Gifts and Expectations

Santa came and left LOTS of presents for Caleb. Being only 10 months old last Christmas, it was not such a big thing for him.  But he certainly figured out quickly what it was about this year.  It seems the tall red presents caught his eye first. He sure made a beeline for that vacuum cleaner.  I wonder if he will ever be that excited about a vacuum cleaner again. It sure did it for him this year. Mama might not need to clean the carpet for months.

While we are here, you should notice the stockings Beth and John knitted.  They are pretty special. I sure wish I had been there to watch him open all his gifts and dig into his stocking.  

Cleb's birthday is coming up VERY soon and we hope to do some face time with him then. Maybe we'll get to see him open the little things we sent.  It is so much fun to see the delight in a little one's eyes. Let's hope that his delight never fades because he is expecting too much.

Life should be about relationships and not about things.  Materialism has ruined many people in this fine nation.  They have come to expect that they will always get anything they want and even without any effort of their own parts. It is a very sad thing and will mean our demise as a country some day.  I'm praying that we come to grips with this issue, repent and turn our lives back to focusing on God instead of things.  God help us.

Now that I've finished Christmas, on to January... oh, February!  What happened to those 31 days. Time flies when your blogging!

Is It Still Christmas?

This finishes my Christmas pictures of the triplets.  Tomorrow, I hope to finish the pictures I have of Caleb's Christmas. I'd like to put these on during the Christmas season, but I can't make the layouts that quickly and still enjoy the celebration.  Besides, I end up with more layouts than there are days in the season.

I'd also like to help put a finish on the ignorance our schools are causing our young people.  We send our children to school to learn the truth of history, because it repeats itself.  Instead, they are encouraged to be envious of their fellow man. Envy is still a sin...and it is one of the deadly sins mentioned often in the Bible.

In Romans 1:29, envy is equated with murder.

Proverbs14:30 says, "A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones."


Let's not envy, nor teach our kids to; but let's keep Christmas love in our hearts all year.

The Clock Strikes...

Chelle and Greg let the triplets stay up until midnight for their first New Year celebration ever.  That's right, they've probably wanted to their whole lives, but now at the ripe old age of nine, they did it. 

 Oh!, I just realized I forgot confetti.  What is a New Year's Eve without it?  Maybe I'm better off omitting it.  They might expect it next year...in the house.  I'll just leave it off, but wouldn't that just give this layout a big boost?

The clock just keeps ticking away the time left for President Obama to occupy the oval office in Washington...the one where he feels free to rest his feet on the desk...the one  given by Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.

And as the clock ticked and the judge and others waited for the president and his attorney to show up in a GA court for  an eligibility case brought against him there, he was far away from the state in campaign mode.  

Supposedly, if he is deemed ineligible because he is not a Natural born US citizen,( and the proof is well documented)  his name would not be permitted on their ballot in the fall.  

The two ended up no shows. 

Of course it is just a court of law and they are up against a man who ignores the law.

As far as I know, those in the office of president are not above the law. I think he may be confusing the presidency with a dictatorship.

Crafty One

There are two ways to use the word crafty. In this case, it means Chelle is skillful, clever.

Then there is the other meaning: marked by subtlety and guile as in < a crafty scheme> like those in Washington we hear about almost daily.

Business, Morality and Conservatives

Two days of fall in a row. I will be back to winter  tomorrow.  I'm working on that already. But for now, this is another picture that was made by a professional photographer November 18th that wasn't completed and delivered until January. Sorry about those Christmas presents.  That's a poor business practice and most of the pictures were not that good either. My daughter had to give them a boost with Photoshop Elements.  It is a cute pose, however and we are glad to finally have the files.

I'm really excited that Chelle is toying with PSE. She's working with actions now, so it may not be long until she is showing up her mother.

I mentioned yesterday that Rush had taken up for Newt. I have now seen the evidence that Newt and Reagan were close. Newt is a Conservative  and has been a conservative all along. Mitt Romney is now saying he is...that is what the people are wanting, but he is not. He claims to be, yet his actions show otherwise.  He has a long record of voting for Democrats....not conservative ones either. His health care plan in Massachusetts is a liberal example.

Defeating National Health care is as important to this election as are making jobs and improving the economy.  We cannot afford to give up that issue, by naming Mitt as our nominee.  

We need a spiritual revival in this nation.  Morality will improve our chances or turning things around. We have gone the way of Sodom and Gomorrah. If you don't know those cities...God destroyed them because of their wickedness.  If you happen to open your eyes, you'll see it all around us.

 God is good. He sent us a savior so that we could see how he wants us to live.  Read the bible, forget PC and stick to your convictions.

Piles of Autumn Smiles

Okay, I know I'm behind. It is no longer Fall.  But I just got this picture and it cheered me today to see the triplets laying in the beautifully colored leaves with big, big smiles while seeing ugly gray fog out my window.

Somethings just make me smile. And one is when I hear someone pick a fight and strike out. This happened when Mitt Romney claimed that Newt was a strong critic of Ronald Reagan. 

Generally I just hear bits and pieces of Rush as I go about my daily business. Now I know why he was talking about Newt on his show yesterday. I heard him say that Newt was a big supporter of Reagan and a consistent conservative. 

Today, I read on Newsmax.com that Mike Reagan issued a statement lambasting Mitt and his supporters.

"I am deeply disturbed that supporters of Mitt Romney are claiming that Newt Gingrich is not a true Reaganite and are even claiming that Newt was a strong critic of my father.

"Recently I endorsed Newt Gingrich for president because I believe that Newt is the only Republican candidate who has both consistently backed the conservative policies that my father championed and the only Republican that will continue to implement his vision.

"It surprises me that Mitt Romney and his supporters would raise this issue - when Mitt by his own admission voted for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale who opposed my father, and later supported liberal Democrat Paul Tsongas for president.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney's achievement was the most socialistic healthcare plan in the nation up until that time.

"Say what you want about Newt Gingrich but when he was speaker of the House he surrounded himself with Reagan conservatives and implemented a Ronald Reagan program of low taxes and restrained federal spending.

"Newt's  conservative program created a high economic boom and balanced the budget for the first time in more than a generation."

He concluded: "I would take Gingrich's record any day over Mitt Romney's"

May God bless us with the truth and the spirit to understand when we hear it.

Boomin' Fun

I don't know where they got that big, big drum for Caleb, but he is having BIG fun with it.

Obama pulled the plug on construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. 

Now it is time to pull the plug on him!

I have a countdown calendar that keeps track of the days until he is out of there.  Sorry to say, as of midnight tonight, he has 360 days left.  Our ship has been leaking so fast, I'm afraid we may not be able to stay afloat that long.

Pray the Lord takes pity on us and saves our land.