A couple days ago, as my boys ate homegrown yogurt with brown sugar and popcorn for dinner (ummm… it was just me and them, no other adults, and obviously I took the night off of cooking..), I handed Monica a piece of sourdough no-knead bread with homemade strawberry jam spread on top. Suddenly I thought, “oh dear, homemade bread, non-microwave popcorn, homemade jam, homemade yogurt! If somebody didn’t know any better they might think I was an anti-chemical, organic, crunchy-conservative kind of girl!” Which I’m not. (no offense to any of my crunchy-con friends out there – but it’s just not me.. at least, not yet…)\par
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What shall I do?! I’d hate to be incorrectly stereotyped – I’m stereotypical enough in other ways. I took a deep breath and realized that my motivations for many of my homemade things are more economical than sociological/environmental, so I was OK, even if a casual observer might be fooled. Phew!\par
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Well, better go make some granola.\par
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Just kidding.\par
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We still have lots left from the batch I made yesterday.


lol! Yes, yes, let’s make sure we get the correct stereotypes here.
Lots of times the “make it yourself” is just plain cheaper!
Yes, and “cheap” is one of the stereotypes easily applied to me! I prefer “economical” because it doesn’t sound quite so grinchy.
In additition, SAHM (Stay At Home Mom), Homeschooler, and Christian Conservative all have stereotypes that are not that far off of the mark.