Feeling my years
I am feeling every one of my hard earned years today.
Saturday night I was the ultimate mom: I chaperoned an all-night Girl Scout overnight at a mall.
My 8 year old is in a girl scout troop and loves it. Her scout meetings are on Friday afternoons and that's a hard day for me to get off work, so I try to help out with her troop in other ways. This year one of the things I offered to do was to help with the Bay Area wide Mall sleepover.
Picture this - three to five thousand sugared up girls in a mall, all night, with activities scheduled throughout until mandatory departure at 7:00 am.
We actually did sleep, although not a lot. Both Punkin and I are still tired.
It was crazy and the girls loved it. Being in a mall for 12 straight hours reminded me of why I quit the garment industry and why I'm doing my best to raise my children without the commercialism and consumerism of that kind of influence, although you can't hide from it forever. I really have a hard time with the way that part of society pushes the notion that there is one standard of beauty and if you can't/won't force your body into that norm you are less than acceptable or desirable.
Punkin just thought it was cool to be up past midnight. I love her.
Saturday night I was the ultimate mom: I chaperoned an all-night Girl Scout overnight at a mall.
My 8 year old is in a girl scout troop and loves it. Her scout meetings are on Friday afternoons and that's a hard day for me to get off work, so I try to help out with her troop in other ways. This year one of the things I offered to do was to help with the Bay Area wide Mall sleepover.
Picture this - three to five thousand sugared up girls in a mall, all night, with activities scheduled throughout until mandatory departure at 7:00 am.
We actually did sleep, although not a lot. Both Punkin and I are still tired.
It was crazy and the girls loved it. Being in a mall for 12 straight hours reminded me of why I quit the garment industry and why I'm doing my best to raise my children without the commercialism and consumerism of that kind of influence, although you can't hide from it forever. I really have a hard time with the way that part of society pushes the notion that there is one standard of beauty and if you can't/won't force your body into that norm you are less than acceptable or desirable.
Punkin just thought it was cool to be up past midnight. I love her.
posted by Marie at 12:35 PM
1 Comments:
It's amazing how it takes that extra day for your body to figure out that you've royally insulted it by staying up late and sleeping in uncomfortable positions. More power to you for having done this!
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