REMEMBER WHEN...
1. If you're a parent, write about how you keep YOUR self from being absorbed into your CHILD's/CHILDREN's self. How do you keep your identity from melting into mounds of laundry and general housekeeping? What do you like about yourself that makes you you?**
2. If you don't have children, write about what makes you you. How do you identify yourself outside of your work? What influences have made you the wonderful person you are today?**
The prize (drumroll, please) is:
A $15 gift certificate to Baskin Robbins
(Happy happy, Joy joy)
If your answer to my post is super long, please just comment with the link to YOUR blog site or email me. The winner will be chosen based on a random draw on Friday, May 30.
**Okay, okay... lemme make this easier... What makes you feel ALIVE?
6 comments:
I'm afraid that my identity has melted into mounds of laundry and general housekeeping along with chauferring, recital & concert attendance, tutoring, etc. Maybe some day I'll have my own identity again.
P.S. Hope you are feeling better, even if only a small bit. :-)
OK, so this is not an entry, but I haven't been online this weekend, so I wanted to let you know that I'm going to give this some thought and come back later.
'Cause you know that GC is something I'll do just about anything for! :)
I think keeping your own identity is impossible. Your child is a part of you, a part of your self, your breath; your legacy. I think it is impossible to separate the two. Instead, I focus on teaching my child about the things that I am passionate about and incorporate the things that they are passionate about into my own thinking; fusing the two. However, you must take time for yourself to continue your journey of hobby/self to continue to learn and grow. A good way is to discover new things together, and visit old ones to keep connected.
How's that for some zen?
Even though the kids have "taken" part of me away over time, they have also added to my personality. I can be silly whenever...I've got a captive audience! But I think that being with people, whether they are tall or small makes me feel alive and brings out the best in me. Too much time in my own head...eek..
It's me again. I still don't have a comment, but I've been thinking about it and have until tomorrow, right?
If I keep posting non-comment comments, will you enter all of them into the drawing?
Ok, I'm back! LOL!
You know, I've been giving this some real thought. And honestly, it has never occurred to me that I could lose myself in my kids. Maybe it's because they're boys and I'm a girl and there is no way that I will ever be that drawn to dirt.
But, I think it is mostly because of Jason. He loves Sarah...is passionate about the girl - and he tells me that. He encourages me to do the things that I love, the things that I'm passionate about, and wants me to be and stay...well, me. I think he likes the Mommy me - but he gave his heart to the girl.
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