Women's Lib

The Women's Rightsseems to have passed right by my house without even pausing to take a breath.  Or at least at least in Gabrielle"s direction.  (And apparently mine according to my daughters on some occasions.)  Gabbie will be five in a couple of weeks.  She believes that boys should always open the door for, carry her belongs for her, clean her room for her, when walking they should put their hand in the small of her back for her, buy her pretty rings and to put it bluntly, kiss her butt for her.  She has gotten a lot this by just observing her Pop-pop do some of these things for me.  He does open doors for me.  He does carry bags for me (won"t touch my purse though.  If he has to then it is handled like a football).  And he does hold my hand and put his on my back frequently when we are walking around.  So for her she makes Austin and Tyler, her cousins, do the same for her.  If they don's the she won't "marry them!!!" And they aren"t her "prince!!!"  Doesn't always work on Austin but usually work on Tyler. 

I guess it doesn"t help that when they ask where Pop-pop during the day and I say work they ask why.  I tell her to make money so I can spend it all on them.  But I did work till two years ago.  And all four of the girls work.  The boys and Gabrielle both know that and know where everyone works.  And she totally understands what payday means.  But still she prefers for the man to be the prince and provide her with the pay day!

As for me I am not near as helpless as my daughters seem to think.  Whenever their father has to travel for work they bug me about making sure doors are locked, I remember to set alarms if I need to get up for work or whatever or whatever it is that I need to do that he usually does when he is here.  I'm like "What the hell?  Remember you guys growing up?  Dad traveling then too from the time you were babies?  Did I kill any of you?  Burn the house down?  Get to you guys to school and me to work all by myself?"  Just because I choose not to do things I don't have to do because he is here doesn't mean I can't.  I just have a philosophy that why should I do something when there is a man around I get to do it for me.  Oh!  After reading that maybe that's why Gabbie has that perception she has.