Michelle
It's A Girl!
We went to the doctor yesterday for my 5 month checkup. Everything is looking good - my blood pressure is still a little elevated, but not as bad as last month. We also had an ultrasound.....come to find out we are having baby GIRL number three. We are so excited. The plan was not to tell the gender until the baby got here, but after finding out we were just about to bust. We do not have any names for our sweet little bundle of joy yet, but we are working on it. We are so thrilled that the Lord has given us another child to care for. We are looking forward to the day that she arrives.
The Joy of Homeschooling
I can not begin to tell you how proud I am right now! We started homeschooling Emma Kate 3 months ago. I love her eagerness to learn! We do several different things for school. We have a workbook for shapes and colors, one for numbers, one for letters and one for matching. We also have book time - this is where I will read aloud to her a book and then she will pick some books out and go and sit in her room and "read" to herself. We also are learning Bible verses and at night Brian gets to participate with homeschooling by asking the Children's Shorter Catechism questions as well as reading our new book "Pilgrims Progress". Again, we have only been at homeschooling for 3 months. Today we finished our shapes and colors workbook! Emma Kate now knows all of her shapes and colors. She can tell you what they are as well as match them to different things. While we are out running errands she can also point them out to you. Although we haven't yet completed our letter workbook - Emma Kate knows all of her letters and the sounds that they make. I am so thankful to have this opportunity with her - to watch her grow and learn. I wouldn't trade this time with her for anything in the world.
Michelle
Witch Hunt
The recent economic downturn has given liberal socialists an opportunity to brandish afresh their torches and pitchforks. Their passion is so great that many "conservatives" are being caught up in their frenzy. Witness the overwhelming passage of the Senate's bill to use my money to buy high risk assets from lenders who've already been all but sunk for holding them. The neat thing about this witch hunt is that the hunters actually discipled the witches, ratcheting down requirements of the Community Reinvestment Act and establishing quotas for the ensuing debauchery.
Witch hunters now proclaim that making money in America is evil. Indeed this is their battle cry. One only need watch a bit of the Senate Oversight Committees' interrogation of Lehman Brothers CEO, Richard Fuld. The back and forth can be summed this way, "Why did you make so much money?"
Turning to the witch hunters' messiah: a keynote of the Obama campaign is great social good through increased taxes on businesses and corporations [you know those entities that float around in the clouds]. It baffles me that Obama supporters somehow are oblivious to the economic impact of such an asinine plan.
Raise your hand if you work for a business! If taxes on that business increase, where will the money come from to pay those taxes? How about higher prices on goods sold by those businesses? That's also known as inflation. Yeah, that big, bad thing you're struggling with at the pump and check-out line right now. Oh yeah, here's the other option: decrease the cost of doing business by cutting salaries. That's called unemployment.
So what Obama proposes is higher taxes, higher inflation and higher unemployment. To help you cope with the higher cost of living that will result from his plan, and the job you don't have to pay for it, Obama and the Third Reich [read: Congress] will give you a monthly government stipend--which they will tax. If you invest, they will tax you. If you DIE, they will tax you. As a "patriot," or shall we say, loyal follower of the Fuhrer, you will graciously, no gratefully, comply. All this because wealth is evil!
We would rather have a nation of cow-towing servants with zero motivation to work, innovate, invest, create jobs or do anything else that will ultimately improve the social well being.
If you want to make money in this country and support the Obama-Biden ticket, you prepare your own stake. Save us taxpayers some money and buy your own matches!
Brian
Witch hunters now proclaim that making money in America is evil. Indeed this is their battle cry. One only need watch a bit of the Senate Oversight Committees' interrogation of Lehman Brothers CEO, Richard Fuld. The back and forth can be summed this way, "Why did you make so much money?"
Turning to the witch hunters' messiah: a keynote of the Obama campaign is great social good through increased taxes on businesses and corporations [you know those entities that float around in the clouds]. It baffles me that Obama supporters somehow are oblivious to the economic impact of such an asinine plan.
Raise your hand if you work for a business! If taxes on that business increase, where will the money come from to pay those taxes? How about higher prices on goods sold by those businesses? That's also known as inflation. Yeah, that big, bad thing you're struggling with at the pump and check-out line right now. Oh yeah, here's the other option: decrease the cost of doing business by cutting salaries. That's called unemployment.
So what Obama proposes is higher taxes, higher inflation and higher unemployment. To help you cope with the higher cost of living that will result from his plan, and the job you don't have to pay for it, Obama and the Third Reich [read: Congress] will give you a monthly government stipend--which they will tax. If you invest, they will tax you. If you DIE, they will tax you. As a "patriot," or shall we say, loyal follower of the Fuhrer, you will graciously, no gratefully, comply. All this because wealth is evil!
We would rather have a nation of cow-towing servants with zero motivation to work, innovate, invest, create jobs or do anything else that will ultimately improve the social well being.
If you want to make money in this country and support the Obama-Biden ticket, you prepare your own stake. Save us taxpayers some money and buy your own matches!
Brian
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