Scott at the Sorry Centrist had posted about why more women weren’t involved in politics.

Well, I made my comment over there. But today I discovered his update, a few days later after my initial comment;

Who was the marketing & design team for this? I thought I was stuck in a time warp. I know pink is big for breast cancer and there’s pink tool belts. But this is ridiculous. Do they truly think the way to reach out to women in politics is to make the document pink with a pink rose and scattered pink roses all through it??? I know it’s their spoof of the Liberal’s Red Book. But I just think it’s tacky. All I can do is shake my head.

The xmas festivities are starting and I’m still somewhat in denial that it is December. Both Bram and Alec have xmas concerts/parties on Friday. Then there’s something every week right up until xmas. We’ve got our tree decorated, built a gingerbread train (pictures coming), that we are taking to my uncle in York Manor. I’ve got about half the xmas shopping completed. But I don’t feel it yet. I just don’t feel like it’s xmas time. I think it’s because I’ve been so busy working and I haven’t got out much (there’s an understatement, lol).

The really good news though is that Kevin (my ex for new readers) offered to have me keep the kids all xmas day. Typically he takes them for xmas eve, brings them back at bedtime. They stay with me till about 1:00 pm on xmas day till they go with Kevin to his parent’s house for xmas dinner. But this year the kids will stay with me all day and go to Kevin on boxing day. I’m excited about it as it means more time to relax and watch the kids play with their toys.

And yes, I confess, it wasn’t overly appealing to think about spending the rest of xmas by myself. I’ve thought about that a lot this xmas. Because up until the change of plans, I’d been feeling a bit bummed out about it. It also made me think about all the other people who spend xmas alone. Those like myself that have family scattered too far & wide to visit and those who don’t have a significant other or children to spend the day with them. Christmas is a time of joy in many ways, but I know an awful lot of people that it brings up painful memories at times. However, for me, Christmas is seeing it through the eyes of Alec & Bram and I’m grateful to be spending the day with them:)

Alec turned 10 on Saturday:) My oldest is growing up. He finally hit the double digits. We had a bowling party for him and he had a great turn out. More friends showed this time than any party in the past. Alec said it was his favorite birthday party ever, so I guess I’d say it was a success:) I’ve got pictures to post when I get a chance.

I remember when I was a kid that most Moms, were, well Moms. Somewhat frumpy, and we all just said that they just looked like “Moms”. They seemed out of touch with what kids did and liked. I thought that Mom’s today were cooler. That we were up on trends and that we didn’t look like Moms. Well I’m saddened to say, just like that first time I got called M’am in a store by the clerk, I’m also a “Mom”. Alec and I had a conversation on his birthday after he was raving about his party. I said “well your Mom is a cool Mom right Alec.” He looked up at me, shrugged his shoulders and said, “well, you’re a Mom” which from the way he said it was that the words Cool and Mom just don’t go in the same sentence together, sigh;) The flashback of déja vu was strong. We can’t run from it, no matter how hard we try;)

We also released our first press release. We did a focused local one first, in response to the Premier’s Walking Challenge, but we have others coming out next week.