HOLIEST OF HOLIES!!!

So, anyone out there who is nursing and trying to wean a baby, you know what I mean when I say....

This morning was the first time Violet woke up and didn't want to nurse first thing!!!

Gratitude, gratitude, and more gratitude.

How might your life have been different....

So, hubby and I just watched the Oprah from today, where they talked about the Oprah from yesterday, which was all about talking to your kids about sex. Including - God Forbid!!! - mothers teaching their daughters about self-pleasuring.

Amazing.

Amazing because there were people shaking their heads in shock. "WHAT?!? Talk to my daughter about self-pleasuring?!? Talk to my daughter about taking control of her own body? Talk to my daughter about owning her own sexuality? Talk to my daughter about...."

Wait.......what?

How might our lives have been different.

How might our lives have been different if at the emergence of our womanhood, we had been surrounded by a circle of wiser women, and been taught to cherish our bodies, taught to cherish our sexuality as the divine gift that it is, and taught that we, and only we, held sovereignty over it.

Let's dig down through the shame and get to the truth.

Let's be that circle, now, for our daughters, and for ourselves.

I love being a mom

Today is one of those days. One of those days when everything went right. One of those days when I followed my instincts, went to the park, had fun with my girls, and never once let a "should" creep into our day. How marvelous it was.

In highschool I stopped drinking. Stopped smoking, stopped using illegal substances. I found myself feeling isolated, wondering what the benefits were to "making good choices." Someone once told me "one day there will be a payoff." That was 19 years ago.

Today was that day.