Stay-At-Home Parent: Job Description
I’ve gotten in a few conversations lately with other Stay-At-Home Moms about what they consider their realm of responsibility. I’m still very new to this and working out my own personal feelings around this issue and how it fits with my family. Sometimes I feel very overwhelmed. Other times I feel like I don’t do enough. Talking to one Mom, she encouraged me to look at it from a different point of view. If my spouse came to me and said, “I want to stay... Read More
My Childhood: Contained.
The house I grew up in has been emptied and auctioned. My father, the man who raised me, has died and his possessions have been sorted. I can pretty confidently say I now possess all of my childhood/past. And with this move – and the resulting sorting – I have now sorted and stored all of that past. 35 years of my life fits into three boxes: And of those three boxes, there is one duffle bag with things from my brother’s childhood. There is one box containing... Read More
Because let’s face it: NOBODY LIKES ME! *Sob* (Insert punch in the face…HERE.)
I think part of my problem in the Social department is that I totally over-analyze the people around me and what they may or may not be thinking about me. The logical part of my brain understands that Person B is probably not thinking anything about me, but the insecure paranoid part of my brain thinks these type of things daily: Are my neighbors judging us because the edges of our yard still look so crappy? Should I get out there with scissors until I master the weed-eater? Does... Read More
The Most Depressing Time Of The Year For Me
It’s that time of year, again. BlogHer time. The time where people excitedly discuss the upcoming event or crabbily bitch about it…depending on who you read. I’m always very sad when BlogHer rolls around and I’m not participating. While I usually spend more time as an anxious mess in a corner somewhere than I do actually participating, I always wonder if the year that I’m missing could have been the year I got over myself already and ditched the social... Read More
The Difficult Side Of Gender Neutrality
I’ve been thinking a lot about my kids and how I may or may not encourage/discourage certain gender-specific activities. Julie wrote about this twice recently so I thought I’d follow her lead and share my own stories. I try my best to simply let the kids do whatever they want: Society Induced Gender Roles BE DAMNED! That part is easy. If the boy wants to play dress-up in his sister’s princess clothes? GO FOR IT. If the girl wants to play with her brother’s... Read More
