I am excited for Angela! She is going to her first BlogHer convention in New York, New York.

She has never been there and really doesn't enjoy big cities so we will see how this all pans out for her. She can't wait to meet some of the people that she follows and I hope that she has an amazing, wonderful time there. She will be missed here at the homestead but we will all plug along for a few days without her.

It was funny, the other week Angela was talking to her mother on the phone and they were discussing her impending travel to the convention... Her mother wondered how I was going to be on my own with three children and her 'gone!' I had to laugh. Angela's mother knows full well that I am the one who takes care of the kids all day. I am the one who cleans house and cooks the meals and does most of the shopping with and without the children in tow. It makes me shake my head that even though Jan (Angela's mom) knows this intellectually, she still falls back on old stereotypes when a quick thought passes.

Times are changing and men are not the bumbling, brutish, know-nothings that earn a paycheck and then collapse on the sofa or special armchair. I love being the one the girls come to at all hours. I love cooking and get a sense of real accomplishment when the house looks good and toys aren't in all the hallways and covering the rooms. It will take another generation possibly for the intrenched attitudes to change, but I think that they will change.