20 weeks...HALFWAY!

Today is going to be a history lesson. And for those who know me, you know I'm not a history buff so I'll include a link at the end so you can get the facts and not my convoluted portrayal of them. 

But before I start that, I wanted to apologize to Josh. You are right...dads do get left out when in fact without the dads many (not all for those amazing single moms out there) of us would be lost without your support and contributions. 

Ok, so I wanted to tell you all a little about my favorite town, or village really with it's tiny size. It's a place called Hopedale. It was founded back in 1841 by a guy named Adin Ballou. 

He was a pastor that worked all over from New York City to Boston and in-between. He worked for a few different denominations and found himself fired from some positions as his ideals changed and no longer matched those of the church he was working on. 

He ended up in Milford and found himself on the outs with the church he was working at. So, he purchased some land and and christened it Hopedale. He wanted Hopedale to be a utopian society. Some businesses were opened and the Draper's moved in. It didn't take long for the ideals of a utopian society to begin to collapse, so the Drapers pulled their monetary support from the community. Soon, the Drapers took over the industry and a very successful mill town was born. 

For more (accurate) information, visit this site on Adin Ballou 

For those of you wondering why my love for this town is so great that I would dedicate my halfway-through-pregnancy post to it, well...it's also a kind of announcement. 

Our son's first name will be Adin

The middle name will be announced later!