Gypsy Mom Ready to roll – NOW

I have a really hard time being patient. I got sick of waiting to hear which cities we’d be visiting, so I just took it upon myself to make a list. THEN, we get an email saying that the cities are confirmed. It’s been like 3 weeks and I still haven’t heard. I have a lot of work to do with that list, I need to map it, I need to research the history of the area, I plan to put together little lesson packets to distribute through the show’s website, and write several articles in addition to an outline for the script. Since it’s reality, a lot of the writing for the narration is done afterward, just to tie in the live footage.

There’s a song I sing with my girls when they’re having a hard time being patient, it’s inspired by The Big Comfy Couch. I think we forgot the real words and started making up our own “Patience means you have to wait, have to wait, have to wait. Patience means you have to wait, this is our waiting song. Just touch your nose and count to eight one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now that didn’t take too long.”

Except, 3 weeks when you’re on a 6 month timeline really IS a long time.

Apparently people have really different imaages in their minds about what gypsies are.  Clearly I have a lot of affection for the term, I used it as part of my screen name from 1997 to 2001, when I discovered that my husband felt the word implied prostitution and thievery.  Wow, I was shocked.  To me, it meant nomadic (I love to travel) creative, artistic, dancing, colorful,  bohemian, happy, go-with-the-flow, adventurous, wise with plants, independent, self sufficient and free.

I’m hoping that GypsyMom.com speaks of all the positive and exciting aspects of gypsies that I envision. I learned, as we researched (because when we disagree about something, that’s what we do) that Gypsies are all the things I imagined and that his vision was the stereotype that people have of gypsies.

A lot of the real gypsies are refugees, some gypsy families have lived that way for hundreds of years.

My intention with this name, however, is to invoke images of traveling in a caravan, singing and dancing, creating and making friends, selling our crafts and services, making friends and memories all over the country.  Join us…