ra gave me a silver necklace for christmas. steph has one too. it’s a coven thing, ra says. it has a very true statement engraved on it: “well behaved women rarely make history”.

it was too much fun tonight, getting out the house and hanging with my girls. yesterday with delle, tonight with the wildechicks.. this week has been hard on me. it’s been much harder than i ever could have conceived to jump into parenthood and be half a mom. i really didn’t expect it to be so exhausting, frustrating, and utterly unforgiving.. and it TOTALLY is. i have a newfound respect for parents in general.. but stepparents have gained a new love in my heart.

it is just something else entirely to raise a child from the beginning, but to come in half way and try to NOT exude all of your personal feelings about child-rearing. you have to keep your distance and try and bite your tongue while still helping to maintain peace and order in your own house.

i think i’ve been fairly one-sided in this discussion so far.. which is unfair. bryan has been more than accomodating so far. and The Boy is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a bad child. he’s just been reared differently than i was raised. and things that i find important and worth fighting for, bryan’s been great about backing me on.

but you know what i think? i think the most crucial part of child-rearing is having a coven to vent to. we talked about thumb-sucking, talked about gamecubes, talked about how we all were raised and how it could be incorporated in my house.

it’s networking. for, like, real life.

it’s a coven thing. priceless.