Columbus Day

Today is Columbus Day. Just another Monday for me, but a day off of school for Casanova Zach. It's funny, in a way, but if decisions were being made today about whom we would honor with Holidays and whom not, I'm pretty sure Columbus would wind up in the NOT side. Turns out, old Chris was NOT a very nice man. There are some Caribes who would have been a whole lot better off if old Chris C had never been born.

Lief Ericsson, on the other hand, one of the early discoverers of America, should be honored. The Norsemen actually founded colonies on the continent of North America more than 400 years before Columbus. Or perhaps the ancient sailors from China who sailed up and down the west coast of America in the early 1400's should be honored. We know they were there. We have found their anchor stones lying in waters off the coast of California. And Chinese history records the great exploration fleet of Zhang He, which sailed as far west as Africa. And many think he also sailed east to America. Or what of the mysterious people, Europeans it is thought, that built works of stone along the east coast of what is now the United States. We know not who they were, but their stone works are very similar in form and style to early stone workings all through western Europe. But whomever they were by name, we know they were here. Before Christopher Columbus. Who was not a nice man.

It was a pleasant and mostly lazy weekend. We had our family gathering on Saturday. Zach's girlfriend was there. She's cute - and they look so cute together. I monitored hand positions at all times.

Sunday was a late start - we slept until 11. And after we had breakfast, we came home and I watched the Bears lose a heartbreaker. Darn. It's what happens when you make poor decisions and you don't finish. You lose.

Please remember Veronica in your prayers. She is valiantly trying to hang on to her pregnancy. She is but 25 weeks in. The doctors have given her steroids, to mature her son's lungs, should it be necessary. There's a 50/50 chance it will be necessary. Within the next 7 days.

Happy Columbus/Lief Ericsson/Zhang He/Mysterious People Day.

Peace.