Increasingly, the family is becoming Male Dominated!

(If you remember, I got married when the boys in our family were still children, I am not used to living with this many young men)


We believe in male authority and function as a paternally led household, for the most part, but it is easy to fudge that, when they are outnumbered. Now that the women are doing their own things, Evvy and I are finding ourselves outnumbered in the democratic processes. The Walker men are strong minded and authoritarian and to live with 4 of them, is a challenge for anybody. There are evolutionary processes that have bred in the Walker female a strong character that is very able to defend themselves against the Walker male strengths. LOL
Boddens, however, have not yet evolved into that provocative exterior facade, or if we had, it was beaten off of us at an early age, and so we have no defenses against the Walker masculinism. We have alot of humor about the Bodden-Walker defense mechanisms. I was trying to think about what we do, instead of what the Walker parallels are. I said, I have never seen poor people shop like you Walkers like to. Evvy said, Shopping is to Walkers as drinking is to Boddens. I said you are probably right. Though, we all do not drink alcohol, we do drink in one another as though it were alcohol. I try them sometimes to see what are their sensitive points, no matter what I say, they never shut up. They always come right back at me.
I have decided that the boys have more Bodden, or recognize it better and decifer it for the rest of the family. Why is mommy different from us? They always blame it on the Bodden. Sounds like a Michael Jackson song. Blame it on the Boogy. They blame it on the Bodden part of me. I am only a Walker by marriage. I used to think the difference was southernness. But, now we are in the south and it is still very evident that they are in a class by themselves. I love the lot of them. I consider myself the tender of the traditions of the Walker clan. They don't look at them and they are an American treasure and it is my job to help to fan the flames of progress in my investments in Walkerism. Charles and Rosie and the traditions that they have passed on are the largest portion of my life now, my vocation, as it were. I have studied them and enjoyed them and it is scary to see how strong their influence is in the lives of my children.
In church, the mothers would always say, "You who know the word of prayer, pray my strength in the Lord." This mission is clearly above me and that is the only thing that I can say is, Pray my strenth in the Lord!