Liam may have thrown out Barack's back

We went down to Youngstown to hear Barack speak today and got to grant Liam's months-long wish to hug Barack... and may have thrown the poor man's back out since Barack didn't just hug him, he picked him up! And Reuter's got the picture, nonetheless. It was a long drive and annoying with getting detoured in both directions (I90 was a parking lot getting there then missed the exit for I80 on the way back) and Del wasn't entirely impressed (he cried and then fell asleep toward the end of Barack's speech, so didn't get to meet him and Garvin was too far to take pictures of Liam and me and Barack, so I had to take the pictures myself from sitting in the borrowed wheelchair from church - sciatica is acting up really bad again). I'm copying and pasting the picture here in case the link doesn't last but the link is included here too.

Top News Photo | Reuters.com



"Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) strains to lift William Yeung, age 3, of Cleveland, Ohio during Obama's "Keeping America's Promise" rally at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio February 18, 2008. REUTERS/David DeNoma (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)"

Clare's blessingway

Today I hosted a Blessingway for my bestmama-friend Clare. It went well, and since folks seemed to like it I've posted the text of the script I wrote for it here - all of the text was written by me except for the part that everyone had assigned parts, that part was written by Clare. It was sacred and secular at the same time, and seemed to go over well with all who attended. I'm fine with folks borrowing bits of it to host a Blessingway for another expectant mother, I'd like to know that you borrowed from me for it tho.

Barack sweeps the Patomac Primaries

Well, Barack has won DC, Maryland, and Virginia all by at least 60% from the look of things. From the pundits doing the math, it appears that he now has more than a 100 delegate lead over Hillary, even when the superdelgates are included. Even more interestingly, even if you count in the popular votes she got in Florida and Michigan (remembering he wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan and didn't campaign in Florida even tho she did a little), he STILL leads in the popular vote!

I just think it's fantastic that this happened on Abraham Lincoln's 199th birthday. So we joined the "money bomb" and Garvin and I both donated $5.01 to the campaign (since Lincoln appears on the $5 bill and the penny).



Here's hoping we'll celebrate Lincoln's 200th birthday just after celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama!