My little boy is turning 3 this week! How cute he is. He told me this week, "Mamma, you are the best mommy I ever had!"
From the mouths of babes...
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Did you know that the red pumpkins are called "red octobers?"
Me neither. Every have your elementary school aged son or daughter tell you facts like this one and then ask: "Did you know that, Mom?" What do you say? No - sorry, honey I am not a pumpkinologist. Yes, of course, I do! Or, do you respond like me, "That's is pretty interesting, isn't it? Hoping he will not push it further and I will not have to admit I, in fact, do not know this. I also hope to avoid the question: "How come you didn't tell me that before?" It is amazing how these little minds absorb so much. It is definitely something to be celebrated! So, why do I keep repeating myself again and again with his almost 3 year old little brother - "Stop... Don't!... You have to listen when Mama is speaking to you"?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Am I a blogger?
If blogging is something one does, then (lately) no, I am not a blogger. If, however, a blogger is something one is (or perhaps hopes to be), then, yes - My Mommy Is is a blogger, My Mommy Is is not simply a blog.
Now that is out of the way, the post.
October 14, 2008 - Election Day (in Canada, that is). I plan to exercise my democratic right. How could I not, knowing that my fore-mothers fought a long and hard battle for the franchise?! Yet, what difference does my vote make? I live in a riding comprised of voters staunchly politically minded in the opposite direction as my position. A strategic vote might make the difference. A vote from my conscious - the same vote? or one cast for another candidate?
No, these considerations are not simply about my personal vote, or its impact on the vote count in my own community or country for that matter. It is about a way of being, acting, and thinking in the world that I hope to emulate for my children. I am not talking about explaining to my 5 year old the significance of elections in a democracy (though I am sure he would understand much of this conservation).
I am simply referring to the (dis)connect between what we say and what we do. Am I willing to do what I say, no matter what the consequence?
Perhaps in the United States there is even more partisanship with only two long standing parties. A greater case in point of the issue I attempt to discern here. Mothers votes count, for something beyond the election. I wonder, though, if our political voice (be it soft or loud) tells our children not simply about capital "P" politics, but much about our politics of self- who and what we stand for and when and where we are willing to stand up and be heard.
To blog or not to blog, that is NOT the question. The question remains, why so often does what we do fail to even come close to what we think (or to who we think we are)?
Does my blogging practice (im-practice) tell me something about more than my blogging? Until tonight when I vote (perhaps a clue).
Now that is out of the way, the post.
October 14, 2008 - Election Day (in Canada, that is). I plan to exercise my democratic right. How could I not, knowing that my fore-mothers fought a long and hard battle for the franchise?! Yet, what difference does my vote make? I live in a riding comprised of voters staunchly politically minded in the opposite direction as my position. A strategic vote might make the difference. A vote from my conscious - the same vote? or one cast for another candidate?
No, these considerations are not simply about my personal vote, or its impact on the vote count in my own community or country for that matter. It is about a way of being, acting, and thinking in the world that I hope to emulate for my children. I am not talking about explaining to my 5 year old the significance of elections in a democracy (though I am sure he would understand much of this conservation).
I am simply referring to the (dis)connect between what we say and what we do. Am I willing to do what I say, no matter what the consequence?
Perhaps in the United States there is even more partisanship with only two long standing parties. A greater case in point of the issue I attempt to discern here. Mothers votes count, for something beyond the election. I wonder, though, if our political voice (be it soft or loud) tells our children not simply about capital "P" politics, but much about our politics of self- who and what we stand for and when and where we are willing to stand up and be heard.
To blog or not to blog, that is NOT the question. The question remains, why so often does what we do fail to even come close to what we think (or to who we think we are)?
Does my blogging practice (im-practice) tell me something about more than my blogging? Until tonight when I vote (perhaps a clue).
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