Obama is Palin comparison...

I am so disgusted with the media in this country. I cannot believe the response to Govenor Palin's candidacy for VP. I am so excited! She has so much more experience than Senator Obama. I cannot believe they are trying to make it out so different. I believe the definitions of the experiences Obama and Palin have speak for themselves:

Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. While organizing describes any activity involving people interacting with one another in a formal manner, much community organizing is in the pursuit of a common agenda. Many groups seek populist goals and the ideal of participatory democracy. Community organizers create social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved. (Per Wilkepedia)


A governor is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the Head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state. (Per Wilkepedia)

Summer is over...

My, my, what a summer we have had. May 15th-September 2nd. It doesn't get any better than that! Quite honestly, I thought I was ready. I thought the kids were too. But, the last day of summer spent at Schlitterbahn only reinforced how much I really enjoy my kids. How much I love them, cherish them, and want to fight for them. They are fantastic and I am so honored to be their mom.

My cousin Leah has welcomed a new little one in to the world. Annerson Grace! She is BEAutiful! She has Leah's features...you can check her out at LexandLeah@blogspot.com. They are going to be the most wonderful parents. Their nursery is straight out of Restoration Hardware and needs to be the featured nursery in my opinion!

There are lots and lots of baby girls coming into our lives and we are so excited. There will be 5 in our family alone in the next 6 months! Whew! Lots of princesses and pink! My prayers are that they will all be healthy and come to know the Lord, their God with joy and thanksgiving!

So, I added to my list of books over the summer. I was able to read a few more on my list. I am hoping to continue this fall and finish 40 new titles by the end of my 40th year. I have many to go...
The Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn
Deadline by Randy Alcorn
Bringing up Boys James Dobson


Okay, I know that there were more. Hmmm...I will have to get back to that one.

Now for the real reason for this post. Yes, I was going to post about back to school and such but, I was drawn to post today, because I am perplexed and I just want to get it in words. Since I am a political news junkie, self described, I have watched with admiration the news about Sarah Palin. I am incredibly thankful that Senator McCain chose her as his running mate. I am also completely dumbfounded by the response about her baby Trig and Bristol's pregnancy. I am amazed that the other side is all right with their boy being friends with the likes of Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Tony Rezko but is going ballistic with the news that there are two new lives in this world. Yes, two new lives. Bristol's baby is a baby...a life within. Trig is also a life that deserves to be celebrated and cherished. That being said...

There are numerous articles and sound bites that have been written/said about the relationships between Senator Obama and the three stooges above and they (their supporters) seem to think all of that is water under the bridge. Now, they are attacking the next VP and her daughter for having morals and values. As Christians we never claim to be perfect. We do know that, however, God wants us to strive to be like Him. He is the only one who is perfect. We don't strive for perfection, we strive to give Honor and Glory to Him. He deserves nothing less. He already knew all of this was going to happen. He already knew that Mrs. Palin would be asked to be the VP of the Republican ticket, He already knew that there would be a baby named Trig and a baby for Bristol. He has all of this under control and He will be glorified through their lives and through their experience. I am honestly just shaking my head.

I am excited to know that there is a conservative on this ticket. I am excited that there is a woman on this ticket. I am excited to see Senator McCain understand the base of his party. I am excited to see a strong, young woman who is strong because she is the exact opposite of what we have been forced to believe a strong woman should be. I am hopeful that young women everywhere will notice that she is a loving mother, a hockey mom, a lady that hunts and can still wear dresses with heels, a devoted wife who loves her man for being a man, everything that society tells us is "small town!" AND is successful, powerful, running the largest state in the country. She is everything that feminists wish they were. She has what they want and MORE! She has faith, values, morals and she stands by them. She lives them.

Don't you see. We don't have to let go of God and live by the world's standards to be strong women. God loves us and created us to be strong. His strength shines through when we honor Him with our devotion and live our lives to please Him. He knows that we are not perfect and does not expect us to get it all right. He just wants us to recognize Him first and to try. To strive for Him, to give Him the credit and to love one another like He first loves us.

I was a FredHead. I am now a McCainiac and I hope and pray that they win in November. I never thought I would joyfully support Senator McCain. I will now and I believe that there are other women who will do so as well. I also believe that there are men who will follow this lead because they see in Sarah Palin their own wives that they honor and cherish. They are proud of their wives and see her (Sarah) as one of their wives' friends. As a family, we see that we could have the McCains and the Palins over for dinner and know that we share the same worldview. Families are important. Children are important. Our values and moral standards are important and they all deserved to be fought for.

Chronicles of 40 books...

The Yada Yada Prayer Group
The Potluck Club
Same Kind of Different as Me
Cure for the Common Life
Do Hard Things
50 Rules Your Kids Won't Learn in School
In the process...One Nation Under God, Total Money Makeover

Any suggestions for Christian Fiction or books with Biblical messages would be gladly received.


Summer is in full swing at our house and we are trying to number our days and live them purposefully. My husband and I are battling the almost constant fighting between our youngest children. I realized yesterday that when they start the day with cartoons that it really squelches any desire to play together and be on the same team. They have done B E A utifully today without the television. Yeah God!

Ryan has graduated, Praise God! He is struggling with OCD and all of the change that is happening around and within him. If you read this, please pray for Ryan. He is a wonderful young man. Pray for the demons within him to be bound up and removed from his life. He has a new job that is sending him exposure that he is struggling with. I am convinced that Satan is trying to manipulate him away from God. Katrina is moved in to her apartment and is thriving. She is working and going to school this summer. She will be done with classes in August. We are so thankful for her time and opportunity to go to TCU. It has been a wonderful experience for her. I struggle with it, with the cost. I so wish that I did not allow a foothold for Satan every time I worry about money. Read in The Utmost High the other day about worry being one big sin. I guess I did not realize that, that not relying on God in every detail was sinful. I have so much to learn. I never let that truth be revealed to me before. Satan allowed that veil to cloud my vision for over 40 years! Ryan is also on his way to TCU in the fall. When we went to help move Katrina in to her new apartment, we felt so strongly that Ryan would also thrive there. Please Lord, help me to see the wisdom in Your ways. Please Lord, help me KNOW that when You allowed his acceptance that we are to trust You to provide the means. You did not reveal his acceptance until we realized how much Ryan would benefit from the experience. Please help us to not get bogged down with worry. Help me trust You for every THING, Lord.

Hope all is well in your home. It is well here. Thanks be to God!

Laundry 101

My 6 year old woke up wailing this morning about not having any pants to wear. I have not done laundry in a few days...just have not thought about it much, to be honest. Alexandra had already put on her pants from yesterday. David, on the other hand, was furious. He brought me all of the pants that were still in his drawer, threw them at my feet and YELLED at me for not doing the laundry, that he hated all of these pants, etc.

My children will get a laundry lesson today after school. You would have thought that I was making them eat elephant dung. David proceeded to wail about that too. They will have to do one load of their own laundry. I think that, eventually, this will be harder on me than it will be on them. I suppose some lessons are always like that. I explained that it is my job, as his mother, to prepare him to be able to take care of himself someday. I told him that, while still living under my roof, there would come a day that he would do all of his own laundry. I told him that right now, I was taking it in baby steps. I do all of their laundry, fold it and they have to put it away. They are responsible for bringing it to me and I give it back to them, clean and folded. I also explained that I cannot read his mind and that, in the future, if he realizes he is running low on certain favorites, it would be in his best interest to calmly let me know.

I cannot wait for uniforms for him next year....and yes, I did make Alexandra wear a jumper instead of her dirty pants from yesterday.

Kotex pad with wings...

It is amazing what a commercial can do for conversation with your children! I am thankful that David was not too interested. Alexandra, on the other hand, wanted to know what those "pads with wings" were for. I told her the brief answer. Those are for when a woman has her menstral cycle. What is that? was the reply. I explained that we could talk about it later. So, later, talk we did.

It was pretty easy. I told her about the egg, the uterus, the lining of the uterus, how the egg implants in the lining if it is fertilized, and how, if the egg is not fertilized, the lining sheds. She asked appropriate questions and concluded that the whole thing was "really wweeiirrdd!" She made some jokes about laying eggs and that was about it.

So incredibly glad that we did not have to get in to the whole thing about fertilization and how that actually occurs! Whew. Bullet dodged!

I have also been reading Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado. My honey listened to the book on tape while traveling and I told him I would read it while he was gone so we could compare notes. Anyway, it talks about how many eggs each woman has 10 ^3000 (10 to the 3000th power) and how many sperm each man makes. Instead of talking about fertilization, we talked about how wonderfully and beautifully made she is. That God needed just that specific egg and sperm to make her and He knew just which one to pick. It was fantastic! The conversation closed with her smiling and us praying. God is so good. He knew I would need that...

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside....

I was watering my plants in the front of the house this afternoon and came across two lizards in my ficus tree. I saw the female first, then the male appeared on the pot after jumping up from the steps below. I watched and this is what transpired. Mind you, I have about 12 pictures...my husband thinks I am twisted. I had to show my kids too. We had a nice little talk about it! Happy spring!