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Jan. 8th, 2010 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaDid I mention that Michael and I are co-teaching OWL this spring?
This weekend is the first overnight. The kids arrived at the church at six to have dinner, do a session, and play games. Tomorrow we'll do two more sessions and wrap up at 3:30pm. Michael and I will have childcare for the regular weekly sessions, but we're doing the overnight by swapping off. So Alex, Colin, and I went to church to have dinner with the OWL kids, and then I brought my children home and Michael stayed to do the evening session with our co-teacher Laura. Tomorrow morning, he'll stay home with the kids and I'll go do a session with Laura. In the afternoon, he'll bring the kids down to church and he and I will trade off watching them and being in the session. It's complicated, but it works for us.
All this is by way of explanation so that I can now make this remark:
If your teenager can look at a woman who is nursing and ask "Is that your baby?" ...your kid is probably overdue for OWL.
Just sayin'.
(Also, hooray! I forgot that I have an OWL icon.)
This weekend is the first overnight. The kids arrived at the church at six to have dinner, do a session, and play games. Tomorrow we'll do two more sessions and wrap up at 3:30pm. Michael and I will have childcare for the regular weekly sessions, but we're doing the overnight by swapping off. So Alex, Colin, and I went to church to have dinner with the OWL kids, and then I brought my children home and Michael stayed to do the evening session with our co-teacher Laura. Tomorrow morning, he'll stay home with the kids and I'll go do a session with Laura. In the afternoon, he'll bring the kids down to church and he and I will trade off watching them and being in the session. It's complicated, but it works for us.
All this is by way of explanation so that I can now make this remark:
If your teenager can look at a woman who is nursing and ask "Is that your baby?" ...your kid is probably overdue for OWL.
Just sayin'.
(Also, hooray! I forgot that I have an OWL icon.)
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Date: 2010-01-09 03:35 am (UTC)But beyond that, that sucks. I'm sorry.
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Date: 2010-01-09 03:45 am (UTC)Honestly, I've been expecting it. It's not just white women - black women who *are* nannies have assumed I am my son's nanny. When I was growing up, most people assumed I was adopted by my mother. She always set them straight. It's interesting to watch and see the reactions though.
What I think is weirdest, is that he's not really that light. We are basically the same color, but since I have kinky hair, I'm percieved as being darker than I am. Very weird.
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Date: 2010-01-09 05:07 am (UTC)