Whatever Happened?

Whatever happened?  Why are the kids here?  What have they been doing? This picture was shot on their official school picture day which is scheduled once a year and for which a professional photographer is hired.  However, Chelle always takes advantage of the day to make a lot of interesting shots for her own use.  So far, the triplets have cooperated and consequently, we have many great pictures.

And whatever happened to, 'innocent until proven guilty".  Isn't that law in this land? If you think a minute, I'll bet you'll come up with a dichotomy between this law and practice.

The treatment of Herman Cain recently is a perfect example of this. He has been accused of things that he quite frankly says are false. All evidence points that way as well.

But a group of crazed, monied people practicing Chicago gangland politics are determined to discredit every Republican in the race, because they can not win a clean race.  They have nothing to offer except more of the same.

It would be a sad thing to see this type of behavior condoned, to see it win out and destroy  our freedom and this country.

As far as I am concerned, Herman Cain is innocent of all the charges brought  against him...unless and until he is proven guilty in a court of law.

Can we stand 4 more years of this type of politics?  The destruction of a man's reputation?

Creative Use of Play Dough

That's my grandson! I love  this. Caleb is being creative...thinking outside the box... Interesting piece of art.  This is the most unusual use of play dough I've seen.  So glad he chose to do it on canvas instead of the wall his mother is painting.

Museums

My husband loves museums...at least it appears that way.  He always wants to see them. This last weekend, after much coaxing, he finally chose where he wanted to go...to the Hagley Museum.  We arrived at 4:30 PM and it closed at 4:30 PM. Perhaps it would have been better to make some decisions earlier.  Well, anyway, I can look forward to seeing it next time.  I bet you can tell that I can hardly wait to see a museum of  gun powder.  Oh well, no matter what, my camera and I always find something interesting to shoot.  And how appropriate is a shot in a gun powder museum?  Very!

If we as a nation continue to postpone making decisions, we will end up sooner than later a socialist (Marxist) republic.  Some of the first moves are being made toward a 'peace keeping' force within the states.  Wake up people, our rights are being usurped. Inform yourselves and call your senators.  Then at least you can say you tried.

Be a vocal Christian this holiday season and wish all you see a MERRY CHRISTMAS!  May God bless you all.

Ronald McDonald House

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, we were able to visit the Ronald McDonald House in Wilmington, DE. We were very impressed with the operation.  It is wonderful to see so many people donating and volunteering their time for such a worthwhile effort.

While  there, we took advantage of the gazebo on the property for a photo shoot.   April, Tim, Hope, Jarod and little Sam posed with Ron and me.

To God be the glory!

If one evening you open the blog and don't see a current message, I am apologizing in advance.  I started the blog as a fun endeavor, but sometimes with the problems I'm having with my computer and my resultant high blood pressure, some days it is a chore to  come up with a layout.  So, again...if I miss a day or so this Christmas season, please know that I'll be back as often as I can.

Meanwhile I will be holding on to Proverbs 3:5:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Thanksgiving Turkey

Something is wrong with this picture.  

 I'd like you to meet some fine looking white Amish turkeys. They do not look like the traditional birds we see in picture books. They are quite pretty.  And I'm told by my daughter, who lives in the neighborhood, that the little children of the family like to play with them.  

Now let me tell you about Thanksgiving Day... One of these big birds ended up on the  dining room table of my daughter. It had lost its feathers and really looked like any other turkey one might buy at the store.  It was delicious.  But I must say, that at least one person there declined to eat that pet turkey.

Now, notice Abram and Sarah Turkey look at that funny looking brown creature dressed in his Pilgrim clothes. I wonder what they are thinking.

I'll tell you what. I really would prefer to eat a  turkey from the local grocery  than one that grew up down the street from me.  Okay, laugh at me if you will.  But next year, I'm eating ham. ..and don't show me any cute pigs.

Cutie Pie

Whom Do We Cheer?

Caleb had a great time running off some energy... around and around my kitchen counters. And of  course I didn't mind. I  wasn't cooking.  I was watching him like  I'd paid $100 to see a fantastic play. He  is my grandson! When I was a teenager there was a singer  whom I loved to see and hear...and it was not Elvis.  When I was a teenager there was a singer  that I loved to see and hear. It was not Elvis.     I thought he was disgusting at the  time. I liked to hear him sing Peace in the Valley, but that was it. I liked Pat Boone.  He went to the same  college as I did only some years before.  One of his friends went to church with  me and a couple of times Pat came to  our state and went to church with us.   The second time he came, he was famous.  Someone saw him enter the building and  when church was over and we opened  the doors, there was a humungous crowd  out there waiting and cheering for him.   They were cheering just about like I  clapped for little Caleb in my kitchen. Today Pat Boone is still speaking his mind  and I've copied here his thoughts on Obama. Pat Boone on Obama......Simply  Outstanding CHRISTIAN NATION! When you have read what Pat Boone  wrote about Obama (below), you may  want to click on the link to "Snopes",  which brings up a page telling you that  this is an actual letter written by Pat  Boone - and Very well written, I might  add. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT COMMENTARY, AND SHOULD BE READ BY EVERY AMERICAN! The President Without A Country By Pat Boone "We're no longer a Christian nation." - President  Barack Obama, June 2009 " America has been arrogant." -  President BarackObama "After 9/11, America didn't always  live up to her ideals."- President Barack Obama "You might say that America is a Muslim nation." - President Barack Obama, Egypt  2009 Thinking about these and other statements  made by the man who wears the title of president.  I keep wondering what country  he believes he's president of. In one of my very favorite stories,  EdwardEverett Hale's "The Man without  a Country," a young Army lieutenant  named Philip Nolan stands condemned  for treason during the Revolutionary  War, having come under the influence  of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks  him if he wishes to say anything before  sentence is passed, young Nolan  defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United  States ! I wish I might never hear of  the United States again!" The stunned silence in the courtroom  is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause,  the judge soberly says to the angry  lieutenant: "You have just pronounced  your own sentence. You will never hear  of the United States again.. I sentence  you to spend the rest of your life at  sea, on one or another of this c ountry's naval vessels - under strict  orders that no one will ever speak to  you again about the country you have  just cursed." And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken  away and spent the next 40 years at  sea, never hearing anything but an  occasional slip of the tongue about  America.. The last few pages of  the story, recounting Nolan's dying  hours in his small stateroom - now  turned into a shrine to the country  he foreswore - never fail to bring  me to tears. And I find my own  love for this dream, this miracle  called America , refreshed and  renewed. I know how blessed and  unique we are. But reading and hearing the audacious,  shocking statements of the man who  was recently elected our president  - a young black man living the  impossible dream of millions of young  Americans, past and present, black  and white - I want to ask him,  "Just what country do you think  you're president of?" You surely can't be referring to  the United States of America ,  can you? America is emphatically  a Christian nation, and has been  from its inception! Seventy percent  of her citizens identify themselves  as Christian. The Declaration of  Independence and our Constitution  were framed, written and ratified  by Christians. It's because this  was, and is, a nation built on and  guided by Judeo-Christian biblical  principles that you, sir, have had  the inestimable privilege of being  elected her president. You studied law at Harvard, didn't  you, sir? You taught constitutional  law in Chicago ? Did you not ever  read the statement of John Jay,  the first Chief Justice of the  Supreme Court and an author of  the landmark "Federalist Papers":  " Providence has given to our people  the choice of their rulers - and it  is the duty, as well as the privilege  and interest of our Christian nation  - to select and prefer Christians  for their rulers"? In your studies, you surely must have  read the decision of the Supreme  Court in 1892: "Our lives and our  institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings  of the Redeemer of mankind. It is  impossible that it should be  otherwise; and in this sense and to  this extent our civilization and our  institutions are emphatically Christian." Did your professors have you skip  over all the high-court decisions  right up till the mid 1900's that  echoed and reinforced these views  and intentions? Did you pick up the  history of American jurisprudence  only in 1947, when for the first  time a phrase coined by Thomas  Jefferson about a "wall of separation  between church and state" was used  to deny some specific religious  expression -contrary to Jefferson's  intent with that statement? Or, wait a minute: were your ideas  about America 's Christianity formed  during the 20 years you were a  member of the TrinityUnitedChurch  of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah  Wright? Is that where you got the i dea that " America is no longer a  Christian nation"? Is this where you,  even as you came to call yourself  a Christian, formed the belief that  " America has been arrogant"? Even if that's the understandable  explanation of your damning of  your country and accusing the whole  nation (not just a few military  officials trying their best to keep  more Americans from being murdered  by jihadists) of "not always living  up to her ideals," how did you come  up with the ridiculous, alarming  notion that we might be"considered  a Muslim nation"? Is it because there are some 2  million or more Muslims living here,  trying to be good Americans? Out  of a current population of over 300  million, 70 percent of whom are  Christians? Does that make us, by  any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"? Why are we not, then, a "Chinese  nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a  "Vietnamese nation"? There are even  more of these distinct groups in  America than Muslims. And if the  distinction you're trying to make is  a religious one, why is America not  "a Jewish nation"? There's actually  a case to be made for the latter,  because our Constitution - and the  success of our Revolution and founding  - owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers. Have you stopped to think what an  actual Muslim America would be like?  Have you ever really spent much time  in Iran ? Even in Egypt ? You, having  been instructed in Islam as a kid at  a Muslim school in Indonesia and  saying you still love the call to evening  prayers, can surely picture our nation  founded on the Quran, not the Judeo- Christian Bible, and living under  Shariah law. Can't you? You do  recall Muhammad's directives  [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross"  and "kill the infidel"? It seems increasingly and painfully  obvious that you are more influenced  by your upbringing and questionable  education than most suspected. If you   consider yourself the president of a  people who are "no longer Christian,"  who have  "failed to live up to our ideals," who  "have  been arrogant," and might even be  "considered Muslim" - you are president  of a country most Americans don't  recognize. Could it be you are a president without  a country? All who love their Christian Beliefs and  their Country, Forward to all in your  address book. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/patboone.asp