Comments for Hurricane Tankersley

Comment on It’s gonna be a weird year. by Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:39:40 +0000

Shelly, I learned everything I know about throwing everything in the kitchen into a pot from you. I bow to the master.

Comment on It’s gonna be a weird year. by Shelly

Shelly — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:50:00 +0000

I can relate to this on a 100 different occasions. High five for you for sticking it out.

Comment on With friends like this by Darlene

Darlene — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:41:28 +0000

I agree. Lori, you are awesome and Jessica you are sweet and I’m gonna throw in awesome for you, too! Love reading your blogs, but I love being around you better. Get your booty here soon!

Comment on With friends like this by Lori

Lori — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:00:05 +0000

You’re so sweet! Move back. We can double team the town with our awesomeness.

Comment on It’s gonna be a weird year. by Lori

Lori — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:25:47 +0000

Photo #2 is definitely more appetizing than photo #1. This post cracked me up!

Comment on Didn’t Make the Cut by Lori

Lori — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:58:50 +0000

I’ve pretty much given up getting a “good” shot of my family.

Comment on Didn’t Make the Cut by Heather Briggs

Heather Briggs — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:35:28 +0000

Thank goodness we aren’t the only ones with the same conundrum! I’ve yet to capture a picture worthy this year. I guess they will be President’s Day cards or maybe even St. Patrick’s Day cards. Oh well….green beer and the Briggs Clan…not so bad I guess

GREAT pics! Love and miss you guys!,

Comment on So, what does that make ME? by AJC

AJC — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:17:43 +0000

When I first stayed home with my son, I felt so guilty. I felt like I was going out and spending money (even though I just went grocery shopping – never anything extravagant) and contributing nothing. Then we opened a business and I was working more than full time all of a sudden.

So now, I don’t get the time with my son or my husband that I want, and my husband has to pick up all the slack of errands, cooking, and cleaning. When he’s keeping my son while I work, he’s either too busy or too exhausted to teach him the things he wants to teach him. When I’m keeping my son I’m preparing for the work day.

Only now do I understand the contributions me staying home made – making life easier on my husband so he could do his job happily and come home and relax. Hopefully I will be staying home again in a few months, and I will view it from a much different (and better) perspective. I won’t be able to say proudly I’m a small business owner, but I will be proud to know I am giving my husband and son everything they need.

I love this blog. So much of this is not said enough, and I completely agree with you.

Comment on So, what does that make ME? by Evan

Evan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:37 +0000

Oh and BY THE WAY…. Seriously, what will you be more proud of when you’re 80 years old, a successful career or successful children?

Hurricane Tankersley, enough said!!

Comment on So, what does that make ME? by Evan

Evan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:28:59 +0000

I thought about your words all night, Jess. If you ask my kids what I do all day, they would say clean, cook, and take naps (ha!). However, when I think back about what MY mom did all day, I remember now that she cooked, cleaned, took (very short) naps but THEN, she went back to school for a graduate degree and worked part-time. She involved us in her studying too. She would practice her speech therapy games with us and take us to the office to try out the hearing test equipment. I’m sure we only went once or twice to the office as kids, but it was memorable.

I can’t believe how much I admire that now. I want to involve my kids in what I like to do and show them how to study in school and get a job, and further, enjoy and get BETTER at that job.

Matt’s even so awesome as to watch the kids while I work. Either at home or running around town. And he tells the kids what I’m doing. They see him go to work and they see me working (not a lot, but enough that they know I work outside the kitchen.) My cousin is a stay-at-home Dad and his wife is a doctor. I hope my girls consider that one day too. Even if it’s unlikely, I hope they know it’s an option. How liberating is it knowing you have a choice.

I’ve chosen the life of cleaning up poop and goldfish FOR NOW. And you should have seen the blow-out we had this morning in the girl’s room. OMG. Maybe I’m talking more to myself now than you, but your post really hit home.