I am 37 weeks and 1 day right now. I am cranky as can be too. EVERYTHING makes me cranky right now. Joshua and Karol had the left over pizza for lunch on Sunday, I was mad. Joshua has scouts last night, I was not thrilled about it. Joshua had to mow the lawn today (long story), ticked me off. Our landlord being a total idiot, I almost started crying.

I feel totally stressed out and not prepared for this birth. Adding to this stress is the fact that I don’t know where most of the newborn clothes are. No idea. I didn’t think we had anything back in storage still, but we just might. If we do, that is in Indiana and we are in O-H-I-O, 5 hours away. I did organize the bedroom a little bit today and put the cradle, the rest of the way that is, sheet, blanket, bumper. I am so certain that I am having a boy that I set out a blue blanket. I even put two little outfits for him/her to sleep in. Karol picked out the “boy” one. It isn’t new or anything, but it is an little onesie that K wore when he was little. M had a fun time playing with the lamb I bought for the baby while we were in Paris this summer.

Margaret also found the stethoscope in the toy box and instructed me to life up my shirt and show her the baby so she could listen to him/her.

Another thing I am worried about is the question of how long will this labor take? With K it was about 12 hours. With Margaret, it was just over an hour. It was 20 minutes from water breaking to holding her in my arms. Will my midwife make it here on time? I pretty much know what to do and Joshua knows how to “catch” so I am not too worried, but still, all the what ifs are driving me nuts.

In other boring news, i have been cooking up a storm for the past few days. Kelly from MH came to visit and spend the night on Friday. I made enchiladas for dinner on Friday and yummy breakfast on Saturday. Saturday night we had the Logues over and we made pizza. We have perfected our pizza crust and our topping layout. Now just to open a pizza joint. The key we have discovered is thin crust. Not thin like Donato’s but thinner then what you usually get from a pizza place. I was so cooked out by Sunday that we had left over pie and odds and ends on Sunday. Sunday night I did make brats and baked potatoes. Those were pretty good.

Do I remember last night? Oh, leftover. Tonight I knew we were pretty short on left overs so I made this: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Creamy-Swiss-Chicken-Casserole/Detail.aspx …it needs some work, but it was still pretty good.

Tonight Joshua has a meeting to talk about the youth group with someone in the parish. I am hoping that he brings me back a sweet drink of some sort. If he doesn’t, it won’t be a big deal, I have a sheet of “fake fudge” and some key lime pie.

but I need help in understanding why people who call themselves Pro-Life or Christians would vote for a man who supports the killing of innocent lives.

I cannot believe how many people I know who I thought were Pro-Life or Christians voted for Obama. This includes a girl I know who used to pray outside of a Planned Parenthood Clinic and speak of the evils of abortion. I haven’t been able to get past the figurative lump in my throat to ask her, via email.

“If they [my daughters] make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

Barack Obama

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

Mother Teresa

Think about it.

Let’s hope that the window He opened today is very big.

I am going to be positive here. Yep I am. I survived 8 years of Bill Clinton…I can survive this too. 🙂

Let’s think of positive things we can do.

I am starting with a “pity” celebration this weekend with my former coworker from the Moose. Lots of chocolate and a little wine.

But tomorrow, I am going to start my campaign for 2012. I am not going to be shy about being Pro-Life. I am going to demand that our country be offered better. Why? “Because a nation can’t kill 50 million babies and stay on top forever”. (That was quote from former co-worker’s dad.)

My former co worker also voted third party because “…this election was like choosing between a shit sandwich and a stick in the eye.” Her words, not mine. She went on to say “…I chose neither and went with the invisible skateboard. A nice enough idea, but not actually going to get me anywhere.”

I voted. I voted. I voted.
It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t pleasent, but I did it. The lines were non exisitant and the poll workers were nice. 🙂

I can rest easily tonight, knowing that I voted for the candidate that should have voted for.

http://prayingforgrace.blogspot.com/2008/10/it-takes-courage.html

“You have to pinch yourself – a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.” – Melanie Philips, The Spectator ( UK ) 10/14/08

This question was raised on another blog and this was my comment:

And the other comment, what would we do if Obama wins? We will continue being Christians and do what we have to do to protect human lives. If the FOCA is signed in to law, that just makes it legal on paper. If we as Christians and as Catholics go out and do what we are called to do, to live the Gospel. We will support women in “hard” situations. We will teach our children and others around us that abstinence is a better choice then abortion. We will help our friends and family to have self-respect for their bodies.

PP and NOW work very hard at their propaganda machine. People in the pro-life movement need to get a propaganda machine going themselves. Sure it costs money, but with prayer and sacrifice, God will provide for our needs.

The letter below, in italics, was printed in the October 28th edition of the Lafayette Journal and Courier. While I don’t support Sen. McCain, I felt the need to defend him against the allegations in this letter.  Furthermore, I felt obligated as a Pro-Life advocate to write a letter in response.

Women’s lives should be protected

In the final presidential debate, John McCain mocked Barack Obama, stating that concern for the health of the mother was an “extreme pro-abortion position.”

When my husband and I moved to Lafayette, we planned to start a family and were overjoyed when I got pregnant. The joy was short-lived when we found out that the pregnancy was ectopic. Not only would it not produce a baby, but it endangered my life.

Thankfully, I did not require surgery and my husband and I have gone on to have two beautiful sons, one adopted and one biological.

I am a married woman who was trying to start a family and things went awry. When carried out, the extreme anti-choice position held by Mr. McCain could have cost me my life.

There are two little boys and a wonderful husband to whom my life matters, even if it doesn’t to John McCain.

 My response:

I am writing in response to the woman who wrote in the 10/28 J & C re life of the mother clause for abortion. I am sorry that you experienced the loss of a child. I too lost a child early in pregnancy and know that it is very tragic and often the emotional difficulty is borne alone.

However, I wanted to address the misconception that John McCain holds an “extreme anti-choice position.” regarding abortion. According to Sen. McCain’s website, he believes that Roe vs Wade, the decision allowing legal abortions in the United States, should be overturned and abortion laws handled on the state level. Furthermore the Republican Party platform on abortion has been for many years, to allow it in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother. Sen. McCain himself has said, when discussing the abortion ban in South Dakota, that he “would have signed the legislation, but would also take the appropriate steps under state law — in whatever state — to ensure that the exceptions of rape, incest or life of the mother were included.” Clearly an ectopic pregnancy would fall under that allowance.

According to the website http://www.nlm.nih.gov ectopic pregnancies occur in 1 in every 40 to 1 in every 100 pregnancies. The website goes on to say that “…the most common complication is rupture with internal bleeding that leads to shock. Death from rupture is rare” and “…the rate of death due to an ectopic pregnancy in the United States has dropped in the last 30 years to less than 0.1%.”

Finally, while I think it is important to point out the truth in this matter, I do not agree entirely with the Republican platform regarding abortion and would prefer that more loving alternatives to abortion be sought and encouraged.

**What I didn’t put in my response, though it is worth noting, Catholic Church teaching allows for a woman to under go a procedure that would remove the fallopian tube to save the mother’s life in the case of an ectopic pregnancy.This in effect is removing the injured area, which sadly, holds a child, however, the child is not being directly killed. The church goes on to say that when this procedure is done, the child must be treated with dignity and should be baptised as soon as the tube is removed.  Please email me if you have questions about this as it is not the easiest thing to understand. You can send emails to catholicmumma at gmail dot com

Hopefully tomorrow or this weekend we will see my letter in the paper!