bloggin moms

There is a thriving intellectual forum for hot political and social debate happening. It's not at the local college. It's not happening on the white house steps. It's not in your local chamber of commerse. It's probably happening right next door, in your neighbor's living room. It could be going on right now while the coffee brews. I'm talking people getting online and expressing themselves.

Recently myself and a couple friends have created a trifecta of mommy blogs. But it's not just a group of posts about how our kids pottied on the potty seat or our husband left the ketsup on the counter. We've come together to support each other's dreams of becoming artists, activists, journalists, and artisans. We're sharing ideas on everything from breast feeding to the legalization of marijuana. We're exchanging opinions on the healthiest foods, best forms of government, and the most productive ways to manage our low incomes. And we aren't the only ones.

Women from all over not only the country but the world are coming together in cyber-space to create activist groups and both formally and informally express themselves, their beliefs and their opinions. Stay at home moms with babies attatched to their breasts are writing college level English class worthy essays on world ills and beauties. These woman are doing scientific and social research, citing their sources, interviewing professionals, and passing their findings on to the next mom sitting at her computer bouncing a toddler on her leg.

I see here a beatiful opportunity for women to make themselves known, heard, and understood like never before. Powerful and educated women have been forging their way through a male dominated world for the last few decades, but those of us that are strong and opinionated but also desire to start families and be mothers have been often left out of the hot topics and discussion because of our inability to become involved. That simply is no longer a problem.

We're taking the issues into our own hands. We're writing letters in the form of e-mails to senators and companies. We're sharing all that negative information big businesses and industries don't want you to know. We're rallying together for our rights and freedoms. We're making ourselves heard, hearing one another, and lifting each other up.

Stay at home moms are becoming a new force to be reckoned with. So next time you see the woman in the grocery store with four kids and hair sticking out in all directions I want you to think twice about sneering your superiority and realize this is a strong and intellegent woman who simply has made a choice, and who now has a voice and the ability to make a difference. Offer some respect to the dignity of her post.

Hope you all have a good week end!!