… you have ever nursed a baby while stirring a boiling pot of spaghetti sauce while talking on the phone about planning the annual church rummage sale which you volunteered for as committee chair….
… you have balanced a screeching hot paper thin cardboard mug of coffee that was searing your fingertips while driving and handing out burgers and fries on the way to the rink….
… you’ve cared for an ailing parent (or partner) dealt with doctors, nurses, hospitals and eventually funeral arrangements all while managing your own real life, including your own caseload at work, three kids and a dog.
…driven to Calgary for a meeting, then caught the red-eye to Toronto with your boss to meet with investors and flown back within 36 hours, all so you wouldn’t miss your boyfriend’s sister’s bridal shower… which you happily agreed to host at your house!
… your ‘day off’ included catching up on the laundry, going to visit grandma in the nursing home and driving all over hell’s half acre to get the kids where they would like to be: a birthday party at the bowling alley, the swimming pool and a friend’s house in the country….
… calved out cattle, administered antibiotics to a calf with scours, beheaded, plucked and cleaned chickens, drove a grain truck, cleaned out stalls and laid fresh bedding, used a front end loader or planted, weeded and harvested a garden or field of any sort…
… you’ve lost any significant amount of weight and committed to any sort of a regular physical activity routine… AND maintained both for over one years… you go girl!
… you used your lunch hour from work to assist your child’s teacher in hosting the Valentine’s party… and you stayed up until 11:45pm baking and frosting pink cupcakes…
… you planned the annual work picnic for 40 employees and their families, complete with games, a campfire and a sing-a-long
… you can change the filter in your furnace, fill the wiper fluid and oil in your car and build any boxed product that comes ‘ready-to-assemble’ in 322 tiny pieces with a Phillips head screwdriver and an Allan key. Move over big boy…
… you had a c-section or appendix out or a tubal and came home from the hospital to a busy family who didn’t understand that you might have needed a little rest…
… you have made soup and a costume for the play, done the ironing, cleaned the toilets and baked banana muffins WHILE you had influenza and a sinus infection….
… you’ve ever caught barf, scrubbed soiled cloth diapers in the toilet, picked out a green slimy booger when a tissue wasn’t handy, mopped up dog piddle or cleaned any type of fish or poultry with your bare hands…
THEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE A REAL WOMAN ON THE RUN!
… you have balanced a screeching hot paper thin cardboard mug of coffee that was searing your fingertips while driving and handing out burgers and fries on the way to the rink….
… you’ve cared for an ailing parent (or partner) dealt with doctors, nurses, hospitals and eventually funeral arrangements all while managing your own real life, including your own caseload at work, three kids and a dog.
…driven to Calgary for a meeting, then caught the red-eye to Toronto with your boss to meet with investors and flown back within 36 hours, all so you wouldn’t miss your boyfriend’s sister’s bridal shower… which you happily agreed to host at your house!
… your ‘day off’ included catching up on the laundry, going to visit grandma in the nursing home and driving all over hell’s half acre to get the kids where they would like to be: a birthday party at the bowling alley, the swimming pool and a friend’s house in the country….
… calved out cattle, administered antibiotics to a calf with scours, beheaded, plucked and cleaned chickens, drove a grain truck, cleaned out stalls and laid fresh bedding, used a front end loader or planted, weeded and harvested a garden or field of any sort…
… you’ve lost any significant amount of weight and committed to any sort of a regular physical activity routine… AND maintained both for over one years… you go girl!
… you used your lunch hour from work to assist your child’s teacher in hosting the Valentine’s party… and you stayed up until 11:45pm baking and frosting pink cupcakes…
… you planned the annual work picnic for 40 employees and their families, complete with games, a campfire and a sing-a-long
… you can change the filter in your furnace, fill the wiper fluid and oil in your car and build any boxed product that comes ‘ready-to-assemble’ in 322 tiny pieces with a Phillips head screwdriver and an Allan key. Move over big boy…
… you had a c-section or appendix out or a tubal and came home from the hospital to a busy family who didn’t understand that you might have needed a little rest…
… you have made soup and a costume for the play, done the ironing, cleaned the toilets and baked banana muffins WHILE you had influenza and a sinus infection….
… you’ve ever caught barf, scrubbed soiled cloth diapers in the toilet, picked out a green slimy booger when a tissue wasn’t handy, mopped up dog piddle or cleaned any type of fish or poultry with your bare hands…
THEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE A REAL WOMAN ON THE RUN!