In honor of Earth Day, I wrote a post about our efforts to go greener. While I was pleased at what we’d accomplished in just a year – driving less than 30 miles/week, eating out just about never, recycling diligently, cleaning greener and so on – I was able to pick out more areas for improvement. Since it’s been three months, I thought I’d report back on how we’re doing.
June 2008
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June 26, 2008
June 26, 2008
My 3.5 y.o. has discovered his Daddy’s Guitar Hero game. Mostly because his Daddy thought it would be darling to hand our toddler the faux-guitar and let our tot rock out.
Sure. He hasn’t heard Cheap Trick’s Surrender 600 times in the past month.
But as it turns out, hearing my small son belt out the chorus – Mommy’s all right. Daddy’s all right. They just seem a little weird. Surrender, surrender, but don’t give yourself away! – has been strangely liberating.
June 9, 2008
There’s much debate about the proper role of a mother. Stay-at-home, work full-time, somehow find a freelance gig that lets you balance both. Whatever. I envy people who make it work, however they find peace.
But here’s what no one talks about with the Stay-at-Home-Mom gig. And it’s something women ought to know going into the role: You will automatically come third. Every. Single. Time.
If you’re lucky.
June 2, 2008
Tomorrow we finally get a peek at baby #2. That’s right. I’m 21 weeks, and it’s time for an ultrasound that will almost certainly allow us to see our child’s gender.
And so I sit here, thinking: Boy or Girl? Because we’ve decided that two is the most children we can handle – and honestly, thoughts of the second fill us with a certain amount of trepidation – whatever the answer, we’ll hear the sound of one door closing tomorrow.
