Especially this cold weather…totally not OK!  I wonder if the baby would like to spend the winter with me and Sunshine, snuggling under lots of blankets in bed.  Doesn’t that sound more fun than trying to find warm-enough winter clothes every day?  I mean, really.  Pants are so hard!  Pyjamas are so easy!  Sigh!  🙂

OK, so normally I don’t post about serious things – there are lots of other bloggers out there who do that much better than I could.  But there are some issues I care about a lot, and one of them is letting people, especially kids, be who they are without judging, bullying, disrespecting, or hating them…especially when it’s because of who they love, and it’s heartbreaking that anyone should have to suffer for something like that.

I am so hopeful about how things are changing in this country: how Mitchell and Cameron are just another (wonderful, hilarious, lovable) couple on Modern Family, how beloved celebrities are coming out without fear, how public opinion is shifting toward legalizing same-sex marriage, how a majority of us believe homosexuals should be allowed to serve openly in the military (what is wrong with you, Congress?).  I know it’s still really, really hard, especially for gay teens and especially in conservative communities…but I believe it’s getting better, and I promise that things do get better after middle & high school, particularly if you’re one of the different/unique/“weird” kids (like I was…like all my friends were!). 

You don’t have to take my word for it; check out the videos at the It Gets Better Project – the first one, Dan and Terry (who started the project), made me cry.

And again, there are others who can say this all better than I can, so let me just give you three of my very favorite famous people:

Holy bananas.  She is so amazing!  She keeps winning in the very last stretch!  As if she knows how to keep an audience in suspense up to the final seconds…