I truely beleive that being a parent makes you more emotional. I am sitting here watching “Deal or No Deal” and they have a marine in Faluja via satalite playing the game with his wife. His parents are there too and they just gave them a chance to talk to him. Everyone was crying and…
Category: Family
We Went to a Breastfeeding Rally Today!
Today I put my nummies where my mouth is and me and the girls went to a breastfeeding rally to support State Senator Connie Williams and her proposed breastfeeding legislation in the state of Pennsylvania. It was a great time and there were several news agencies there. The one statistic that she quoted amazed me…
This weeks share and a great BBQ
We went to the farm on Friday, as usual. We got lots of great stuff; green peppers, eggplant, basil, potatoes, bunching onions, garlic, carrots, zucchini and of course cucumbers. There was not lettuce this week because of the extreme heat we’ve been having. The latest crop got scorched so we won’t get lettuce for about…
Interview with R. – The woman on the plane with Barbara Walters
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn has an e-mail interview with the woman who was sitting on the plane next to BW. She is in full support of the protests that have erupted due to Walters’ comment about feeling “uncomfortable” when this woman was breastfeeding two seats over. You can read the interview here. Continue Reading…
The woman sitting on the plane next to BW may have surfaced.
A woman, R, posted to a DC mothers list serv claiming that she may be the one that offended BW on a flight from New York to DC. The text of her post was reposted with permission on a Brooklyn Blog. She is the manager of a financial firm in South Africa. I think that…
Missing the point
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks9jun09,0,2939207.story In a commentary in the LA Times Rosa Brooks an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law tells ‘lactavists’ to chill out. She goes on to state that she nursed her two children until they were 6 months old. Great! She then starts in on how hard it is to hold…
Cowards
Yesterday on The View the nurse-in was talked about breifly and BW also called in to “clarify” the situation. (see my post below). Merideth, one of the hosteses, stated that they would “latch on to the issue tomorrow”. Well I Tivod today’s episode and there was NO mention of the nurse in or the topic…
The controversy continues
I would first like to say that the quote of Barbara Walters saying that breastfeeding is “gross and discusting” which I got from the press release for the nurse in is not accurate. BW called into The View yesterday to say that she totally supports breastfeeding and it does not make her uncomfortable and that the story…