Monday, November 28, 2016

Finding Our Voices After the Election

We're getting to work. We're empowering our girls to be strong leaders. 



3 days after the election, we held an emergency book club meeting.  We've been following Hillary in our book club for a year... we first talked about it when we did our Gender Stereotypes chapter-- and we noticed the different treatment Hillary got compared to the male candidates.  We took note at how she reacted and responded to criticism and bullying.  It's been a lot to process the election results on many levels-- but specifically within what we'd been focused on in our mother-daughter book club, it's tough to reconcile how a woman who worked so hard and had so much experience lost to a man who had no experience and a poor work ethic.

We read Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, we made beaded safety pins to wear to show we are allies (above), we talked about how we feel and what we can do, we quilted a square for Hillary's quilt, we wrote to Hillary to thank her for being an inspiration and role model. 

We are girls. We are women. We are mothers. We are strong. 
We fight for what's right and for what we believe in. 
#motherdaughterbookclub #stillirise #hernextchapter#stillwithher

Our quilt square for Hillary's Thank You Quilt (All Hands In)



Still I Rise..


Letters to Hillary

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

The Night Gardener

The Night Gardener
So our mother daughter book club
read a book that was actually by my
suggestion that I think everybody
thoroughly enjoyed. It was called 
The Night Gardener. It was about 
two Irish siblings who have been
abandoned by their parents. They
want a job and at least a nice warm
bed to sleep in. They find their-
selves employed by a family
who lives in a spooky old
house and has a bad history.
DO NOT read this book
until you are the age of 
at least maybe older. It
depends if you like scary stories.
This is a picture of the food we brought
for our book club discussion. Some of 
the foods that are mentioned in the
book are biscuits, sausages, tea,
chocolate truffles (in Britain chocolate
is considered candy) and potatoes!
(we had potato chips.) It was delicious.
I was the discussion leader and I 
had five questions. That turned out to 
be perfect. Book club this month was awesome!
-Kaia