Maggie Rothenberger

This will be my 2026 thread of knit/sewn items!!

@MrsGoresDiary Mmm. A deeply familiar interaction to me, lol

My two little boys, sitting on the bench and eating Alfredo pasta. “Peter, you’re a bozo. Do you know what that means?” “What?” “You’re a clown” Long stare. “Well then YOU’RE a bozo.” Cue slap fight.

@TheNotoriousRDS Kid at school used to rush to the microwave in order to cook his frozen fish sticks for 4-5 minutes every day. Took tons of time, and everyone’s food smelled like fish.

How I look when someone warms up fish sauce in the communal luncheon microwave

@cross_merc64619 @TheNotoriousRDS Really footage of how seriously you take most discussions 🤭

Actual footage of @TheNotoriousRDS and I discussing anything of worth 😆

@MrsGoresDiary TOO fast!! And he’s chock-full of plans for fulfilling all his duties (real or imaginary ones), so it often feels like talking to a little adult in a kids body. 🤣

@MagpieReids Four already?!? You’re right, that was FAST.

While I’m in very much in the midst of the little years, I do believe that they are flying by. My oldest turns four tomorrow and he’s the most responsible person I’ve ever met, besides his father. ❤️

@MotherGrundy Or, to show your family you really love them, you can laminate copies of the spreadsheet and use them as placemats ✨ Go the extra mile and highlight their individual faults! They’ll love it!

@MagpieReids I have to delete this spreadsheet I’m using???

Once again, for whatever it’s worth, your mental load will be lighter if you expend less energy meticulously keeping track of how hard it is for you, how much better than everyone you are, how no one is helping you the precise way you want, etc.

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@MrsGoresDiary I am SO excited to, (Lord willing), have a yard soon. 🎉

I brought my littles out to my parents’ house for a day in the country. They ate pancakes, they dug a trench in the dirt pile and filled it with water they collected from the faucet in rain boots, they played with a tiny turtle their granddaddy brought them, they went fishing, they pushed each other on the big swing, they took baths with the eternal water toys at Grandmother’s house (two plastic tugboats, a wind-up scuba diver, and a broken spray bottle), they sat on a quilt in the living room floor with popcorn and Easter candy to watch a movie, they sprayed each other with the water hose, they drew a huge road on the wraparound porch with sidewalk chalk for their scooters, they blew bubbles, they ran around shirtless and drew tattoos on their bellies… and all it took was me being a day-long wall who said “no” every time they asked to come inside or watch TV other than our scheduled movie time. If you notice, that’s just a couple of very firm no’s and a WHOLE lot of yeses. It’s funny that this takes a backbone and stamina - it’s easier to say a lot of NO (no you can’t get dirty, no you can’t turn the water on, no you can’t get the art supplies out, no you can’t use the boots like that), and a miserly, sluggardly yes or two (yes you can come inside and yes you can watch TV all day long!!). But that’s how you lose.

@Lexy_Sauve My guess is both that there are those who prefer reading the charts over written instructions, and that it’s easier as the pattern writer to visualize the instructions (particularly for lace) as a grid. There are some really annoying charts out there though 🤣

Newbie knitting question. Why in THE WORLD do charts exist? Is it literally just for visual learners? Or is there some knitting principles I was never explained or a mechanism I’m overlooking? I’m knitting two cabled projects right now. I’ve knit cables various times before so the skill isn’t new, but one is charts and one is written. I’m flying through the written cables, but it’s taking weeks and weeks to make any progress on the charts. 😅 Really eye opening to do them side by side.

Happy Easter!! He is risen!!

Literally @tohuvabohu during a storm and tornado warning on Tuesday.

Knit Knack and Knitasha in their Easter best.

Project Num. 5: Years ago my Aunt (who passed 9 years ago), made my Grandma two turtles named Knit Knack and Knitasha! They have been married for a while now, so I surprised Grandma with their daughter, Patty Whack, when I got to visit her in Ohio this week!

This will be my 2026 thread of knit/sewn items!!

POV: Your dad is showing you the cliff he rode a driving lawn mower off of that one time.

Newfangled pedagogical ideologies have often tried to replace phonix as a method of reading instruction, but it just keeps rising from the ashes.

“The church fathers disagree with you, presumptuous Dum Dum!” Well, ok but: “Even Barnabus was led astray” “I opposed him to his face” “This I have against you” Etcetera