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Monday, December 10, 2007
What do you think...
When you think about the election coming up? The media portrays it as Mormons are so bad. No one likes Mitt... however the early polls totally disagree with this notion.
Anyway, a woman I like to go and read about on the blogger posted this...
Anyways those who loves us: Naomi Shaeffer Riley of the Wall Street Journal. One of my favorite Journal writers. Here's what she said in What Iowans Should Know about Mormons:
The young men and women at Brigham Young University are among the smartest, hardest-working and most pleasant college kids you will find anywhere. (For better or worse, I have visited dozens of college campuses.) The student body lives by the Mormon principle: "The glory of God is intelligence."
And here is Peggy Noonan, who writes about Romney's faith speech in Mormon in America:
Mr. Romney gave the speech Thursday morning. How did he do?
Very, very well. He made himself some history. The words he said will likely have a real and positive impact on his fortunes. The speech's main and immediate achievement is that foes of his faith will now have to defend their thinking, in public. But what can they say to counter his high-minded arguments? "Mormons have cooties"?
I love it. It is so funny because my MIL who I never would have thought would support Mitt and would totally be for Mike Huckabee said she is in Mitt's camp. Very strange since I KNOW she voted for Mike for governor... HAHA. I only know this because hubby's family is very firmly in the Republican camp.
I have not totally decided who to vote for but this much I do know... It will NEVER be for the freak Hilary. I would never in all my life vote for another Clinton to be in office, first woman or not. I couldnt stand Bill and I thought she was an idiot for the way she is so naive about his side diet of women and lies.
Anyway, a woman I like to go and read about on the blogger posted this...
Anyways those who loves us: Naomi Shaeffer Riley of the Wall Street Journal. One of my favorite Journal writers. Here's what she said in What Iowans Should Know about Mormons:
The young men and women at Brigham Young University are among the smartest, hardest-working and most pleasant college kids you will find anywhere. (For better or worse, I have visited dozens of college campuses.) The student body lives by the Mormon principle: "The glory of God is intelligence."
And here is Peggy Noonan, who writes about Romney's faith speech in Mormon in America:
Mr. Romney gave the speech Thursday morning. How did he do?
Very, very well. He made himself some history. The words he said will likely have a real and positive impact on his fortunes. The speech's main and immediate achievement is that foes of his faith will now have to defend their thinking, in public. But what can they say to counter his high-minded arguments? "Mormons have cooties"?
I love it. It is so funny because my MIL who I never would have thought would support Mitt and would totally be for Mike Huckabee said she is in Mitt's camp. Very strange since I KNOW she voted for Mike for governor... HAHA. I only know this because hubby's family is very firmly in the Republican camp.
I have not totally decided who to vote for but this much I do know... It will NEVER be for the freak Hilary. I would never in all my life vote for another Clinton to be in office, first woman or not. I couldnt stand Bill and I thought she was an idiot for the way she is so naive about his side diet of women and lies.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Momma meme---
i saw this meme on Kathleen's blog a today and thought this was so cute, i had to come back and finally do this meme.
1. How long have you been a Mom? Well officially or to the other kids I mothered BEFORE my first official child? I was a live in and a live out nanny for a few years before having my own. So including them... about 17 yrs not including them... almost 13 yrs.
2. How many children call you Mommy/Mom/Mama?: 4 Want one? Just kidding!
3. Girl? Boy? or both? Both... 3 drama queens and one drama boy
4. Did you know what you were having? The first one no. The second, third, and fourth yes. Although with the fourth I swore up and down they were crazy and I was not having another girl... well they were right LOL!
5. How old were you when you became a Mom? I was 24 and a half....
6. How long were you in labor? Hmm first time I went in around 430 am and had her at 1115 am never hit really hard labor with her so unsure how long it actually lasted. Second time I went in around 8 15 am and delivered around 1115 am the bad pains started around 530am. Third was the worst went in after a few hours in pain at 1030 pm and didnt have the lil turkey until 122 pm the next afternoon. Final monkey went in at 3pm they said your not in labor and sent me home and I came back at 10 pm and delivered at 1045 pm.
7. what? there is no 7. weird meme :)
8. What was your least favorite thing about labor? umm back labor or labor in your hips are the worst.
9. Do you want more kids?: yes. One or 2 more. That would be nice...
10. Do you plan on having more soon?: Would love too but not sure if that will happen or not
11. Did daddy change diapers? yes, he did.
12. How many times have you been peed on? Umm I have a son... an only son and no nanny with boys... so he was my first and that meant a LOT! haha
13. Barfed on?: too many times to count...
14. Is your child named after anyone? middle names yes first names nope... My oldest shares her middle name with dad's mom and my 4th shares her middle name with my mom... my son shares initials with dad...
15. How did you come up with their name(s)? Number 1 is one of my good friends middle name spelled backwards... (how original huh?). #2 we took her name from the internet both middle and first name mean princess. #3 We wanted same initials so we went through the baby name book until we found one we agreed on. #4 is part french in spelling and most people cant spell her name right because of that.
16. When your child(ren) gets in trouble, who is the bad guy? mostly daddy. sometimes me. However if its me watch out I dont like being the bad guy and you really have to upset me to get me into this mode.
17. she didnt post this question so I dont know LOL!
18. What is the longest you have been away from your child(ren)? Well with my oldest I was still active duty so up to 3 mos at a time. With the rest the most I have been away was a few days.
19. Kids bedtime routine? 8 in room and 830 lights out~ weeknights... when you fall asleep weekends...
20. Are your toes painted? no I need to get it done though...:)
21. Last movie you saw in the theater? Its been awhile. I did attempt to go see Beowulf in the theater last but the imax was broken and that is what hubby wanted to see... so we didnt see it LOL! I believe it was ratatouille... it was good.
22. Last time you had a date? The friday that beowulf opened. So about a month ago??
23. One thing you will not give up just because you are a mom? reading and writing. still being an individual. Kathleens reply but its good enough for me too LOL!
24. One thing you did give up now that you’re a mom? I gave up the military. I would like to have stayed in but I knew I couldnt really be a good mom to my kids if I was constantly gone so I gave it up when I got pg with #2.
25. Best Mom you know? Best mom I know... oh boy thats a hard question...I would have to say Kerry or Lena. They make it sound and look easy.
If you want to do this go ahead... I have no specific tags...
1. How long have you been a Mom? Well officially or to the other kids I mothered BEFORE my first official child? I was a live in and a live out nanny for a few years before having my own. So including them... about 17 yrs not including them... almost 13 yrs.
2. How many children call you Mommy/Mom/Mama?: 4 Want one? Just kidding!
3. Girl? Boy? or both? Both... 3 drama queens and one drama boy
4. Did you know what you were having? The first one no. The second, third, and fourth yes. Although with the fourth I swore up and down they were crazy and I was not having another girl... well they were right LOL!
5. How old were you when you became a Mom? I was 24 and a half....
6. How long were you in labor? Hmm first time I went in around 430 am and had her at 1115 am never hit really hard labor with her so unsure how long it actually lasted. Second time I went in around 8 15 am and delivered around 1115 am the bad pains started around 530am. Third was the worst went in after a few hours in pain at 1030 pm and didnt have the lil turkey until 122 pm the next afternoon. Final monkey went in at 3pm they said your not in labor and sent me home and I came back at 10 pm and delivered at 1045 pm.
7. what? there is no 7. weird meme :)
8. What was your least favorite thing about labor? umm back labor or labor in your hips are the worst.
9. Do you want more kids?: yes. One or 2 more. That would be nice...
10. Do you plan on having more soon?: Would love too but not sure if that will happen or not
11. Did daddy change diapers? yes, he did.
12. How many times have you been peed on? Umm I have a son... an only son and no nanny with boys... so he was my first and that meant a LOT! haha
13. Barfed on?: too many times to count...
14. Is your child named after anyone? middle names yes first names nope... My oldest shares her middle name with dad's mom and my 4th shares her middle name with my mom... my son shares initials with dad...
15. How did you come up with their name(s)? Number 1 is one of my good friends middle name spelled backwards... (how original huh?). #2 we took her name from the internet both middle and first name mean princess. #3 We wanted same initials so we went through the baby name book until we found one we agreed on. #4 is part french in spelling and most people cant spell her name right because of that.
16. When your child(ren) gets in trouble, who is the bad guy? mostly daddy. sometimes me. However if its me watch out I dont like being the bad guy and you really have to upset me to get me into this mode.
17. she didnt post this question so I dont know LOL!
18. What is the longest you have been away from your child(ren)? Well with my oldest I was still active duty so up to 3 mos at a time. With the rest the most I have been away was a few days.
19. Kids bedtime routine? 8 in room and 830 lights out~ weeknights... when you fall asleep weekends...
20. Are your toes painted? no I need to get it done though...:)
21. Last movie you saw in the theater? Its been awhile. I did attempt to go see Beowulf in the theater last but the imax was broken and that is what hubby wanted to see... so we didnt see it LOL! I believe it was ratatouille... it was good.
22. Last time you had a date? The friday that beowulf opened. So about a month ago??
23. One thing you will not give up just because you are a mom? reading and writing. still being an individual. Kathleens reply but its good enough for me too LOL!
24. One thing you did give up now that you’re a mom? I gave up the military. I would like to have stayed in but I knew I couldnt really be a good mom to my kids if I was constantly gone so I gave it up when I got pg with #2.
25. Best Mom you know? Best mom I know... oh boy thats a hard question...I would have to say Kerry or Lena. They make it sound and look easy.
If you want to do this go ahead... I have no specific tags...
So I know you all wanted to know...
Yes they called me to be a missionary. Well member missionary. I so do not do well in this kind of thing. Scary as it may be though I accepted it. I dont know many people in my ward and I figure this will give me a better way to meet some of them I dont know so well.
I didnt wind up making it because I woke up with a ice pick in my brain and kids who kept me up 1/2 the night coughing. (Why is mom's bed the cool place to be sick???) Anyways I feel horrid tonight too. I did get in 2 of the 3 projects for school. This week I dont have much I know I have 4 easy assignments so that wont take much there. I do have 4 chapters to read 2 for each class... that will probably take more time than the class assignments :P .
Anyways its late and I need sleep... and tylenol. I cant wait can you say it with me....13 days until break and 15 days til Christmas YEAH! Anyways I hope to have a good week and I hope you do too.
I didnt wind up making it because I woke up with a ice pick in my brain and kids who kept me up 1/2 the night coughing. (Why is mom's bed the cool place to be sick???) Anyways I feel horrid tonight too. I did get in 2 of the 3 projects for school. This week I dont have much I know I have 4 easy assignments so that wont take much there. I do have 4 chapters to read 2 for each class... that will probably take more time than the class assignments :P .
Anyways its late and I need sleep... and tylenol. I cant wait can you say it with me....13 days until break and 15 days til Christmas YEAH! Anyways I hope to have a good week and I hope you do too.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Well I have some news...
not official yet but I have a calling. (OH BOY!) haha. Just kidding. It isnt one I would pick in fact it is one I probably wont like much. I will tell you on Sunday because you know I have to be officially given it. I of course will be late on Sunday. I HATE standing up in front of EVERYONE. So I will be late. They know this because I told them haha. Anyways with the stress I have going right now I just didnt need a calling with a huge time commitment. So they felt this was what I really needed right now.
Anyways other than that I am up to my ears in projects. I have 3 assignments due over the next 3 days. JOY! Actually I havent looked at them so I probably should. I dont think 2 of them are very time consuming. One may be.
Christmas is coming and I cant wait for my TWO WEEK BREAK! YEAH YEAH YEAH! Now if we could just get some snow! haha not likely but hey we can dream right???
Anyways other than that I am up to my ears in projects. I have 3 assignments due over the next 3 days. JOY! Actually I havent looked at them so I probably should. I dont think 2 of them are very time consuming. One may be.
Christmas is coming and I cant wait for my TWO WEEK BREAK! YEAH YEAH YEAH! Now if we could just get some snow! haha not likely but hey we can dream right???
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Well we went to the docs today...
and YES there is something in my monkeys knee. Unfortunately they dont want to remove it unless they have to. We should know if that is the case within the next 3 mos. They want him to return to normal everyday play. If it swells we go in and they check it out. EVERYTIME... GRRR! Anyways the biggest thing is its only about 3mm big. It isnt in the joint which is good or we would have been in surgery tomorrow and he would have been out of everything for atleast 6 wks. So they want him to play and see if it can withstand the every day rough and tumble of a 7 yr old monkey. (which we already know it cant cuz it swelled saturday after he was being that rough and tumble monkey!) However they have to be sure because it will be an invasive surgery if they have to do it. It could create even more problems which is why they dont want to do it. Anyways that is my update.
Christmas tag... Yeah!
1)egg nog or hot chocolate? HOT CHOCOLATE ALL THE WAY BABY!
2)Do you wrap your presents or not? There's ususaly a big present for each kid that isn't wrapped, but all the others are.
3)Colored lights or white? Umm I do colored... if you count blue and white! HAHA
4)Do you hang mistletoe? No we dont have any.
5)When do you put up your decorations? Usually the first week of Dec, however this year the kids have been bad so no tree until all the house is clean.
6)What is your favorite holiday dish? TURKEY!
7)Favorite memory as a child? I honestly dont remember much ... My mom doesnt celebrate Christmas at all. So the only ones we celebrated were when my step dad was around.
8)When and how did you learn about Santa? What do you mean? I learned about Santa around two ... he is this grand old man who is extremely fun and loving.
9)Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? yes, the kids get to open one present on Christmas eve, it's always pajamas and they usually match (you know this is my friends answer but it is the same for me so LOL!)
10)How do you decorate your tree? White and blue lights with white and blue ornaments and then the ornaments the kids get each year.
11)Snow...love it or dread it? I LOVE LOVE LOVE SNOW! It really makes Christmas, Christmas. I'm the same as Marie and Cindy, I haven't had a white Christmas for a very long time being in San Diego and Guam before this... no snow.
12)Can you ice skate? I did when I was a kid, but that was a very long time ago
13)Do you remember your favorite gift? when i got my first radio. I was 9 I believe.
14) What is the most important part of the holidays? Christ, Family, Love, and the spirit that emanates from the days as people try to be more Christlike.
15) Favorite holiday dessert? Cookies!
16) Favorite tradition? We always decorate cookies together as a family. We make up boxes or plates to take to our friends. We also try to get one name from an angel tree and shop together to select the items for the angel tree present. This year may not be able to do it though. :(
Thanks Cindy! (btw I love that song someone snitched on me!)
2)Do you wrap your presents or not? There's ususaly a big present for each kid that isn't wrapped, but all the others are.
3)Colored lights or white? Umm I do colored... if you count blue and white! HAHA
4)Do you hang mistletoe? No we dont have any.
5)When do you put up your decorations? Usually the first week of Dec, however this year the kids have been bad so no tree until all the house is clean.
6)What is your favorite holiday dish? TURKEY!
7)Favorite memory as a child? I honestly dont remember much ... My mom doesnt celebrate Christmas at all. So the only ones we celebrated were when my step dad was around.
8)When and how did you learn about Santa? What do you mean? I learned about Santa around two ... he is this grand old man who is extremely fun and loving.
9)Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? yes, the kids get to open one present on Christmas eve, it's always pajamas and they usually match (you know this is my friends answer but it is the same for me so LOL!)
10)How do you decorate your tree? White and blue lights with white and blue ornaments and then the ornaments the kids get each year.
11)Snow...love it or dread it? I LOVE LOVE LOVE SNOW! It really makes Christmas, Christmas. I'm the same as Marie and Cindy, I haven't had a white Christmas for a very long time being in San Diego and Guam before this... no snow.
12)Can you ice skate? I did when I was a kid, but that was a very long time ago
13)Do you remember your favorite gift? when i got my first radio. I was 9 I believe.
14) What is the most important part of the holidays? Christ, Family, Love, and the spirit that emanates from the days as people try to be more Christlike.
15) Favorite holiday dessert? Cookies!
16) Favorite tradition? We always decorate cookies together as a family. We make up boxes or plates to take to our friends. We also try to get one name from an angel tree and shop together to select the items for the angel tree present. This year may not be able to do it though. :(
Thanks Cindy! (btw I love that song someone snitched on me!)
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