Ms. asked me questions. If you want questions say so in comments.
1) How would you say motherhood has changed the essential you, or has it?
Well… I’m not sure. There are big parts of me that motherhood has changed drastically. I’m no longer quite as out there sexually as I once was. I miss that. I’m not sure if it will really come back how it was. And that was the largest part of my identity once upon a time so this is pretty hard for me. Other than that I don’t feel like I’ve changed that much. I’m still bossy and aggressive and rather a control freak. 🙂
2) What does the Christmas season mean to you? What would you like for it to mean to Shanna? Are there traditions you would like to see her grow up with?
Oh man. This is interesting to me. I know what I would like the Christmas season to mean but I’m not sure if I’m there. I would like Christmas time to be when I slow down and look at how awesome my life is and how many wonderful people I have in my life. I like giving presents because I get to show people a very small portion of my affection for them that way. I’m totally a feeder. That’s a lot of why I love making cookies and giving them away. 🙂 I think that I would like Shanna to see Christmas as a time of joyous anticipation. Not just because she is getting presents, but because she will get to see people and do things that are special to this time of year. Next year she will be old enough to help with most of the things I would like us to have as traditions: making cookies, decorating, dancing to cheesy Christmas music, going to look at Christmas lights, cuddling up and reading books while looking at the Christmas tree.
3) Do you miss teaching in a classroom?
More than I’ve ever missed anyone or anything in my life. It’s a near constant ache. That is the thing I have done the best of anything I have ever done. That was me at my best. And it feels like it is gone.
Yours are always insightful. I’ll take some questions.
Oh crud, that’s pressure…
1. If you got to design an ice cream flavor that was kind of weird, what would you want?
2. The grass is always greener. Where would you like to live in the world and why do you imagine it might be better?
3. How many children are your optimal number and why?
4. What movie have you seen in the past year that stimulated strong emotion in you (good or bad), what was it, and why?
5. If you got to run a classroom anyway you wanted without regard for ‘school rules’ how would that look?
Sure, why not. I keep doing these question things, might as well do another one. 🙂
1. What is your favorite smell and why?
2. Which poet do you like a lot and why?
3. What dance do you like the best?
4. What is an ideal Friday night for you?
5. Do you think you will ever feel comfortable in your skin?
Sure, go ahead!
Good timing; I am sitting down and doing this right now. 🙂
1. What is hardest for you in dealing with class stuff. (Like social class, not math class.)
2. In what ways do you feel privileged? In what ways do you feel you are told you get privilege and you don’t feel you do?
3. You have mentioned that you play music for you, what do you get out of playing music? How can you get that from another place?
4. How do you feel influenced by colors?
5. Do you feel it is ever possible to really stop mourning the people we lose?
questions please!