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Thoughtful responses make me happy- June 7, 2010

(See previous post on the Shmuley thing.) So I told Greyson about this article. His response, “I mean, I think all guys know what women’s parts do. It’s not like it’s a surprise when your wife has a baby.”

Thank you sweet Hubby! I love you and your logic!

Here is an EXTREMELY well stated response from my friend Katie on her blog. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Wait? What?! – June 7, 2010

Remember this guy from Oprah? Rabbi Shmuley. He had that show “Shalom in the Home.”

All over the Internet today in the blog world and elsewhere I’ve read this article. (It’s two pages, not that long. Check it out real quick.)

Okay. I know from lots of responses on other blogs that many women are OUTRAGED by this.

I myself just feel this adds to more anxiety for pregnant women like me who are facing decisions about child birth and breastfeeding.

So old moms, new moms, please, what’s your opinion on this? Comments?

I just think La Leche is gonna be so pissed about this.

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A clean slate after a junky sale – June 6, 2010

Remember this closet I posted a few weeks ago? We’ve been “making room for baby” and oh baby look at it now!

Then

Now

We got rid of everything in our subdivision yard sale this weekend. Check out our friend Vinnie. He was “Slashing prices all over the neighborhood!!!!”

Sam, Me, and Greyson selling what we could.

Here’s Vinnie. After he was done slashing prices he knighted my dog. Clearly she’s thrilled. Dame Ginger!

The thing about yard sales is they bring out the weirdos. (And, not just Vinnie. Ha!) There were people there at 7:30am for the sale that started at 8:00am. We WOKE UP at 7:30am people! Zip up your fanny packs and stop giving us the stink eye for just now setting up tables at 7:50am. Craig’s List could not have been more clear about our sale being from 8:00am to Noon. Later on some people just drove by and didn’t even get out of the car to look at all our junk. I wanted to flag them down and be like. “Don’t you know I have another person moving into my house in less than 5 months?! Come and buy our crap!” Maybe I should have been set up earlier for the hard-core-fanny-pack-yard-sale-freaks. Then we wouldn’t have had to cart the remaining stuff off to Goodwill at 12:30pm.

Ginger came back to one of her favorite spots after the vacuum was gone.

So, here’s our empty little room, not quite ready to fill with a little person. We left a small bookcase in there. My Papa (Paternal Grandfather) made the child’s rocking chair. (I think it’s my sister’s but, what’s she gonna do with it pre-children? Oh, I know. Leave it at my house.) There’s some awesome pictures I want to hang (More on that as I figure out the decorating situation.), and some lovely books I saved I’m hoping Baby Girl will love reading as much as I did.

Dame Ginger giving me her version of the stink eye. Well, I did rock her world by having her knighted and clearing out a favorite room in one weekend.

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Girly Girls and Tom Boys- June 4, 2010

So you may have heard our little one is a girl. We were surprised as we were kind of thinking it was a boy. But, what a pleasant surprise! The idea of a sweet baby girl has had me humming Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely” for the last day or so.

The thing that has caught me off guard but, probably shouldn’t have, is since we’ve told people they’ve been saying things like, “Of course!”, “Oh, she’ll have to look out for all the frilly pink clothes her mama is gonna put her in!” Not so fast my friends….

Okay, I called this post Girly Girls and Tom Boys. I would most definitely fall into the former. By nature, I was the Barbie- playing-dress-wearing type of kid who begged her parents to paint her bedroom pink. I grew into a ballet-dancing-Jane-Austen-reading-high-heels-wearing-sorority-girl who made her friends walk down the aisle in pink bridesmaid dresses. (They were cute, please get the Steel Magnolias image out of your mind.)

That’s not to say I didn’t love camping and backpacking with my family. My parents made me mow the lawn and pick up dog poop. The princess thing only went so far and I’m grateful for it.

My whole life I’ve been in absolute awe of Tom Boys. I admired and envied their athleticism, love of horses, and relaxed attitude towards getting dirty.

Part of me really hopes my little girl is her own person, she can be a Girly Girl like me, a Tom Boy like others, or anywhere in between. I hope she’s really good at things I’m lousy at. That would be so cool. I won’t force things I love on her. Even the color pink.

So Baby, expect some pink things in your life put in place by your Mama. But, pick a favorite color and make it all yours.

“I never thought through love we’d be making one as lovely as she. But, isn’t she lovely made from love.”- Stevie Wonder