It is perhaps misrepresentation to tell your hair stylist that you know how to use a round brush and hair dryer to style your hair when what that really that means is that you have run a brush through your hair and every once in a while you’ll wave a hairdryer over your head in a frantic attempt to dry your hair in under 2 seconds. Fortunately, even with my lack of styling skills Marty is still nice enough to tell me it looks gorgeous.
I’m enjoying our baby birds. The nest gets pretty noisy when it’s supper time. And I can see three little beaks sticking out above the edge of the nest—reaching for more, trying to maneuver to get the advantage.
Lots more thoughts. But they haven’t composed themselves into proper structures to be able to convey in a blog post. General topics have been things like feminism, perfection, spirituality, summer, family, Razor, and healing. Feel free to comment on any of these even though I haven’t said anything. :)
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Okay, to start the ball rolling -- feminism. I've decided to never again take umbrage when the well-meaning busybodies speak unkindly about the feminine roles I've chosen. It's interesting how women's lib only pulls one way. (i.e. I am only expressing my agency in this matter if I echo their own choices.)
Bless their pointed little hearts, in most cases they may really be thinking their comments will help.
I found a conference talk by Ezra Taft Benson, Nov. 1981 where he quoted some great advice from an LDS woman:
"Have faith in the Lord. Trust not in the arm of flesh. Keep an eternal perspective,... Apologize to no one. Keep away from influences that degrade your role, such as TV ‘soaps,’ magazine articles, and speeches made by so-called experts.”
So if some self-styled expert starts into the words of wisdom, I'm just going to remember how Johnny Depp looked as Willie Wonka, cutting off the TV brat with "Mumbler!! You know I really can't understand you when you mumble so much."
Maybe I'll even say it. *snicker*
Hey, Sonnet! I am sure that you do look georgeous! I like that you are thinking about all those other things and I can't wait until they form themselves into a blog. I think I blogged awhile back about the battle between working moms and SAH moms. I was talking to someone just the other day about our children. She seemed shocked that I have three children and want more someday. "I take it you stay at home," she said, and I said yes. But her comment was disconcerting to me. People that have more than two kids can't work outside the home? And is it a bad thing to stay home with whatever amount of kids you have? I would never say to any mom what the best choice for her family would be, staying home or not. I'd like to hear your thoughts on the subject, Sonnet.
It sounds like we attended the same school for hair, Sonnet!
In other things, I've recently felt like that momma bird must feel sometimes...some many hungry mouths to feed, so little time! Not that I have constantly hungry mouths to fill all the time, just many demands on a limited amount of time. I don't think I'll ever think of summer as "slow" time again!
Tarimisu, I've had many people say the same to me, and I have sometimes asked what they mean by that. In my experience, they were saying "I take it that you stay at home, because paying someone else to take care of your children (after even two) would eat up nearly every penny you could possibly earn."
It made me think. I wonder how much my income would be if I were doing my Mom-jobs as a career, and were paid full market rates?
And another thing, ...Sonnet, just because you don't have children yet doesn't mean you're a "liberated" female in the world's eyes. As soon as your life is tied to another person, with an "I'll serve you the rest of our days" promise, you're kicked out of the feminist parade. Even if life doesn't involve trach tube care, but especially if it does!
Me, too, I can hardly wait until your thoughts gel enough for a ramble through them.
I am a little late to comment, but I heard a statistic (from KLOVE radio) that if a stay at home mom were paid for all the work she did, at the normal rate, she would earn $150,000 per year. That is amazing. I know my time and my work is worth that much to my husband, and I am so glad he supports me in staying home with our greatest assets. I know other women may choose to do other things, and I am glad they have the choice and respect that. But I still love my own life.
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