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		<title>Growing as a Person, a Blogger and a Mommy</title>
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		<dc:creator>That Would Be Me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I was a member (and president) of a moms club.  For 3 years I ate, drank and breathed that club.  I became friends with most of the members, our children played together.  I organized playdates and I was having a ball.  It was just like a sorority. But there was one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not too long ago, I was a member (and president) of a moms club.  For 3 years I ate, drank and breathed that club.  I became friends with most of the members, our children played together.  I organized playdates and I was having a ball.  <strong>It was just like a sorority</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>But there was one problem&#8230;it was just like a sorority</strong>.</p>
<p>Then I started blogging on the old site and I had a ball.  I was able to talk to the Internets in a way that I couldn&#8217;t talk to real people.  <strong>I could write about the things that pissed me off and not have to worry about appearances or hurt feelings</strong>.  I was just one of many women on the Interwebs who were fed up with the falseness that seems to always accompany Suburbia&#8230;.like the moms who you KNOW have a secret stash of Reeses Whipps (don&#8217;t we all?), but in public will only admit to having a single Green &amp; Black&#8217;s Organic chocolate bar&#8230;that they have slowly been eating for a month.</p>
<p>And so I continued to write, until <strong>that one fateful evening when another member of &#8220;the club&#8221; took me aside and told me that she found my blog</strong> and wasn&#8217;t happy about it and that I should watch out or I could piss off the people in the club.</p>
<p><strong>I was dutifully cowed&#8230;and pretty much gave up blogging for the last 6 months</strong>.  I switched all my energies to my <a href="http://www.momsneedtoknow.com" target="_blank">other site</a>.  After a few weeks, I convinced myself that I didn&#8217;t miss the &#8220;mommy blog scene&#8221; at all&#8230;I was now a &#8220;Frugal Blogger&#8221;.  I was hanging out with the nice people&#8230;not the &#8221;bad&#8221; people who will call a spade a spade and admit to feeding their kids Cookie Crisp for dinner.</p>
<p><strong>Except that I do sometimes feed my kids Cookie Crisp for dinner.  With a glass of chocolate milk.  And a brownie for dessert.</strong></p>
<p>And I&#8217;m tired of hiding it.  I miss my mommy blogger friends (even if they don&#8217;t want to be called a mommy blogger).  I miss being able to get shit off my chest.</p>
<p>I miss typing the word &#8220;fuck&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>My old blog has been made private, although the contents have been transferred here</strong>.  It is my hope that it makes me a little less &#8220;findable&#8221;.  But the truth is?  I no longer care.  I have all but dropped out of my moms club.  I am not pretending to be friends with people whose company I don&#8217;t truly enjoy.  Life is just too damn short.  The people from that club who I am still friends with (and there are many) are not people that I will be bitching about anyway.</p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m done hiding.  I&#8217;m done caring about what people think.</strong></p>
<p>And if they find me here and don&#8217;t like what they read?</p>
<p>Fuck &#8216;em!</p>
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