Sunday

For my family our Sunday ritual of breakfast and a drive has become our weekly tradition.  As we all know during the week can be pretty crazy and hard to find time to all have a meal together, so in my family we reserve Sunday morning’s for that no matter what.  My kids are older now and they still look forward to going.  I am more of a spiritual person than religious person, so this was my alternative to church.  This Sunday ritual was my way of making sure we at least once a week could set time aside time no matter what to come together as a family.  It is so wonderful to have a day in which you can just get up in the morning, throw on jeans and a tee shirt, no makeup, and have no real time schedule to keep.  It’s even better knowing you don’t have to hurry anyone else along either.  After Saturday’s games in the rain and then doing sixty piles of laundry Saturday night, I find myself going to bed dreaming how wonderful those Bloody Mary’s will be in the morning.  We have several places that we love to go, Darrington is one of them, and it is great because we can also hike by the river with our dog after Breakfast.  For me this was the closest ritual I had involving food that is not around a Holiday, I believe it may have started out as something as simple as us all having breakfast together, but now has evolved into so much more.  I hope that my children find that this is a tradition that they will want to continue doing even with their own families.

Being a Parent is a Community

Being a Parent is a Community

     “Being a parent is a Community” one that I love being part of.  Once you are a parent I believe you seek out other parents subconsciously and here starts your being part of the “Parent Community”.  What brings this group together is the common factor that being parents is a hard job and for sanity reasons I think we are always looking for someone to share our experiences with and whom can relate to us and which then enables us to find strength.  In David Berreby.s essay he writes “A subconscious clue for perceiving a tribe as real and valuable, then, may be expending sweat , tears, and  embarrassment to get it” (Remix 122),  sounds like that would be parenthood right there.

     Transformation for me into this new community happened virtually without me even knowing it, one day you are part of the just married or single community, and the next you are part of the play dates, carpool to ballet, horseback riding lesson and what you going to make for dinner that is healthy community, and what keeps you here in this community is all the others with the same values and ideas.  You find yourself staying part of this community for several reasons; being a parent has now became the focal point of your whole life and you are now drawn to others who feel the same.  How you spend your time also keeps you part of the community, you now find yourself only socializing with others in your community because they too are parents and even though you would love to go to Vegas with your friends outside your community you go for Disneyland with people inside you community because these people in your tribe or community is who you can identify with.

The greatest part of being in this community is that you will always be part of it, no matter where you may move or no matter what age you are; you will always be part of the parent community.

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”  

What is in my Wallet

What is in my Wallet.

The first impression I think someone would have in opening my purse and then my wallet is "Oh my this person has OCD".  Everything in my purse and wallet has a place and is organized.  I hate having a heavy purse filled with a bunch of things I may need in case of an emergency, I did that years ago and it was called a "diaper bag", I now just have the essentials.  My wallet matches my purse I am very particular on that I love my designers purse's and I feel you need to have the wallet that matches.  When you first open my wallet in the first compartment is my lotto tickets, I keep them there so I do not forget to check them every week. The next thing you will come across is my Starbuck's card and by the way my name is worn off, a person would come to the conclusion that this card gets used a lot and I love coffee.  Of course there is my drivers license, with the worst picture possible.  I love my tanning and right before I had to have my license renewed I was on vacation and as tan as I thought  I was I still burned, so a friend said "o get a spray tan on top of that and the redness will look like such a dark tan", she could have not been more wrong, so I would hate to imagine if I lost my wallet what the person who opened it and saw that pictured would think.  In the next section of my wallet I have a divider that is for credit cards but I have put pictures of my kids there instead, and in doing this assignment have realized they are all from when my kids where babies or toddlers so a little out dated, time for some new ones.  I have a section that is specifically where I put all my credit cards, I have just the basics debit, credit, Costco, the one credit card I do use is personalized, it has a picture of my boyfriend on it from a fishing trip we took.  The third compartment of my wallet is where I keep all my store cards or rewards cards, Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyer, this I would think would represent that I like to save on groceries and of course I need food.  The Red Robin rewards card would make someone assume I have kids and they force me to go there and so I might as well save while doing it.  Blockbuster I think would need no explanation.  Regal Crown Club card would say I see a lot of movies.  Office Depot rewards card could say I am a student or just need a lot of supplies. Sephora rewards card one could assume I love my makeup.  This section is also full of coupons all organized and ready to go. Someone could look at that and come to the opinion that I hate to waste money.  Which would be so true.  The back zippered section is where I keep my cash and change.

I am not sure based upon my wallet alone that someone would know that I was a student, I also don't think they would know I was not married.  I do not keep my work Id in there so I don't think they would know or could make an assumption of what I do for a living.

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