Faith restored

Warning to Katie: don't read this post so our friendship can stay intact. :)

Yesterday I wanted to move to Canada: between the cats, Texas state Senator Wendy Davis' dramatically squashed filibuster on the abortion bill and the overturning of the Voting Rights Act, it was a very depressing day.  But just 24 hours later my faith is restored.  Yay for the Supreme Court!  The Defense of Marriage Act overturned!  Hallelujah for social security and federal benefits for all marriages, and the near-validity of marriages in my state.

I had the best time tonight explaining to Xander that he was a part of history, that he was here when our government told people that they could marry who they wanted, no matter if they were a boy or a girl.  So if he wants to marry Noah or Will from his class, or Shoshanna from temple, he could.  He was very happy about it, but didn't seem to understand why it was a big deal.  He then wanted to know what if he wanted to marry three girls from his class at once (and he gave us names), since he liked all of them equally.

In other news, the morning was so thrilling that I was amazingly productive at work.  I condensed our two very verbose religious school handbooks, totalling 27 pages total, into one handbook of 9 pages, teaching myself MS Publisher in the process.  I planned out all the chug (elective) schedules, finalized some scholarships, worked with our Camp Director to troubleshoot and solve a minor crisis, met with a new teacher and hammered out the Conversational Hebrew curriculum, and got names of two attorneys who specialize in HOA cases so I can call them tomorrow.

As Xander would say, it was a FANTASTIC day!