Baby did not wish to reveal to us this week if we should keep all of Cass' hand me downs or donate them :-) The ultrasound tech, Christina, was about 50% sure of the sex. This made me laugh! We're either having a girl or a boy. And a very healthy one at that. Everything looked great. The spine, brain, heart, kidneys, stomach, etc all showed up during the hour long procedure. Thank you Lewis Nixon for kicking things off in 1906 when you invented sonar!
Joining Rites of Passage and Empowerment (ROPE) has been key in helping us find community out here in the Berkshires. No sugar coating- this county is both white, rural, conservative, racist and full of theatre, music, the outdoors, and pockets of loving, open-minded people. Massachusetts may be the most liberal state in the US, but we are far from Boston. Here, minutes from New York and Vermont, the sounds of performative equity can be heard from the tone deaf school administrators who "don't see color" and have voiced that "race was not an issue till we brought it up", to the lack of representation in politics, restaurants, stores, and general day to day. We have lived in places across the country, and have yet to stumble upon a place that felt fully welcoming. I don't say this to complain, it is merely a statement of my lived experience thus far and an acknowledgement of the work it takes as a Black woman to make friends, have meaningful relationships, g...
This is too funny!
ReplyDeleteLook at your precious baby. I'm so excited!
Look who's talking! I'm more excited for you, less than a week left to go!
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