Little Rant + Current Activities

I know I don't have children yet (which I am constantly reminded of by other people who imply or straight up tell me my opinion is not credible because of my current childless state), but I know children.  I spend a heck-of-a-lot of time around them and, more importantly, I was one. The older we get, the more we tend to forget about our childhood, but I remember mine like it was yesterday... probably because it pretty much was yesterday.
In addition to that, I was born with everything I need to be a mother.  I have been cultivating those God-given gifts for a very long time (although, just because every woman can, doesn't mean every woman does).  There seems to be some outrageous belief that real motherhood and all it's glory and instincts suddenly hit you--BAM--when you have a baby.  And then you know everything and your opinion is more valid.  If that were true, then there would be a much smaller percentage of mothers who feel inadequate, clueless, or nervous.  Also, there wouldn't be as many not-so-good mothers.  I know that sounds mean, but some mothers really aren't good mothers (that doesn't mean we should go around judging women who are doing their best, though--be nice to mothers who are trying to help their children the best way they know how).

Basically, I'm saying be reasonable--stop basing the validity of someone's opinion on whether or not they have children (or how many children they have) because not every person with kids knows what he or she is talking about, and not every person who doesn't (or doesn't yet) have kids is totally clueless.

There.  My little rant is over.

Other than that... our lives are just as ordinary and boring as usual: school is pretty easy this semester (like it should be because I was supposed to graduate last semester, so I'm just taking a bunch of filler classes for fun);
I woke up sick on my anniversary and am still sick, which caused us to miss the married student retreat we bought tickets for a while ago;
somehow our bedroom suddenly became the coldest room in the house, so Anton and I have been camping out in the living room;
Anton got a little raise (yet we still barely have enough to cover all of our bills... strange how that works);
I'm excited for spring so I can get my baby duck;
we found a Ukrainian guy with whom we will be setting Jana up on a date (he just entered the country last month.  He's cool);
I'm also excited to be getting back to sewing now that I got a sewing machine for Christmas (already made two skirts and have started a blanket);
I'm teaching cultural dances in the after school program--we just finished African dance, and next week we're doing American Indian crafts and dance;
and I've convinced Anton to look for an internship in someplace like Arizona because I freakin' hate the cold.
That about sums it up.  :-)