Its strange how a change in schedule can completely throw off one’s purpose, or online persona, as the case may be. My kids have been out of school for 2.5 weeks and in those 17 days, I have been a one-woman entertainment crew. I no longer have time to read or comprehend the news, I have very little to say outside of which playground we are at or how nice the pool is. While I am never not a mom, I have never intended to be a mommy blogger. Summer vacation is rapidly changing my tune. I like...
Feminist Daily News Wire July 7, 2009 Uganda to Ban Female Genital Mutilation A law will be passed banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced Friday. In his announcement, Museveni referenced a resolution passed last year by the United Nations that declared FGM a violation of women’s rights. President Museveni said in his announcement, “The way God made it, there is no part of a human body that is useless. Now you people interfere with...
Nobody got hurt. It was a three day weekend, full of fear and trepidation. How will we entertain ourselves, what will we eat? When will Melia get a chance to paint her toenails? I actually had the weekend planned out. Pool on Friday, Zoo on Saturday then off to fireworks and Sunday we’d go back to the pool. The weather, however, is really strange right now and so we decided at the last minute to haul our behinds to Baltimore on Friday, since it wasn’t quite warm enough for my kids to...
Motherhood is a choice. I hear the gasps now, really, but hear me out. You have a choice to be a mother, or not, or somewhere in between. The first choice is whether or not to have sex. That’s the fastest way to become (or not) a mother. I promise, its just that easy, but it is your choice to accept the sperm. You have a choice to use birth control, or not. Whether that birth control is 100% effective is a calculated risk that you choose to take. Yes, there are horrible times when having sex...
