{"id":683,"date":"2013-02-15T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/permissiontolive\/?p=683"},"modified":"2013-02-15T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:26:52","slug":"happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/permissiontolive\/2013\/02\/happenings.html","title":{"rendered":"Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Every once in a while when I get a bunch of small posts that aren\u2019t really big enough to be a post of their own, I do a hodge-podge post. So here\u2019s the latest.<\/p>\n

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On the drive home from dropping people off in the morning.<\/p>\n

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Ms Drama<\/strong>: Mom do you looove the hair on your chin?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Um, I don\u2019t know? (What a weird question!)<\/p>\n

Ms Drama<\/strong>: You know, because it helps you win when you play video games.<\/p>\n

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This is what comes of saying things like \u201cI barely squeaked by there! Won by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!\u201d<\/p>\n

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So I was at work doing dishes and my co-worker was on break. So I decided to call Haley and chat while I scrubbed. That was when my phone gave me the \u201cemergency calls only\u201d notification and refused to put through my call. I tried a couple more times with no success. I concluded that the snowstorm must be worse than I thought, maybe a cell tower was down, or maybe the city had shut down cell service because they had to have all the lines to keep up with the amount of emergency calls that were coming in.<\/p>\n

For the next few days I would periodically check on my phone and it continued to tell me I had no service. Since I had paid the phone bill on time I started to suspect that something was wrong with my provider, but this happened in the middle of a week where I worked 7 nights straight, so I wasn\u2019t able to go in to the store and find out what was going wrong. So I carried a phone that couldn\u2019t make or receive calls for like 5 days.<\/p>\n

One night when Haley and I should have been sleeping but instead were awake and whispering in bed again, I was complaining about my phone and Haley was like \u201cwell you should call in about it.\u201d I was like \u201c I can\u2019t! My phone doesn\u2019t work!\u201d And she said \u201c well, you could use my phone.\u201d And I was like \u201c No, I need to go in and show them, on\u00a0 the phone they always say stuff like \u201cmam, do you have your phone turned on?\u201d we snickered some more. \u201cYeah\u201d said Haley, \u201cthe customer service people always assume you\u2019re a complete idiot.\u201d I thought for a minute. \u201cActually, now that I think about it I haven\u2019t tried turning my phone off and then back on again, I wonder if that would fix it.\u201d Haley: \u201cUm yeah, you might want to try that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure enough, my phone is back to working normally again. Call it a rookie mistake, I\u2019ve only had a cell phone for like 9 months.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0 my mission to accept every body<\/a>, I have come upon a puzzling conundrum. My daughters don\u2019t know yet that our culture thinks it is bad to be fat. They call me snugly. They compliment my soft curves. My 4 year old laughs when she \u201cbeats\u201d me in a race and declares that I am probably slower than her because my butt is so much bigger than hers.<\/p>\n

Fat is not a bad word to them, it is a descriptive adjective the same as thin or tall or short. I have never heard them talk about larger people with disgust. They see size as part of the variety of humanity. Some people have dark skin, some people have light skin, some people have short hair, some people have long hair, some people are thin, some people are fat, all of those things are nice things to be.<\/p>\n

The other morning while Ms Action was getting ready for school, she plopped onto the floor and leaned against my side. She said \u201cI like it when Tina is in class, because then I get to sit by her and she is fat and soft like you.\u201d\u00a0 I immediately felt worried that my daughter might innocently call this\u00a0child fat, and possibly hurt her feelings unintentionally.<\/p>\n

I said something about how some people think that fat isn\u2019t a good way to be, so it might not be a good idea to call people fat.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t making sense to me even as I said it,\u00a0 and Ms Action seemed kind of incredulous and reacted in a \u201cwhatever mom\u201d kind of way. On the one hand I\u2019m thrilled that they don\u2019t see some bodies as better than others, on the other hand, I\u2019m not sure how to teach them to be kind and careful with their words.<\/p>\n

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