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It is Wednesday afternoon. I am heavily into my role as Mommy. I have taken child A to her counseling session, during which child B & I have run to Wal-Mart, picked up child A and we are one our way to child A's horseback riding lessons. (During which I get to keep child B away from horse hooves, pony poop, and electrical fences.) If all 3 of us survive the lessons, we get to run to the grocery store, make our video rental returns, and then make dinner...

But for now, I am just driving.

While waiting at the stop light, I notice the car in front of me, heavily covered in bumperstickers. The kids are content, well, they are quiet for a few moments anyway, so I read them.

One of them strikes me so funny I have to laugh out loud.

"I like to give homemade gifts. Which one of my children would you like?"

Now, I know, I shouldn't find humor in giving away children. It's not PC. I know, as I was Auntie to my sister-in-law's set of 'dish twins' and her adopted daughter, as well as having a sister with fertility issues, that those who have difficulty conceiving would find this in poor taste.

And, as a feminist, I know that the devaluation of children has also worsened the state of affairs for women.

But, at the end of the day, I am a tired, overworked, Mom. And as such, I find that bumpersticker a laugh riot.

I think it's a shame that somedays we all feel that guilt over laughing at an off-color joke, or a bumpersticker that's not quite 'correct.' I do care about people with infertility problems. I am a staunch supporter of children's rights. I am a self-proclaimed feminist. And I do more than 'wear labels,' I am active in local & national groups to back up my beliefs.

I am an intelligent person, who knows that our actions carry much power. That what we do says alot about us, and often perpetuates negative 'isms.'

But somedays, I am just a human, who finds a giggle & realizes that this woman in front of me with a bumpersticker offering to give away one of her children, is *not* going to give one away. Nor am I going to give one of my kids away. (Maybe it is the ability to laugh that keeps our children with us?)

Right or wrong, left or right, I just found the damn thing funny.

And that lil giggle kept me smiling thorugh the rest of my 'tour of Mommy duty' that day.

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