TWENTY-SIX

 

Happy Halfway through the year and Midsummer! 

2022 week twenty-six

We had some of the cousins over for a summer solstice party where we burned our Christmas tree and had a maypole and grilled food. We let our kids stay up until it was dark or people started crying -the crying happened first. :) 

The maypole deteriorated into a mummy wrapping contest. 

Summer Monday evenings at the Library continue with a science demonstration. Theo's face in the middle of the chaos is priceless. 

Being naughty at the dentist office caught on camera! 

Theo got to have one of his favorite friends from preschool over for a date. Those good boys built box forts, caught wasps, and played on the swing until they were screaming with laughter. 

Matt and I met up with my coworker Hannah and her husband Steven at a local whiskey distillery. 

We had a lot of fun learning about whiskey and bourbon distilling even though the tour felt like being inside baking bread. It smelled just as lovely too. Unfortunately for us, I think that the smell of the distilling is much more enjoyable than the actual drinking of the product. We had fun nonetheless. And the food there was delicious. I'm sure people who like whiskey and bourbon will attest that it was very good. I can only speak for the food. 

Our beetle larvae are coming along horrifyingly... 

I love a good sunbathing cat. 

Surely someday this will get old? Until then, you get a weekly installment. 

In an uncharacteristic move, I will post something a bit more serious. 

In 2014 Matt and I had a 1 year old baby girl and we were trying to get pregnant. I was a stay at home mom while Matt worked his first job out of college. We got pregnant, but after 12 weeks we found out the baby had passed away. My Dr. prescribed Misoprostol so I could safely and quickly pass the dead fetus. 

If this had happened this year I would not have had access to that drug. I would have had to wait at home, with a baby, to hopefully safely pass it on my own, risking hemorrhage, sepsis, or worse. This drug will be illegal in 30 days in many states including Texas where we live. 

If you are happy about RvW being overturned, please do it with the knowledge that it affects people who want the same things you do -people who WANT to build their families, not just hypothetical people who make poor choices. Legislatures are eliminating options for working class families who are trying to make good choices and stay alive (or out of prison) for the children they already have. 

We are real people, people you know, people who want safe access to healthcare.