{"id":889,"date":"2010-05-30T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/05\/swimming-in-the-testosterone-ocean.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:52:38","slug":"swimming-in-the-testosterone-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/05\/swimming-in-the-testosterone-ocean.html","title":{"rendered":"Swimming in the Testosterone Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This morning, after Mass, I packed up my two daughters and shipped them off to their grandparents\u2019 house for the next two weeks.\u00a0 It\u2019s just me and the boys now.\u00a0 I think I may have made a mistake.\u00a0 I should have gone, too.<\/p>\n<p>I know that other women raise sons, lots of sons, without any daughters to break up the sea of blue.\u00a0 I\u2019m not those moms.\u00a0 I like girls.\u00a0 I like pink.\u00a0 With whom shall I watch TV and make snarky comments about wardrobe issues?\u00a0 This is beginning to look like a long two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>My sons and their father have already begun speaking of movie marathons, fishing expeditions, and something or other about Star Wars.\u00a0 I don\u2019t speak this language, and to be truly honest, I\u2019m not sure I want to become fluent.\u00a0 They have their father; I have the girls. 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