November

I feel like for the first time in my life I am actually experiencing what "fall" SHOULD feel like. I am sorta loving it (although Séamus and I both agree we would prefer CA weather still).

Today was high 40's-low 50's. Low wind. Some overcast but mostly sunny. I couldn't help but keep us outside all day. 

Not much new happens to us to post about. Séamus will be 12 weeks tomorrow! He is still big too. He has rolled over and sits up well. And oh when he smiles...he loves me it shows. :)

Sariah loves him. It's adorable and heart warming and all te mushy stuff. She likes to hold him and read to him and make him dance. She also will sleep anywhere. Most nights she goes to sleep in bed, but we wake up to find her in the glider or dog bed or the couch or her little couch. It's ridiculous and adorable.

Joe and I saw Enders Game in theaters last week. It's the first movie we have seen in theaters (together) for about 2 1/2 years. That's crazy! 

I am working 6 hours a week, and that is the perfect amount for us right now. Sariah is doing SO much better about being left without me and I appreciate it so much. 

We also bought a gun this week. And it's my gun (since I have the NE drivers license). It's a shotgun and Joe is really excited to go hunting next year. 

And...yep. That's what's new-ish.

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Catch That!

Have you guys seen/heard/watched the NRA's words about the shooting from Connecticut?

I know it is getting lots of press. Good and bad.

Good from those who want to keep guns, 

and bad from those who are a bit more liberal and want to get rid of them.

With statements like, 

"NRA wants Armed Police in US schools"

It can come off a little intrusive and worrisome.

But I agree with it.

The argument he is making here, is that we have bodyguards for so many things.

The President.

Banks.

Airports.

Sport Games.

But not schools? Not for our children who we cherish so much? Doesn't it seem like our priorities are a little skewed?

That is what he thought.

I am sure we all have our personal views on gun ownership.

I know it is all I have been hearing about from my husband for the past, well, week. 

I believe in the Constitution. 

I believe in protecting my family. 

And it is stupid that people in this country ruin that.

It is horrible that they can't get help. 

That social issues turn into gun issues.

That now, I have to start thinking about private schools, instead of public schools.

I love this girl. Oh so much.

I hate that someone could want to hurt her.

That I can't just worry about her not stubbing a toe, burning her finger or breaking a bone, but so much more.

I hate that I have to worry about how I am going to protect her from it.

Mostly, I hate that she has to grow up in this sort of world.

What do we do in this age of living?

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"Silent Tuesday"

Last Friday, a man shot his mom at her home. Their home. With her own guns. Then took those guns and went to the elementary school where she worked, and he shot 26 people.
It sucked. And spread faster than wildfire over the internet.
Joe and I were at his wheat field, being your loving Grad-Ag-student family, when he told me about what had happened. It made me cry.

Then I heard about how this last week has basically sucked for SO MANY families. Because Sandy Hook is NOT the only shooting. There have been LOTS.

Then I heard about this "Silent Tuesday" thing that was going around blogger yesterday.
Coincidentally, I did not blog yesterday- but just by chance. Not by purpose. Because, I didn't like it.
I know that sounds HORRIBLE, and tackless, and I know people will not understand me- and that is ok. I hope you might understand what I am trying to say.

What that man did was HORRIBLE. And sad. And everyone held their loved ones closer.

But what about Anders Behring Breivik? Did you all hear about him and what HE did? I remember living with  my mother-in-law, and my husband telling her about it weeks after it happened- and she had no idea. Do people even remember this? Or care? this was a HATE crime, a pure, straight out hate crime. The man wanted to "purify Norway" of Muslims. Muslim children. He played "hunter" with them. But I don't remember a "Silent blogger day" for those kids.
Heck, maybe there was. Maybe I am being ignorant. But I couldn't find anything about it on google.

Or what about what happen in Oregon on Dec 13th? Why was there no Silent Blogger day for this? In fact that ONLY news I heard about this one was from friends who were FROM Oregon. Does a low death toll make the incident less meaningful? Do their families not need our prayers just as much? Or is because they are presumably adults?

Or what about the 4 people that were found dead YESTERDAY in Colorado? When will the news spread about them, and where are the tweets and Facebook status's to show how sad we are for them?

Have we all forgotten about the Amish children; Aurora, Co; or Columbine? (Sorry for the debatable- validity of some of these sources). I know people haven't fully, but it sure feels like it.

When did one persons life become more important than another? 
No- none of those 26 people should have died. It isn't fair. And I feel horrible for those families that have to deal with it right now. I know I couldn't. 
But I feel like ALL these events deserve respect- even those 4 people who were found dead. 
Why are we singling out events? I know that Morgan Freeman quote is a hoax (google it), but can't we all agree to a degree that sensationalizing this sort of thing is NOT right?

-I believe that people should be told in PERSON that loved ones have died, not via twitter (Principal). 

-I believe that those families deserve time to mourn and deal with this all in there own ways, and not be 

bombarded by media and Facebook. 

-I don't believe in telling parts of the news to sway

people's opinions. 26 people were killed. It should not matter if they were children, elderly, Muslim, Gay, women, or whatever. They were killed.

No matter what story you hear, feel bad that people had to die- and pray for them, and help in any way. I am not opposed to the idea of the silent blog thing, but just hurt that people can be so narrow-sighted to not helping all the victims out there. 

No one should have to be murdered that way. (I won't get into issues of war/death penalty/whatever)

I support LOSS, and HELPING PEOPLE that need it. That is what I am for.

But I don't want to be SILENT about it. I want to be LOUD.

So, that is what I am doing.

Being LOUD.

And another thing, instead of sharing with Facebook that you will, "Hold your kids a little tighter" go take that 30+ seconds you just wasted, and actually do it. 

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