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Mothering Magazine Sponsored Chat with Hathor the Cowgoddess --Hathor lives in the middle of urban sprawl with her dearest super-husband and three wee and wise kids. She has had an unassisted birth in the middle of her 700 square foot apartment, she breastfeeds on demand and in public, she shares sleep, maintains constant contact and unschools. Not only does she do all of this, she does it with grand style and verve. With extravagant and outrageous behavior. And with her trusty sidekick baby in a sling.

Hathor is the completely true product of the imagination of Heather Cushman-Dowdee, an outraged (because she might look distracted but she is paying attention! ) mama who has done almost all of the above (that part is autobiography)... except for the part that she totally makes up (those parts are wishful thinking). The raucous exploits of Hathor and her family are produced in comic form on the web and printed in many, many zines and magazines and books, too.

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7/12/06

23 mothers in attendance

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20:07:41 hathor Hee hee, I made it! That was touch and go for a second  *)
20:08:04 Webmama_Tina you get stuck in the revolving door?
20:08:13 skye lol something like that
20:08:23 Webmama_Tina *sticking foot in the door to prevent hathor any further inconvenience*
20:08:30 hathor Yeah, a chance for me to use some expletives i haven't used in a while
20:08:30 Webmama_Tina hehe
20:08:46 Webmama_Tina *behave*
20:08:55 Webmama_Tina heeh
20:09:01 hathor I'll be blue! and man that voice rocks!
20:09:11 Webmama_Tina so lets hear it for hathor!
20:09:16 Webmama_Tina *applause*  *applause*
20:09:19 hathor Okay, Now I'll be blue!
20:09:44 sapphire_chan WoooWoooo!!!
20:09:47 Webmama_Tina ok we still have quite a few people in the other room...but perhaps they'll join us later
20:09:59 alegna hathor hathor hathor.....
20:10:06 Webmama_Tina i'll make one more announcement...
20:10:09 hathor Hi!!!!
20:10:26 zoesmummy Hi!! Very excited - but kind of shy! heehee
20:10:31 skye hi hathor, I found this site via yours...
20:10:32 hathor I just walked in from a huge day at the park with the kids...
20:10:57 Mama2Jill Am I in the right room?
20:10:57 sapphire_chan Are they hanging out while you chat?
20:11:02 hathor and had forgotten about the chat until about 10 minutes ago!
20:11:15 Webmama_Tina you're in the right room if you're looking for the hathor chat
20:11:30 Webmama_Tina oh i hear ya! i forgot too!
20:11:33 Mama2Jill I am! I've just never chatted before.
20:11:42 Webmama_Tina til just like 4 min before it was supposed to start!
20:11:47 hathor Well, hello everyone!
20:11:58 Webmama_Tina great  Mama2Jill !
20:12:07 hathor I was eating rosewater ginger icecream!
20:12:07 Webmama_Tina ok lets get this show started...
20:12:13 Webmama_Tina mmmmmmmmmm
20:12:19 hathor yummy, yummy
20:12:20 Webmama_Tina where the heck do you get that?
20:12:27 Mama2Jill That sounds amazing!
20:12:28 sapphire_chan Sounds homemade
20:12:36 gracefulmom homemade?
20:12:37 skye sounds like a portland oregon type flavour?
20:12:42 zoesmummy Yum for sure!
20:12:43 hathor some Iranian icecream shop I found today it rocked!
20:13:08 sapphire_chan Really?  Cool.  I figured rosewater, ginger, vanilla icecream and stirring. lol
20:13:09 skye mmm I love iranian food, just behind lebanese
20:13:09 Webmama_Tina let me get my spiel going here so we can get started....
20:13:19 hathor I'm in Los Angeles...accidentally found some friends there too
20:13:20 Webmama_Tina mmmm yummers
20:13:22 Webmama_Tina ok here goes
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20:14:31 Webmama_Tina ok here we are with another hathor the cow goddess chat...and i still don't have a moo sound :(
20:14:46 hathor No Moo? Okay everyone on 3
20:14:58 hathor 1,2,3, moooooooooo
20:15:00 Mama2Jill Mooooo!
20:15:01 Webmama_Tina mooooooooo
20:15:10 gracefulmom mmmmmmmmmmooooooooooooooooooooo
20:15:11 Webmama_Tina *making mental note to get a moo sound for next month's chat*
20:15:35 Webmama_Tina here's hathor's intro...
20:15:36 hathor So, hey, any questions?
20:15:37 gracefulmom ?
20:15:41 Webmama_Tina Hathor the Cowgoddess lives in the middle of urban sprawl with her dearest super-husband and three wee and wise kids. She has had an unassisted birth in the middle of her 700 square foot apartment, she breastfeeds on demand and in public, she shares sleep, maintains constant contact and unschools. Not only does she do all of this, she does it with grand style and verve. With extravagant and outrageous behavior. And with her trusty sidekick baby in a sling. The raucous exploits of Hathor and her family are produced in comic form on the web and printed in many, many zines and magazines and books, too.
20:15:49 sapphire_chan ?
20:15:59 Webmama_Tina anything you want to add? anything new and exciting or particularly stressful happening these days hathor?
20:16:10 Webmama_Tina i have noticed some very infuriating causes lately on your site....argh
20:16:16 hathor Well, my baby just turned 2
20:16:17 Webmama_Tina darn victoria's secret!
20:16:29 hathor and my dh just turned 40
20:16:30 Webmama_Tina angie, you ready for the queue?
20:16:36 MOD_Angie yeppers
20:16:39 hathor that's kept it pretty exciting
20:16:42 Webmama_Tina :bday:
20:16:53 Webmama_Tina happy birthday hathor baby and dh!
20:17:08 Webmama_Tina ok lets cue up the first question then....who's first?
20:17:14 hathor My baby isn't in the sling very much anymore, it's bittersweet... :(  :(
20:17:16 MOD_Angie upcoming chatter(s):  gracefulmom  sapphire_chan
20:17:20 hathor gracefulmom ?
20:17:21 gracefulmom I'm curious about unschooling... how do things change for you during the summer?
20:17:42 hathor I'm kind of on a school schedule
20:18:01 hathor because I've been in school for so long I suspect
20:18:13 gracefulmom similar to public schools, you mean?
20:18:17 hathor so we kind of get more lazy, hot , hanging out
20:18:32 hathor Yeah, but then there are aLOT of super crowded
20:18:41 hathor summer activities to do to
20:19:01 hathor I just took the kids to see Guinea music at the Hollywood bowl
20:19:35 hathor we have less of our regular stuff, more special activities
20:19:44 hathor are you an unschooler?
20:20:16 gracefulmom Not unschooler, but pretty relaxed homeschooler...  sounds similar to our summer.
20:20:33 hathor Yeah, it's very similar....sapphire_chan ?
20:20:34 gracefulmom Except we haven't heard any Guinea music or had Iranian ice cream!
20:20:34 sapphire_chan More of a comment, really.  I used your recent comic with your now 2 year old running in a circle from sling to down to sling to show my dh what babywearing is like with a toddler.  He thought it was really nifty.  (I did too.)
20:21:17 hathor I'm so glad the comic was useful!
20:21:41 sapphire_chan It's useful in so many ways.  Probably more so once we have kids. :lol
20:21:51 hathor I still wear the sling everywhere, though the baby isn't in it...on the off chance.
20:22:10 sapphire_chan A beautiful fashion statment.
20:22:16 hathor You don't have kids yet? cool!
20:22:33 hathor You'll be an awesome mama when it happens!
20:22:52 hathor I hadn't even heard of midwifery or breastfeeding when I was pregnant
20:23:03 sapphire_chan I'm an MDC-aholic.
20:23:24 hathor I was a really, really, lost mama in the beginning :blush:
20:23:47 hathor any questions?
20:23:47 sapphire_chan That's hard to believe.  I can't picture you as lost.
20:24:02 hathor Oh man, I was the lostest
20:24:09 sapphire_chan ?
20:24:17 MOD_Angie upcoming chatter(s):    sapphire_chan
20:24:31 hathor I had my baby strapped in a carseat, carrying it around banging into my shins!
20:24:35 sapphire_chan So, have any good stories about your time of confusion?
20:24:40 sapphire_chan