Mod Squad Weekly Thread 16 Feb
Breakfast, again, with the honey haired girl....
Up bright and early to be with HHG while she gets ready for school.
I know I've talked about it before, and made it sound "homey"; but it really is.
Here in the states there is occasional but ongoing debate about "stay at home mothers"
and whether they help or hurt the fight of "feminism" that began in the late '60s.
One camp sees it as a step backwards. They think women won the "right" to work outside of the home
and that this should be maintained.
I, however, think women staying home again means the battle has been won for them,
and all of us.
Maybe in a different decade or century, I couldn't, as a male make the choice to do the things I do.
It's all about choices now and what works best for the family
and the members of that family.
I LOVE waking up before the sun comes up and fixing my girl breakfast. It's such a little thing, but I get to do it with love and appreciation.
I've mastered her grits and cheese so that they almost never boil over in the microwave.
I made her a little bowl of bluberries with whipped cream,
a glass of milk,
some brown nutty wheat bread ,
with lots of butter and honey,
I have coffee and she talks about whether or not she can remember her dreams from last night.
We talk about what's coming up in school today.
How much of her bed did the dog occupy (he loves her warm electric blanket)?....
We talk about everything;
and nothing;
but it's chance that I have ,by choice; a moment I've created that will echo down through the years and through her life:
"when Dad would get up every morning and make me breakfast"...
~Kid~
PS: And Cat ,who does work outside the home,
gets what she considers the luxury of staying in bed.
We all have choices
Breakfast, again, with the honey haired girl....
Up bright and early to be with HHG while she gets ready for school.
I know I've talked about it before, and made it sound "homey"; but it really is.
Here in the states there is occasional but ongoing debate about "stay at home mothers"
and whether they help or hurt the fight of "feminism" that began in the late '60s.
One camp sees it as a step backwards. They think women won the "right" to work outside of the home
and that this should be maintained.
I, however, think women staying home again means the battle has been won for them,
and all of us.
Maybe in a different decade or century, I couldn't, as a male make the choice to do the things I do.
It's all about choices now and what works best for the family
and the members of that family.
I LOVE waking up before the sun comes up and fixing my girl breakfast. It's such a little thing, but I get to do it with love and appreciation.
I've mastered her grits and cheese so that they almost never boil over in the microwave.
I made her a little bowl of bluberries with whipped cream,
a glass of milk,
some brown nutty wheat bread ,
with lots of butter and honey,
I have coffee and she talks about whether or not she can remember her dreams from last night.
We talk about what's coming up in school today.
How much of her bed did the dog occupy (he loves her warm electric blanket)?....
We talk about everything;
and nothing;
but it's chance that I have ,by choice; a moment I've created that will echo down through the years and through her life:
"when Dad would get up every morning and make me breakfast"...
~Kid~
PS: And Cat ,who does work outside the home,
gets what she considers the luxury of staying in bed.
We all have choices
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