The Thanksgiving weekend is coming to a close. At my house two trees are up, one is more traditional with no personal decorations. The second is already crowded with decorations of all shapes sizes and colors, it is our family tree. I buy a new ornament every year for each member of my big/little family. This year Goosie and Miniman were old enough to pick their own. Goosie picked out a ballerina Barbie and Miniman found a speed racer. Now if I could just keep them away from the tree!
Hubby and I were looking at all the great deals that were happening on Black Friday. I somehow convinced him to go to Wal-mart at 4am. He will never do that again and I wont either! We braved things today and they weren't too bad. But I think from now on I will do my shopping throughout the year, instead of in the few weeks leading up to Christmas.
I love this time of year. Especially after we put up the tree. The house just seems warmer and there is a lift in my spirit as each day comes to a close. Happy Holiday's, may you each find good cheer in the corners of your heart and warm wishes from those around you. As I hope you would throughout the year!
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Traditions and Transitions...
It's the day before Thanksgiving. I am not on the road trying to get somewhere, there isn't a turkey in the fridge defrosting and I just pulled a home made chocolate cake out of the oven. Every year since I was little I remember today being a busy day, when I was a child there was so much to make and my Mom was in the kitchen for most of the day before and the day of Thanksgiving. Lets face it she was feeding 10 people. When I was a love sick teenager (who didn't really understand what love was) I spent much of the Thanksgiving week with a boyfriends family and little with my own. All of my parents children have grown and the last of us will have our first in April. There are still a few of us who live in the area of origin, or where most of us grew up. Others of us have moved along with our husbands or careers to different states (at times a new one every year). For those of us who have moved away when we are able we go back to that place of origin. My sister I is awesome. Every year she welcomes any and all of us into her home where we make a huge mess (we also help clean it) and enjoy ourselves around the people who love and accept us.
Last year I was able to go home after 6 years away. My sisters, brother-in-laws, nephews, nieces and yes even my Dad were able to meet the first two of my children for the first time. They were also able to see me pregnant. Considering that almost no one had seen very much of Hubby or I since I showed up on my parents door step, announcing I was getting married to a man no one had met before (aside from my sister V and my Mom, of course Mom only met him for all of 3 minutes, but that is a story for another time). I miss them all terribly this year. I know for my sister V this time of year has always been the hardest. But she is a trooper, once again she will paint a smile on her beautiful face and put all of her stresses just out of reach so that she can enjoy the chaos of family. My sister C will be making batches of her wonderful macaroni and cheese while chasing around her little girl A. My sister G and her family wont be there as they live in North Dakota. My sister N and her hubby wont be there as they are expecting their first addition and are in money saving mode. My sister I will once again be a gracious host and as patient as she can muster while her house is taken over (it's a new house). My sister L will be there with her family and will once again bring those around her to tears from laughter. My oldest sister S will also be there as she will have survived the drive from Florida, she is bringing a new addition to the family who really isn't that new, but all the more appreciated. And I will be here in my big/little house on the hill with my three little ones and Hubby wishing I were there or at least a little closer to family. I will make the phone calls to talk to everyone tomorrow and will try not to cry. There are many traditions in place and even more transitions to make when you come from a large family.
I will be making Pot Roast, Potatoes, Peas, and rolls and finish dinner off with chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. All the while giving thanks for one more year of life, one more family member who is healthy and whole, and one more year with my hero Hubby. I am blessed, that is one tradition I can get used to...but not complacent. Happy Thanksgiving!
Last year I was able to go home after 6 years away. My sisters, brother-in-laws, nephews, nieces and yes even my Dad were able to meet the first two of my children for the first time. They were also able to see me pregnant. Considering that almost no one had seen very much of Hubby or I since I showed up on my parents door step, announcing I was getting married to a man no one had met before (aside from my sister V and my Mom, of course Mom only met him for all of 3 minutes, but that is a story for another time). I miss them all terribly this year. I know for my sister V this time of year has always been the hardest. But she is a trooper, once again she will paint a smile on her beautiful face and put all of her stresses just out of reach so that she can enjoy the chaos of family. My sister C will be making batches of her wonderful macaroni and cheese while chasing around her little girl A. My sister G and her family wont be there as they live in North Dakota. My sister N and her hubby wont be there as they are expecting their first addition and are in money saving mode. My sister I will once again be a gracious host and as patient as she can muster while her house is taken over (it's a new house). My sister L will be there with her family and will once again bring those around her to tears from laughter. My oldest sister S will also be there as she will have survived the drive from Florida, she is bringing a new addition to the family who really isn't that new, but all the more appreciated. And I will be here in my big/little house on the hill with my three little ones and Hubby wishing I were there or at least a little closer to family. I will make the phone calls to talk to everyone tomorrow and will try not to cry. There are many traditions in place and even more transitions to make when you come from a large family.
I will be making Pot Roast, Potatoes, Peas, and rolls and finish dinner off with chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. All the while giving thanks for one more year of life, one more family member who is healthy and whole, and one more year with my hero Hubby. I am blessed, that is one tradition I can get used to...but not complacent. Happy Thanksgiving!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Random things over the past week
This weekend would be much like last, but Hubby has to work. There is no telling when he will be home. Sometimes he is home at a reasonable time and other times it is after the kids have gone to sleep. I don't like it when he works so late that he doesn't get to see the kids awake. It is hard on him too. He does so much and I hate that the time he has with us is so short. But we are getting through, things are improving.
Hubby has been slowly cutting back on his med's, with his Dr's help of course. The withdrawals are hell, it hasn't been easy on him, and that means it hasn't been easy on us either. He looked at me last weekend and told me that if I left him, he wouldn't hold it against me. It hurt so much to hear that. I love Hubby with all my heart and cannot imagine my life without him. I am sure there would be strength down in me somewhere to go on without him, but I don't want to find it.
I have been praying desperately for him and asking others to pray also. Hubby and I both have started reading our Bible's more and listening to positive music. After all garbage in, garbage out. Positive in, positive out. Things have improved dramatically after these simple changes. I think the kids feel the change too.
Speaking of the kids, they are getting so big so fast. I looked at Bubbles the other day and told her to slow down. I don't really want her to be but I think she is our last. I would like Miniman to have a brother, but I guess he will have to wait until his sisters get married. Hubby told me that if I wanted another baby we could have one in four years. There are so many things I want to do when all the kids are in school. I want to go back to school. I want to have surgery to decrease my breast size, and I want to go back to work. So we are done, Bubbles is the last beautiful baby I will give birth too. We still want to adopt or become foster parents in a few years, but mostly we are done. Miniman is slowly potty training. If I could just get him comfortable on the toilet I think it would be much easier to get him trained. Goosie was super easy to potty train, it only took her a few days. but every child is different. Bubbles is different. Hubby thinks that Bubbles doesn't like him. He even has a theory that after 7pm Bubbles is my baby and wants nothing to do with him or anyone else. So far his theory is correct, but last night Bubbles decided that she wanted Hubby. But last night she went crawling fir him, and almost fell off the couch doing it. They played until Hubby thought it was time for her to go to sleep , then Bubbles wanted nothing to do with him and everything to do with me, gp figure. Goosie has adjusted well to her new school. She has already made friends and we had a play date yesterday that went really well. There is another play date scheduled for the first week in December. Goosie is really looking forward to it and I am looking forward to developing more of a friendship with V.'s mom A.
On a different note I both started and finished Bubbles quilt. Now everyone in my big little family has a quilt except me the quilt maker. I really just cant decide what I want in my quilt. I am sure I will figure it out one day. Well, I think my thoughts have filled up enough of this blog for now. I will write again later!
Hubby has been slowly cutting back on his med's, with his Dr's help of course. The withdrawals are hell, it hasn't been easy on him, and that means it hasn't been easy on us either. He looked at me last weekend and told me that if I left him, he wouldn't hold it against me. It hurt so much to hear that. I love Hubby with all my heart and cannot imagine my life without him. I am sure there would be strength down in me somewhere to go on without him, but I don't want to find it.
I have been praying desperately for him and asking others to pray also. Hubby and I both have started reading our Bible's more and listening to positive music. After all garbage in, garbage out. Positive in, positive out. Things have improved dramatically after these simple changes. I think the kids feel the change too.
Speaking of the kids, they are getting so big so fast. I looked at Bubbles the other day and told her to slow down. I don't really want her to be but I think she is our last. I would like Miniman to have a brother, but I guess he will have to wait until his sisters get married. Hubby told me that if I wanted another baby we could have one in four years. There are so many things I want to do when all the kids are in school. I want to go back to school. I want to have surgery to decrease my breast size, and I want to go back to work. So we are done, Bubbles is the last beautiful baby I will give birth too. We still want to adopt or become foster parents in a few years, but mostly we are done. Miniman is slowly potty training. If I could just get him comfortable on the toilet I think it would be much easier to get him trained. Goosie was super easy to potty train, it only took her a few days. but every child is different. Bubbles is different. Hubby thinks that Bubbles doesn't like him. He even has a theory that after 7pm Bubbles is my baby and wants nothing to do with him or anyone else. So far his theory is correct, but last night Bubbles decided that she wanted Hubby. But last night she went crawling fir him, and almost fell off the couch doing it. They played until Hubby thought it was time for her to go to sleep , then Bubbles wanted nothing to do with him and everything to do with me, gp figure. Goosie has adjusted well to her new school. She has already made friends and we had a play date yesterday that went really well. There is another play date scheduled for the first week in December. Goosie is really looking forward to it and I am looking forward to developing more of a friendship with V.'s mom A.
On a different note I both started and finished Bubbles quilt. Now everyone in my big little family has a quilt except me the quilt maker. I really just cant decide what I want in my quilt. I am sure I will figure it out one day. Well, I think my thoughts have filled up enough of this blog for now. I will write again later!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Youth is Fleeting
My father in law G was here this weekend. Really just Friday evening through this morning. Since our first two were born on the west coast he really wasn't able to connect with them in their babyhood. Now at 4 and 2 they are a ball of energy rolling around the house and getting into things. They are called monkeys more because of their ability to get into precarious situations and other things that are off limits.
G. has lived through two companions deaths. And he is willing to get out there and try again. But not yet, he still thinks it is too soon. If I wondered before where Hubby's loving and devoted heart came from I need look no further then the man who raised him. As G was here he didn't want to let Bubbles go. He was always willing to hold her, coo with her, play with her and my heart rejoiced with his as she smiled and laughed in his arms. How fleeting is our youth.
On the way home from church this morning Goosie and I got into the same discussion that we seem to get into every week at least once a day. She wants to marry her Daddy. I have tried to reason with her and I have tried helping her understand that it just isn't possible to marry Daddy. Of course she wont hear any of it. So today I married them. I had them stand in the living room and asked them the following:
Daddy, do you promise to love your daughter with all your heart, to do the best you can to provide for her and when making decisions have her best interest at heart?
He responded "Yes"
Goosie, do you promise to love Daddy with all your heart, to do your best to listen to him and be a good girl?
Goosie responded "Yes"
I now pronounce you Father and Daughter, you may kiss your little girl.
It was enough to make Goosie happy and Hubby I think was relieved that the whole fight over him was over. It wouldn't surprise me if I need to "marry" him to Bubbles too. Who knows Miniman may be so in love with me that he may want to "marry" me one day. At least I am glad my brain is still quick enough to think up these things.
We celebrated Thanksgiving this past Saturday. I made Turkey, dressing, peas, rolls, and gravy. For dessert we had a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. After dinner and before we cut into the cake we went around the table and said what we were all thankful for. Even with just three adults in the room the thankful's brought tears to our eyes. How wonderful this life is. That I have a healthy family, a Hubby that loves me and so much in emotional funds there would never be a heart big enough to contain it. My cup runneth over, I am blessed beyond all measure and the one I am grateful to the most is my Heavenly Father. So this Thanksgiving, remember the one who made it all possible and thank him no only on the third Thursday in November, but every moment you are blessed enough to draw a breath. Happy Thanksgiving!
G. has lived through two companions deaths. And he is willing to get out there and try again. But not yet, he still thinks it is too soon. If I wondered before where Hubby's loving and devoted heart came from I need look no further then the man who raised him. As G was here he didn't want to let Bubbles go. He was always willing to hold her, coo with her, play with her and my heart rejoiced with his as she smiled and laughed in his arms. How fleeting is our youth.
On the way home from church this morning Goosie and I got into the same discussion that we seem to get into every week at least once a day. She wants to marry her Daddy. I have tried to reason with her and I have tried helping her understand that it just isn't possible to marry Daddy. Of course she wont hear any of it. So today I married them. I had them stand in the living room and asked them the following:
Daddy, do you promise to love your daughter with all your heart, to do the best you can to provide for her and when making decisions have her best interest at heart?
He responded "Yes"
Goosie, do you promise to love Daddy with all your heart, to do your best to listen to him and be a good girl?
Goosie responded "Yes"
I now pronounce you Father and Daughter, you may kiss your little girl.
It was enough to make Goosie happy and Hubby I think was relieved that the whole fight over him was over. It wouldn't surprise me if I need to "marry" him to Bubbles too. Who knows Miniman may be so in love with me that he may want to "marry" me one day. At least I am glad my brain is still quick enough to think up these things.
We celebrated Thanksgiving this past Saturday. I made Turkey, dressing, peas, rolls, and gravy. For dessert we had a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. After dinner and before we cut into the cake we went around the table and said what we were all thankful for. Even with just three adults in the room the thankful's brought tears to our eyes. How wonderful this life is. That I have a healthy family, a Hubby that loves me and so much in emotional funds there would never be a heart big enough to contain it. My cup runneth over, I am blessed beyond all measure and the one I am grateful to the most is my Heavenly Father. So this Thanksgiving, remember the one who made it all possible and thank him no only on the third Thursday in November, but every moment you are blessed enough to draw a breath. Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Saturday Night Ramblings and an admission
It is another Saturday night. This weekend my father in law G. is visiting. I enjoy having him here, I also think it adds stress to Hubby. Things haven't been going all that well for him at work and it looks as if this weekend isn't going to give him much relief. Stressing over money. If it isn't one thing it is another. We always seem to have more month then money. I cherish the time I have at home with the kids but I still sometimes feel invaluable as a person because I don't have an income right now. Things are tough. Hubby tries almost too hard sometimes to make it look like there are no problems. But there are. The kids are all still sleeping in our bed. While this annoys me at times I cannot ask Hubby to make them sleep in their own beds. I know how much he enjoys holding them while they sleep. I know what he feels when they are peaceful in his arms and I also know how little time he does get with them. So they will stay in our bed until they are ready to leave. I am not sure how long that will take.
On a different note. I realize how blond I truly am. I was at Wally World the other day when the woman behind me in line commented to me on the kids. She told me how adorable they are and continued to say that I was one busy woman and that my Hubby must be pretty fertile too. I replied to her as I usually do when someone says that I am busy with " yeah, but it sure is fun". Up until today I didn't think of it again, but I was reading something and it hit me.. all this time people (strangers) have been commenting on the intimate activities between Hubby and I, where as I have been thinking they were commenting on how busy kids can keep you. Wow, have I laughed at myself today! I am thinking of trying my hand at being a comic... surly I am not the only one to find the hilarity in this situation. I know that I was born a blond but I didn't think the roots went that deep!
Something else that I was thinking of today. Hubby confronted me the other day about how I have my sisters and friends to complain to when I am having a rough go of things. I am not putting down the support I receive, however I am reminded that having three children is something that Hubby and I have chosen and that I shouldn't complain too much about it. Hubby was thinking that I have immeasurable support and a listening ear whenever I am in need of one. This theoretically is the case, but I also think about other peoples feelings and I try not to complain about the same things all the time. I don't think I am as successful at that as I want to be, but I will still try. I admit there are many times during my day/week that I feel utterly and completely alone. There are times I don't see a life raft or any thing to support me as I feel I am drowning. It is during these times that I release it all. There isn't really anything else I can do. Sure I can get worked up about just about anything, but what good does that do? So I let things go. I have this ability to forget things I don't want to remember. I can lie to myself until it is the truth (at least in my head). I have been able to do this for quite sometime and there are things I have blocked out so thoroughly I don't think they are ever coming back. This is honestly how I get through my day. If something happens and it doesn't go the way it should, I put it out of my mind with one breath and as soon as it is gone I don't take it back in. It is quite therapeutic. I am not sure how I would get through everything if I didn't. Maybe one day my mind will play catch up with me, but for now I can sleep through the night and lets face it I need all the sleep I can get. Well, speaking of sleep I had better go and get some, good night all!
On a different note. I realize how blond I truly am. I was at Wally World the other day when the woman behind me in line commented to me on the kids. She told me how adorable they are and continued to say that I was one busy woman and that my Hubby must be pretty fertile too. I replied to her as I usually do when someone says that I am busy with " yeah, but it sure is fun". Up until today I didn't think of it again, but I was reading something and it hit me.. all this time people (strangers) have been commenting on the intimate activities between Hubby and I, where as I have been thinking they were commenting on how busy kids can keep you. Wow, have I laughed at myself today! I am thinking of trying my hand at being a comic... surly I am not the only one to find the hilarity in this situation. I know that I was born a blond but I didn't think the roots went that deep!
Something else that I was thinking of today. Hubby confronted me the other day about how I have my sisters and friends to complain to when I am having a rough go of things. I am not putting down the support I receive, however I am reminded that having three children is something that Hubby and I have chosen and that I shouldn't complain too much about it. Hubby was thinking that I have immeasurable support and a listening ear whenever I am in need of one. This theoretically is the case, but I also think about other peoples feelings and I try not to complain about the same things all the time. I don't think I am as successful at that as I want to be, but I will still try. I admit there are many times during my day/week that I feel utterly and completely alone. There are times I don't see a life raft or any thing to support me as I feel I am drowning. It is during these times that I release it all. There isn't really anything else I can do. Sure I can get worked up about just about anything, but what good does that do? So I let things go. I have this ability to forget things I don't want to remember. I can lie to myself until it is the truth (at least in my head). I have been able to do this for quite sometime and there are things I have blocked out so thoroughly I don't think they are ever coming back. This is honestly how I get through my day. If something happens and it doesn't go the way it should, I put it out of my mind with one breath and as soon as it is gone I don't take it back in. It is quite therapeutic. I am not sure how I would get through everything if I didn't. Maybe one day my mind will play catch up with me, but for now I can sleep through the night and lets face it I need all the sleep I can get. Well, speaking of sleep I had better go and get some, good night all!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Just me venting
It is Sunday. Nothing new is happening. Hubby had a migraine and is sleeping it off upstairs and I am once again alone with the kids downstairs. I have been struggling lately, well really just getting annoyed with it. Hubby sleeps better on the couch then in our bed. He mostly sleeps with Goosie and I have the other two in our bed upstairs. When he does come to bed he is on one side and I am on the other. There are at least two kids between us. Where has my hubby gone? When do I get to feel his arms around me? When do I get to snuggle in my favorite spot? I can't remember the last time I fell asleep in his arms. I can barely remember what it is like to only have the two of us in bed. I want to change things, but I don't think he does.
I knew before our family started to grow that the intimacy was going to suffer, but it seems like to only time he touches me is when we are being physically intimate. This is not the direction I expected our relationship to take. I love my kids, but I love my marriage to and I feel that one is taking away from the other. I am out of ideas on how to change things.
Well, this is all I can blog for now. I didn't really get a break yesterday and it looks like I am not going to get one today either. Just one question when can I be selfish? When can I just have time to myself? When can I recover from being sick and not worry about the kids or the house or anything else? I may never know.
I knew before our family started to grow that the intimacy was going to suffer, but it seems like to only time he touches me is when we are being physically intimate. This is not the direction I expected our relationship to take. I love my kids, but I love my marriage to and I feel that one is taking away from the other. I am out of ideas on how to change things.
Well, this is all I can blog for now. I didn't really get a break yesterday and it looks like I am not going to get one today either. Just one question when can I be selfish? When can I just have time to myself? When can I recover from being sick and not worry about the kids or the house or anything else? I may never know.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Saturday Night In
I am having another Saturday night in. I think the last time I had a Saturday night out was before I had Goosie, and she is four! I have spent the majority of the day cleaning the house. Hubby's dad is coming for a visit next weekend and I never feel like I am ready for company. I don't think I will ever let the company know that! I actually enjoy company. It is a nice little break from the single parent routine I feel I get stuck in.
Please don't misread me. I am not a single parent and Hubby helps out a lot. It is just that he works 80 hour work weeks and we rarely see him more then an hour or two a day before the kids go to bed if we are lucky. Tonight he is at a function at work and I don't expect him home until after midnight. I am sure there are other women out there who wouldn't be okay with the hours Hubby puts in. In recruiting the divorce rate is higher then in any other place in the military. So yes Hubby wont get deployed overseas but he gets deployed every morning and is released in the evening. But that doesn't mean he can ignore the government cell phone he has to have on him 24/7. That's right Uncle Sam may not be using my Hubby on the front lines any more, but Hubby is still at his beckon call.
The kids have adjusted to it. But then they don't know Daddy any other way. Hubby was married before me. And luckily for me the relationship didn't work out and I am now married to the grand prize. Speaking of the kids. I realized that I am not fallowing through in my discipline and am changing. Goosie and Miniman don't like it very much, Bubbles still has no clue. All in all I think it is for the best. You cant expect to have good kids if you don't have expectations for them to live up to.
So it is once again the evening. The kids and I have eaten dinner, pj's will be brought out and put on. I might treat the kids to a special night. I was going to invite some new friends over, but they all already had plans. We will see, I know my imagination still works, at least I hope it does! We don't really have plans for the long weekend. Hubby is speaking at a school on Tuesday, Miniman, Bubbles and I are going to watch him. Goosie will be in preschool and I am sure will be disappointed that she wont see Daddy all dressed up in his dress blues.... Well that is enough from this blogger for the night. I have duties to attend and Bubbles who has just woken up from a late nap is wanting her rice cereal. So good night all I will try to write again sometime soon.
Please don't misread me. I am not a single parent and Hubby helps out a lot. It is just that he works 80 hour work weeks and we rarely see him more then an hour or two a day before the kids go to bed if we are lucky. Tonight he is at a function at work and I don't expect him home until after midnight. I am sure there are other women out there who wouldn't be okay with the hours Hubby puts in. In recruiting the divorce rate is higher then in any other place in the military. So yes Hubby wont get deployed overseas but he gets deployed every morning and is released in the evening. But that doesn't mean he can ignore the government cell phone he has to have on him 24/7. That's right Uncle Sam may not be using my Hubby on the front lines any more, but Hubby is still at his beckon call.
The kids have adjusted to it. But then they don't know Daddy any other way. Hubby was married before me. And luckily for me the relationship didn't work out and I am now married to the grand prize. Speaking of the kids. I realized that I am not fallowing through in my discipline and am changing. Goosie and Miniman don't like it very much, Bubbles still has no clue. All in all I think it is for the best. You cant expect to have good kids if you don't have expectations for them to live up to.
So it is once again the evening. The kids and I have eaten dinner, pj's will be brought out and put on. I might treat the kids to a special night. I was going to invite some new friends over, but they all already had plans. We will see, I know my imagination still works, at least I hope it does! We don't really have plans for the long weekend. Hubby is speaking at a school on Tuesday, Miniman, Bubbles and I are going to watch him. Goosie will be in preschool and I am sure will be disappointed that she wont see Daddy all dressed up in his dress blues.... Well that is enough from this blogger for the night. I have duties to attend and Bubbles who has just woken up from a late nap is wanting her rice cereal. So good night all I will try to write again sometime soon.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Election Thoughts
It is the morning after. We have a newly elected president and while I am disappointed that the man I voted for is not in office, I am proud of our country. While in high school I heard someone say that voting didn't matter because it was already decided who was going to be in office before the votes were even cast let alone counted. I decided then that I would vote every chance I got, and I get a chance every 4 years. I took my three kids with me to the polls yesterday. They were well behaved and I am glad for that.
My Hubby is in the military and while he also voted for McCain, he has already resolved himself. As we were going to bed last night he looked at me and said :" I am in the military, I fight to give people the right to vote. The people have spoken and it is my duty as a solider to protect their rights and freedoms, uphold the majorities decision and serve my country." I am so proud of him and I am proud that Hubby is the man my children look up to on a daily basis, and will continue to look up to for the rest of their lives.
A few weeks ago I was talking to my sister I. . We were talking about the coming election and what it meant for the country, our hubbies and our faith. I remember telling her that this election will do one of two things for believers, it will either call us into further action and prayer for our country and remind us that Jesus said to love the sinner and hate the sin. There are many things I don't agree with Obama on, he is liberal and I am Conservative. But aside from that I believe he is a good person. Mostly because I believe there is some good in all of us, it just may not be apparent on the surface.
There are things that will happen in the next four years that will be hard for many conservatives to swallow. I am trying to think positively. For one thing the general belief is that when a Democrat is President our troops will not be deployed so much and that means an easier go at things at work for Hubby. The Democrats have the majority everywhere (the house, the senate, the courts, and now the White House). Maybe they can do something with the economy and the country that has yet to be accomplished, and we can be free of the slump we are currently in. If they can, I wont change my political views but I will pat them on the back and say "Good Job". I agree with both McCain and Obama when they say that change will come if we all work together. Even the Bible says that a house divided cannot stand. Our country needs healing and if Obama can help usher that in, so be it. My prayers are with him and our other nations leaders.
My Hubby is in the military and while he also voted for McCain, he has already resolved himself. As we were going to bed last night he looked at me and said :" I am in the military, I fight to give people the right to vote. The people have spoken and it is my duty as a solider to protect their rights and freedoms, uphold the majorities decision and serve my country." I am so proud of him and I am proud that Hubby is the man my children look up to on a daily basis, and will continue to look up to for the rest of their lives.
A few weeks ago I was talking to my sister I. . We were talking about the coming election and what it meant for the country, our hubbies and our faith. I remember telling her that this election will do one of two things for believers, it will either call us into further action and prayer for our country and remind us that Jesus said to love the sinner and hate the sin. There are many things I don't agree with Obama on, he is liberal and I am Conservative. But aside from that I believe he is a good person. Mostly because I believe there is some good in all of us, it just may not be apparent on the surface.
There are things that will happen in the next four years that will be hard for many conservatives to swallow. I am trying to think positively. For one thing the general belief is that when a Democrat is President our troops will not be deployed so much and that means an easier go at things at work for Hubby. The Democrats have the majority everywhere (the house, the senate, the courts, and now the White House). Maybe they can do something with the economy and the country that has yet to be accomplished, and we can be free of the slump we are currently in. If they can, I wont change my political views but I will pat them on the back and say "Good Job". I agree with both McCain and Obama when they say that change will come if we all work together. Even the Bible says that a house divided cannot stand. Our country needs healing and if Obama can help usher that in, so be it. My prayers are with him and our other nations leaders.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
November 1st notes
It is Saturday morning and things have calmed down a bit in the new house. We are mostly settled. I am not wanting to take pictures of the house until it is complete. I hope we stay here until Hubby retires in 5 years. It is a nice area, the schools are the best in the state and it isn't far from family. Speaking of family I had a dream last night that one of my sisters asked me if we could do Thanksgiving at my house next year. I said yes, then the dream jumped to Thanksgiving next year and I am getting the house ready, roasting the turkey, making a bunch of food, my mom and sisters are all crowded in the kitchen, the little kids are all in the basement playroom, most of the men are stuffed into the living room to watch the game. I woke up with a good feeling of family and a little overwhelmed at the same time. Most everyone was staying at my house and it seemed the walls were going to burst with the amount of people.
I have a large family. I am one of 8 girl children my parents decided to bless the world with. Each of us has at least one child if not two (except me, I broke the pattern with 3) and the men who are strong enough to handle being in a family of so many women are about 6 or 7. 6 if you just count hubbies, 7 if you count could be hubbies and 8 if you count untested boyfriends.
Halloween was last night. I think the kids got their fill of what little candy we allowed them. I am sure that costumes will be worn throughout the year, as my kids enjoy playing dress up. My parents were here visiting from North Carolina. We are expecting Hubbies Dad from upstate New York around the 14th. I enjoy visitors, I feel even more in my element. But enough for now Bubbles the baby is waking up and calling for me. I hope all is well with you and yours!
I have a large family. I am one of 8 girl children my parents decided to bless the world with. Each of us has at least one child if not two (except me, I broke the pattern with 3) and the men who are strong enough to handle being in a family of so many women are about 6 or 7. 6 if you just count hubbies, 7 if you count could be hubbies and 8 if you count untested boyfriends.
Halloween was last night. I think the kids got their fill of what little candy we allowed them. I am sure that costumes will be worn throughout the year, as my kids enjoy playing dress up. My parents were here visiting from North Carolina. We are expecting Hubbies Dad from upstate New York around the 14th. I enjoy visitors, I feel even more in my element. But enough for now Bubbles the baby is waking up and calling for me. I hope all is well with you and yours!
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