I am working on a class about women’s health and menstruation, and it got me thinking about how I was introduced the ‘my period’. Around my house when I was a kid, we would always say “cousin Ralph has come for a visit” when we were having our periods. Now I call it my Moon time. I like that better and think it has a positive ring to it. From my students, I have heard all kinds of things from “on the rag”, to “aunt Flo”, to “the red flood”, to “goddess time”. So, I’m taking a survey… What do you say when you are bleeding? Be totally honest now… I want to hear all the positives and negatives.
I call mine (with enthusiastic sarcasm) ‘riding the crimson wave’…
or, I just growl all week. one. week. long. growl.
😀
gee, it’s been so long, i can’t remember what i called it….hmmm…i think maybe i just say ‘it’s that time of the month’ or ‘i’ve got my period’. i only had one cycle between jaden and sage so it’s been over 4 years since i’ve had to voice it.
at the rate that they are both still nursing, it’ll be another 4 before i have to refer to it again. 😉
oh, and greg refers to it as ‘riding the cotton pony’ which is funny because i usually use the keeper so he needs to update his saying to ‘riding the rubber pony.’
alrighty then…enough babbling on your blog!
I have always referred to it as my “monthly” but now that my daughter (who is 8 1/2) is becoming more aware, I refer to it as my moon cycle. I was raised around woman who spoke of it with disgust, or “dirtiness” and plain dislike. I try to be as positive as possible about my Moon Cycle so my daughter will grow with a positive attitude towards it. not see it as a bothersome and gross time, like the mass of woman portray.Hopefully growing with a positive attitude about it will influence her friends when they start talking about it. I am in the hopes to have an all girls event when she does begin hers. Kinda like a right of passage bonfire and spa day with other young woman and their mothers.
My “dot.”
“blood moon”
it seems to sum it up and give it some sense of reverence.
I always say “my period”. Gwen & Lydia both know about it though and Gwen looks forward to it. HAHAHAH! I find absolutely nothing enjoyable about getting my period, nor do I draw any special womanly powers from it, like some others I know. If I could stay pregnant or nursing for the rest of my life, I’d be happy. 🙂
A friend in Germany always said, “My dot came down.” It took me MONTHS AND MONTHS before I realized what she was talking about.
Since mine always seems to come the same week as the full moon. I have started saying “it’s the week of the full moon”.
The curse
“My friend is here”. For some it had the sound of relief that they were safe once more.
My sister and her friends had a rather ingenious way of referring to it: visiting Japan, a reference to the Japanese flag.