Good Bye Common Sense

Another goodie from my email that I agree with 100 percent!

My parents told me about Mr. Common Sense early in my life and told me Iwould do well to call on him when making decisions. It seems he was always around in my early years but less and less as time passed by.Today I read his obituary. Please join me in a moment of silence in remembrance. For Common Sense has served us all so well for so manygenerations.ObituaryCommon SenseToday we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, whohas been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how oldhe was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons asknowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, why life isn't always fair, and how, on occasion, maybe it was myfault.Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend morethan you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children are in charge).His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they themselves failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student; but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault.Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know my Rights, Someone Else is to Blame, and I'm a Victim.Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

Certificate of Merit

My darling Karlie earned herself a Certificate of Merit in the Film/Video catagory of the PTA Reflections project in her age group. She came home with a trophy, a ribbon, a certificate, and a BIG OL' SMILE along with a desire to do more next year.

Her project was based on the theme of : I can make a difference. She made a video titled: I can make a differnce by helping others. We filmed her doing different acts of service and then she ended it saying that by helping others people are happy and happy people make a better world.

She was so cute!

I'm so pleased with her effort and desire to do something MORE, the reflections projects are purely by choice...and to have done so well is exciting!!!

Lets Say Thanks

Below is a web site I'd like you to go to in order to share Thanks with our service men and women who are sacrificing time, sweat, tears, and dreams protecting us and being our "brother's keeper". The link will take you to a web site where you can pick one of several different cards drawn by children, choose a message you like or type your own, and then send it free of charge to you. Our military men and women will get a printed out card to hold and read with a thought of Thanks...wouldn't that be nice?!!! It takes all of 2 minutes--if you look at every card and read every prewritten message...please take the moment to uplift someone who has committed their life for your.

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html

The Ultimate Gift

It finally happened! I just watched a movie that wasn’t made by a church that is decent in every way. No profanity. No sex. No suggestive innuendoes. No real violence. This is a movie well worth watching. It was beautiful, touching, exciting, and safe to watch with the children around. I HIGHLY suggest you view this wonderful movie!!

Oh, there you are...

It’s been some time since I’ve posted…LIFE…it gets in the way sometimes. Well, …Hmm, I think that sounds a bit negative…I mean, thank goodness it was “in the way”, so nice to be LIVING and DOING instead of having lots of time just clicking away to sit long enough to type out tons of things.
There, that’s better.
We’ve been redoing our living room: new paint, new mirrors and pictures, candles and sconces; I’ve been busy scraping together a mothers’ group in Ogden and in Roy; I’ve had a birth client who just gave birth to her baby on Saturday—a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), working at really domesticating myself turning myself into a MOTHER and a WIFE instead of a woman with kids and a man.
Funny, living in the survival mode becomes so comforting when it’s actually quite unpleasant.
I love my life. I’m getting better at it every day.
I have the world’s GREATEST husband and the best bunch of children to love. I am a very blessed and grateful woman!!!

Parenting Job Description

I got this in an email...interesting and fun

POSITION: Mum, Mummy, Mama, Ma, Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop

JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term team players needed for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment.Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to workvariable hours which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES :The rest of your life.Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as: small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets, and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be willing to be indispensable one minute and an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION:None.Your job is to remain in the same position for years without complaining constantly retraining and updating your skills so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:None required unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION:Get this! You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that university will help them become financially independent and when you die you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS :While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.

Theodore Roosevelt said it a long time ago...

My brother sent me a quote for Theodore Roosevelt. The principles are simple and honorable. The are what I would expect in a marriage, family, organization and in a society. It's so simple, yet today, as was we were warned, good is called evil and evil called good. The basics of decency are being stripped away and perverted. Entitlement has become a way of thinking so many breed and spew....selfish, destructive "entitlement"!

The year is 1907, one hundred years ago...

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907Every American citizen needs to read this!