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Ok, Momo (Sara) got me thinking about how some us can be hypocrites in one respect or another... so I thought we could have some fun with it. Can you think of something, that you'd be willing to share, so we can laugh at ourselves and throw popcorn at each other for being hypocritical? Come on girls? Are we just only perfect?
I'll go first... I draft wells and pipelines for, eventually, the oil industry (which we export to the US.)... yet I voted for the Green Party.
I don't think there is one person out there who can say they aren't a hypocrite in some way.
Ok, mine.... Um, I am sometimes the hardest on people who have made the same mistakes I have. (I can also be hard on myself too).
I also say that I need to love everybody and I really do want to love everybody but there are some people that are nearly impossible for me to love. I just can't love them on my own I guess, I need God's help for that one!
Ok, those are two.... I could go on!
__________________ ~Sara~
Clara's here! 5/13/11
I love my two handsome boys!!!
Jetty - 8/06
Jude - 9/08
(Oh yeah, it was that fur topic!) I agree, we all have something for sure and I though maybe it could be fun to chit chat about... thanks for your two Sara!
Umm, I know I have lots too... so trying to narrow it down it tough!
I claim to be compassionate yet to the people I love the most, I sure could use some more! (I'm working on it!)
I live in Alberta, home of beef pride. I've grown up on it and love it. I used to eat it daily but now it's like once a week. (I eat lots of chicken in between.)
Now I'm all against animal cruelity but then I eat beef. I know they're treated pretty good but it's not the easiest thing to stomach - the slaughter of a one ton cow. I know we use the skin for leather too but it's really made and killed for it's meat. So I wanted to know what you girls think. I've considered being a vegetarian for years but as soon as I shy away from meat, I CRAVE it...
I think its different when it is a cow. Why...I have no idea. All I know is that Beef is GOOD (and its what's for dinner) I could never be a veggy. I love pork, beef ect.
Maybe for me it's that I preach a bit about education to my teenage nieces & how important it is, etc (of course because I worry so much for their future - brilliant girls) and I never have reallly believed you need an education to make it...what education I do have has NOTHING to do with what I do now. I didn't really do the typical - high school straight to college thing & I don't regret it at all.
If they don't go to college right off, but appear to be handling their "business" fine, being responsible, etc. It's unlikelythat I would say anything more (unless they weer looking for hte encouragement) - but I do want them to go to college, because it takes a certain scrappiness & personality to make a go of it without a degree & I think it's probably an easier path in adulthood with that piece of paper.
This may not seem very hypocritical to you ladies, but if my nieces read this, they'd probably have a thing or 2 to say about it. I just love 'em too much & I believe they could have the world with the right choices.
__________________ B - Crazy momma to my two boys
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ~Sigmund Freud
My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy. ~Author Unknown
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. ~Walter M. Schirra, Sr. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. - Harold Hulbert
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet
Okay- I am always harping to my kids and husband that it is important to be punctual. They are always late for practice, school, appt. whatever. I am always blah, blah, blah you need to improve. Two weeks ago, as I was scrambling (late for work) I jumped in my car and backed out-um- with the garage door still closed. My husband says he is never going to fix the garage door because everytime I harp at him for being late he can just point at it and smirk. Ughh he's got me
i am always yelling at my fiance for making a mess yet i leave a trail of wrappers, containers, cans everywhere i have been lol! but its hard when you have a screaming baby!
I can be a hypocrite about ALOT of things, but hey, at least I can admit it!! I hate it when people speed on the roads but yet I love NASCAR. When I used to babysit my cousin (he was 3 at the time) he would hit my sister and I'd slap him on the hand and tell him not to hit! How confusing to him was that?!?!
