Beth

@cravescavesgraves

I'm a travel agent specializing in Disney, Universal, and cruises 🎢 homeschooling (secular) a 2e kid who is addicted to books. I'm the hell of a mom & whimsical crocheter of What a Hell of a Way to Dad

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Beth@cravescavesgraves· 21d

Mom! Mom! Are you busy?

A black & white great Pyrenees nose and one eye peeking over a white table and through a lady's armpit. The lady is wearing a leafy patterned caftan

Beth@cravescavesgraves· 23d

Well, I'm sold. This is definitely the $45 tabletop hydroponics system for me.

A fancy lady with long blond hair, wearing a black cocktail dress in a fancy room with high class draperies and a fancy chandelier. On the table in front of her are two very large teacups and saucers, a silver tabletop hydroponics garden with a grow light and tomatoes. Text says "model: white 10 pods"

Beth@cravescavesgraves· 25d

I've never seen anyone actually finish this Mars Lander game. @whatahellofawaytodad.com

A white man with a backwards baseball cap blue tshirt, dark blue shorts, and a tachtical messenger bag with patches and pins displayed playing a Mars Lander video game at the St Louis Science Center

Beth@cravescavesgraves· 26d

"Pay for contacting emergency services" fuck off #Samsung #enshittification

A Samsung Galaxy prompt to install a "safe button" to contact emergency services with a premium subscription

Beth@cravescavesgraves· 28d

It's been a rough week and i'm learning to seek out wide open space when it feels like the walls are closing in. (Nothing catastrophic, just getting over a sinus infection, struggling with being a good dance mom, finishing a professional cert, concerned about a friend, etc.)

A sculpture of a giant eyeball with a blue iris in the middle of an open field with large trees in the background, and puffy white clouds in a blue sky.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jul 12

It usually takes me awhile to finish non-fiction books because I read the kind of non-fiction that makes me mad. This one is infuriating but I haven't put it down all day. (Between sinus infection naps.)

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jul 12

The kid loves comics treasuries of all sorts. Everyone loves The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes, but where are the Herman fans?

A book of Herman comics laying on a couch. The cover panel shows a man carrying a woman, who holding a bouquet and says "herman, you were a much stronger man on our FIRST honeymoon."

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jul 11

Friday night lounging with Sassafrass

An orange tabby cat in a cat tree bowl with his back legs sticking up in the air

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jul 9

I make whatever I'm in the mood for, and right now my brain is obsessed with this yarn. Buy some Yip Yips so I can buy more colors! whatahellofawaytodad.com/products/han...

Crocheted yip yip Martians from Sesame Street in a rainbow of colors sitting on a trunk with fringe hanging down. Colors are yellow, peach, orange, pink, lavender, blue, and green.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jul 9

We're trying to acclimate ourselves to Florida weather (easy to do in St Louis) for a late summer trip, and I reinstalled Pikmin Bloom for motivation. We haven't played in years and had a blast catching up & remembering all our silly pikmin names!

ADR photo from Pikmin Bloom showing 40 assorted Pikmin in front of a Lady Buddha statue surrounded by potted plants

A tree in a residential neighborhood. Ay the base of the trunk is a fairy garden. A sign on the tree says it's the Just Bee Fairy

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jul 4

Never again will I own a dog this big. 40lbs is the limit.

A black and white great Pyrenees in a thundershirt is wedged between a bed and a bookcase and a luggage rack, with an air purifier broken into several pieces

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jul 1

Christmas in July, here we go! What are we watching this month?

Living room with a teal wall, a wall-mounted TV displaying a festive Christmas in July graphic, and a white console below holding books, decor, and electronics. A cat tree stands on the left.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 30

This team member is really not pulling his weight in the podcast planning meeting

Orange tabby cat laying on top of a desk pad calendar on top of a pack of gel pens and a planner on top of a bed

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 28

Today's screen-free family adventure: Mauhaus Cat Cafe

A long haired tortie can naps under a wood cat bed in a storefront window

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 27

Took two pictures today, the other one of the kid, to commemorate an act of bravery for an urban indoors kid conquering a vast wide open space. We have to get our indoor kids outside, and we have to put our own phones away.

A covered hiking trail information board and an interpretive sign, with Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds in the background.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 26

It's a Pet Rock Adoption Event Weekend! Free range rocks, collected and raised with kindness and enrichment. Comes in its own habitat with a bed of grass. This is the first time they are available in the shop! Use TECHNICAL for 10% off. whatahellofawaytodad.com/products/pet...

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 24

Me: ugh my allergies are so bad this week, I can't imagine why! What I see when I open my eyes in the morning:

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 21

Costco on a fucking Sunday. Executive shopping hours are great, but I would pay twice as much for solo shopping. Leave your partner who is only coming to sightsee at home. No families of 12 (which I also saw today.)

A black lifted pickup truck with oversized tires is in a Costco parking lot. Several people stand near shopping carts in the background.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 20

The most offensive thing I've ever seen in a sensory room #iykyk

Two boxes of CraZArt 64 crayons sit on a table with coloring sheets

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 20

He's big mad bc I changed the sheets but I'm not ready for bed yet. #orangetabby

An orange tabby cat, not quite asleep, on a bed with a pattern quote.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 19

Friday morning view. Today's book is The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (reread -- I love Thursday Murder Club)

A Kindle Paperwhite resting on an orange tabby cat, who likes his morning nap in the bowl made by a human's legs under a patterned quilt.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 18

Getting ready for the Bevo Mill Birthday Party tomorrow night, and St Charles Pride on Saturday! I hope I have enough gummy worms this year.

A Terra cotta pog full of two-toned crocheted "gummy worms" in a rainbow of colors

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 17

Back to The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, which I have only been able to get through one chapter at a time, with an interval of reading a whole other book between chapters. This chapter is primarily about how damaging Instagram is for girls and it tracks.

Photo of a Kindle screen. Text is from The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.

"fear of violent reprisal. But because girls have stronger communion motives, the way to really hurt another girl is to hit her in her relationships.

You spread gossip, turn her friends against her, and lower her value as a friend to other girls. Researchers"

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 8

This guy is sitting in a 48 hour time-out for a joke so old he doesn't remember what it was about. Tonight we're working on our plan for Hallmark Christmas in July, because yes, we will still be on that bullshit this year. @whatahellofawaytodad

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 7

They finally got rid of the asbestos floor tile. Apparently they went with encapsulation under 6" of concrete and just went around the moonshine still so now it appears sunken. 🤣

A replica log cabin moonshine still in the middle of a cave. Neon sign on the wall says Meramec Caverns in red Jesse James Hideout in green. The cabin is unrelated to Jesse James Hideout

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 6

@whatahellofawaytodad.com at 9 Mile Garden until 10 pm!

Beth@cravescavesgraves· Jun 4

Once I got into this, I finished it in about 48 hours. I have some complaints about scale, but I am annoying when it comes to spacial reasoning. Otherwise, I love his style of storytelling and I couldn't put it down.

A Kindle Paperwhite in a woman's hand, displaying the cover of Devolution by Max Brooks

Beth@cravescavesgraves· May 30

So helpful

An orange tabby cat lounges on the underside of a sofa in the process of being assembled

Beth@cravescavesgraves· May 30

This just in

Meme. Text at the top says, “BREAKING: Aimee-Leigh and Baby Billy Freeman have pulled out of the Great American State Fair.” Below, Walton Goggins and Jennifer Nettles stand on a brightly lit retro stage, each waving beside microphones, with a pianist and band in the background.

Beth@cravescavesgraves· May 28

Hot tip for my STL families: Frisco TX Is several hours closer by car than Gulf Shores or Destin or Pensacola. And yes I do book all of the US Universal destinations!