A few of my favorite people and favorite things

Yesterday I got to go to lunch with my sister in law Tara and a couple of her siblings. It was so nice to visit with them. Tara is here from Houston and is basically trapped, flights have been cancelled. So Shawn and the 4 kids are home, safe and sound, Thank Goodness, but missing mom very much! For this weekend I am most grateful for the fact that my family weathered Ike ok. So many did not fare so well. If I'm repeating myself, it's only because I am ever so grateful about this!

Yesterday I also talked with and got to hug my great friend Jen Gates. She is awesome. Any kid that goes to Tuacahn High School has the best school counselor in the business, no doubt!

Today we went on another road bike ride in a place to remain nameless because we saw a darling little desert tortoise, about the same size as Hambone, cruising across the trail. On a very sad note I ran over a little lizard, it is so hard to tell the difference between lizards and sticks until they move, I never even saw him, poor little dude.

On a work related note I attended training on working with youth who are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning today. It was put on by a person from the Utah Gay Pride Center. It was very informative, I learned several things I didn't know before. It also helped to examine some of my own prejudices that could interfere with creating an environment that feels safe for kids who are GLBTQ. Did you know that 1 in 2000 babies born are intergender- meaning physically either both genders or chromosomally different than XY (male) or XX (female)?