They Call Me Mom

May 14, 2012 in Just Life, Raising these kids, Raising these Parents, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

Finally, 5 years into it, I had the perfect Mother’s Day. Not that the others have been at all bad, they just weren’t perfect. On my first Mother’s Day, JB bought me a little snow cone machine. What, you say? You see, my first real job (which required a wee exaggeration about my age) was back up snow cone maker at the flea market. People, you haven’t lived until you’ve worked at either a flea [...]

More thoughts on Amendment One NC

May 10, 2012 in Just Life, Life Lessons, Politics, Staying Home Didn't Kill the Feminist, Things that Make Me Twitchy

Obviously I strongly oppose every thing about Amendment One. It’s not a new feeling. Some of the things I’ve heard come out of the mouths of… Ahhhh—- take a deep breath, shake up my calm-down jar. Pretty glitter. Okay. I’ve read the calmer statements– and man, oh man– I wish I could be them. I do. Sort of. Imagine graciously delivering a statement calling actions bigoted without being abrasive, or obvious? I know a woman [...]

NC Passes the Marriage Amendment

May 9, 2012 in Just Life, Politics, Raising these kids, Staying Home Didn't Kill the Feminist, Things that Make Me Twitchy, Thoughts from a SAHM

I remember the blazing disappointment when Dubya was re-elected. You see, I lived in Durham, worked in Chapel Hill; my perspective of reality was blurry. By the way– it’s late, and I’m sad and angry. Raging, actually. I remain convinced that the intent behind passing the marriage amendment was always devoid of religious conviction, the purpose only for re-election. I see what conservatives mean about too much government because their power? That sort of extremist-fly-a-plane-into-building-mentality? [...]

Vote AGAINST the Marriage Amendment and Legislation in Violation of the Separation of Church and State

May 7, 2012 in Just Life, Politics, Raising these kids, Staying Home Didn't Kill the Feminist

May 8th– tomorrow, the big voting day. The final chance for my fellow North Carolinians to power their way through the screaming “you’re going to hell” protesters, into that voting booth and say–with an emphatic NO– we will not support Paul Stam’s bigoted hate legislation. Oh wait. You support* the amendment, but dislike being called a bigot? You feel that description somehow unfair? You assumed the responsibility for defining what god meant– and denying what [...]

To The Rest of America from North Carolina

May 3, 2012 in Just Life, Politics, Staying Home Didn't Kill the Feminist, Things that Make Me Twitchy

I’m motivated. Motivated by the need to explain to the other 49 states in America that not everyone in North Carolina subscribes to the thinking of the most recent examples. Unlike Jodie Brunstetter, the wife of Republican North Carolina state senator Peter Brunstetter, not all of us believe that the only way to save the Caucasians (we’re in danger? I didn’t know) requires the repression of equal rights for the LGBT community. Unlike Pastor Sean [...]

Meeting an Astronaut

May 2, 2012 in Adult ADHD Isn't a Bad Thing, Just Life, Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

In Space, anything is possible. Or perhaps, “Whip me, beat me, take away my charge cards… NASA is talking!” From SpaceCamp? No? JB had never seen it either, which downgrades his Eighties movie knowledge from Deficient to Abysmally un-American. I could focus an entire series of posts on the movies he’s not seen. Hey… However, tonight I’m hear to talk about meeting a astronaut. My friends, when I stop to catalog my many blazing failures [...]

And the Eyes Have It

May 1, 2012 in Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy", Thoughts from a SAHM

Brain calm, body relaxed I sat in the big Chair of Suck The Motivation Out of You, wasting the afternoon. I woke early and did 40 minutes of kickboxing this morning. I deserved this time. Biggest of the Small People at school; smallest of the Small People taking a nap. Then… the SCREAM. Not the fakey one, or the bored one, but the OhMyGodHeElectrocutedHimself version. I run– down the hall, through the door. Mom-eyes immediately [...]

Produce Wash Can Do That?

April 30, 2012 in Gotcha Moments, Raising these kids, The Small People Know Me as "Mommy"

5pm, Friday playing the home version of What’s That: this time What’s That Sticky Spot on the Floor. A Friday already full of bizarrely frustrating events that seem innocuous when examined separately, but when grouped together? Parenting laughter– the knee-hugging, rocking back and forth in padded room kind. Parenting. Spending more time exploring Life’s Really Important Questions, such as “What’s That Smell” and “What Made This Sticky Spot” JB leans in and sniffs, categorizes it [...]

Air Force One

April 24, 2012 in Adult ADHD Isn't a Bad Thing, Just Life, Politics, Raising these kids

President Obama traveled to Chapel Hill today, which means Air Force One landed at RDU. After dropping Z at school, I asked E if he might want to take a little ride, maybe see some planes. And… 3 hours later, we got to see Airforce One take off– totally cool. Because I’m a dork. Most of this adventure from Elliot’s POV? Perhaps not as exhilarating, though he met bunches of new friends to play with, [...]

Here’s My Sign

April 23, 2012 in Just Life, Politics, Staying Home Didn't Kill the Feminist

I waited too long to get a sign for voting AGAINST the marriage amendment. Though the fact that I’m finding it difficult seems to be– if you’ll pardon the groan– a good sign. Since we read a lot (and I mean A LOT) of Dr. Suess, I got all poem-y again. A sign? Look–a sign! To all of you, from all of mine. Celebrate happy families of any combination. Married. Single. Gay. Straight. Cohabitation. No [...]