At any rate, it's pretty clear that my husband Joe didn't know quite what he was getting into when he married me. I have to admit that when we married not only was I NOT domestic; I was barely domesticated. I rarely came indoors unless it was to eat or sleep. I was either at work, or working outside. Of course, all that changed when we had children, but at heart I am still a schemer and a outdoors girl who likes to think of how we might do things differently.
Here are a few of the phrases that make my husband want to run in the opposite direction:
I have a great idea...this phrase prefaced just about every idea I ever had related to my horse boarding and training operation. Suffice it to say that, at the height of my busiest year in the horse business, when I was taking a break from the field of education, I made $17,000. After that year I returned to working at the local university. Now I am a middle school teacher. Over time, I have realized that I just want to enjoy horses on a hobby basis.
You know, I am reading the most interesting book, and it says... the biggest change we undertook in our family eating habits started this way, after I read the book Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis. It became painfully clear that we needed to cut way back on our gluten consumption. Joe realizes that we are all feeling better and that I have lost weight, but he says he's still angry at gluten for its deceptive deliciousness.
I was thinking... this usually precedes my ideas for inventions. My younger son, Jack, seems to have inherited my predisposition for unusual and (I think) brilliant ideas for new products. When he was just five, Jack drew a picture of the perfect gift for me: A combination cell phone/coffee maker! I was so touched.
Anyhow, I am an ordinary mom who happens to have a certain amount of intellectual curiosity. For example, I have been documenting historic African American schools in my region for the past ten years, and I made an award-winning documentary film about them (see www.underthekudzu.org) I think a lot about the field of education, so I blog about that at http://anygiventeacher.blogspot.com/
This blog starts as a repository of the random thoughts that I think many of us share as we move through our days, taking care of kids, working or homemaking, juggling commitments while trying to keep our families close... any given mom has more in common than not with any other given mom.
