SL 655

~ Laura
I’m in charge of Palm Sunday dinner tomorrow. I’ll be making a potato dish, asparagus, and lamb. This roasted lamb recipe is pretty easy.

A perfect Saturday morning. Coffee and egg sandwiches from the deli. Curled up with the style mag.

Badass alert. A 2-year old Indian girl breaks national archery record.

Great essay by Philip Gourevitch in the New Yorker about the German plane crash.

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13 thoughts on “SL 655”

  2. Our Safeway has all the corned beef which didn’t sell for St Patrick’s day on sale for half off. This was a big hit with our guys.

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  3. In an earlier post you mentioned not writing as much or if at all. But I’m here to tell you (as a long time lurker) that I’ve always enjoyed reading your blog, especially the round up type posts. Thank you.

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    1. “When you’re half dead keeping three humans happy, you won’t care about your husband anymore you’re doing it wrong.”

      Fixed that for her.

      Assuming she is real, she sounds like a woman soon to be in need of a divorce lawyer.

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      1. I think it’s the work (it sounds like she used to be the sole breadwinner for a long time) plus the momming, not just momming.

        The author sounds really tightly wound, but this also sounds like a big fail on the part of her husband:

        “He often compliments me, and regularly asks if we can go away, alone, for a weekend, or at least out to lunch. I tell him I have no time for leisurely lunches, let alone two entire days away.”

        I think he’d do way better if he made an actual invitation for lunch, for a particular place and a particular time (say, Thursday or Friday at a location within five minutes of her place of work).

        It would also be a really good idea if he took it upon himself to do trip research, trip reservations and childcare arrangements. I’m assuming that part of the reason why she’s so unenthusiastic about the lunches and weekends away is that she’s assuming that she gets to do all of the research and arrangements herself on top of regular duties.

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  5. This is a little old, but I was just scanning Laura’s links and didn’t see it:

    http://www.xojane.com/issues/being-a-stay-at-home-mom-is-not-a-job

    Preliminary thoughts:

    1. This woman has one (1.00) child. Moreover, it is one (1.00) neurotypical (as far as I can tell) female child.

    2. It sounds like the author worked part-time a bunch early on and her mom took care of her kid for free.

    3. If you would normally have to pay somebody to do something if you don’t do it yourself, then yes, it is work and it is a job.

    4. “Statistically, it’s unbelievable that I was able to afford being a SAHM at all,” she says, and then says, “Ultimately, though, I made the choice not to take the first mediocre full-time job that came along that required me to not be with my daughter in her early years in exchange for a paycheck that would just go back into childcare.” Gee, I wonder if other women do the same math, too, and get the same results?

    5. I’m sure her picture of complaining in mommy groups is basically accurate. Whole lotta misogyny in this piece, though.

    6. Laura will love this line: “Whether you call it a “blessing” or a “privilege,” the fact remains that having someone else foot the bill for a lifestyle that only benefits you and your close family is by no means a “job.”” Oh, and this one: “The people out there who actually have jobs will appreciate you much more if you’re not going around whining about a way of life that is most parents’ dream.”

    7. “FUN FACT: While there are obviously labor-intensive tasks involved with running a household like cleaning and cooking, those are things every person has to do (or pay someone else to do) regardless of their status as parents, and they don’t define our life’s work.” Amy P’s FUN FACT: Homes that contain children require way more tidying, cleaning and meal preparation than homes that contain only two adults. Small children need to eat 5 or 6 times a day. Related FUN FACT: Homes that contain two children require way more tidying, cleaning and meal preparation than homes that contain only two adults and one child. Corollary FUN FACT: Homes that contain three children require more tidying, cleaning and meal preparation than homes that contain only two adults and two children. Etc, etc. The more people that live in a home, the more work that will be involved in keeping it tidy and hygienic and feeding and clothing everybody. See: the Duggars.

    The Duggars’ pantry:

    The Duggars’ laundry room:

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  6. We tried the lamb recipe for Easter after we had someone take a strident “no ham” posture. It was good, but we overcooked the lamb.

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    1. We’re still in Florida… We had a bigger lamb and had to cook it longer than the recipe said. It was totally good and easy, but we had to prepare a back up meat. Not everyone eats lamb.

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      1. We couldn’t even find one with a bone in so we had to use couple of boneless ones. We adjusted the cooking time down, but not by enough.

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