MS. INDEPENDENT?
I’m skipping the writer talk and just going for the random topic right now.
So growing up I was a Girl Scout. Like, top seller of cookies in my district even one year. (Woot, go me!) I went camping with the girls and learned some basic skills to survive. I’d like to think I took those with me into adulthood. Apparently, though, my big brother doesn’t agree.
Here’s the situation. I’m a single mom and I’m taking my daughter camping (as you’re reading this post actually!) for the first time. Alone! Now big brother (and I have 3 bros!) is completely worried that I’m incapable of doing this. That I couldn’t possibly go camping…without a man.
Squeeze me? Pardon? What’s the year again? Okay, maybe I need a guy for some things (like putting together a toddler bed—I swear I nearly punched a hole in the wall!), but seriously I can camp. And I’m bringing in backup in the form of my teenage niece, who also happens to be the daughter of the nagging brother. Yup, I’m surprised he’s letting her go with me.
I mean, sure, I’d love a guy to call my own someday. To be the hero I write about in my books. But I guess I’ve just been single for so long that it doesn’t occur to me to let being manless stop me from doing things. Like camping.
So what do you think? Am I being stupid, or just fine for going manless camping? I won’t be here to reply to everyone, but I’ll reply when I return in a couple days! But leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win my book TAKE ME. Cindy will draw a winner.
Warning: contest becomes void if Shelli and children are eaten by bears while putting on lipgloss in the forest, thus proving stupid to be the answer.
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