Growing Girls With Purpose
May 11th, 2010 — Family Life
I half suspect Mother’s Day comes just in time every year.
In the weeks before, I feel like my children are pecking me to weariness.
In the nick of time, my husband says, “don’t bother Mom, it’s Mother’s Day.”
I lay in my bed without even the energy to summon up a phone number for grandmothers and my own mother.
May 10th, 2010 — Family Life
Jeremy and I are going to Colorado again. To choose color schemes for our new house. We get to go to a design center and say, “yes, I’d like that color,” and “no, that carpet shag won’t do.”
It’s going to be fun. Dear God please let it be fun.
A wonderful family friend will be staying with the kids.
We’ve got people working on selling or renting our house.
Dear God, please let it be fun.
May 5th, 2010 — Fit Girl, Victims & Dangers
My husband was just informed by a police officer that he would call child protective services on us. He gave us a warning, this time.
Our crime?
We let him ride his bike outside in front of our house. In a residential neighborhood with dead-end streets.
Is it actually illegal to let a kid ride their bike outside?
I doubt it.
In the meantime, we live in a town with 60% fat kids. It appears that endangering a child’s life by sitting them in front of the TV with a bag of Sonic everyday is not considered child endangerment, though exercise and play is.
Never mind that this same officer likely rode his bike all freaking day long when he was growing up, and relished in the freedom and fun of it. Probably on this same street.
Back to the TV for you kid. It’s “safer.”
Visit Free Range Kids.
image from iamway2fat.
May 3rd, 2010 — Feminine Heritage, Hairy Issues (fashion, hair, clothes)
There are times during the month when women naturally feel a pull inward.
If we fight it – we end up feeling like crap.
If we don’t, maybe we feel lazy or guilty.
There are other times during the month when women naturally feel like they can run 10 miles, get everything in the world done, conquer new projects and kick-ass at everything.
I’m guessing most of like those times the best. I do.
I’m reading this book by Miranda Gray, The Optimized Woman.
It’s the only book I’ve read that describes these shifts in mood and abilities as a secret super-power that only women possess.
It describes the woman’s feminine monthly cycle in terms of Creativity, Reflective, Dynamic and Expressive Phases. It outlines the phases and shows women how to best use this cyclic nature as an invaluable resource to become their most productive.
I am so glad I found this book before my own daughter starts her period. I can only imagine how much more relaxed and enjoyable my own cyclic nature might have been had I found this book as a teen. Or if I had heard a different message than the one constantly promoted in “dirty vagina marketing” – otherwise known as the sale of tampons, douches, pads, Midol and other PMS medications, feminine sprays and wipes.
I highly recommend this perspective on our natural abilities, innate to us as women. It’s an interesting experiment in a shift of perception.
