Our Family Motto: "Well, that escalated quickly."

Every family has its traditions. Yours just happens to involve drama, snacks, and a raccoon or three flying through the air.

Featuring a trio of totally unhinged raccoons and the all-too-relatable phrase “Well, that escalated quickly,” this bold purple hardcover journal is here to capture the beautiful disaster of your everyday life.

Illustrated by artist Tamara Bissell and printed in-house at our Oregon studio, this notebook is a tribute to lovable dysfunction, and the people who make it worth writing about.

Details:

• Size: A5 (5.8” x 8.3”) – easy to carry, hard to lose in the madness
• Cover: Matte hardcover with a soft-touch finish
• Interior: 128 college-ruled lined pages (approx. 7mm spacing)
• Paper: 120 gsm—durable enough for emotional scribbles, doodles, and exasperated grocery lists

Includes: Black-ink pen, elastic band closure, built-in pen loop, inner pocket for secrets, $20 bills, or emergency contacts, double ribbon bookmark

Mood: Mildly feral. Relatable. Unavoidable.

Why You’ll Love It:
Lays flat so you can chronicle every glorious meltdown

Those raccoons? Hand-illustrated and clearly part of your spirit animal collective

Printed by a small team who totally gets it that family = functional chaos

Includes a pen, because these stories won’t write themselves

A portion of proceeds supports SMART Reading in Oregon: because not every family motto includes literacy, but it should

Gift It To:
Your sibling, your our best friend with four kids, or yourself -because you need proof all of it happened.

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Pithitude creates funny, artist-made gifts for people who bond over inside jokes, awkward truths, and stories that get funnier every time they’re retold. Each design turns everyday objects into tiny reminders of the people, pets, trips, moods, and moments that make life ridiculous, meaningful, and worth laughing about.