Heather McConley

@arealmofwonder D. Snottinger just sounds right.

Interesting Words 🤓 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D

@alt_w_v_g You are my favorite new follow. Thanks for the laughs!!

The follow-up parent/teacher conference was yesterday My wife went alone I watched her pull out of the driveway Then I called my analyst He was already in his car Parked in the alley Engine running I wore cargo shorts Six pockets Pocket three had the school handbook Pocket five had a highlighter We arrived at 3:42pm Three minutes early My wife saw my analyst in the hallway before she saw me She stopped walking Then she saw me She said "why is he here" I said "support" She said "for what" I said "the meeting" She said "this is a parent-teacher conference and you aren't supposed to be here" I said "every meeting is a negotiation" She didn't move I held the door The teacher was waiting She was not alone The principal was seated beside her Arms folded They brought backup So did I My analyst sat down and opened his laptop He asked for the WiFi password The teacher said "we don't give that to visitors" He said "no problem" and turned on his hotspot I taught him well My wife put her head in her hands The principal introduced himself Firm handshake Said he wanted to "make sure we're all on the same page" I said "I love alignment" My wife looked at the ceiling The teacher pulled out a folder Same color-coded tabs as last time I respected the consistency She said our son has made "some improvements" but there are still "areas of concern" I said "can you quantify that" She said "it's not really a numbers-based assessment" I looked at my analyst He looked at me We didn't say anything The teacher said he still "challenges classroom structure" I pulled the school handbook from pocket three Page 34 Section 2.7 Parent Rights and Student Evaluation Standards I had highlighted six lines The principal looked at the handbook Then looked at my cargo shorts Then back at the handbook The teacher said there was an incident with a multiple-choice question She pulled out the test I pulled my copy from pocket two The teacher stopped talking My wife closed her eyes The question listed fifteen gender options My son selected none of them He wrote "Not applicable" Below that he wrote "Identified: Chromosome XY" Below that he wrote "Source: Biology textbook, page 217" With a footnote My wife looked at me She said "oh my god he's becoming you" I said "thank you" She said "that wasn't a compliment" The teacher said "that's not how multiple choice works" I said "was his answer correct" She paused The teacher looked at the ceiling Why does everyone keep doing that The principal stepped in He said "the concern isn't accuracy. It's compliance." I said "interesting. My auditors say the same thing." My analyst typed something I didn't ask what My wife looked at the ceiling again The principal said he thinks our son would "benefit from learning to work within established frameworks" I said "he will. And then he'll spend his career fixing them." Nobody spoke The teacher closed her folder The principal didn't shake my hand My analyst asked if there would be a follow-up The teacher said "I hope not" In the parking lot my wife said "you wore cargo shorts to a school meeting that you weren't invited to" I said "I needed the pockets" She didn't argue She said "we need to talk about this at couples therapy" I said "only if I can bring my analyst" She got in her car My analyst sent me his notes before I got to mine Formatted Bulleted With action items There were none Except for Plz Fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@bookgrace11 So good.

please read "the blue castle" by l.m. montgomery. PLEASE.

@MrsCMFrancis Diatomaceous earth FTW! 🙌🏻 totally eliminated our ants.

Ok what are we trying that’s a little more natural than RAID for the ants tormenting my kitchen

@GigaBasedDad Yes — if they are believers. I’ve known plenty of each who were (imho), and plenty who were not.

Serious Question Protestants, do you believe Catholics will go to heaven? Catholics, do you believe Protestants will go to heaven? Do your best to keep it civil pls but be honest too

@hannahcenters Always and forever PoA… that scene with the Marauder’s Map is my favorite ever. 🤣🤣🤣

What’s your favorite book from the Harry Potter series? Mine is the Half Blood Prince.

@JakeOlson61 Thank you, Jake, I was personally disgusted by Laura’s take here, and as a parent who flew often with babies, took offense too. I hope your son is doing well. ❤️‍🩹

This past August, we were flying cross‑country with our 8‑month‑old son after his sixth round of chemo. His stomach hurt, his little body was exhausted, and he kept letting out that soft, broken whine babies make when they’re uncomfortable but trying so hard to settle. Not screaming. Not throwing a fit. Just hurting in the only way he knew how. In front of us was a family taking their daughter to SMU’s freshman welcome week. Their biggest stress was how she was going to fit all her clothes in her dorm room — and she was the one who kept turning around. Every few minutes, this privileged freshman would glare at my wife like our son was ruining her trip and her wardrobe planning. It lasted maybe 30 minutes before he fell asleep. But the way those looks made my wife feel… man. I’ll be honest — I was praying she got a nightmare roommate who “borrowed” every outfit she brought. That flight reminded me of something important: you never know what that baby is going through, you never know what those parents are carrying, and you never know what that tiny cry is coming from. So yeah, maybe a baby whining on a plane is annoying. But sometimes that sound is coming from a kid fighting battles you can’t see — and parents doing everything they can just to make it through the day. A little grace goes a long way.

@HannahWardEdu He burned his butt on the pot that was on the stove, flew back up the chimney, and ran off. Never bothered the pigs again. 🥰 This is my favorite ending and the one I remember best. The wolf gets his comeuppance with a real consequence but doesn’t die either.

In your childhood version of The Three Little Pigs what happened to the wolf at the end? Curious about something...

@farmingandJesus Love these verses. 😍

Please post one of your favorite Bible verses 💜👇🏻 It’s hard to pick but I love Psalm 147:3

@KeruboSk Yes — slimy things (mushrooms, zucchini & yellow squash, eggplant) are no-gos for me. 🤢

I didn’t even know this was a thing. Texture vs. taste: have you ever disliked a food purely because of how it feels, even though the flavor was actually good?

@Momsplaining101 Woo hoo!! 🙌🏻 We kept smartphones from our kids until they were 17 — much to their dismay. “But mom, how old were YOU when YOU got your first phone?” “34.” 🤭

Or, hear me out, don’t give your kids phones.

What a cool story. 😍 Praying you, too, have this Blessed Assurance today. Happy Sunday! 💖✝️🙏🏻

@hannahcenters I like Rilla of Ingleside best. 🥰

What’s your favorite Anne of Green Gables book? Mine is Anne of Windy Poplars, which is controversial, but I stand by it.

@MikeyAdams420 MA became so progressive they let their brains fall out…

Massachusetts has a Commie Mayor, a lefty Lesbian Governor, a racist Congresswoman, a Senile Senator, a Fake Indian Senator and various dickheads in Congress. WTAF is going on here?

@Lyzlydubs @whodamoose #8 is my favorite of the series — so good, so many excellent quotes/thoughts in it.

@whodamoose Narnia forever 💘 Bonus points for Anne of Green Gables (etc) - I didn’t know there were any beyond Avonlea!

Date night book haul. Goodwill was stocked UP (until I got there). Rate my haul or roast my worst choice 😉

@whodamoose The complete set of Anne (the last book is my favorite of all of them) is a winner… also, our whole family enjoyed Verne’s 80 Days tome, and Crime and Punishment is a really fun read!

@brittilina You can take your baby AMA if you want to. It’s your baby. 💖😘

*rant* So her labs yesterday came back with elevated bilirubin. Dr threatened to keep her an extra day for light therapy if she went too high at her next lab draw. Next lab draw: bili is NOT too high, but she lost weight again (she’s 3 days old, guys) so we might have to keep her here another day until she’s… not losing too much weight? Do they want to keep her for a week or more till she starts gaining again?! Oh, and to top it off, bc she’s “still losing weight” (like every normal baby does in the first week), they’re upping the amount they bottle feed her stupidly fast and blowing through my pumped supply so I will have to feed her at all the touch times if I don’t want her to have donor milk or formula (and I don’t want to use formula, and they said we couldn’t be reliant on donor milk if we want to be discharged), so now I’m looking at a max of 1.5 hour stretches of sleep at a time. It’s now been 96 hours since my last full night of sleep before the induction. I’ve gotten maybe 18 hours of sleep. It feels like this hospital is trying to kidnap my perfectly healthy baby. Advice welcome.

@_sorrengailll Don’t need it much.

Where are the people who wear little to no makeup? Do you have a reason?

@MA_vs_Healey Yes!! 🙌🏻

40% of the likes on my posts are from people NOT following my account. We need your support to defeat Maura Healey! Please follow along!

@VividProwess Amen! Shabbat Shalom. 🙏🏻

It’s Shabbat again, and I have a few things I will pray for today: - May the Iranian people be free. - May American soldiers be safe. - May Israeli soldiers be safe. - May Israel ultimately prevail. - May peace come sooner than we expect. Can I get an ‘Amen’? 🙏