Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We are back from Indy and I have never been happier to see my kitty and my own bed. I'm also glad I don't have to hide my piercing anymore (turns out my family is more conservative up there than my card carrying Baptist family is down here in the bible belt). It was great to see my family though, David hadn't really spent any time with them, much less met some of them. They all liked him, even 88 year old Uncle Dwayne, who (lovingly said) is looking more like E.T. every year. E-llll-i-uuuu-t! All of the Cassidy's are oddballs is their own right, it seems to stem from the mystery of what happened in the house on CasCo Drive and my late grandfather. I pushed for stories about my dad growing up, but my uncle and aunt wouldn't really budge. That's okay, it's probably better to let sleeping neuroses lie.

I have officially finished my first trimester! YEA! It's not like I had to do a whole lot to get here, but it is exciting. We are thinking of changing my web domain to a family site, so that people can keep up with little bean and us, along with a photo gallery that will have downloadable images to print off, so that grandma can have copies whenever she wants.

My mom works at one of the local (baptist) churches in Mansfield as well as goes there. During staff meeting an interesting problem came up:

A man and his kids attend the church every Sunday. People are upset because he is using the women's restroom during church wearing women's clothing. Apparently he is in training to become a woman, but no one is sure if he has had the operation. This point is key, because the church is trying to find legal grounds to keep him out of the women's bathroom. If he has, well I guess he physically has a right to go in there.

Good old Mansfield, as my dad would and has said "Getting more like California everyday."

I've been working on my comic book art the last two days, so far I have made a lunchbox and a lidded box for whatever, and I bought some other items at the thrift store today to "enhance." It's fun to get covered in glue and scraps of paper, I had forgotten that. SO OFF THE COUCH! I am DOING something.

Okay, so I'm the worst blogger ever, but as you could see from my last post, I needed to hibernate. So what is going on in the world of the pregnant and unemployed (for the moment)? I spoke with a mortgage lender today and he is going to find out how much house we can afford and let me know later today.

I hung out with Kutter friday and yesterday, we screamed a lot together and wore each other out until we both were ready for a nap. ( He's the silliest 1 year old I have ever met.

David and I dressed up for Halloween and enjoyed the hospitality of the Bens and the Derrington.

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