It's Autumn Time!

Some people complain that living in the Bay Area, you don't get to appreciate the changing seasons. Bah humbug to them! I think we have fantastic seasons--especially the fall. Today my strollerobics teacher invited us to walk in her neighborhood rather than the park so that we could appreciate the changing leaves. Afterward we had cider and donuts (a true autumn treat)!


Stopping to do some jazzercise moves in the leaves...

London watching the show

Me and London with her souvenir Elephant maple leaf

The lovely spread of post-walking treats!

Partners

I must apologize, dear reader, for it has been a fortnight since I last penned an entry. Anyway, I haven't had much to say except complain about being 8 months pregnant, so I haven't posted. But at last I have something to say. At my book group meeting last week, everyone there was pregnant except one, so naturally we started talking about labor, delivery, and other womanly topics. This happens just about every time we meet because someone is always pregnant or nursing.

Well, we started sharing stories about the childbirth education classes we've taken. I was reminded how during our class the instructor never failed to refer to the guys as "partners" and how bothered Tim was by this. I'm 99% sure all of the men there were actually husbands and fathers to the mother/fetus, so was it really necessary to reduce them from "father" or "husband" to "partner" just to spare some fornicator's feelings? A partner is someone you get paired up with in the PE social dance unit or share a lab table with in chemistry class or say "howdy" to while you're riding horses. We're talking about FATHERS--men who are not only man enough to stick around when their woman gets pregnant, but to attend the fluffy classes too!

So last night I attended a mandatory parent education meeting for London's preschool co-op. In previous meetings, the same lousy term "partner" was used, so I was expecting more of the same. The difference was this time the subject was actually improving satisfaction in your marriage. Even when it was assumed everyone there was married and obviously has children, we were still referred to as "partners." Explain that one.