During Obama's inauguration Sam and I called Audrey over to watch with us. Even if she is only 4 and a half I figured she might remember the momentous occasion and thank us later for exposing her to when our country swore in our first black president ( Read more... )

Sunday night we were over at the in laws to celebrate my fil's 62nd birthday. During the course of our eating of honey baked ham and pecan pie my mil brought up that Barack Obama was no longer having Rick Warren pray at his inauguration. Instead some gay Episcopalian pastor was taking his place ( Read more... )

Let me introduce you to Jimmy Hendrix.


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As I peruse my facebook and myspace this morning I am astounded by the amount of negative status updates and comments pertaining to Obama's win. I can understand someone being upset that their candidate didn't win, but some people are just leaving scathing comments. Seriously ... if McCain had won I may have been disappointed, but my life would ( Read more... )

I'm a bit worried that voting might be difficult tomorrow. With people feeling so strongly about who should win this election my guess is that voter turn out will be bigger than in years past. If this is the case then I just won't be able to stand in line for hours waiting for my turn when I have two kids at home, a husband who also needs to cast ( Read more... )

My mother in law sent me this link today in an email.

In her mind she must think that I am voting Republican. To be fair I have not told many of my conservative friends that I decided to vote for Obama. Hiding this fact from them seems silly and I suppose my reason for doing so is knowing how anti Obama some Christian conservatives are. Therefore ( Read more... )

I just deleted an old high school classmate as one of my Myspace friends. He had this picture on his profile.

( Ignorance )

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Sam seems to think the media is being too harsh on her for her comment. I tend to think they are not. Thoughts?

This past weekend there was some anger exhibited by Mrs. Clinton toward Barack Obama. As she spoke about her unhappiness with some negative mailers sent out by her opponent's camp Hilary's voice steadily rose until it became the cawing I have become so familiar with since her campaign began. I cannot help that my opinion of her angry voice sounds ( Read more... )

I've been staying up late these past couple of nights and today the lack of sleep hit me hard. All day I was yawning and closing my eyes. I was so grumpy towards Audrey ... any amount of noise she made I scolded her for when in all reality I was being uber sensitive ( Read more... )