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Open Post of the week: What's going on with you?


 

 

 

 

By ROSIE WATERLAND

Welcome to this week’s Open Post, a great little corner of Mamamia where we pretty much throw things over to you and let the conversation flow.

Em Rusciano’s piece about standing by her daughter as she enters ‘the battlefield that is puberty’ definitely had me in sympathetic stitches this week. It’s also had me recalling some of my own puberty blues-esque memories in all their horrific glory.

Like all women, I have a plethora of memories to choose from but the worst would have to be from when I was 13 and I woke up with some very suspicious looking red stuff on my undies. I showed it to my mum, who took care of things and let me take the day off to play Nintendo.

My chubby-cheeked and very boisterous 6-year-old sister then proceeded to tell EVERYONE on the school bus that I was away because “Her undies were all red and our mum said she needs to learn about secret women’s business.”

Em: Finding the humour in (eek!) puberty.

That. Happened.

I’ve since forgiven her but she’s still going to be the last person I tell when I reach menopause. There are trust issues there…

But just like Em (and most of us I reckon), now I’m out the other side of it I’ve come to find most of my puberty experiences actually make for quite hilarious storytelling. Shame you have to actually go through it first though, isn’t it?

I also started Project Rosie this week, which is basically a way for me to do crazy things that push me out of my comfort zone and then write about them for your amusement – there’s been so many great suggestions so far and if you think of anything I could do please let me know in the comments!

So what’s been going on in your world this week? Seriously – you can talk about ANYTHING! I just talked about my first period so… The door has pretty much been opened.

 How’s your week going? What’s on your mind?