two very different things that should really be two different post but both suck

1 - My daughter just started kindergarten. Yesterday they all had to draw a picture of their "best friend" in the class - 20 kids who met a week ago. No one drew a picture of my daughter and now she wants to know why no one likes her.

2 - I had a miscarriage on September 11, 2004. It was the last time 9/11 was on a Saturday and I spent the day in the emergency room going through the hardest thing I have ever personally experienced with no way to escape the images of the worst thing I have ever seen. I rarely dwell on it but today being Saturday again I guess makes it harder. And then I feel like an asshole all "poor me" when so many people lost so much more. And I don't think my husband remembers. And we decided to try for another baby in May and I haven't had a period since June.

I am a sad sack today.

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Tiny Rant

You know what really annoys me? When women are complaining about how much help they need at home with the day to day and they say, "What I need is a wife."

Boy, does that piss me off.

I hate that the word "wife" is considered a natural companion to "housework", "kids", "daily bullshit."

My husband and I both work full time, but his schedule is more open during the day. He takes my daughter to school every day and picks her up. He is getting better at pigtails and braids all the time. He takes her to soccer, he does the grocery shopping and the dishes and the laundry. I know sometimes it gets to him; I know it's tough.

If he EVER said that his life would be easier if he had a "wife", I would take him apart. But it would never occur to him to say that. It seems to be mostly women who use "wife" in such a manner, and I don't know man, it just irks the shit out of me.

It seems so fucking sexist. I don't know if it is being anti-sexism (like that's a thing. Is anyone pro-sexism?) or my personal situation that make me feel this way. I hate it. HATE IT.