Confessions of a Working Mom

                                                                                            My Daughter Abby carrying the football at                                                                                                 at a Jen Welter Girls Football camp   I have been getting countless emails after the Superbowl about my thoughts on the Halftime show. I had women who thought it was an amazing performance and other women thought this set us back in the women's movement because of how over-sexualized it was. I spent the last couple days listening and reading, doing my research on these two performers and here is my take on it. When I first heard the performers were Shakira and Jlo I knew the show would not be age-appropriate for my 11-year-old daughter, the music alone and the words talk about many things my innocent daughter would be clueless so I knew I wasn't going to let you her watch the live show. Let me step back for a moment and talk about footbal

I have always been very aware of my body. Growing up, I was growing very fast, so I was taller than most boys, super skinny, and no boobs in sight. Boys didn't think it was cool that I was taller than them and they made fun of me not having boobs. So I was made fun of for being too skinny. Who would think that was possible. As I got into college and played college sports, I was beginning to bulk up and suddenly was a walking muscle which soon the boys didn't like that I was so "buff" (my thoughts how can I win too skinny, to buff) I didn't have some sexy body like on TV. Then as I went on to get married and have kids, my body totally changed; I got hips, boobs the total women's body and I  had a baby stretch marks and more. Once again, since I was not use to having this type of body, I found myself again feeling very insecure about my body. Since I had kids later in life my body wasn't bouncing back like if I was in my 20s I actually had my son