What a numbskull I am!! I can't believe I did what I did today. I was preparing a lesson for a ladies get together tonight. It was going to be a great evening. We were having a homecooked turkey dinner at our precious friend's home ending with my doing a lesson after the dinner. We were expecting dinner for 30. The lesson was on 10 Essentials for Building a Strong Foundation. It was to be both spiritual and physical. For every spiritual truth I had picked out a carpenter's tool ...
It's going to be a long hard winter. That's what I've heard. We live in the NE and in an area known to get pretty much the higest snow levels in our part of the state. It's usually the hottest here in the summer and coldest in the winter. The local weathermen usually use our town as a barometer usually as the highest high or lowest low. Grrrrrrrrrr or should I say brrrrrrrrrr? So I had this great idea. Let's go on a cruise. We've never been on one and we have an opportunity to go fo...
I spent some time last night at the school board meeting. There has been some heated controversy the last few months about teaching abstinence to the middle school students here. Right now they are being taught what the state recommends, and it's not an abstinence based program. So a group of parents have been making a statement armed with good documentation and organization. They are asking the school if they will consider teaching an alternative to what the state recommends for the pare...
Do you know the Preamble for your state? Where's the separation of church and state here? Interesting...... Alabama 1901 , Preamble . We the people of the State of Alabama, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution. Alaska 1956, Preamble . We, the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land. Arizona 1911, Preamble . We, the people of the State of Arizona,...
There's a big story in our neck of the woods here that you may have heard about. I know Doc has blogged on this. I'm not sure how widespread this is but it's big news here. It's a story about a bizarre kidnapping of a 19 year old woman by her parents. The more that comes out the more incredible it gets. The parents were arrested and are now free on bail for trying to force their college age daughter to get an abortion. They were on their way to NY to force her to abort when the daug...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!!! I told you you should be on the cover of a running magazine. Link "Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perserverance the race marked out for us." Heb 12:1 Continue running the race. As I say to my HS runners, keep up the good work!! You're doing great. See you on the road. LOVE, MOM
I think I know what it feels like to be a zombie. I'm feeling like one tonight. I'm sitting here in my chair not wanting to do much else. We've got a fire going tonight. The second one this....I guess you'd call pre-fall. Actually by now it must be fall as of the last day or two right? Whatever! It feels so nice. I love a toasty wood fire. I never slept last night. We had to be on a bus by 5 am for a big x-country meet in New Hampshire. It was still dark when I boarded that...
Coaching X-Country is getting harder and harder in some ways. First of all, getting down in the mud is not the same as it used to be. Mud? Yes mud. We do a mud run every year. It just so happened it was that time of year this week. Yes we got down and dirty. The funny thing is the girls really get into it while the boys are running away afraid to get dirty. Some of the boys finally came around with the lure of pictures being taken after the fact. At one point I looked at the big puddle...
I've been on the phone for two weeks trying to help a young 22 year old girl get away from her parents. Now that sounds strange I know but the whole thing was quite bizarre. It shouldn't be like this. It all started when she decided she wanted to move 7 hours away to live in the vicinity of her boyfriend. They had been separated for more than a year while he went to school in another state. He had already offered to help her find roommates and a job before she even got there. They we...
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTENT CONTAINS SERIOUS MOMMY BLOG MATERIAL. THOSE, ESPECIALLY OF THE MALE PERSUASION BE FOREWARNED. THOSE QUITE COMFORTABLE IN THEIR MANHOOD OR THOSE WHO ARE SO INCLINED TO PERUSE A MOMMY BLOG, FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE.......LOL. Anyone who has raised more than one child knows quite well there is quite a difference in attitude from that first little bundle that is brought home to the last little one who completes the family. The more children you bring home the m...
It's really easy to look at an obese person and see right away a person with no discipline and no self control. How about a drunk who staggers though town after hitting the bars every weekend? But how many of us are walking around with secret addictions that are not so easily seen? We know what they are. While we point the fingers at those whose addictions are plain to see, we make excuses for ourselves thinking we're ok because nobody knows or needs to know what we struggle with. I...
Ok, now most of you know my son is going to be having his first child. He's been told he's expecting a boy. At this point it better be, because I've bought gads of boy's clothes already. JC Penney just had an 80% off clothing sale, because they are moving to another building, and I took full advantage buying little boy's clothes clear until next summer. The big discussion now is the name. Since my son is an avid movie watcher, and I'm talking big time avid here, he's come up with the...
Much has been said here lately about taxes so I'd like to share a story I heard a long time ago. You're either gonna love it or hate it. Depends on which you relate to.....the Ant or the Grasshopper? THE ANT & THE GRASSHOPPER Old Version: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fe...
An English professor wrote the words, "Woman without her man is nothing " on the blackboard and asked the students to punctuate it correctly. The men wrote: Woman, without her man, is nothing. The women wrote: Woman! Without her, man is nothing. Same words, much different meanings. Which is correct? hahahah....... depends on how you look at it.
An English professor wrote the words, "Woman without her man is nothing " on the blackboard and asked the students to punctuate it correctly. The men wrote: Woman, without her man, is nothing. The women wrote: Woman! Without her, man is nothing. Same words, much different meanings. Which is correct? hahahah....... depends on how you look at it.