Comments on: Mother-Hood http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/02/18/mother-hood/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: celin http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/02/18/mother-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-1569 celin Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:09:28 +0000 http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=299#comment-1569 Momminess is such a hot topic (especially on blogs - since the stay at homes want to find contact) -- there is even a divide between the one child home and the multi-child home. With one -- sometimes a couple can still pretend they don't have any, but as soon as a second is added -- they may as well go all the way to 11. So the parents of 1 still can straddle the familial and just married divide. We also are in a campus community and our hanging out group became significantly depressed (not sad, but worsened) when we had Harrison. Now we are limited to travel only as a family (no longer lugging Calvin along with trips with friends) and always having one child with us -- since it is rough with 2 on one (or 3 or 4 or however many children one has). Socializing becomes so complicated. This is my current hood. Momminess is such a hot topic (especially on blogs – since the stay at homes want to find contact) — there is even a divide between the one child home and the multi-child home. With one — sometimes a couple can still pretend they don’t have any, but as soon as a second is added — they may as well go all the way to 11. So the parents of 1 still can straddle the familial and just married divide.

We also are in a campus community and our hanging out group became significantly depressed (not sad, but worsened) when we had Harrison. Now we are limited to travel only as a family (no longer lugging Calvin along with trips with friends) and always having one child with us — since it is rough with 2 on one (or 3 or 4 or however many children one has). Socializing becomes so complicated.

This is my current hood.

]]> By: Nancy http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/02/18/mother-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 Nancy Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:00:54 +0000 http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=299#comment-1566 I lived in married student housing when I had my first child. I remember thinking, "Well, I guess I can go sit by the swingsets with the other moms now." But then I wasn't sure if I had to wait until my child was actually old enough to use said swingset. Confusing business, really... The two books that first came to my head on this topic are: -The Giving Tree. I can never decide whether I like this book or not. -The Secret Life of Bees. You actually recommended this one to me, and I just finished it a couple days ago. I lived in married student housing when I had my first child. I remember thinking, “Well, I guess I can go sit by the swingsets with the other moms now.” But then I wasn’t sure if I had to wait until my child was actually old enough to use said swingset. Confusing business, really…
The two books that first came to my head on this topic are:
-The Giving Tree. I can never decide whether I like this book or not.
-The Secret Life of Bees. You actually recommended this one to me, and I just finished it a couple days ago.

]]> By: Brett Garner http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/02/18/mother-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-1559 Brett Garner Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:41:26 +0000 http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=299#comment-1559 Hey Brittany, I'm glad I was able to track down this blog and hopefully keep up with what you guys are up to. As for the cliques... are you sure it's not the other way around? Married people leaving parents out, singles leaving married people out? Some would say that moving from one to the next is less of a natural progression and more of a contagious disease... ;-) Hey Brittany, I’m glad I was able to track down this blog and hopefully keep up with what you guys are up to.

As for the cliques… are you sure it’s not the other way around? Married people leaving parents out, singles leaving married people out? Some would say that moving from one to the next is less of a natural progression and more of a contagious disease… ;-)

]]> By: Brittany http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/02/18/mother-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-1557 Brittany Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:49:07 +0000 http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=299#comment-1557 It's not necessarily bad that moms band together. It is inevitable, but not a bad thing. It is the same with other groups like married couples; they are always leaving single people out. So it goes. It’s not necessarily bad that moms band together. It is inevitable, but not a bad thing. It is the same with other groups like married couples; they are always leaving single people out. So it goes.

]]> By: Katie Smith http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/02/18/mother-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-1556 Katie Smith Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:49:12 +0000 http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=299#comment-1556 It is sad that here in Baity Hill, and sometimes even in the church, being a mother in a clique, instant friends. But don't think all of us mothers are bad, we just need other women to hang out with during the day so our kids don't drive us crazy. It is sad that here in Baity Hill, and sometimes even in the church, being a mother in a clique, instant friends. But don’t think all of us mothers are bad, we just need other women to hang out with during the day so our kids don’t drive us crazy.

]]> By: phillyz http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/02/18/mother-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-1555 phillyz Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:09:47 +0000 http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=299#comment-1555 clearly there is only one definition of hood- and that's known for us in da hood clearly there is only one definition of hood- and that’s known for us in da hood

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