Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

After being pregnant and having a baby, I realized even more than before how that little fetus inside is a unique life and that abortion is unfortunate.  But I also found out how complicated and scary a pregnancy can be, and I understand how an abortion could be a medical necessity in certain circumstances.  So if the following is true, I am really irate at the state of Michigan right now.  "This new law forbids private insurance companies from covering abortions unless a woman buys additional and preemptive coverage, even in the case of...medically necessary dilation and curettage (D & C) procedures for planned pregnancies that went wrong."  Now, I didn't read the actual law, so I'm just going on what this article says, but it seems trustworthy.  Of course, there is room for interpretation in the phrase "went wrong".  If they mean that the child has a disability, I think that abortion is not necessary.  But if they mean that the mother's life is in danger and they won't cover it, it's horrible.  I don't think that the mother's life is worth less than the baby's, or that it makes sense to let both of them die instead of saving one of them (the mother, in this case).  Ugh.

Baby girl is adorable, by the way.  I can't imagine my life without her.  She screams and babbles and gurgles and waves and smiles and laughs.  She's simply the best.

And I'm such a dork.  I spun around in the rocking chair and my foot hit one of two cups sitting on the floor, knocking it over.  It happened to be the empty one and not the full one that I knocked over, and I said, "wow, that was fortuitous".  And I couldn't come up with the word "lucky" until I looked in the thesaurus.

Merry eve of Christmas Eve!  I hope everyone has a happy and relaxing holiday week spent with family and friends.

On a side note, I can't believe I'm going to be one of those idiots rushing around tomorrow trying to get my shopping done before the stores close at 6.