The last two days were cold, but today was better. We took the twins down to the pier today, it was windy, but not bad in the sun. They really love it when they get out in the world. They just look around. Even in the winter time when they were taken out, they were so covered up and then the stroller top was often pulled down, so they really didn't see anything. Today at the Cobble Hill Park Gigi and Tess saw kids and we met another set of twins, 8 1/2 months old. All the new parents are checking one another out. Its like everybody's discovered a whole new part of the world-parents!
The mother of twins said that her "milk dried up at 4 months" when she went back to work.I asked her if she read the article in the New York Magazine about the "feminist housewife". She shook her head no, and really, what did it matter?
Jordan was saying when we talked about it that women around the world have always worked, its just the "upper middle class" woman now is talking about staying at home.
The debates will never end for women are eternally divided within their working self and their mothering self, that is I believe, as long as work is seen as something separate from mothering. Women's definition of work and men's is different I believe. Men can go at something 150% for ever. They are a rocket going into the sky. Women are a circle that brings life into it. Their power is their relationships and their family. They multi-task easily. One hand is holding a bottle, another hand is feeding a two year old, another hand is talking on the telephone. SOmetimes its hard for them to "single" task.
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