I was trying to get DD to sleep last night and after an hour of battling with her, I found myself thinking about being still pregnant (39 weeks on Thursday--not really that long) and getting ready to deliver again. Aack! I was feeling very weary when what I think of as my life metaphor occurred to me again. I thought I would share since it seems so appropriate for a lot of the concerns and questions it seems we are having lately.
Whenever things get tough for me, especially with mothering and pregnancy, I think about pioneer women and how they did it. They crossed the prairie pregnant, in dresses--and bloomers of all things, in the heat!--and covered wagons and killed their own dinners and farmed their own food and had babies, sometimes completely alone or IN the covered wagon crossing the prairie, and, and, and. And when I have questions about the right thing to do, sometimes I just think "What would I do if I was a pioneer woman?"
So, if they could do it then, I can do this too, with my birthing tub and my air conditioning and my Pandora play list and my chiropractic appointments, etc. Thank goodness I don't have to do it bloomers, but I like to draw on the strength of all of those women who have done this before me under much harder conditions.
Whenever things get tough for me, especially with mothering and pregnancy, I think about pioneer women and how they did it. They crossed the prairie pregnant, in dresses--and bloomers of all things, in the heat!--and covered wagons and killed their own dinners and farmed their own food and had babies, sometimes completely alone or IN the covered wagon crossing the prairie, and, and, and. And when I have questions about the right thing to do, sometimes I just think "What would I do if I was a pioneer woman?"
So, if they could do it then, I can do this too, with my birthing tub and my air conditioning and my Pandora play list and my chiropractic appointments, etc. Thank goodness I don't have to do it bloomers, but I like to draw on the strength of all of those women who have done this before me under much harder conditions.
they are really wonderful! i wear nothing but full length dresses because they are functional for my lifestyle (farm, milking a cow, gardening, being hugely pregnant) and bloomers underneath keep the bees out! that is a real benefit- we have 4 beehives.
