Pepper's Blessing

Pepper's blessing was sweet. My dad and Eric give similar blessings. They're both very...wise, I guess would be the word I would use. Very patriarchal.

Last night Eric asked me what I thought of the blessing, and the part that really stuck out to me was about Pepper's lineage as a daughter of God. I told him how having a girl now is (obviously) easier to relate to. The whole time from when I was 12-18, I heard tons about being a daughter of God and it was truly a big part of my life. And that part of the blessing gave me a glimpse into Pepper's future.

Like Pepper, I have amazing parents who, in my life, have always been strong in the Church and were very encouraging, and so loving. Pepper and I won't have exactly the same childhood and youth, but she'll probably have many of the same lessons learned: she'll probably like princesses, hopefully she'll like cooking with me, she'll have boyfriends, she'll deal with middle school, and she will understand the importance of her lineage as a daughter of God.

Eric and I had a really good talk last night. Well, first he talked about this debate-like thing he was having with some guy on Facebook about religion and science - that got boring after a while. Regardless, I still love to hear his thoughts and ideas. Eric is very verbose. He loves it. I love him for it. It's part of him.

Anypoo, after quite some time of half listening to Eric talk about that, half watching pictures of London scroll by on my computer, Eric and I had a really good talk last night. I don't even quite remember what we talked about, but I enjoyed it. Everyone, Eric and I included, are so involved with our electronic devices these days, that it's becoming more uncommon to just sit and have a good conversation.

He was saying the other day that I don't get nearly as upset with him anymore. I think it's partly because we're both more mature, and partly because Eric doesn't "debate" as much with me. We don't have as much alone time as we used to, so it needs to count.

Well, Pepper is up, it's time to feed.