1. I spent my grocery money this month on concert tickets.
2. I let my kid check out of school early to go to a concert in Salt Lake with her friends.
3. I haven't been doing Josh's off-track homework with him.
OK I could come up with way more than this, but this is a depressing exercise. When I got on blogger to finish this post, it had posted the first line and eaten the rest. Hmmmm... Not sure exactly what I did there. I prefer to just blame blogger.
Somebody on facebook today wrote that people are vilifying Ann Romney for staying at home and raising her kids. Really? No one is "vilifying" Ann Romney specifically or sahm's in general. The term "working mom" is used all the time without much fuss, but then one journalist says that Ann Romney didn't work, and suddenly sahm's and motherhood are under attack? There seems to be this sentiment floating around the internet in some circles that working moms and society in general don't value the work of motherhood. How do working moms not value motherhood? WE ARE MOTHERS! But also, why does anyone have to value what you do? Lots of people don't value what I do. Oh well. I don't understand the need for people to think that motherhood is so honorable. I didn't become a mom to get accolades and honors. I became a mom because there is a biological imperative to reproduce and because I thought it seemed like a good idea at the time. I love my kids, I love my family, the end. The only people I expect to value my contribution as a mother are my own kids, and even then I don't expect it all the time. Whatever. Also, why is there always this competition over who works the hardest? How would you even decide something like that? It's so pointless. I was reading an essay by a sahm today about how she feels like no one values what she does, and then she said that what she does is so much harder than what working moms do. Do you not understand that you have just done to me what you are accusing others of doing to you? You've just crapped on what I do and said it's not that hard. Dumb. Do men sit around debating over whose job is the hardest? Bah.
I found a bald spot yesterday. I'm hoping that the hair will be growing back, but I've been afraid for a while that as my hair turns white, I will have more bald spots.
If all goes well, we're going camping this weekend. Yay! I'm so happy it's spring.
Dang my blog is boring.
Sean tilled up the garden area where we usually put our pool and filled it with topsoil. So I guess we're not having a pool this year. He's like... the garden is ready to be planted! Oh. That's not fun. I told him yesterday that I would weed today. But then when I got home I was like... Um, no, I said I would READ today. I bought The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest ,so I've started reading it and it's purty good.
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Hmm. I dunno about the whole sahm thing and the need for "honor". I think the problem is that a lot of times when people hear you're a sahm, they are just very...unimpressed. Like they think you're lame. But if you work and are a mom, it's like you actually have an identity besides your kids and are interesting and well-rounded and you need more than just dishes and laundry and poopy diapers to fulfill your intellect, etc, etc. So at functions I go to with career-minded people (like Pete's work stuff) I think they don't understand why I would stay at home with my kids, and maybe they even think I'm lazy? And they don't understand how or why we are living off of one income. So I can see where the need to defend being a sahm comes from. But I would never try to claim that working moms work more or less than sahm. That's stupid. I think I want to hear that people think motherhood is honorable because being a *good mom is honorable. It's hard (as you know.) It would be a lot easier to be a mom who doesn't put in the emotional and physical energy and effort it takes to attempt to raise kids who will be productive members of society. I think people should honor the way mothers and fathers are helping to shape the future by the effort they put into raising their kids. And maybe "honor" is the wrong word?
See your blog isn't boring. I always look forward to reading it. It always gives me a new perspective.
Shannon.... I love you! and Definitely NOT boring. I LOVE love love your blog! You always seem to say the things I want to say, but you do it better. I completely agree with you. Who cares what other people think! the only people I care about are what my own children think and even then I don't care that much, because I know I'm not perfect and it is what it is. I definitely did not have children to get the accolades of other people about how honorable a mother I may be.... whether I work outside the home or not. There truly are SO many other thing people could have conversation about. IMO this whole Mother Romnay thing is just another way politics tries to steer into a different direction because they don't know how to answer the really tough questions. So, lets talk about how someone mentioned in some random interview that Ann Romney didn't work outside the home ::::gasp:::::: how dare they!!! Whatever is right!!!!
Your blog is not boring. at all. I look forward to reading it. You make me laugh. a lot.
Today was an awesome spring day, like 80 degrees. I'm excited too for spring.
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