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Every so often, we humans are given signs that help to direct our lives, our decision making.  These signs can be spiritual, or even seem coincidental.  But they definitely are there.

For example, what sign would you need to experience in order to rethink your matrimony ideas?  Losing the ring?  A horrible proposal experience?  Fire and wreckage?  An upside down sign?
All of these signs were made available to this Georgia couple recently.  The plan was to take his high school sweetheart ( a term we shouldn’t use when the couple is only 19 and 18 years old….it’s the girlfriend from last year) on a chartered plan trip circling Rome, Ga.  As they flew, family and friends were to hold a tarp asking the girl to marry the boy.  First, the sign was upside down.  Then the plane crashed.  Then the ring was lost.

Yet, they still intend to get married……perhaps dating longer, at least until the stars align properly, would be a better option…..oh, and the reason for the crash?  Low speed and low altitude.  Sounds like a recipe for aerial disaster….

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The NAACP has announced that they are joing Hispanic groups in the support of earned legalization of illegal immigrants.

This basically means NAACP is saying let the ones that have already broken the law gain citizenship.  Personally, I think it’s a last ditch effort to remain relevant for the NAACP.  There is no reason for lawbreakers to be given amnesty in this situation.  A commenter to the linked article above said it best:  Saying the illegal immigrants are doing jobs nobody else would is like saying who’s gonna pick the cotton now that we don’t have slaves?

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I have been keeping a private separate blog chronicling our pregnancy…now I may have to add it as a category here since Blogger has been pretty sketchy availability-wise….this would have been the last post had Blogger been up and running.. . . . .

We will be 15 weeks pregnant as of tomorrow.  Right now, it’s still sort of settling in on me.  Without my wife showing, it’s hard to grasp that I’m an expecting father.  I definitely can grasp it more when I go with her to OB\GYN appointment.  Then I get to hear the heart beat and of course we have ultrasound pictures from around the 8 or 9 week timeframe.  My wife said she felt the baby flutter last week.  She wasn’t sure it was the baby but it was something she had never felt before so I’m going with that.

I’m reading ‘The Expectant Father’.  It came with a packet of stuff Lindsay received from some program at her job.  It’s pretty interesting reading and it’s nice that it is from a male perspective.

I think my biggest fear, after of course any physical problems with the baby, is how we are going to support the baby.  Daycares run close to 200 a week, and that alone is outside of money we have.  It’s going to be a huge adjustment for both of us.  I want to start looking for ways we can cut costs now…

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