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When I was a kid, my mother played Mah Jongg every Thursday night. She played with four other Jewish mothers. They'd rotate whose house they played at, so once a month, we had the women around the kitchen table, clacking down tiles, drinking cream soda and nibbling Hershey's Miniatures that mom set out in little glass bowls.
This was my idea of womanhood, what we were supposed to grow up to be; I always assumed that, as I grew older, I would learn to play Mah Jongg... I've been assuming this up until recently, imagining that, at some point, Elayna will help me fill the little glass bowls with Hershey's Miniatures and run off to play Barbies with so-and-so's daughter in her room, occasionally peeking in on us moms and being gently shooed away.
I've just had an epiphany.
I am never going to be a Mah Jongg mom. I've pretty much never had three female friends at the same time anyway - I hang out mostly with guys. And no one I know knows how to play Mah Jongg. And I don't have little designated glass dishes for the Hershey's Miniatures - I have a Sailor Moon apothecary jar for the Dove Promises.
I am going to be a D&D mom. I'll be sitting around the kitchen table, gaming, with men *and* women, some of whom are not parents, drinking Coke and coffee instead of cream soda. And that's the image of womanhood my daughter's going to grow up wth.
I like that. :)
When I was a kid, my mother played Mah Jongg every Thursday night. She played with four other Jewish mothers. They'd rotate whose house they played at, so once a month, we had the women around the kitchen table, clacking down tiles, drinking cream soda and nibbling Hershey's Miniatures that mom set out in little glass bowls.
This was my idea of womanhood, what we were supposed to grow up to be; I always assumed that, as I grew older, I would learn to play Mah Jongg... I've been assuming this up until recently, imagining that, at some point, Elayna will help me fill the little glass bowls with Hershey's Miniatures and run off to play Barbies with so-and-so's daughter in her room, occasionally peeking in on us moms and being gently shooed away.
I've just had an epiphany.
I am never going to be a Mah Jongg mom. I've pretty much never had three female friends at the same time anyway - I hang out mostly with guys. And no one I know knows how to play Mah Jongg. And I don't have little designated glass dishes for the Hershey's Miniatures - I have a Sailor Moon apothecary jar for the Dove Promises.
I am going to be a D&D mom. I'll be sitting around the kitchen table, gaming, with men *and* women, some of whom are not parents, drinking Coke and coffee instead of cream soda. And that's the image of womanhood my daughter's going to grow up wth.
I like that. :)
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Just you wait 'til July. Once you get out here you won't wanna go back. We'll get you a gig at UW and a house in Ballard and you won't have to suffer those long hot summers anymore... and you'll have plenty of gamers to mom. After all, this is the home of Wizards of the Coast... :)
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I used to have a werewolf group (that makes me a Werewolf mommy?) but like most gaming groups they all just stopped showing up one day. (I think the couple broke up and I guess everyone moved after that)
My oldest son has started gaming after school with his friends... so I guess watching mom (and his dad when we were still together) game might have had an effect on him.
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I'm an RPG daddy! LOL
And, I'm going to raise my son on RPG's. I think Marvel Superheroes is a good way to start, although I might just get him going on the Heroe's system.
Hmmm
bwhaha. this tickled me. :)
-elf-