I am not making this up: These are the nicknames we gave our kids when they were babies. Guess who's the spawn and who's the beast:

'Tis what I call ... ahem ...mommyblogging. Heh.

PS : You know these kids are Sabater just by looking at their eyes. Everybody in the Sabater branch of my family have those big almond-shaped dark brown eyes.

Cross posted at dkos

I am on an email list of women who were all pregnant together nearly 12 years ago. That's all we have in common. There are radical left-wingers, radical right-wingers, activists of all stripes and everyone in between. They just finished a ferocious debate about Sarah Palin and the attacks on her as a mother.

I didn't say a word, which is weird because when it comes to politics, I'm usually up front with the quips trying to sway the moderates. I wanted to wait until I could come up with a list (and control my temper), because I wanted to give the independents and swing voters in the group something to really think about. This is what I told them:

I think she's drop-dead gorgeous.

I think Tina Fey had better come back to SNL to play her in the skits.

I think she's a dynamic speaker.

I think she's closely tied to Ted Stevens.

I think it's no one's business but hers and Todd's how they run their family life.

I think she's a secessionist who is more loyal to Alaska than the Union.

I think she's a force to be reckoned with.
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9:51 pm EST
The caucus is in full swing now after waiting for more than 2 hours. She tweeted when they called the county delegates.

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Jenn Satterwhite of Mommy Needs Coffee is tweeting her caucus in Texas.

She already voted and says they first got crammed into a room for the caucus and had to be moved to a larger space. The amount of people at the caucus is unprecedented.

I'll update as I get her tweets.

Very exciting!