I'm just sayin'

There are things that can be difficult because men and women are different. We think differently. That's okay. Because there are big differences in our thinking, husbands and wives will disagree. There are things about me that are totally maddening to my husband, and after almost 23 years of married life, confuse him to no end. The same can be said for me.

Now, when one has two teenaged sons, she confronts the reality that her sweet little boys will indeed become men. It is comforting to know that they are there to remind me about the fact that, like their father, they think differently than I do. It's not fair though; my husband should have to find out what it's like to be the lone male in an female dominated home. And the warty old Beagle doesn't count as a female.

When the other female in the house is safely tucked away at school with her nose in John Milton and John Donne, the lone female in the house may find this testosterone-laden abode occasionally wearying... but I will work not to complain, because soon, they will be gone and I will miss them.

That poem I quoted earlier, by Pearse, has a line that is oh, so true... "Lord, thou art hard on mothers ... "