take me out to the ballgame

Shane and Toby are off at a Seattle Mariners game. They took the Clipper down and will be back tomorrow. It was a Father's Day Gift and my husband is so happy - he was like a kid grinning ear to ear as he left this morning. That makes me happy.

My mind is sort of adrift in my new presidency! ha - that sound kind of cool. Anyway, it is a real stretch for me as far as coming out of my shell. I am shy by nature and generally speaking, parallyzed with fear when it comes to public speaking. Tonight I will chair my first board meeting.

Coming back around to the ball game I am wondering why my husband is always the one travelling and i am always the one sitting here alone with the kids? I find it shocking how I constantly allow myself to be sold further and further into the patriarchy. I wonder what happened to the kick-ass university student, the one who let no one or nothing stand in her way? If I think about it - kids happened - kids who consume me heart and soul and at the same time keep me tied down to this house and the reality that a Stay-at-home mom is still a housewife or homemaker with a new name. Still tied down by those apron strings.