That's funny, Simone, I don't remember you ever posting that when you're sick you take yourself over to DH's so he can look after you? One day this ride's gonna stop and he's gonna wonder why he's not allowed back on!! I can't wait for that day, Sim :hugs:
Bath- p!ss weak parents like that drive me nuts too! Stand your ground, it's your house. I hope the shopping helps your mood!
Oscar is on my lap but about to be evicted...
Mel - nothing happening that hasn't been happening since the CFA's conception; "it's a man's world", still.
Well, I've put up a notice of motion for our next meeting to get anchor points put into our new brigade car, as one of the main reasons we got it was for the use of the Running Team...which is made up predominantly of families. When we go away for the Eastern or State Championships the mummies and single girls who aren't in the team usually head out for part of the day to take in the sights of the host town. This means we usually take a few cars to get to the same place. Now that we have the van we are supposed to be able to all go together...but with no kids obviously, cos there are no anchor points. So, I got a quote for two. Until yesterday no-one had put their name in favour and one (contrary) person had put their name against it, for whatever reason. It has had no support whatsoever and lots of "what does she want to do that for?" when I'm not around. Now they probably think I only want it to benefit myself because of Oscar. Not so. It was supposed to benefit anyone with a child who uses a restraint if we want to cart around at a comp or even TO a comp and save on cars headed to the same place. It is supposed to benefit any other member who has a child or any future member who has a child. It's a starting point to put money where mouths are when we spout "it's a family friendly brigade". I can see that the people with older kids who won't use the points are being big naysayers, as well as people with no kids on the horizon. The captain can't put his name to it because he has a blanket policy not to, but he will speak in favour of it and vote for it at the meeting. DP won't put his name to it because he wanted to put it after someone else had so that he wouldn't look too biased (ummm, he's going to look biased anyway, so why not just lend me visible support from the outset). Not only that, what if one of the daddies wanted to bring a child to something? I'm not just thinking of mummies. However, everyone else seems to be regarding me now as a mummy who should just stick to that and not try to fight the 'system' (i.e. patriarchal) and make things change to cater for mummies who want to be involved. Well, this is just the start as far as I am concerned. The thing is, I am now thinking of pulling the motion and instead reading out a letter at the meeting stating my disappointment and my reasons (and an apology to my seconder). It's going to be resoundly defeated anyway. We've voted on much, much less useful stuff before and it's gone through. The thing is, DP got home last night after a job and it was discussed. He said it's not going to go through. I started to get agitated and said that I may as well resign (ok, so it was peppered with swear words...and I didn't mean it!). Also, yesterday we were discussing going away on strike teams for the fires in the East. I said that I could do an Incident Command Centre (ICC) job and take Oscar. Well, more wet blankets came out. Pretty much based on presumptions, because the wet blankets have never worked in ICC's and don't realise that a member with a young baby actually could still be of use in a campaign! Women should not have to pretend that they are men to be included. We should be accomodated on our own terms. Anyway, my musing extend beyond this little brief, but I won't bore you with it any more. I'm going to write it down and try to get it out at the meeting. At which I'm sure to attract disapproval because I'm going to take Oscar (why can't both of us attend? Oscar won't take the bottle so he can't be left with anyone!).
ok, now for brekky...meeting a friend for lunch...