I don’t have a Spotify Wrapped to share because I don’t use Spotify to listen to music. But I do have the “wrapped” for the podcast I made where I read my entire U.S. History book aloud for my students 😂

Baking cookies with a two year old is quite an adventure 🥰 Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you get to celebrate with favorite traditions, loved ones, and tasty treats.

We lost our Sasha dog yesterday. She was the best girl. Thankful for the 13 years she had, and the 10 years I got to be a part of. But it hurts so much knowing she won’t be with us in the new year.

Girl Museum is looking for #queer folks interested in participating in an #interview series collecting the stories and experiences of queer people who have, in any capacity, experienced #girlhood. Interested in being interviewed? Head to bit.ly/girlhoodinterv…

In honor of the new 1999-themed AG dolls, here I am at American Girl Place in 1999! I’m working on some research about AG in K-12 education. If you are a #teacher who has used AG in your teaching, or if it inspired your love of history, I’d love to hear from you! #americangirl

I’m hosting a free webinar with Museum Study about virtual programs next month! Email [email protected] to register for the webinar.

My toddler loves to ask me to draw things and then when I show her my finished artwork she says “that doesn’t look very right.”

Sometimes college seems like it was just yesterday. Until I find my old checkbook with evidence of all the checks I wrote to my roommate for my portion of the electric bill. Real paper checks. Venmo wasn’t a thing yet.

I have 5 weeks left of my maternity leave. I wish for those 5 weeks I could create 3 clones of myself: one to clean and organize my house, one to catch up on sleep, one to do some professional projects, and my real self to soak up newborn snuggles and play with my toddler.

I was prescribed a face wash for cystic acne and it was going to be over $600 😬 Good RX brought it down to $30ish. (Also, the face wash smelled like fire.)

Another library appreciation post! My 2-year-old is getting a little cabin fever so we enjoyed some tiny yoga and dance programs at our library today. Baby sister (7 weeks old) enjoyed watching. We’ll definitely visit the library more while I’m still on maternity leave!

I wish I was at #NCPH2023 - I keep hearing about so many great sessions. I’m part of a working group that is presenting tomorrow morning on the topic of American Girl in the public humanities and I’m so bummed to miss it!

Today while teaching high school archaeology, my slides declared at Julius Caesar used to send “massages” to his generals written in code. My students were all pleased to learn that the generals were all pampered and relaxed 🤪

The annoying thing about LinkedIn is that I can see that someone with the title “CEO /Executive Director” has viewed my profile multiple times a week for the past couple of months. Sometimes multiple times a day. Hello? Can I help you? Who are you?

The Nextdoor app for my community is just people posting that they saw or heard a coyote.

Hey everyone - I’ve really enjoyed using this platform in the old days to live tweet conferences and connect with fellow museum and education professionals. I’m no longer active on here, but I’d love to stay in touch on 🦋 where my handle is hillaryhanelrose.