Recognition
Thank you! Thank you to all of your who commented on my last post (here and on facebook), I really really appreciated your feedback. I wanted to respond to each of you but realized I would be saying the same thing so I thought I would write you publicly. Y’all really made my day! I was really worried about posting it, for two reasons. One, I thought that my sentiments have been shared over and over by many women and wondered if it would just sound like a tired mom-diatribe (and maybe it does to some), and Two….I thought it might be too personal to post, was I putting too much of myself out there?? So again, I really appreciated your positive feedback.
Here is the back story as to were it came from. Sunday afternoon Aaron took the kids for a Sunday drive while I stayed home to read all about the royal visit to North America cook dinner. I got a little stuck on just how youthful the Duchess looks…her gorgeous skin, pretty hair (that always looks perfect- despite not being “up” or shellacked into place). I began to look at my own life- a life that is so very very far removed from hers, and I admit my rose colored glasses were off.
Then I started to think about other well known women in the Media and felt mildly irritated that I couldn’t think of anyone that modeled my life. While there are many amazing women that I know IRL that represent who I aspire to be, there wasn’t anyone on TV, in magazines etc. That thought bothered me. I’m not so shallow as to only hang my hopes on some celebrity, but it’s nice to see your self represented in popular culture and I feel like there is no one to accurately do that. Possibly because, well, bluntly put, my life is dull compared to the inaccurate media representation of me.
But, like I said. I chose “dull”. So after dinner all of these thoughts were swarming into my head and I went out to the back patio (so I could be alone, even though it was 100million degrees outside in the shade!) and wrote the post long hand in a notebook. After the kids went to bed I typed it up and tossed and turned all night about whether or not I should take it down.
Thank you for reading it, thank you for sending it to your friends, and thank you to Desiree for linking to The Power of Moms. Everyone should click over there, some really amazing posts!
July 12th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
All the nice words you got were deserved, it was a really well done post! And it’s true, the media doesn’t represent the majority of the world in any way.
July 13th, 2011 at 7:52 am
I think those things on a regular basis but don’t write as nicely as you, I would have sounded like a whiner. I also understand the feeling of “I chose this” and I do choose this but you know, it’s hard.
July 13th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
hi heather!
i read your post and i liked it! you were real and honest, but it didnt’ sound like you hated your life or anything. i totally ‘got’ what you were saying…
p.s. i made your cinnamon rolls sunday night and they were a hit!
enjoy your million degree weather….i am sitting in the rain.. where’s the happy middle?!
July 18th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
I joke with my husband that a realistic show on food network would be a tired mother trying to put something together for dinner with whatever is on hand (not having the complete ingredients for anything) in fewer than 30 minutes with two children who need something every 25 seconds and ask at least four times each for a snack while said mother is cooking the meal that they may or may not eat even though she has considered everyone’s culinary preferences and tweaked each plate accordingly. sigh. We then joke that no one would watch that show!