Is It Wrong To Think This Is Funny?

I don’t think I am the perfect mother.  I let my child eat candy every now and  then, I let him have a sip of my coke (which he calls “soda” thanks to my New Englander husband) but I stick to a schedule, he eats fruits and vegetables and we read every night before bedtime.  So you can imagine my horror when his daycare teacher pulled me aside the other morning to tell me what happened in class that day.  They were sitting down to breakfast and the teacher asked each child what they wanted to drink.  Each one responded, “Milk.”  And then she asked, “Foster, do you want milk or juice.”  To which he responded, “Ummmm, I think I’ll have beer.”

Entitled?

I know I go through spurts; I wish I could be a regular blogger and publish my thoughts every week on the same day, and I am trying.  Such is the life of someone who is trying to fit this in on top of everything else.  But, if you are reading this, you already know this.  I normally talk about my trials and tribulations with my kids or with money (or both) but today I am going to touch on something that I haven’t done yet – current events.  I try to stay away from politics because my job requires me to, especially in big election years and world news depresses me, but I read something today that I find appalling and I had to voice it.  I just read an article about Rielle Hunter’s new book (for those of you who don’t know, Ms. Hunter is the former mistress of former Senator John Edwards) (so proud to say I am from NC because of that man….) In her “tell-all” book she writes of her relationship with this man, which I find funny because if anyone ever saw him walking the beach on 4^th of July in Wrightsville Beach, there is no way they can picture him the way she describes it.  But, you are wondering what the appalling part is….well, as I am giggling to myself, trying to imagine Mr. Edwards as a dominating man in the bedroom, the article goes on to say how much Ms. Hunter despised Mr. Edwards now-late wife.  Screech…..are you kidding me?  I realize it takes two for a marriage to work and a marriage to fall apart, but wasn’t Ms. Edwards the innocent victim in this?  Didn’t her husband vow to “for better, for worse….forsaking no other?”  So, if Ms. Edwards was mad and showed her “less than Southern” lady-like behavior, wasn’t she entitled?  Wasn’t she entitled to be a little upset and maybe a little hostile towards the woman that participated in the affair that led to the demise of her marriage, all the while battling a terminal illness that she knew was going to leave her children without a mother?  Isn’t she (and all of the other women in this world that it happens to) entitled?