yah for Wed. half way

yah for Wed. half way through the week

Friday Night

Well its 9/11/09 8 years since the day America was attacked. Everyone says the world changed that day, and in many ways it did. But its still very similar in a lot of ways. I get up every day, go to work, raise my kids, love my wife, try to live as Christ would have me live.

I doubt there is much I can say on this day about it that would be different or original from what has already been said by so many others, and so much more eloquently than I.

Instead I am bringing it home.

On Sunday my daughter turns 10. Tonight is her sleep-over Birthday party. 9 girls invited, 8 came and one is on her way home. Homesick. Still aside from some attitude on the part of Stephanie (which is normal for her) its going pretty well.

Jenna isn't feeling her best and threw-up a few times. Its a big deal turning 10. The transition from single to double-digit ages. Of course trying to get a bunch of pre-teen girls to settle down for bed was its own exercise in logistics of sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, and who sleeps next to who and how you arrange the girls so they aren't kicking someone in the head.

Today has been a strange day. Aside from all the memories and associated emotion with This paticular day I have been off all day. Not sure exactly why but just not at ease with myself.

Its getting late and I should go to bed soon, but have to stay up till the girls are asleep in case we lose another.

Wed Night

I thought earlier today of a whole blog post I wanted to make. now I can't even remember what I was going to write about. I know that that I am really getting tired of the fight every night with our youngest for Bed. Its a real fight with her. I don't know why it is so terrible. She refuses to go to bed. Tonight was almost half-hour of her screaming and crying. She wants to read all night and keep the light on. Id almost be tempted to let her, but she shares a room with her older sister who has to go to school in the morning. So of course we can't let her. Finally got ehr to calm down and go to bed. I just wish I knew what to do.

Friday Night

We made it to Savannah. I am sitting on the bed in our hotel room "Residence inn Midtown" and posting from there. Its late and I should probably be going to bed!

Instead I am sitting here typing out thoughts. tomorrow is the beach, and probably a sunburn even if I try to remember the sunblock.

I just sat down and watched this

I don't know about you but the idea of Pledging to serve the President,

even just the office, is very disturbing. To pledge to serve an actual person, who is in that office,

is even more so.

YES, we do pledge to the flag, and in fact I have occasional issues with that when I think about it,

but its representative of our country. Our Armed forces pledge to serve the constitution.

The President is the Commander in Chief, but the Army has not pledged to serve him

Obama has called for a civilian defense force as powerful as our military,

which unlike the military would answer to the office of president.

What is the need for this?

The video was produced to be shown to kids in Utah if I remember reading correctly.

Don't get me wrong, much of what was pledged is not bad stuff, it pretty much follows liberal

ideology and worldview but is mostly harmless in of itself.

Much of it is warm-fuzzy feel good about myself stuff. But throwing in a pledge to

the serve the president? Way Way wrong!

How about the Following pledge?

I pledge to serve Our Father in Heaven first. I pledge to Love my wife as Christ loved the church.

I pledge to raise my children in a manner pleasing to God and to train them up to Walk with Christ.

I pledge to work to preserve the principles of Liberty set forth

in Our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Well

I promised I would try to write more here than i have been.

We are in the midst of trying to repaint and re-arrange the bedroom. We have 2 walls completely painted and the other two walls almost painted. We are running low on tape and paint and I need to get some more. I will probably do it during church tomorrow while kids and Yvette are in Awana.

We are going to Savannah for the weekend and going to spend some time at the beach for Labor Day weekend. It will be nice to get away, but its a LONG drive to Savannah. I am going to see about getting some good pictures. I'd like to get some night stuff, but not sure I will really have much chance too. Not sure its a good idea to walk around Savannah at night with Camera equipment, and its about a half-hour to the beach from the Hotel.

We want to get the painting done before we leave, so I guess I should wrap up and get back to work.