up for a few days, and now I have this thing on my fridge 090
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025James keeps making self-portraits that look like Golden Idol characters 050
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I'm proud of the achievement, but I'm not proud of some of the things I did to get there 0110
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025how rare of an achievement do you have to earn in a zachtronics game for it to count as a cry for help? 2181
Emily @whylemon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025James caused such a scene getting his flu shot, they gave him an entire sheet of these stickers to get us out of there 060
