No news today

I started to comment on a couple of news items that caught my eye. It is pretty clear there are a lot of issues I have thoughts on...updates on the sickle-cell or beating death, for instance, and why nobody has been arrested yet...the threats of Abbas towards Israel and whether they were justified in taking the prisoners from the jail...updates on whether the US will seek the Death Penalty for 9-11 and whether they should...a link Jr. Woodchuckette sent me about Sandra Day O Conner talking about the move towards an autocracy. There is a lonk she sent that I will be posting on later...should be good for a laugh or three (or perhaps a groan).
However, it occurred to me...although I have interests in many of these things and things to say...today they just aren't important. No, I am seeing some things almost first hand and I find them exciting, thrilling, and intriguing.
Yesterday the middle of my three sisters (although calling her the "middle is a little mis-leading...she is like 2 minutes older than Pam) heard the hearbeat of her first baby for the first time. Hearing her tell about it has been very cool for me. I mean, sure, Sue had Stephanie which I was vaguely aware of and Kenneth and Stanica had Isaac which I was very aware of and have enjoyed the process of watching him grow, of getting to hold him and play with him...and Kevin & Cassie, still at least fringe part of the process (they may be friends as opposed to family, but Cassie is almost like my little sis and Kev has become a pretty good friend, so I almost think of them the same), but this is the first time I have SHARED the process...I mean, hearing about the first heart beat and how she and Gabe feel about it...stuff like that.
It has been amazing and eye opening. Heretofore my DIRECT baby-making contact was Andrea telling me she was pregnant by someone else then coming to me when she mis-carried so I could help her through the grieving process. Of course, when I found out those three incidents were complete fantasy and she had never been pregnant, it sort of turned me off from the whol wanting kids (or anything to do with her) thread...but it was really a skewed view of the pregnancy process. Watching it through the eyes of Deb, hearing about what is going on most every day...this has been very cool and exciting. And I look forward to seeing it the rest of the way.