new blog!!!

Here it is:

http://eskimomomma.blogspot.com/

Called: Now & Then, Here & Now, This & That

I hope you visit me there!

New Blog

I have resolved to start a new blog. I like some, well most, of what I've written in this blog but it just doesn't seem to cover everything I want to say. I want to talk about how my hands suddenly look like my moms. I want to share cute things Grace has said and how the whole way home from church yesterday she sang me a made up song about loving me forever and sang 'mommy' in as many different ways as she could think of. I want to note the times I love my taller-than-me 13 year old son so much I could burst. He's very funny and takes great pleasure in making us laugh as he accidentally crosses the line of funny to over-the-top annoying, from loving big brother to exasperated sibling. I have been reading some blogs by other moms, other Christ followers, other wives and they have such a great mix of what I want to write bout my life. OK, so it would be different, but you get what I mean.

So, I'm thinking of a title and when I come up with it I will post it here.

Until then, here's a gem Grace said last Thursday while riding with Micheal and I:

G: Some people don't like to take their Christmas lights down for a long time -
We're some of those people!

M, laughing: Grace, you are awesome!

G: No I'm not awesome! I'm cool... in the pool.

It's all about the rhyme lately...

'those people' are back

Yesterday, 'on the 36th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, a man smashed his SUV into the entrance of the Planned Parenthood office in St. Paul this morning' (Star Tribune). A few days before that there were 'Street Preachers' at the bus hub at UMD all day telling students to 'stop sinning and repent!' and then the pro-life sign-holders came, taking posts across the street with horrifying signs. Tuesday Barak Obama took office as the President of the United States, let the status wars begin on facebook (...is crying tears of joy! ...we're all doomed! Doomed I say! ....)

I was sad to see these things on the news, at my work, on facebook, on blogs. I do think life is sacred. I do think every baby deserves to live and have a loving home. I think people should stop sinning and repent. I also think you can be a democrat or a republican and still love Jesus. I know, I'm a heretic. Or I just love Jesus. I love Jesus. I. love. Jesus!

Everyone has their 'pet project;' republicans have democrats and vice versa, pro-lifers have the pro-choice, street preachers have... everyone who walks down their street. And I have all of them. So... I started this post thinking how they have it all wrong, every one of them and I just learned I am one of them because I feel this way about them. Nice. I guess I'm still working on this love stuff.