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[valancystirling]

I'm going to have to pay more attention to comments. I haven't been getting them in my email for at least a few weeks, but I see a some of them on the lj homepage, but even so there are a few that never showed up. IRRITATING.

There's one thing I really like about this election, and that is this. How often do we get to see such a clear majority on anything--so many people around us voted for Obama and we were all sort of united--even if just united against those damned republicans. If I stopped and thought about it for a minute, I would think it feels really good to see that kind of unity.

I did see something posted in the natural parenting message board last week, about the candidates' positions on alternative healthcare and vaccinations, and Obama did not impress me with his answer, which was basically against parents having a choice about vaccinating their kids. I've been wondering in general how any of the candidates might have an impact on my actual life other than in that whole "grand scheme of things". Like, would it ever happen that a president would be presented with the case for/against homebirth and actually do something? Or vaccines, or regulation of supplements and herbs, or any of those kinds of things. I guess those are very small and petty things compared to say, ending wars and coming up with alternative energy sources and all that. But still.

Last night Jake and i watched some of season 3 of The Office, and seriously just about died laughing. We don't have many times like that anymore, and it's so great when we do. We need more laughter in general, and more adult time, and more fun. We're so pathetic. Life is just so fucking serious anymore.

So I've tried to have a blog. One of those real blogs where people post a very narrow slice of their apparently perfect lives and leave out all the rest of it. Like the perfect moms out there whose lives appear to be nothing but beautiful craft projects, clean homes, angelic children, no stress, perfect marriages, etc etc. You know the ones. Nothing but la la la and gorgeous photography of inane things. I would so love to have one of those, but it turns out I'm a one trick pony and I can't seem to get myself to give any impression that's not totally accurate according to me. Jake says that's a load of crap and I can give any impression I want as long as the gist of it is, life sucks and everything is bad. WHATEVER. Anyway, I am just not the kind of person who goes out of her way to create an impression about my life or self or family or reality. It is what it is, there's god and there's bad, and overall it's not such a bad life. There are times I wish I recorded more of the good stuff, but invariably I get so wrapped up in it that I'm part of it and not standing there looking at it through a camera lens or mentally writing a post about how great it all is. I only find my way back to writing when I have something to bitch about. So there, you now know that you're getting a skewed version of me, mostly the bad or mundane stuff, and I'm withholding all the good stuff.

In other news, Topaz and I have a game where kisses are disgusting, and if either of us kisses the other on the cheek, we make a face and rub it off like it's vomit with much drama.

I also got her to eat Amy's frozen macaroni and cheese today. Her first mac and cheese of her life, and she was very skeptical at first. She wanted to try to eat the whole frozen block of it (she's really into eating things frozen, like her dad--waffles, tator tots, peas, french fries, blueberries, etc etc freak), and she allowed herself to be convinced this might be one of those rare things that are actually better cooked than frozen.

Comments

[loki-quinn.livejournal.com]

I am afraid as well with regards to things like homeschooling, etc. But I think it is an issue of accountability.

The fact of the matter is that much of what I most worry about is a states' rights issue. For instance, Kentucky has very, very lenient homeschooling laws because of its conservative history. For that I can be thankful.

Nothing is going to alter so drastically in the next four years to challenge your parenting choices. And hopefully by the time it does (for instance a referendum on vaccines, home birth, home school) empirical data will be even more available allowing a discourse.

If the schools improved dramatically or if I could afford a Waldorf school I probably would take advantage of it. But the public schools are cesspools and the Cincinnati Waldorf school is 8 grand just for preschool.

[valancystirling.livejournal.com]

I think since there are so many hugely pressing issues to deal with, "little" things like homeschooling and other parenting rights are going to go largely ignored for at least the first term. If anything I think we're probably safe for quite a while and you're definitely right about more info in that time.

I'm with you on the school thing--we don't even have a waldorf school here, but maybe if we ever leave this area...

[brightsoul.livejournal.com]

oh how i long(ed) to be one of those blogging mamas, but yeah, whenever i've tried i easily find myself on some tangent or another and i'm not comfortable painting an incompletely picture of myself and my life, as well. i think maybe those moms that have beautiful blogs really do have beautiful lives without a care in the world.

[valancystirling.livejournal.com]

I often wonder about that. My life is just not as picturesque, There are days when I feel it's blog-worthy but it's certainly not the norm.