President's Day

Yesterday my Dad came over and saw Ian was out of school and remembered it was a holiday.

So he said to Ian, "Hey, you're out of school! What holiday is it?"

"President's Day, right, Ian?" says mama (me).

"Yep" Ian responds.

"And who's the President of the United States?" Grandpa asks

President Barack Obama! Ian responds.

To which Mom says with a proud wide grin spread across her face: "That's right baby, that's exactly who's going to be President real soon."

Yay, Ian! :-) You bet, baby, you bet!

January 20, 2009 - President Barack Obama shall be sworn.

Reaching

Oh, those poor Clintons ... they'll say and do anything to get elected.

Plagiarism? Really? Mr. Obama may have used some similar words and sentences from his friend's speech but haven't they as well? Haven't they used Barack's words of inspiration? Come on now!

Who hasn't said, "words? just words?" when they try to say that it's just words what Barack Obama is saying and that they are not important. They prove how much they just don't get it when they say such things and come up with these antics the day before another vote, of course.

Words are EVERYTHING. Without thoughts and words, nothing would be created! Life lives in the conversations we have with one another and the thoughts shared in society in general. Words give form to ideas; they move, touch and inspire us to be and to do. How ridiculous to say they're meaningless.

And then to say Mr. Obama walks away from promises because he says he won't accept public funding as he said he would if he's the Democratic nominee because he doesn't need it now since he raised so much money? The guy doesn't want to spend OUR money and he's bad because he said he would when he thought he might need it. That's reaching, baby, reaching!

What it also is is PATHETIC and Mrs. Clinton and her camp should be ashamed of themselves for having to stoop so low to get what they're after. This is what we have to look forward to if she's elected. Can you imagine? "The Clinton White House Drama - Part 2" Blah! I rather have McCain than this woman. She will be a lighting rod for hell on earth and more divisive for this country than the Republicans could ever be.

Done

The hardest thing yet I've had to do as a parent was done yesterday when I sat down with Ian and told him Snoopy had died and explained death and life in general. He cried a little and asked me questions and was just wonderful, as always. No surprise there. I was surprised at how well I explained the situation.

I had researched online how to tell a child about a pet's loss but didn't write anything down or practiced in my head what I would say. I didn't plan the moment - it just seemed the right time when it came - and I just let the words come out, one by one, and they were, well, perfect.

Surely I was just the instrument. Those words came out of my mouth, straight from my heart, but they were all from God really. No surprise there either. As the Bible says "To God be the glory!" (I've always loved that saying!)