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An early spring snow! We got maybe 5-7 inches yesterday and through the night. Biggest flakes I have ever seen. I feel like the universe gave us a compressed schedule specifically for Nana’s visit. She may have missed the boys first time in the snow, but she was here to play on the second time. And she got a mini-Easter this weekend, too. We attended the egg hunt at our Alma Mater on a sunny (yet cool) Saturday. I was still doubting the potential for any snow that day. What a difference 24 hours makes!

We made cupcakes, prime rib, green beans, homemade mashed potatoes for Family Dinner. And then no one could make it. Soooo many leftovers! Soooo much food. And a lemon cake Auntie E dropped by.

Nana brought a new video monitor. We are all more interested in that thing than should be normal. It is hilarious to watch toddler antics when they don’t think you are watching!

I better go get myself a plan for this day. Happy Monday, all!

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I haven’t been that checked into recent events lately. (Hence: total shock when it snowed.) But on my way in this morning, BBC was going on and on about gay rights in the United States. I tune in and was surprised that the Supreme Court is going to start hearing DOMA and California Marriage Ban both this week – tomorrow, even? I knew it was coming up in March, I just failed to realize that we really ARE at the tail end of this month, aren’t we?

I try not to let myself get all worked up about it. I really, really do. But somewhere inside of me there is a bird nervously fluttering in the cage of my ribs, my heart making room for the worry.

I think it is so clear. So clear. I should be able to marry who I want. I want that to be my wife. I can’t marry her, so that makes things unequal, right? There is a right that people have that is denied to my family. The very definition of inequality.

But what if that stupid old argument wins: “Well, you DO have the right to marry the same as the rest of us. You can CHOOSE to marry a man and that would be fine. Instead, you chose to be with a woman.” Oooh, I get it. I have rights, I just make bad choices? It gets stuck in my craw.

I want to say I have faith that the clearness of this will be seen by the Justices that guard our Constitution. But I fret and worry that all this misguided thinking and the antiquated argument will reign supreme.

I got an email today from employee group at work reminding us all to wear red tomorrow to support each other and Marriage Equality. Please let this be the time that we change the world for the better and that all families will be regarded as equals.