As long as there are products like The Mom’s Ultimate Family Organizer, the harder it will be to force equality among most parenting relationships about whose responsibility it is to maintain and keep up a family (here’s a hint: it’s not just Mom). It will be harder for women who choose to work outside the home, it will be harder for men who choose to stay at home and babywrangle, it will be harder for everyone.
Can we quit with the gender stereotyping? Why can’t a family have their own organizer? Why can’t this be a shared or distributed responsibility? Why are people buying this crap?
A list.
- This has been a quiet weekend, mostly! Yesterday I took Matthew out to San Francisco to pick something up at work and we ate breakfast together - just the two of us. It was fun, until it was time to leave and Matthew ran away from me but luckily Mama has +2 SPEED and so I caught him, to his great dismay.
- I had a pedicure and manicure yesterday, which is one of those things I always feel terribly guilty about getting, but I always enjoy the results of.
- This morning I stretched funny and tweaked a nerve in my neck and can’t untweak it. I hate that!
- I also hate falling down the stairs - which I did as we were trying to get to the farmer’s market with Clio and Lara and Matthew. Oy. My right butt cheek feels like it has its own butt right now and my elbow is very sore.
I think that is about exciting as I like to get over a weekend. Ow.
1 year ago today: JoJo.
5 days ago: Grandma.
2 days ago: Gran-Gran (one of Matthew’s daycare providers)
I am at my limit.
