AP UPDATE
Sunday, June 12, 2011
St. Croix Home to SuperMoms!
This past Sunday, The Women’s Coalition on celebrated 30 years of crisis intervention service to women and children on St. Croix. Every year, they host the Womens Race (remember the Children’s Race, pretty original names, huh?) which is one of their largest fundraisers. This year, MGW entered as a team of TWENTY something and sported their Super-Pink-SuperMom uniforms, because, after all, you need super-hero powers to be a mom and raise children on this island!
They gathered at Command Central (aka Gallows Bay) to suit up, strap kids in their super strollers, and make their grand entry into town:
Once in town, they pinned on their numbers, secured their race chips and made sure their capes were just right; truly a group of SuperMoms! Exhibiting powers such as being able to leap from the table in a single bound to catch a sippy cup; change a diaper, talk on the phone, and sweep the house all at the same time; get kids ready for school, make lunches, do laundry, pay bills and still find time to have sex with her husband, despite the fact she has only had 4 hours of sleep….and lots of caffeine….
In honor of The Women’s Coalition’s thirty years of service, photographer Ted Davis braved a high-boom to take an organized aerial shot of the race participants, Mocko Jumbies and all:
Get-Away-Vehicles of choice have been aired up, cleaned off and armed with snacks and sippy cups…because you should never under-estimate the power of being prepared!
Warming up, stretching begins. 96 degree weather makes it easy to produce super sweat:
No flying allowed, it would be un-fair advantage, but nobody told SuperMom Somer that! Let’s GO!
SuperMom strength of pushing two at a time…even though only one belongs to her!
And coming in at a modest time, because any time is a good time when you are a SuperMom:
Recharging SuperMom Powers:
At the conclusion of the race, SuperMoms were greeted by their sidekicks who promptly handed off remainder off-spring and proceeded to walk to the nearest bar. They have their own super-hero powers that need re-charging. These SuperMoms then sat in the shade in the park, stretched their muscles, watched their kids run and play while figuring out what to do for dinner….just another regular day of being a SuperMom on St. Croix.
At the time of print, race results had not been located, but we want to congratulate all of the runners / walkers / strollers for supporting a great cause. My guess is Team MGW kicked some serious butt!
This year marks the 3rd year for Team GoTo to participate as a group in the Womens Race, a fund raiser for the St. Croix Women’s Coalition.
This year, the new GoTo Producer, Angela, has coordinated the team efforts. I was thrilled to be included. My husband will have the same job this year as photographer. The only thing left to decide is whether to push one kid….or two.
I am not much of a “run out and buy the latest music” type of person. In fact, I mostly listen to NPR down here, and the local reggae station, which SC seems to be taking a liking to lately as well. We noticed when we first moved down here that the radio stations were kind of stuck in the 70′s and 80′s with their music. At first it was kind of fun….at first.
My favorite was the play list I created to run The Women’s Race. An annual fundraiser for the 
