An Old Draft I Thought Worth Rehashing

I may have won the battle, but I think I'm losing the war.

Remember my first post? I thought I was being a sensitive mother who decided to love my kid rather than the "thing" (her wall). She had drawn all over it, and being the sensitive mother that I was, I didn't chastise her for her "creativity". Instead I chose to overlook an offense, and talk to her about it later.

Well, I did that and felt very good at the time. Unfortunately, I don't think I made that much of an impression on her.

Since then she has drawn on her dresser, her sister's bed and the back of her door. So I take away all forms of writing implements and I think I've won.

Not in the least! The next time I caught her in her closet with a jar full of honey. The day after, it was a bottle of baby powder (I didn't even know we had baby powder).

I have tried every approach I can think of to get her to stop being destructive. I have tried loving, chastising, lecturing, hugging, even a techniques I have heard called "tomato staking" (long story).

Nothing!

She seems bent on living "wild and free" as it were. Then when I finally think I got through to her, littlest one started. We are still in the midst of trying to reign in all the artistic creativity in this house...

The End of a Nation

I know it's been a while, but I wanted to give everybody a chance to enter in my book giveaway.

I will also say that I never intended this blog to be political and, therefore, I will try to keep my political commentary short here. Here is a wonderful quote that a friend of mine posted on his Facebook page. It bears thinking about.

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

"You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005 ~~~

If "con" is the opposite of "pro", then is congress the opposite of progress?

I say this because I have been watching CNN on occasion (I was forced), and saw how hypocritical many members of congress are being. For instance:

I watched as a female congress woman (don't know who) called the executives on Wall Street "Idiots" (those were her exact words) that couldn't handle money and didn't have any character with the funds that were given to them.

This is the same congress that voted themselves raises this year, despite the massive economic slow down.

I also watched a bit of the congressional hearing where a question was posed to the bank execs, asking them which companies owned or leased private planes. All hands went up except for one.

Let it be known by all that Nancy Pelosi has her own private jet.

Hypocrisy is acting in a manner contradictory to one's professed beliefs and feelings, or conversely, expressing false beliefs and opinions in order to conceal one's real feelings or motives.

And by the way, does it not bother anyone that the President's appointees all evade their taxes?

Am I alone in being concerned about this?

One last thought. Here is an excellent and timely article written in a biography about Davey Crockett when he served in congress. A very good read.

Mid-Winter Blues and Book Giveaway Reminder

Just a reminder that if you want to receive a free copy of my new book, you have one week left to enter the drawing. If you refer someone to the site and they tell me you referred them, you'll be entered twice!

Now, who out there is having the mid-year winter blues? I'm not talking about the emotional condition that is commonly associated with the season we are in. I am talking about the "it's too cold to send the kids outside to play and they're jumping off the walls" kind of attitude.

Now, I live in Georgia. Many of the wonderful nature readers and storybooks we read to the kids refer to my state as the "Sunny Southland".

Yes, it was sunny this morning.

19 degrees.

A few flakes of snow.

My apologies to all you Yankees, I know it's a bit frigid up there. But it's not supposed to be here!!

It's supposed to be cold, but glory be! People from up North move down here to get away from the cold! Not drive into it!!

...Sigh...

The real reason I'm tired of the cold is I want to send the children outside. But as we wimpy homeschoolers down South have no parkas, they cannot go outside. I have no desire to see my children turn blue from the cold. Strange, I know.

Two more months. I can do this!

In the meantime, make sure you get signed up for the giveaway!

God Bless,
Brandie