My first thought when I heard Sarah Palin had a four-month-old baby was "OH MY GOD! IS SHE CRAZY?!?!!!" which may not be very modern thinking. But my own experience right now working and having one small child and one bigger one is that it is FREAKING HARD and if a national crisis came up at the same time Baby Girl was throwing up, I would take care of my baby and that might be a problem for national security...

If I didn't know my baby and the blue of her eyes and every freckle on her arms and legs, I would say that maybe this baby in my house isn't my baby. Maybe Blue Eyes was with her at the grocery store and when he wasn't looking, Baby Girl switched places with another baby in a nearby cart, just for fun, to see what would happen, because the baby in our house is so different from the baby we know.

My sister called me the other day and told me about a new book she read, Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi. She said it is well researched with lots of footnotes and it filled in a lot of the blanks for her, it confirmed doubts she had about Barack Obama. She knew I was a Barack Obama supporter and she wanted to know what I thought.

I must say until now I have never considered polygamy seriously. Mostly, I have been offended and disturbed and I have imagined making trips in the middle of the night through secured compounds to rescue young girls who I would let live with me until they could live on their own as free and independent women. But now, after living through the drama of finding the right day care, I might change my mind.

One of my favorite sermons was by Marilyn Sewell of the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Portland, Oregon. She told the story of a farming convention coming to small town. Someone with the convention was calling farmers to convince them to attend. He was explaining to one farmer the topics that would be covered how he could increase his yield and make more money. Then he asked the farmer, "Don't you want to know how to farm better?" And the farmer said "I already know how to farm better. I just choose not to." This is the sermon that has helped me most when blogging...