Stuntmother!!

I'm loving Stuntmother's blog, big time. Here's her spot on description of Cookie Magazine, which left me laughing in my seat and whistling under my breath. This woman should be added to blogrolls everywhere, she's the newest entry here at Everyday Mom.

Everyday Mom herself, aka me, has been engaged in major yardwork. What began as a simple, single project--hey, let's move the playscape from the middle of the backyard to the corner, so there's more room to kick a ball around--spawned other projects, as in Oh, there's a slate patio to be pulled up in that corner. Oh, what shall we do with all that slate, I know, we can set a pathway. Oh, there's a bare spot of dirt where the playscape used to be, let's grow grass. Oh, next to that barespot of grass is a weedy patch, let's find a tool to dig that up and plant grass there too! Let's find the grass seed spreader, oh, its at the back of a very messy shed, must clean a pathway to get there. . .

You get the idea, and it didn't end till late last night, I was pruning a wisteria arbor for the first time in several years (I was pregnant last fall, remember? and sick) when my husband came out, reminded me gently of the time, and eased the extension pruner from my outstretched arms and guided it back to its home in the shed.

Why do we write of the details of our lives? Why do I love hearing these trivia that are not trivia from the lives of others? Yesterday on a hike with a friend, I was entranced by her descriptions of how she organizes laundry and grocery shopping for her family, the book she read that helped, and the system that keeps domestic life from falling apart. It's that we're tired of having so much of daily existence be ignored, or made fun of. At the reading I did a few weeks back with artist Sara Steele, she reminded us that if women really took care of ourselves with the same attention we lavish on others, our world would be revolutionized. if we stopped playing other people's games on their terms, contorting our lives to fit, things would really change. Really. And it starts with the details, with making the details of all the work we do public.

This week's goal: finding a blog-photo-sharing system that works for Everyday Mom. Let's spice it up with some pictures!