Going to try this again.

So since my mom is officially off facebook, I am going to attempt to start using blogspot again to keep up with what is going on the Macri house.

Today, I have less to talk about what is "happening" and more on just general ramblings on John Adams.

First of all, I love reading biographies about the founding fathers. I read an excellent one on Alexander Hamilton while I was pregnant with Anna, before I knew it was a girl, and was nearly convinced that if we had a boy it was definitely going to be Alexander Hamilton Macri. (Totally nerdy, I know.)

At any rate, I am re-watching the HBO mini-series on John Adams, and am remembering now why I say Lance is the reincarnation of John Adams, and I have a hint of Abigail in me as well. Their relationship is very similar to ours in that our conversations and understanding is largely based on philosophical points, opinions on politics, what Christianity should and shouldn't be, etc. So that's the start (and probably how I even got to thinking about us in relation to John and Abigail Adams).

So that all explained, this is a part of a conversation Abigail and John have in Part II of the mini-series that could've been a discussion we've had, but with a different subject matter:

"John: Oh if you had seen them, Abigail. An army of plain country boys, with no experience of professional soldiering. But their faces shining like the sun through a church window. Oh we must support them with guns, and leadership, and faith in what they do.

Abigail: Say that, John. Say that to the Congress.

John: If I have to stand and rail until my voice breaks and my legs collapse beneath me- this time Congress will act.

Abigail: Men need to think that they have made their own decisions, not had them forced upon them.

John: I have not the time to coddle like a young girl courting a beau, Abigail. To sit in Philadelphia, listening to men talking to hear themselves talk, resolving nothing; to subject myself to that again, I cannot. I cannot."

Needless to say, he goes anyway, grumbling about the verbosity and arrogance of his fellow Congressmen. And later, there is an excellent speech John Adams gives in Part II of the mini-series that I can even HEAR coming out of Lance's mouth:

"It is one thing to turn the other cheek, but to lie down in the ground like a snake and crawl to the seat of power in abject surrender, well, that is quite another thing, sir. And I have no stomach for it."

I know none of these things mean much to those of you who are unaware of some of the politicking that goes on in our lives, but know that we have felt and had similar conversations just in the same way John Adams has.

Maybe now our first son will be named John Adams Macri.