cool baby name site:

http://www.nymbler.com/

Drumroll, Please....

Girl!

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Juno: some thoughts

Well, we watched it Sunday night...

I didn't like it at all. I had to talk it through with Roy before I could go to sleep, it was so...disquieting.

Bear in mind I'm pregnant and that I've lost a baby.

At the end I was so sad, I cried and cried (but quietly, so I wouldn't freak out the people who were watching it with us, in case they liked it). But it wasn't a beautiful-sad. It was a straight-up this-sucks sad. Nobody changed. Nobody grew (except for Juno's baby). A junior in highschool got a boy-friend. Whohoo. Everyone did exactly what they wanted. It's like the end of Judges...everyone did what was right in their own eyes. The man left his wife, the wife got her baby, Juno got her boyfriend and no consequences. Nobody wasn't selfish. Even the Juno character's carrying her child to term had less consequences--her family supported her, her medical expenses were paid, and she got to be even more different than the losers in high school who go to prom.

And the callousness towards the baby...of course, I'm sure it was calculated, to some extent, but...it hurt.

And of course there were some good moments--my favorite two: 1) when the stepmom chewed out the ultrasound technician. 2) when that boy said "I try really hard." And Ellen Page is REALLY pretty.

And it had fun clothes and was all indie and cute like that...and the music is the kind I usually like, but it just made my heart hurt.

And who the hell really says "wizard" all the time? I did get tired of teen-age language, I'm not gonna lie.

I'm not sure what Roy thinks exactly, though I know we had similar feelings. Maybe he'll add some to this.

It's weird, because so many of my friends really liked this movie, but it just really...hurt and didn't heal.

baby update

baby is as big as a bell pepper (if he/she is average) and weights
almost seven ounces. i'm getting bigger and bigger!

lunch hour articles i liked:

I knew it: Math manipulatives are annoying and don't work as well!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/science/25math.html?em&ex=1209528000&en=10de70f5b0a8d0f8&ei=5087%0A

Yikes! How would you minister to these people?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/fashion/27trans.html?pagewanted=1&ref=style

The love story I wanted until I met Roy...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/fashion/weddings/27vows.html?ref=style

to come later, my reaction to the movie Juno.

enjoy!

also, my birthday is in one week! i'd forgotten about it until today!

home again...home again...almost

we are almost home! we've been kid/house sitting since Tuesday. The parents are coming home at four (well, probably they'll get here at four thirty), and Roy and I will get to go home to our little house and sleep for a little bit. Then he has to intern tonight.

I think I can say that we've really enjoyed taking care of the kids. They've been fun, even though I'm pretty sure we've let them watch too much TV +/or be on the computer too much. But they've been pretty well behaved and helpful and you can tell that they REALLY love Roy. They like me, too, but they LOVE Roy. Of course, who wouldn't? He really is the best person I know, besides Jesus. So, yeah, the kids were okay.

But I'm homesick. The house we've been at is HUGE. The master bathroom could fit a double bed in it--maybe two. Even though the bathroom adjoins the bedroom, I have to walk farther to get to the toilet here, than in my house where I have to go through a hallway. At least it feels like it. This point, while it may seem silly to some, makes a lot of sense when you get up to urinate two-three times a night. But I'm pretty sure it's right. I miss having two percent milk to drink. I miss having fewer electronic distractions, though I don't begrudge Roy the chance to watch the play-offs on DirectTV. I miss my furniture. I miss my little kitchen, and the food that's in it (or that would be it we'd gone shopping). I miss being in Jackson-Jackson...I don't like feeling so surburban, even if it's really only 15 minutes away. I just miss...the smallness of our life. I'm glad our home doesn't have an entertainment center built in. We could probably keep the kids for another week if we got to keep them in our house. Of course, they would go crazy because we don't have that much to do.


in other news...

My next sonogram, the one that for some terrible reason I keep thinking of as the "reveal" sonogram (...someone's been watching too many home improvement TV shows!), is Wednesday. This really is great and I'm excited-but I'm also really scared. I know that everything is likely fine and that it'll be great to find out which pronoun applies to our kiddo, but sonograms make me so nervous because it was my first sonogram in the first pregnancy when we found out that something was wrong. And then in the aftermath of the miscarriage, I kept having to have them to see what was going on--but not to see a little kiddo squirming around. I guess maybe I haven't grieved about that part yet. But it's still really hard not to worry about everything connected to the pregnancy...if I'm gaining weight too fast or too slow, what it means that my stomach is upset, if I'll ever feel the baby move, if I'm alienating myself from my child because I don't like the control it has over my body, if I'm eating the right things so our kiddo will be healthy. I'm sure this is fairly normal and most of the time my rationality is able to squelch them, but it's not comfortable. But I'm also sure it's heightened because we have already lost a child. And I don't think we'll ever forget that first baby. ... ... but Roy is really good about reminding me that God is good (all the time) and it helps a lot. If you aren't married, don't get married until you can find someone that loves Jesus as much as Roy does.

I guess the older you get, the more things there are to be afraid of.

On that note, I'm going to go get ready for church. Or eat breakfast. I think baby is hungry.

What do ya'll worry about?

Love,
Emily

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I saw a headline for this:

http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080425/FEAT04/80425005
(Southern Baptists Memberships, Baptisms Decline)

and my first thought was "ha!"

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i love Ricky

A little thinking about easter baskets.

http://www.redeemertulsa.org/News/NewsStory.aspx?guid=9bf7e923-87dd-4a1b-ba36-89e15e9fe303

Why Do Women Need To Be Perfect?

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1733856,00.html

oh, that's right--we don't!

Loss...or Jesus' gain

http://guittahogue.blogspot.com/2008/04/grieving.html

I just saw it on CNN.com: President Bush dances

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Another adventure

This week, Roy and I are kidsitting...until Sunday. While lots of our
life together has been adventurous (marriage, pregnancy)...this is a
pretty immediate adventure...especially since these kids look like they
could be our kids.

So..say some prayers.

Love!

links i like or think are thought provoking...

About a women's conference....scroll down to the very last points...I
liked them!

http://commongroundsonline.typepad.com/common_grounds_online/2008/04/leigh-mcleroy-a.html

"Men's right to choose"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1173414,00.html
I'm not sure that I agree, but it's an interesting idea.

Also this one...

http://revolutioninthespirit.blogspot.com/2008/04/black-megachurches-and-african-american.html

three quick things...

this is going to be a crass-free week on the blog...I think three
times last week Roy asked if I thought that something I'd written
could be offensive. And in one case, he said, "Emily, small children
could be reading our blog!" So, to honor his wishes, (at least for
this week), we're going to try and keep it something my mom could read
without having to pray for me.

also, when i was checking facebook today, I saw that Lig on Dun-can
was on it. I laughed out loud! At work.

also, our baby weighs as much as a turnip and is five inches long
(assuming he/she is average.)

okay...happy monday.

Too good not to pass on....

Florida Senate amendment takes on 'Truck Nutz'

http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080418/CAPITOLNEWS/804180359&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

" The proposal would make displaying bull genitalia reproductions on
a vehicle subject to a $60 fine, moving violations and points against
a driver license.
...
"I find it shocking we'd tell people with metallic testicles on their
bumpers that this is a violation," said Sen. Steve Geller,
D-Hallandale. "There's got to be better things for us to spend time
debating." "

I've seen a pair of these in Jackson...and I have to admit...it always
makes my day, even though I always wonder if they should.

again...interesting

what's for dinner? the pollster want to know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/dining/16voters.html?pagewanted=1

can what you eat tell who you're gonna vote for? what's in your fridge?

i heard just a snippet of this on my way to work:

Documentary: Racism Harms Your Health
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89678892

I thought these stories were FASCINATING!

Divorce and unwed births cost a lot of money (assuming good methods)
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1730928,00.html
(but how do you fix that?)

Spain's defense minister is pregnant! Whoa.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1730927,00.html