For anyone interested...a follow-up from a very sad example of what happens when ignorance, hate, and extremism meet. It was a case I was following and I stumbled across this update...

Unitarian Universalist Congregation shooting in Tennessee

And finally....an update

I have become a terrible blogger...I can't believe that it's been a month since I have updated this blog. So much has been going on. Our Brian has picked up every cold and flu in a 10 mile radius since he started preschool. Being the sensitive, giving child he is- he decided to "share" the flu with his mommy. Ironically the one person who did NOT get the flu shot in this household, was spared the flu. Steve never gets sick. So unfair. After I started feeling better, about 4 days after I got sick, I got a upper respiratory infection/bronchitis, and right at the end- a stomach bug. It was a lovely week (well almost 2 really)...But now Brian and I are feeling much better.
The baby is getting huge! I am now 32 and a 1/2 weeks pregnant. I'm starting to have some ligament and pelvic pain and pressure and honest to God thought I was going to have to deliver her in the bathroom at the office on Monday. That would have been awkward. And messy. My doctor assured me it's totally normal and will increase more until I deliver her. In her words..."it's all misery from here." Grrrreat! Though I had already assumed that given the sciatic nerve pain, charley horses, stiffness, exhaustion, and inability to sleep for longer than 2-3 hours at a time....
We are getting so excited to meet her!!! And I say her because we still have not settled on a name yet. I have this sneaking suspicion she will be born and we will be looking at her trying to figure out what name she looks like....
And that's what is new in a nutshell. Exciting I know. Like I said, I am stinking at blogging right now.