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No Fair!

My two-year-old’s favorite expression these days is NO FAIR! Really, it just isn’t fair when Mommy insists that raw eggs aren’t the best toys. I’ve caught him playing with the eggs on numerous occasions now, and…pardon the pun…I have to walk on egg shells to get them away from him without upsetting him…so that none of the eggs get broken in the process.  I’m just glad his hands are steady enough that he’s been able to remove the cartons from the refrigerator without dropping them, so far….

He’s wearing the same shirt, but this (at left) is actually a different day (notice the hair cut) of egg fun.  He just really loves those eggs!  This new hobby of his does make me just a wee bit nervous, I really must say.

I don’t always take pictures when I catch him being naughty, but still, I hope I’m not sending a conflicting message.  Mom’s nervous and/or mad about what I’m doing/I’ve done, yet she’s taking pictures…huh?

It’s definitely NO FAIR! when he gets in BIG trouble for completely trashing the play room.

If it’s not completely obvious in this picture, he removed every single book and every single toy from every single basket, totally emptying the entire bookcase.  It probably took him all of five minutes to make this mess, but it took his four-year-old brother and me over an hour to clean it all up.

And of course it’s NO FAIR! when Mommy thwarts his attempt to slice himself a piece of leftover birthday cake.

He doesn’t think it’s fair that I make him wear clothes, either.  If it didn’t violate my standards of care and decency I would post some really cute pictures of him getting into trouble in the buff as well.

This little guy is a mischievous one, and he’s giving me a run for my money, literally…

The other day, in an effort to deliberately provoke me, he ran off with my debit card and hid it (luckily, I found it later in the refrigerator vegetable drawer, as I was making dinner).

One Year Today

One year ago today Barack Obama took the oath of office and became the 44th President of the United States. 364 days later his presidency as we knew it and he planned it, ended.”  Drew M. at Ace of Spades

I must admit I felt no cause to celebrate a year ago…it was a somber day for many of us.  Sure, it was an historic day…BUT SO IS TODAY.  I mentioned the disbelief I first felt at the notion of a taxpayer revolution being able to stop short the advance of Obamacare here, but continued on to say that “what we [were] seeing…in [the] uprisings at town hall meetings [was] a harbinger of the upcoming 2010 midterm elections.”  I had no idea at the time that it would start in January…oh happy, happy day!

Make no mistake:  Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts yesterday is hard evidence that there is open rebellion in the ranks of taxpaying Americans…not just conservatives, not just tea partyers, but Independents and Democrats alike.  Brown could not have won with only Republican support…there just aren’t enough Republicans in Massachusetts to pull that off.  And with the high turn-out at the polls yesterday, it is clear that Brown took the majority of Independents and many Democratic cross-overs as well.  This is about the people rejecting the Democrats’ health care plan, for one, but also a rejection of Obama’s broader agenda.  People haven’t been pleased with Obama’s first year in office.  People are angry at the abuse of power that the President and the Democrat Congress have displayed.  Scott Brown ran on conservatism…smaller government, lower taxes, and a sensible approach to the War on Terror, and he won by 5 POINTS…in Massachusetts, baby.

Exactly one year after Obama was inaugurated, the Massachusetts meltdown mirrors the White House meltdown. For the sake of their political survival, Democrats need to stop promising change and start promising self-correction.”   Michelle Malkin

Last Spring, when the Tea Parties began, a friend and Obama supporter told me that elections have consequences.  I’m not entirely sure what he was getting at…people have a right to protest no matter who wins an election, but whatever.  In any case, lets take that statement now and project it at Obama, rather than the voters.  So, welcome to the consequences of your policies and actions during your first year in office, and…

Happy Anniversary, Mr. President!

Will we witness a Massachusetts Miracle tomorrow?

I really, really hope so…but even if we don’t, the fact that this race has become a contest at all says A LOT about the mood of the voters right now and has to have Dems up for election in November shaking in their boots.  And that’s a good thing.

A parody of the anti-Brown ads running in Massachusetts…

And now for the serious…

Scott Brown now leads Martha Coakley by 4 POINTS, according to a recent Suffolk University/7News poll.  What’s more, Brown not only raised $1.3 million in one day with his Moneybomb, but he has apparently also pulled in a million dollars every day this week!  Still, Democrat Coakley has been outspending Brown by 2-1, although her funds are coming largely from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and from unions.  In contrast, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has not been aiding Brown and most of his support is coming from, oh yea, the people.

I’m sure by now you’ve heard his great line from the debate:

With all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy seat and it’s not the Democrats’ seat…

It’s the people’s seat.”

Oh, the IRONY if Brown pulls this off on Tuesday:

…if Brown’s momentum holds, he is poised to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy – and to halt health-care reform, the issue the late senator dubbed ‘the cause of my life.’

“Yet even in the bluest state, it appears Kennedy’s quest for universal health care has fallen out of favor, with 51 percent of voters saying they oppose the ‘national near-universal health-care package’ and 61 percent saying they believe the government cannot afford to pay for it.”  -Jessica Van Sack’s column in The Boston Herald

MONEYBOMB!

As I’m sure you know, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy died last year and there is now a special election being held in Massachusetts to replace him.  Although Massachusetts is a BIG BLUE state (John Kerry is the other senator who hails from there), there is a realistic possibility that it will elect Republican Scott Brown to the Senate on January 19th.  THIS IS HUGE.  Scott Brown has vowed to vote against the current congressional legislation on health care when it comes up for a final vote.  This may be our only chance, certainly our best chance, at stopping this atrocious piece of legislation from passing into law.  My husband showed me this “Moneybomb”video that Brown put out yesterday, in the hopes of raising $500,000 for a final advertising push in this last week leading up to the election.  The response was so good that they revised the goal to $750,000.  They ended up raising $1.3 million yesterday.

Follow this link to the the website, RED INVADES BLUE.

I don’t have a lot of spare cash right now, but I donated $10 to Brown’s campaign last night.  I feel that it is a very worthy cause, considering the difference this one seat can make for the entire country at this critical point in time.

From Public Policy Polling, on Saturday:

The Massachusetts Senate race is now a toss up.

Buoyed by a huge advantage with independents and relative disinterest from Democratic voters in the state, Republican Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 48-47.

An excerpt from American Spectator article “The Scott Brown Surge”:

Here’s a representative missive from MoveOn.org: “In 11 days, we could lose progressive hero Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat — and with it, any hope for passing major progressive legislation this year.” The subject line asked incredulously, “A Republican in Ted Kennedy’s seat?”

The idea seems absurd even by Chicken Little standards of mass fundraising appeals. Massachusetts is one of the most Democratic states in the nation. Republicans hold about a tenth of the state legislative seats and represent only a slightly larger percentage of the commonwealth’s registered voters. Barack Obama won Massachusetts — the only state to vote for George McGovern in 1972 — by 26 points.

Republican state Sen. Scott Brown has gained momentum among independents — now a plurality of Bay State registered voters — who are angry at the way the Democrats have been running both Beacon Hill and Capitol Hill.

With the Democratic base less than fully engaged, Republicans on fire, and independents unhappy with a mostly Democratic status quo, the race may have become surprisingly competitive.”

I am beyond happy to begin dating my checks ‘10, and am looking forward to this year being better than the last.

I am not nearly the fan of Dave Barry that my husband is, but I must admit that his Year End Review of 2009 is some darn good stuff.  August is my favorite.

The Spirit of Christ

I can so see one of my own boys doing just such a thing…

I am deeply humbled.  My family has been through a lot over the past 18 months, largely due to the recession, and I have so many close friends and even family members who have also gone through…and many of whom are still enduring…some very difficult times.  The effects of this recession have been very widespread, but still I wonder if I don’t know a disproportionate number of people within my circle who have been GREATLY affected by the housing crash and recession.  Humility is a good thing though, and necessary to truly grasp the meaning of Christmas, the Spirit of Christ.

The challenge is to come to humility on our own, rather than waiting for our circumstances to bring us to it.  There are some who are affluent, yet very humble in their affluence…and there are some who are of more humble circumstances, yet very prideful in that state, and vice versa.  And there are some, like me, who have been brought to new depths of humility unwittingly, through our trials and challenges.  It is my hope, going forward, that the lessons I have learned of late will leave an indelible impression upon my soul, so that I may retain my humility even as I overcome my humbling circumstances.

ALMA 32

13 And now, because ye are compelled to be humble blessed are ye; for a man sometimes, if he is compelled to be humble, seeketh repentance…

14 And now, as I said unto you, that because ye were compelled to be humble ye were blessed, do ye not suppose that they are more blessed who truly humble themselves because of the word?

15 Yea, he that truly humbleth himself, and repenteth of his sins, and endureth to the end, the same shall be blessed—yea, much more blessed than they who are compelled to be humble because of their exceeding poverty.

16 Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble; or rather, in other words, blessed is he that believeth in the word of God…

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25 For I do not mean that ye all of you have been compelled to humble yourselves; for I verily believe that there are some among you who would humble themselves, let them be in whatsoever circumstances they might.

Christmas is truly a time of humility.  Just as the Christ child was born in the most humble of circumstances, we ourselves discover our own state of lowliness as we come to realize that we must rely on Him for redemption, and for PEACE.

Global Governance?

Do you remember Lord Monckton warning us that the Copenhagen Treaty is all about global governance and the U.S. repaying it’s so called “climate debt” to the rest of the world?  Did that seem crazy to you?  Well, here it is from the new EU president Herman Van Rompuy himself (but of course this guy considers global governance a virtue, as long as he is one of the governing, that is…):

“2009 is also the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis.  The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet.”

Mark Steyn wonders, “Global government, huh? I wonder where you go to vote them out of office.”

The United States was established as a city on a hill, as a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.  It can only remain so if we actively fight to preserve liberty within our country and resolutely refuse to cede our nation’s sovereignty to the likes of the EU, the UN, or any other organization.  If the United States is weakened (which is the true purpose of any world “green treaty”), then the entire world is weakened in the cause of freedom.

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”  Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”  George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789

My Honey was away last night and I found myself, as I often do when he is away for the night, vegging in front of the computer in an effort to stall the unpleasant inevitable:  going to bed alone.  After checking my email I perused the Yahoo! headlines and saw one regarding Kim Kardashian.  I have heard that name before, and have also seen one Khloe Kardashian plastered on the front page of magazines in the checkout line at the grocery store.  But I had no idea who either of them were.  Who are they, I wondered, and why are they famous? I had time to kill as I was very interested in further procrastinating the chore of retiring for the night, alone.  So I followed the link and read the article, then Googled a bit, and twenty minutes later I knew far more than anyone really needs to know about the “Dash”ing Kim, yet sadly much of America surely knows far more about her than I learned in my twenty minutes of mind-numbing internet surfing.  Actually, I would have…should have…spent far less time trying to figure out why this girl is famous except that a fact in her biography caught my interest:  she was born less than two weeks before I was, less than an hour from where I was was born.  We both grew up in Southern California at the same time, we were the same age during the Rodney King Riots and the O.J. Simpson trial…and the Clinton years.  This simple parallel intrigued me, and I wondered how our individual experiences differed and how we both ended up in our present circumstances at the age of 29…she rich and famous, and me…not.

And so I Googled and perused.  And then, afterward, the thought occurred to me that I can never reclaim those lost twenty minutes of my life.  What a waste. For those of you who, like me, before now knew nothing about Kim or why she and her family are famous, I will briefly enlighten you.  She grew up wealthy and fairly well know in L.A., due largely to her lawyer father’s role in defending O.J. Simpson, but was “cut off” by her parents at 18 in order for her to develop work ethic.  To acquire such “ethic” she made friends with famous socialites and sluts, such as Paris Hilton, and she herself in turn became a famous socialite and slut…with her very own internet sex tape and reality show!  She even sounds almost as ditsy as Paris Hilton, but not quite.  She progressed in her career by posing nude for Play Boy, opening a clothing boutique, DASH, which became an instant success with its star-studded clientele, and acquiring a “reality” T.V. show on E! (most of this was done in business partnership with her family, primarily her two sisters and her mother…but not the Play Boy Part, which she did alone).  And she continued to garner attention from her dating escapades and her butt…yes, she may in fact be most famous for her voluptuous behind.

Wow.  All that by the tender age of 29.  I, in contrast, have neither fame nor fortune.  I don’t have my own fashion line or my own T.V. show (as a side note, reality television is such a sad commentary on our culture).  And I am most certainly NOT famous for my butt, thank Heaven.  I have loved (and kissed) only one man, whom I married at the very young age of twenty (almost 21), and whom I have forged a blissfully happy and undying relationship with over the past eight plus years.  I have borne three remarkably handsome, intelligent, delightful, and sometimes raucous boys who are an endless source of joy in my life, and who love me unconditionally.  Sometimes life can seem a bit dull in the day in and day out routine of a stay-at-home wife and mother, but a tight squeeze from my Honey or a priceless smile or spontaneous “I love you, Mom,” from my boys always brings the bright luster of my life back into view.  It’s not the luster of fame and money that Kim enjoys, but I KNOW that that luster would be truly dull and even empty inside for me, not to mention uncomfortable.  I am nothing but relieved that no one can Google my name and find pictures of my butt or video of me being a total ditz (which I sometimes am, by the way, but I am glad that no one can Google to find evidence of it).

Although the actual time I spent learning about Kim, and her kind and kindred, seemed at first a total waste of time to me, I am now realizing that the reflection upon it has actually been very refreshing for me.  I am now a little more grateful for the life that I have led and lead, and for the place I find myself at the age of 29.

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In somewhat related news, after all of the above, I stumbled upon this very captivating blog.  I spent far more than twenty minutes reading old posts here and found it to be far more interesting than the above matter as well.  This is a well written and well informed blog with an aim at preserving freedom, something near and dear to my heart.  The time I spent here was time well spent.  If I linked every post worth linking then nobody would follow any links, so I will link just one…and it is a very good one, so please DO follow the link and read :-) .

Farewell Fall

pumpkiny boys

I will miss you.

Though I realize the official first day of Winter isn’t for another three weeks or so, in my mind Thanksgiving marks the end of Autumn.  My eldest woke me up yesterday morning to inform me that he had taken down all the Fall decorations and was ready to set up the Christmas tree, and that we did…a few hours later.

I will miss cooking and baking with my yummy little pie pumpkins (though I still have one left in the pantry, which will become our final pumpkin pie on Sunday).

Until next year…

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