Call a spade a spade

Ok so here’s the deal… we teach our 4 year old that abortion is murder… if you believe that life begins at conception that anything that destroys that is murder. A baby is a baby no matter how small. So abortion is killing a baby. We don’t say fetus, or termination or abortion. we say baby kill and murder. I don’t want to sugar coat it for them.. I never want my sons to think that abortion is even slightly OK. it’s horribly wrong.

I was with my friend and my sons the other day and I said something to the effect of “democrats think it’s ok to kill babies”  translation democrats are pro-choice. Not thinking that my friend is both democrat and pro-choice. oops… I told her our views on raising our boys and I was sorry if I offended her… she was still pissed. Oh well. I think you just have to raise your child the best way you know how and let the rest happen.

Another spade.

ever since I heard about the attack at the church in Lansing I have watched the Bash Back! blog. the hate and the viciousness of these people are simply breath taking. I have gay friends… they know how I feel about their lifestyle. It’s a sin. but that doesn’t mean I don’t love them and hang out with them. That just means that we talk about and I pray for them. But these people are harsh. I get that they feel like they have put up with enough and that they need to take matters in to their own hands… but really??? I mean this is vigilante stuff. and America has as a whole look away… they turn a blind eye. why? I don’t get it. I mean it would be one thing if they were vocal about it and obeyed the law but they are actively hurting terrorizing and targeting people. They are wrong. they should be stopped.

But why do people have such a problem calling a spade a spade? why do we say “oh that person has ADD?” when we should say “that person has no self-control?” or “she has alcohol disease” when really she’s a drunkard. Or here’s one that makes no sense… “they are having an affair” when it is “they are committing adultery and whoring around outside of marriage.”

Speak up people. Because if you don’t find your voice, someone will take it from you and speak words you don’t agree with, but by then it’s to late. Take a stand… no matter what someone will think you are wrong, someone will think you are right and someone will tell you to shut up. But you made your voice heard. And in the end isn’t that all we have? our voice. Jesus said Go and tell the nations.

Speak.

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the volume just went up

Ok so we have riots in the streets of San Fran, Washington, Hollywood and who knows where. Bash Back a radical group storming a church, old ladies getting taken down and billboards on buses denying God. Anyone who says that Christianity is not under attack is under a rock.

Here’s my personal view. Homosexuality is a sin. point blank period. However so is lying (I’m guilty of that), coveting (guilty), wrath(guilty) and a whole slew of other things…. these people are no different or worse than me. They need a Savior just as much as I did/do. They aren’t evil… they are fallen just like you and me. Do I support Prop. 8… YES. I think that gay marriage undermines the family and it is harmful to our society…. Do I think we should be hateful to gay people who want to get married? NO! But the voters spoke and they said NO GAY MARRIAGE. plain and simple.. you don’t see repubs rioting because Obama is now president… You don’t see us up in arms about all the dems that swept the house and senate… We call it a democracy… there is Proposition it was voted on… the majority of the people were in favor of it and it won. End of story…. or so it would seem. Then the fangs came out… I knew it would get bad for Christians but I didn’t see the speed which it’s taken… it was fast. but that’s ok… I just say that it’s time to fight back… We need to raise money for bus ads and we need to be out there with the protesters… where there is one side there should always be the other side. Now is not the time to sit by quietly and knit… if they were to storm our church…well I think it would have turned out a little differently. Maybe it will get to that point… we’ll see. but wow… that’s all I can say…..

BTW here is a link to Bash Back’s website… it’s a bit unnerving but it’s also good to see their side…. http://bashbacknews.wordpress.com/

Thoughts? Comments?

1 Tim 6:12 Fight the good fight….

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My son… and my life right now

My son Robert is 4. about 6 months or so ago we discovered he has asthma. Since then every month we have been in and out the drs. Apparently every time he gets a cold it constricts the airways that are already inflamed and it produces excess mucus and he gets sick quick. Sunday night my 3 year old got out of bed in the middle of the night for water… as I was tucking him in I noticed Robert wheezing. not wanting to wake him I went to bed. At 7 he woke me up clutching his chest exclaiming he couldn’t breathe. so I gave him his breathing treatment that is supposed to help and it did nothing. so a few hours later I caved and called the drs. at 1:30 I took him in and his oxygen level was 93 after 3 treatments in the drs office it went up to 94. not great but better. so the doc gave us 4 meds and told us to come back on tuesday…. tuesday he’s made no progress come back Wednesday… today he was up to 96 on his oxygen and he was moving air around… good… but not great so the doc said ok it might be a bacterial virus so he gave me another med to take… he said if he gets worse come in on Thursday…. still the same come in on Friday and if he’s getting better then great we’ll play it by ear… I was thinking GREAT!!!!no more daily trips to the doc… BTW I should mention that since the first doc visit we have been giving him breathing treatments every 4 hours… day and night.
So I give him his new med after dinner tonight… we get dressed for bed, do family worship, prayers, hugs, drinks of water (the steroid makes him incredibly thirsty) then he starts complaining of being itchy…. I think it’s a ploy to stay up… but after the third trip out of bed I look down and the kid is covered in a rash AND his chest is tighter than security at Fort Knox’s. i freak, call the dr give him some benadryl and when the doc calls me back he confirms my fear… I have to go BACK TO THE DRS TOMORROW!!!!this is a never ending battle… the kid can’t breathe but the steroid has him going a mile a minute… I am stressed to the max and tired…. bone chillingly tired. please pray….thanks

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what do you think?

Poll time!

What color do you like for the plain everyday text of the blog… I can’t decide. Fill free to comment and tell me another choice.

why do we?

Ok so my top favorite TV shows are (in no particular order) Gossip Girl, Heroes, Greys Anatomy, Hills, and House. Why? I don’t know really.

 What are your top 5 favs and why do you think you like them so much?

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Swinging pendulum

WARNING: Whining and bitching contained in this blog

Ok so this is a total rant but it’s better here than anywhere else right?

So we are flat broke… like rolling pennies for gas broke…. ok so maybe not that broke but still like ouch. Anyways, in like 40 some odd days Christmas will be here. As will my oldest boy’s birthday the BIG 05!!!!!!!! he’s a whole hand! it’s a big deal…. but unfortunately our house taxes are due on Monday and that it a thousand dollars…then on the day before his birthday the tag for my car is due… and in case you didn’t know… money doesn’t spring from the toilet. I mean damn that is a lot of freaking money to come up with right before Christmas. And with my oldest having this problem with his asthma is really sucks. Well Bobby is going (probably tomorrow) to a small local back here and try and get a small loan for the taxes. I say GREAT! I also say that we should take out an extra $500 for christmas…. thus accomplishing a number of problems…

1.) I will have money for “black Friday” my favorite day of the year AND the best time to get good deals.

2.) my holiday and birthday shopping will be DONE.

3.) with all or at least the majority of my shopping done I can sit back and for the first time since I can remember I can relax,enjoy the season and make the TON of bread that we are giving out as gifts to people.

I feel it’s a good move because I know we can payoff the loan when we get our income tax back next year. It’s only a few months after Christmas so it really wouldn’t be hurting anything and in the 8 years that Bobby and I have been together we have never ONCE gotten less than $500 so I know we can pay it back. Plus our kids are good kids damn it. they are little and they are naughty sometimes but they are over all good kids. I want so much to give them at least some of what they want. I know lots of kids who are really bad who are getting tons of stuff. There was this lady…. I met her on a hayride…I won’t even go into details…. but she uses the government unfairly to get CRAP for her kids… it’s just frustrating. and what about me? I am a stay at home mom.. I try so hard to be a godly wife and mother… be a good example of a good christian witness, open my home and show hospitality, I teach the boys all about the true meaning of Christmas and the importance of Jesus coming… I try to hard to be a good mom. I want to have a day of shopping… my favorite day of the year. I want to for once have a stress free happy holiday. And Bobby … that man works harder than anyone I know… he never takes a sick day unless it’s for me or the boys.(seriously he worked on our wedding day and tried to have me go into labor on his lunch break)He works all the over time and side jobs he can… more than once this year he would work form 7am until 5pm and then work a side job from 7pm until 10 or 11pm. AND he used his whole week of vaca to go on a mission trip to DO PLUMBING!!!!! I want to get some little things… I know he really wants or needs. But without this loan… it’s not there. I want to scream and jump up and down and pout. I know bring on the rocks…

Before you comment let me say a few things…. Yes I know that Christmas isn’t all about presents and money. I know that. I know the “true meaning of Christmas” but

1.) this is MY blog

2.)I do teach the boys the true meaning of christmas

3.) this is about me and what makes me happy for christmas.

4.)I told you this was me bitching so….

I actually feel better…

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Weighty matters

Ok so today I went to the mall with my little sister… and when I say little I mean LITTLE she’s like a size 0. No lie. Me? not so much. I was a size 5 BC (before children) and I looked good (if I do say so myself).Now to be honest I am twice that. That’s right a size 10. In the world of fashion I’m a plus size. So today I got to thinking… I thought about how I felt and looked back then and how I feel and look now. and I can honestly say skinny chics really do have all the fun. because when I was a size 5 I was 110 lbs. Now I weigh….(deep breath) 140lbs (CRINGE!!!!)… that is like my four year old and a sack of potatoes strapped to my back all day… I don’t have the energy to run around and play with the boys… I get depressed just looked at the mirror. BUT… I’m home all day so I tend to munch… I home school the boys so I sit alot and when I am up and running around I get tired easily…. I know whine whine whine… but hey, I’m being real. So looking at my 98lbs sister I made a promise to myself.I am going to lose weight if it kills me. Ok not really but I’m determined. and you my six readers can follow along… like reading the biggest loser (me). so here is my plan:

1.)Smaller plate(less you can put on your plate)

2.)leave food on plate (less food you consume) 

3.)Constantly think about how your stomach is the size (or should be) your fist…..that’s all you should consume. 

4.) Exercise even if all it is 10 mins a day.

5.)go to the dr. and get on a diet pill

6.)BEG for a gym membership.

7.)weigh myself before I eat ANYTHING and see if I REALLY REALLY want to eat it.

 

Ok that’s all I can think of. So what do you think? can it be done? will you cheer me on? or just throw donuts at me?

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“Home” Schooled???

According to the Bible women are to be keepers of the home.

But as I get farther and farther in the homeschooling journey I notice more and more that the moms are NEVER HOME! Once a lady joked that homeschooling should be car schooling. Between co-op and field trips, meet ups athletic practices and then runs to the store to get all the stuff you need for all these things are we ever home? Doesn’t your time need to be protected and thought about? I go to the Library every tuesday and starting next week I will go to a friends house for lunch after that. Hopefully when the boys get to old for that we will sign them up for a sport. That’s it folks. Once a week. I invite others to my house all the time… I have no desire to be a hermit… but I know that when I am out of the house 3 or 4 days a week doing this or going there the house suffers, I feel frustrated and I have no schedule. and then we spend more money eat worse food and we feel rushed. Is that how it’s supposed to be?

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Sheep… dumb and cute

Ok so I watched the election last night and WOW… can we say SHEEP!!!???!!!!

every one was fawning all over Obama like he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Um NO! I just watched in amazement at the crowds… Ok we all watched the election…. heard his promises and we’ve all at one point or another been captivated by his ability to capture an audiance. But what will happen in the next five years? will he turn us into a muslim country? doubt it. will he change the constitution??? God forbid! will he bring the troops home and make friends with the terrorists??? We’ll have to wait and see….. But I think that while everyone else is going to be watching the new Pres. I’m going to be watching the audiance… will he bring the hope and change that these people desperately wanted? will he do what I think he truely believes in? I mean the guy doesn’t think he’s evil. He thinks he’s doing the right thing….God help us. and so do the millions who voted for him.  But what I predict is alot more cynical. I think he won’t be so great for the country as a whole… but we like sheep to the slaughter are already on our way.

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Hello…

Ok so I had stuff I wanted to write about and no where to write it down at so I made a blog. we’ll see how this goes. Jump in and let me know what you think… BTW  my avatar is my son when he was little…”trying to see things from your point of view”

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