Uncertainty

We're waiting. Waiting for a contract to come through to be sure that this job is actually as good as they have promised me. Waiting to find a house. Waiting for a baby to be born in the next 8 weeks. Waiting to move our whole little family to a new state. Waiting to see if Ben's company will let him work remotely or if he'll get to be a for-real stay-at-home dad. Waiting to see if I can adjust to his way of getting the laundry done. Waiting to see if he can adjust to being the home-body. Lots of waiting. It's all very suspenseful and normally would cause my control-freak tendencies to work me into a frenzy. So far we're holding up okay. It seems like this is going to be a wonderful adventure.

You can't fix stupid

You can kindly explain. You can provide resources. You can ask them to analyze what they have said. You can yell and get indignant. You can patiently ask questions. And still, stupid. Just. Doesn't. Die.

Adversarial

I have been declared adversarial. On two conservative LDS blogs. Simply for saying things like "Actually, marriages of girls at 14 was not terribly common in the 1840s" and "Census data in Utah during Brigham Young's lifetime does not support the idea that polygamy was necessary because of excess women. There were actually more men than women, which meant that some men went wifeless to allow for polygamy." The thing is, I firmly believe that you can know this information to be true and still have a testimony of the church.