Women's March

Goodness gracious, I have had every intention to write a blog post every day for the past week but my emotions have changed minute to minute making it nearly impossible.

I'm going to make this quick because my wife is trying to fall asleep next to me but I can't let another day go by without somewhat capturing my thoughts.

Last week I was in Washington DC. I was there for the Women's March and for the Inauguration, too. To put it mildly, the Women's March was one of the coolest things of my life. Being among 1.5 million people, women and men, young kids and elderly people, too – with the majority of them there to say, “I’m here. I’m here for myself and I’m here for you. I’m here for all of us!” 
Like, when I saw a sign that had something to do with LGBTQ rights I’d stop for a quick second and do something that might be equivalent to saying a silent prayer that my family would be protected. There were straight people holding signs promoting my equal rights. When I held up my sign that said I was marching for my marriage and for my baby girl I had straight people, both women and men, tell me that if this administration comes after my family they’ll be there to fight along side me.  I’m (obviously) not black and I was screaming ‘Black Lives Matter!’ like my life depended on it – because it does. When any of my black sisters and brothers are discriminated against so am I! And let me be clear, yelling ‘Black Lives Matter!’ doesn’t mean that my life doesn’t, that police lives don’t or that anyone’s life doesn’t matter. That’s ridiculous. 

So the march was awesome. 

And then, a week later the new President signs an executive order to ban of muslims. What the heck. How did that happen. How was that man elected as our President? What kind of world is Poppy coming in to. We will teach our daughter to love, be kind to, fight for and protest next to all people - not only those that look and think like her while her government has a different idea of that to teach our kids.

Our President is making it hard to be proud to be an America right now but the silver lining - so many American's are making me proud (and yes, many aren't). American's are resisting. There are protests in every city. Representatives offices are being bombarded with phone calls. People have been woken up and they are acting. I mean, shit, last night Seatac was shut down by protesters! Incredible. Power to the people!

So yeah, I am nervous about Poppy coming into this world but I can hardly wait to get her here! Only 11 weeks to go! She is 16 inches long and nearly 3 lbs.