No end to the bitchy today
May 7th, 2008 by Jen
I was telling my aunt about the possibility of my going away for training for the better part of 7 months. Her response…….?
“wow! Would kind of be hard sending the kids to school, don’t ya think?”
Um.
What year is this again? 1950? 1976? 1912?
This was my “cool” Aunt, the one that’s only 15 or so years older than me. The socially progressive, pro-choice, feminist, uber-liberal, Greenpeace card carrying, pot smoking hippy Auntie (SPOFLG for short). The cool one. Makes me wonder what my other Auntie is going to say.
Frankly I don’t give a crap. Barring any serious medical issues, I’m doing this if they like it or not cause I’m stubborn as shit.
I had to e-mail her and asked her to clarify. I told her that the girls had a father that was perfectly capable of “taking them to school, or to daycare while their mother was away”. I also further explained that this was no different than if HE had to go away for 6 months. He’s a big boy. He helped to make them, he can help take care of them. If anything there are times when HE is much better at this parenting gig than I am, given my own abnormal upbringing.
Yes, they’re my kids. But they’re his too. If I do this, I do it to help improve ALL of our lives. The path I take will more than double our income, will give me job security a pension and as a result we will be able to offer our girls much more than we can now.
DAMMIT people need to stop pissing me off today!
Oh. And the house is sold. It closed today, one less thing to have hanging over our heads.



