Tomorrow I have my first speaking engagement at the Brookfield Public Library.
My talk is entitled Staying Sane Through Motherhood.
Look how official I appear to be in the flier they made for me:
I know.
I’m. So. Fancaaaaay…
I’m also so nervous. For a couple reasons.
First, I’m not even done with my Power Point presentation. Which means I haven’t actually practiced what I’m going to say yet.
But there’s something else that I’m even more nervous about…
I also have a second speaking engagement lined up on April 20th at the Easton Public Library.
I just nailed that down last week. It took a little convincing.
The woman in charge of programming wanted me to call her.
She had a couple questions.
I explained to her what I intended to cover in my presentation.
And she said, “That sounds interesting. But…
I checked out your blog, and I was reading your About page. ”
Uh-oh.
“Well, I’m a little concerned because you said, If the [f-word] bothers you, this is probably not the blog for you…
Um… I’m afraid some of our parents attending might be a little… conservative.”
So I assured her I would do the Tonight Show version of my presentation.
I promised there would be no f-bombs.
She laughed.
I’m not sure if it was because she thought that was funny or if I was making her nervous.
Nevertheless, she agreed to have me.
I have a friend who works at the Brookfield Library where tomorrow’s presentation is.
I texted her.
Is there a swearing policy at the library? How close to R can I get?
She replied with, I’d keep it fairly clean.
Fuck.
I mean, Darn.
Now I need to pick out a new outfit cause I was totally going to wear this shirt:
So yeah.
I still don’t know exactly what the bleep I’m going to say.
But that’s not making me half as nervous as making sure I don’t let any fucks slip out for a whole entire hour.
If you’re free tomorrow night, come have a listen.
Either way,
fucks or no fucks,
it should be at least a little bit entertaining.
And even if I’m rated G (ok… PG-13) I’m planning on seriously delivering, and this being the start of a whole new chapter for me.
You wouldn’t want to miss that.
Because then you can say you were there when it all began 😉
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Wish I was local and could attend! Just recently found your blog and absolutely love it! Good luck!
Thanks Kay!
any chance of you recording it and posting it on youtube for all of us not in the area?
I was thinking about that yesterday. I didn’t think to ask anyone to do that… if not this time around, I’ll record the one in April 😉
Just pretend you’re talking to a classroom full of kids. I’m fairly confident that in your years as a teacher, your classroom was not filled with ‘fucks’.
A bunch of us from the Brookfield Mom’s club will be there! You’ll do great!
Love your blog and that your not afraid to use the “F” word, I recently started a blog and its showed me I don’t need to be scared to say what I want especially since I live in a state where people tend to be more judgmental.
I love your honesty, humor and the way you interact with your children! I can sense your love. Congratulations on your speaking engagement. I am working on doing some of those in my hometown as well, and talking about the ups and downs of raising my exceptional son who has autism.