Green Vegan Queen
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I am so not a vegan. Nor am I a vegetarian. As I mentioned in my Skinny Bitch post, mama loves herself some bacon. However, I am taking a day morning off and trying to amend my carnivorous habits to introduce you to someone.
My oldest daughter, Sarah.
Now normally, my readers know I don’t prattle on about my kids and their activities, accomplishments, etc. Mommyblogs where people write daily about how cute/brilliant/pizza-eating their children are make my brain bleed. So normally, I write about my kids only if it’s something funny (Wienis Anxiety, Soccer Mom Hell) or whatevs- by a quick count, I’d say only about 10% of my posts are about my kids. I mean, I love them and all, but dude, I just don’t think their every moves are that interesting. Being a mom for nearly 16 years and having four kids has given me a kind of ‘not the only kid in the world’ perspective, I guess.
So excuse me while I completely make your brain bleed by brag hagging about Sarah.*
Why?
She started a blog.
The apple, the tree much?
Her blog is called Green Vegan Queen (image at top stolen from her blog this morning) and it’s slogan is “A teen on a mission to vegucate the masses.” (Vegucate! Isn’t that cute?!) I love her whole blog vibe. She’s the only teen she knows (we live in the country, with the sausage) who’s a vegan, so I love the idea of her reaching out across the interwebs to find other granola crunchers healthy eaters to share ideas, recipes, and horror stories about McDonalds. Plus, she uses the word ‘douchebag’ on her blog, just like Mom taught her. Ha! I encourage you to stop by her new blog, follow it, comment up and encourage America’s next generation of bloggers. (Plus, we don’t want to piss them off, because they will totally blog shit about us.)
I hope she’ll do a post about why vegans can’t eat honey, because I am always saying “WHAT?! Do they ass rape the bees to get the honey out?!”
I try to be a good mom-of-a-vegan. I know which brands of Nature Valley Granola bars she can eat, which kind of Ramen Noodles are vegan (only one, Oriental, but she only uses half ths seasoning packet because ohmygodmomdoyouknowhowmuchsaltisinthat?) and which brand of soymilk she likes best. I know Oreos are vegan, to buy only the original veggie Boca burgers, and which brand of breading I can buy to make her fried green tomatoes. I made homemade vegan veggie soup for her when she was sick last week, and I make a separate batch of mashed potatoes with her vegan butter and soymilk. And can I just say? Yum.
She has changed our family’s diet for the better. I use soymilk much more, we eat more veggies and fruit and Oreos and I make healthier cooking choices (olive oil instead of butter, etc.). So for that, I thank her. (Even though I am totally eating a ginormous cheeseburger, it’s nice to have the fresh roasted veggies to put on top.)
I admire Sarah. She has one of the leading roles in the high school play, she runs like 6 miles a few times a week, she has a job (God, it is so great when your kids start making their own money!!) at the library and straight A’s in honors classes. We love to go to Broadway together (I got backstage passes so she could meet Elphaba, the Wicked Witch in Wicked and omg hold her dress) and this coming April, for her 16th birthday, I am taking her to Paris. I have never been out of the country, was too broke to go when my French class went in high school, so I can’t wait. She’ll turn 16 there, and since she’s in French 3 and I haven’t had French since college, she’ll have to find the bathrooms (and pate’! haha! just kidding sweetie!) for us, too. Of course, her iphone probably has an app for that.
Until now, one of the things Sarah says to me when I annoy her is:
“Why don’t you BLOG about it, MOM?!?” (Careful what you wish for, honey.)
Now, I guess I can say it right back to her:
“Why don’t you BLOG about it, SARAH?!”
And I’m proud of you for doing so.
*Since no matter how old they get you still want to ‘mom’ them, let me assure you that I wish she was wearing like a little shrug jacket in this picture. Or straps. Sheesh. (Trust me, parents of young girls, you will curse the day your daughter wakes up with boobs.)














Awww . . . even I’m strangely proud of her and we’ve never even met!
OMG she is GORGEOUS!!!!!
And good for her. We have quite a few vegan kids around here, but then we’re all “suburbia, yo.”
Sarah looks like she’s as beautiful on the inside as on the outside. What an amazing young woman. Congratulations. You have every reason to be proud. Thank you for sharing her with us. – Jayne
She is beautiful! And funnier than all get out! She definitely is her mothers daughter and you have every right to be one proud vegan mama!
You are soooooo totally going to be mocked on that blog some day! It will be douche-tastic!
Al-riight! Thanks for the free blog ad!
But umm… a little bit creepy that all the freaky old guys that secretly read your blog now know that I run 4 times a week. Oh well, they’ll have to put their name on the waiting list if they want to come a’creepin’- there are already plenty of redneck psychos around here!
Oh, and p.s., I totally was not about to wear a jacket in that pic. I was SO tan when I took that picture.
Love you
-S
I went and checked out your daughter’s blog-
Marymac you should be very proud!
I am now a follower.. maybe she can inspire me to eat a healthier diet!
She is an excellent writer!!
Way to go Sarah!!!
What a writer! I love it. Good for her!
Sarah’s blogging is going to come back in bite you in the ass! You just wait! LOL
I am following her lovely blog!
Wishing you the best Sarah!
Can’t anyone else hear the olives screaming?!!! [sigh] I guess it’s only me.
My kid (9) often says stuff like that (“why don’t you go BLOG about it, mom?”), but I’ll be in a cold, cold grave before I encourage her to start her own gripe-factory. I mean, I’d like to keep it in my face. Plus I’d have no material if my kids told their own stories.
Oops! I forgot, it’s not about you (or me), it’s about vegan that’s how they all start!
Of course, what I mean by that is: Great! Best of Luck to Sarah!
She is awesome an you should be a proud mama. I read, I commented, I became a follower, AND I enjoyed it!
***Ally
Can I adopt her? If my teenage girl had her own blog it would be titled:
My Mom is So Lame and Mean and Stupid and Oh My God I Swear I am Adopted.wordpress.com
You are so lucky. I envy you Miss Mary Mac.
~RM1
I was a vegetarian a few months ago. For about a month. I could not hang! So I totally admire your daughter, and you’re awesome for supporting her.
Also? I totally share your Mommy Blog brain bleed issues. Today I saw several posts about potty training. I refuse to comment on those. I mean…really? Have we nothing better to talk about, women?
What a smart and beautiful girl! (And I totally understand the boob comment … drove me crazy when my three daughters got theirs!).
I’ve been lurking here a while and love your site! Got you in my RSS!
(PS: I’ve bestowed an award upon you that you can pick up on my site, if you’re so inclined.)
Mary,
She TOTALLY reminds me of you when we were young. You claim to have been a dork, but you were cool and didn’t even know it, which makes it even cooler now.
Congrats to you on raising such a beautiful girl! I am excited to see what she has to say next.
JF
That is so very cool! My oldest daughter is also a vegetarian and also a writer. I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t allow me access to any blog, however…
My daughter is in college, but I tried, so very hard, when she was home over the summer to incorporate vegetarian meals. Sadly, then she’d say, “but I don’t like xxx.” It was very frustrating. But I do think all my efforts were not totally wasted — I do think we eat too much meat and I do think there’s better ways of cooking and eating. ON the other hand, I like me some bacon too!
I think many ofus are just looking for ways to make our families healthy, which is the point of “Family Fit,” by Dr. John MAyer. Not didactiv, not preachy — just full of tips to get families working and playing together. It offers a new way of looking at what we eat, how much we eat, exercise, etc. Hey, there’s even a chapter on discipling kids!
AWE! And there you have it folks, another kodak moment in cyberspace.
my 4 year old daughter says she is going to be an Astronaut Doctor. Ambitious isn’t she?
So proud of Sarah and kudos to you and Bob for doing such a wonderful parenting job! Very excited for you both about Paris. FYI: my vegetarian sister just came back from there and she’s pretty certain the vegetables were made out of boeuf!
Oh good for her! I have budding writer in the family too. My son is only twelve and the parental controls on his laptop block blogs, so he’s not quite ready yet. But soon. And, I can’t wait! I love the vibe of her blog too!
Way to go Mom – you’re doing something right,
K
Awww- I’m experiencing vicarious pride for you, Mary! How exciting. And how cool.
I went to see one of my favorite authors read Tuesday night, and my son wanted to know all about it. Why did you go hear him read? How many books has he written? He keeps saying he wants to be an author. I know, I know, he’s only Six, but still, I thought, how awesome would that be if he did love to write.
So anyway, I hope you are enjoying this with your beautiful and intelligent girl child.
I am totally one of those types of bloggers. Hope I don’t make too many people’s brains bleed ;o)