I Love Being a Woman!

I was just reading my friends blogs and it hit me. There is nothing greater than being a woman. You get email after email talking about how great girlfriends are, but they don't seem to touch it really. Maybe I can successfully put my thought into words. Nope. OK let's try a list of ideas.

What I Love about Women...
*Did you know that while males have a flight or flight defense mechanism women have a grouping mechanism. This is even true in nature. Wherever there's a herd there are very few males and many females. The females group together to support each other and the young.

* As I read my friends blogs I can see that. We may not be getting together, but we are telling each other our joys, our sorrows, our victories, and our struggles online. And what do we do? We send back messages of support and celebrate with each other.

*If you want something done in the ward who do you ask? The High Priests? The Elders Quorum? Maybe, but generally you ask the Relief Society. If you ask them you know it will not only get done but have a tablecloth and centerpiece to go with it!

*I love that I can discuss my problems with my friends and not be worried that they are going to poke fun at me and turn me into the bunt of a joke. Kent often times tells me of things that he would never mention at work because he'd be made the bunt of a joke.

*Another thing about women is their compassion for others. Women see others needs and run to help. Men often need to be called as steward over something in order to get the same reaction. They at least need to be asked. It usually doesn't occur to them to help on their own.

*Women are strong. Today I took Braxton to the Dr. office (wellness checkup) and there was a woman there with her 9-month-old twins and she told me that she is expecting a baby when the twins will be 15-months-old. Wow, that woman has got to be strong to handle all those kids. Kudos to her!

*When a woman is a mom and works outside the home, she works all day long. Many (is most fair?) men go to work and come home needing a break from working.

*Women are beautiful. A woman will spend hours to look perfect and have no idea how beautiful she is. Men shower and wear deodorant and they are good to go and feel as though they are hot stuff. I think this is best depicted in the cartoon with the slender woman looking in the mirror and seeing a fat woman while the fat man looks into the mirror and see a very muscular slender man.

*Finally if not for women there wouldn't be any good men. First of all we give birth to them. Second we raise them with the values only a woman could instill. Third we intrigue them into being better men to attract us. Then finally they marry us and will do anything to try and please us... which usually makes them better men.

*How many apostles would say they got where they are without the help of their wives? I would be shocked if even one said that. Most often they say how wonderful their wives are and how they NEVER would be where they were without her.

*So I want to celebrate the "good woman" (for Kari) in me. I want to celebrate that I am a woman. I am happy to accept myself with my faults and all because without me the world would be a darker and more unhappy place. YEAH FOR WOMEN!