"Just Say No..."

Just read that New York City middle schools are going to lengthen the school day to 6:00 p.m.
Does anybody else find that totally depressing???
These liberals really DO believe that our children aren't really ours. They CLEARLY want to raise them. They want to send them home at 6:00 p.m., eat, and go to bed?? What about extracurricular things like dance, music lessons or sports?? Or how about friends? Or birthday parties?
It's just disgusting.
Are the NYC parents going to protest at all?? Are they going to just go along with this?? What if the working mom gets off at 4 p.m.? Does she have to wait at the school? Go home and come back? In NYC?? What if it's a stay-at-home mom? ( I realize those are dinosaurs now, but there HAVE to be some.)  That's my perfect segue into something else I read today - that the prez is totally against homeschooling.
Of COURSE he is....

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

Lately this cartoon is how I feel with the current economy...

I kissed a girl and I (didn't) like it.... - Katy Perry (emphasis mine)

Yesterday I read that at a middle school in New York, 13 and 14 year old girls went to an 'anti-bullying' presentation, yet the focus was instead on homosexuality and gender identity.
Parents learned their daughters were told to ask another girl for a kiss and two girls were told to stand in front of class and pretend they were lesbians on a date. They were also taught words such as 'pansexual' and 'genderqueer.'  Parents were given no warning about the presentation and there was no opportunity to opt out. The superintendent told The Poughkeepsie Journal that the presentation was "focused on improving culture, relationships, communication and self-perceptions."
Yeah, the typical liberal gobbledy-speak to push their public school pro-homosexual agenda on children that they say are not really ours to educate and "don't belong" to us....
I don't know about you, but I am SO tired of the homosexual agenda being pushed down our throats. In the media, it seems like ABC has inserted homosexuality in just about every show on. I am seriously considering getting rid of my cable television because for $100 per month, it's 95% garbage.
We need to take our country back and our children back.
It starts with us...

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die..."

It's been "a day...."  As I mentioned yesterday, my day started at 8:00 a.m. with a root canal.... I mean, that one is in the top 5 things I hate most... It was grueling, and she had to give me so much Novacaine that it didn't wear off until after 4:00 p.m. - which was embarressing because I picked up DD to have lunch at 12:30, and ran into lots of people we know with a cyclops mouth. Even my eye and tongue were numb, and it was full strength all day.
The funeral for my high schooler's friend started at 3:00, but since this boy was a star football, basketball and track player/runner, we knew the church would fill up fast. We got to the church at 1:45 with the heartbroken dad greeting everyone at the church foyer, along with the very sad casket and viewing of his deceased and only son. And since his son had died from an overdose of a new chemical drug that some idiot bought on the internet, the son's face was dark purple, of which the funeral home had tried to cover (unsuccessfully) with makeup. His father kept running his hands through his 16 year old son's hair, saying he wouldn't be able to do that much longer.  The father even spoke at the eulogy, telling funny stories about his son - and this was after his best friend, who found the two boys late last Friday night, had also spoken at the eulogy. That man (Jeff) had said the families have been life long friends, and he had never known Sam to be anything but sweet and humble and polite, with good character. They both begged the audience not to define Sam by his one bad decision, as he had never been known to do drugs, and was a smart, funny, talented good guy. All of our town's football and basketball players were there in their school jerseys, and it was overwhelming at times. The funeral lasted almost two hours with lots of stories, special written music for the funeral, and a message by the very outgoing pastor.
The funeral even started 15 minutes late because the parents were crying so hard, they couldn't go down the aisle. They had been playing some sad country songs over a sound system before it started, and the dad was singing one of them outloud to his son in the casket. There weren't many dry eyes in the house....
The pastor did address the drug problem in the school and told the football players to say "Hell no" to drug dealers. And at the end of the message, the pastor said that he had been searching for a symbol for it all, and had searched for 4 days. He finally found it last night at 1:00. He said the youth pastor found it last night at 2:00. They realized when they saw Sam's dad holding vigil over Sam's body all last night at the church, that it was his "only begotten son," and that today the father would be giving Sam over to God, (who understands because He lost His only begotten son) and He would be watching vigil over Sam from now on.
The funeral procession to the cemetery was the longest one I've ever seen, and people stood outside and lined many of the streets or pulled over in respect. That cemetery service was short and poignant, and ended with the high school's fight song, and again... not many dry eyes in the huge crowd.
It's just been a sad, sad day....

Life is short, pray hard

Tomorrow I have to have a root canal and go to a 16 year old's funeral... The good news is that the other boy that overdosed is going to be okay. DD says its been two full days of crying at school as its very tragic about the death of her classmate.
Rest in peace, Sam...

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - John Adams

There is so much happening at the government level, that it's hard to keep up with. Granted, I work a full-time job and am a single mother, so I try the best I can. What is always so obvious to me, is never to others... Like last Friday... when the government shut down the ENTIRE city of Boston!! A city of a million people. No buses. No cabs. No college classes. No nothing. Everyone was told to stay in their house. And then?? Martial law. People's houses were being searched without warrants. Those inside were scared and told to come out with their hands up.
Was I the only one bothered about this?!?
I've never seen this before in my life. Ever. To COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN A HUGE CITY??? Trying to catch one teenager?? Yes, I know that he committed an atrocity and yes, I wanted to get the bad guys too. But I've NEVER seen this sort of thing... And nothing is EVER this open and shut. All of those Bostonians were in the streets celebrating the end of terror in Boston... but I'm not so sure this is all there was to this. I see on obscure websites that someone is saying those two were double agents but ultimately sided with the radical Islamists?? I've seen pictures of military there with some saying it was a "False Flag", so was it a "come-to-life" Bourne Identity movie?? There is so much speculation, and I can see why. Something just doesn't smell right.... My gut feeling (and intelligence for that matter) says there is a LOT more to this story than we'll ever know.
All we can really do is vote people we trust as our leaders and leave it in their hands...

Traveling Texas

Too tired to post. Here are some trucks I snapped last week...

4-20 - National Weed Day....

As if this week wasn't stressful enough, I woke up this morning to the news (on Facebook) that one of my daughter's guy friends had died last night. He was funny & smart & talented. He was a star basketball and football player at her high school with a darling girlfriend that he has dated for a few years. And everyone really liked him. Nothing was mentioned how he died on FB, so I assumed a wreck like most of the deaths around here. Then the truth started coming out that it was a drug overdose.... and that another guy he was with was "barely living" and had been airlifted to San Antonio. That boy has grown up with my daughter, and is darling and charming and lives life on the edge. He's just never had that little voice to tell him something's dangerous. He was always an accident waiting to happen.
Then, word came out that the boy that supplied the drugs to them was in their class, and had been arrested. DD has grown up with that boy too. He's not a malicious kid but, well, isn't too bright either. And with current laws, that kid won't ever walk the halls of our high school ever again. He will either be in juvenile detention or alternative school, but after a death, it's very serious. We just heard an hour ago that the Texas Rangers have been called in as well.
Sigh.
No one is saying how the guy in the hospital is doing. He was in a coma - we heard he woke up - and now we hear he's in an induced coma. It's just so scary. His parents own several stores in our small town, and DD works at one of them. They are super nice people, as are the other parents. There are LOTS of stories going around town. Our town is less than 10,000 and everybody knows everybody else's business. We heard that these boys had gone to a friend's house and were going to smoke pot after midnight for National Weed day - today, 4-20. (I'm not sure how this day became pot smoker's celebration day, but it is.) We heard they left the party and smoked pot and that it was laced with LSD? But the truth of which drug is still unknown. The first boy died at our hospital and they sent the other one to San Antonio. Everyone is devastated and have talked about it all day.
And as I've spoken to a lot of the parents today, many of which are teachers or married to cops, I see that my 16 year old isn't telling me much of what's going on in her high school. She probably figures I won't give her many freedoms with this knowledge. One thing is certain; this town won't be the same. Most parents and the high school will buckle down and get strict now. There are too many young people's deaths for the amount of people we have in our town and enough is enough. There is a LOT of drug use  and a lot of sex, and I don't mean between two committed people in a relationship. What are we, Hollywood?? Evidently the boy in the coma, also made a sex tape a few weeks ago. Another "popular" girl is giving oral sex to random guys in the school like it's nothing. And ALL of the kids that I hear about, have nice, normal, upstanding parents.
I moved to a small town to get away from all of the city's craziness.
I am in shock...

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Like most Americans, I am on information overload. And as a Texan, our news is continuing with the horrific explosion in the town of West... While it IS encouraging seeing my fellow Texans unite to help these victims of the explosion, it is also overwhelming. And with television, radio, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the internet, it is wall-to-wall bad news and there is no escaping. I've already decided that I simply will not check social media tomorrow or watch any news program on television. My brain is saturated like a full sponge, and there is no more room for anything else.
And then I add my frustration to politics and it goes over the edge into overload. We have our president having a temper tantrum that he didn't get his way with the gun legislation bill. Wow. As Rush said, we've never seen him get THAT mad about much more important things, like Benghazi, for instance. And then there are all of these internet stories that the terrorist event in Boston was a "False Flag." I guess I'm not understanding the purpose of a False Flag in this case. They keep saying that the military or para-military carries out their "mission" and then finds a patsy to blame it on. But why?? What would be the point in the case of the Boston Marathon?? I heard that Sandy Hook was also a False Flag, and although I really have no idea, at least I could understand the evil purposes of pushing gun control. And whether Sandy Hook was a False Flag or not, the victim's parents have been used as props to try and pass gun control. It's too hard to imagine people evil enough to kill innocent children for "the greater good" (to them, not me) to push their evil agenda. One side note, is that Sandy Hook is an almost all-white school in an upper middle class neighborhood, so that would be the kind of school those types of evil people would target. But in the case of the Boston Marathon, what would be the point there? That we aren't safe and the government wants to watch us even further to "protect" us, but in actuality, we would lose more freedom??
I'm also disturbed tonight after reading some of the testimony of the Gosnell trial (see Michael Savage's Facebook link.) I seriously thought I was going to vomit. The nurse was saying babies came out alive all the time, and they pitched one in a toilet, and it was almost swimming in trying to survive. Or they would just grab them and "snip" their neck to kill them. OH MY GOD!!! The evil is just too much!! I think abortion is killing from the moment the egg and the sperm meet, but if the baby comes out alive, it's not what they are calling abortion any more. It's just murdering a breathing person.
I read a story the other day of this married woman in her early thirties who is suing the abortion clinic since her baby was born alive. And the baby girl is fine and she is raising her but doesn't DESERVE that baby or any other child. Her comment in the article said, "But I am still pro-choice." Really?? She is disgusting.
Sigh.
I don't know. It's just all too much....

Happy happy Birthday Baby...

Happy Birthday Alex!!! It just seems like yesterday when you were little - you were always so easy - slept through the night at 2 months, toilet trained in one day, and good natured when not provoked! I'm so proud of you - you are exactly what every mother dreams for in a daughter - sweet, beautiful on the inside and outside, excellent in all you do, with a heart for God. I'm so blessed that you are my daughter - may God bless you always. ❤Mom

Stop and smell the roses

It's a Texas tradition to take a photo in bluebonnets - they're all over Facebook. Here's DD and baby B.
Happy springtime from Texas!

Patriot Day in Boston

I'm angry... I'm angry that this is the new norm. I'm angry that ABC aired "Dancing With the Stars" and "Castle" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with total disregard to this horrific terrorist attack....
Today I woke up with a bad feeling. I told myself that it was because it's the Tax deadline and the anniversary of the Titanic sinking. But I couldn't shake the feeling. I made sales calls but everyone seemed like zombies, and this is before we heard about the bombs. When the news came over my phone about "explosions in Boston," I just knew it was a terror attack. In the very beginning of the news coverage, the announcers said they didn't know if it was just a gas explosion. I was at work by that time, and said aloud to my coworkers, "Those dumbasses... there were two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon... I am SURE that is no coincidence..." My coworkers just rolled their eyes, like I'm some conservative zealot. A few hours later, the truth came out and now everyone is gnashing teeth.
Personally, I want my country back. I want to bring sanity back. I want things to go back to how they were a few years ago when everything wasn't "opposite day." I want to restore the USA to our glory days when good people were the leaders, and not this regime who does things like send millions of dollars, and artillery and ammo to the SAME people who evidently did this today. Because they hate us. They don't know us, but they hate us. Maybe it's jealousy over money. Maybe it's brainwashing from their religion to hate infidels. But I DO know it's the spirit of the Anti-Christ that Jesus mentioned would happen in the end days. I do know they hate Christians and freedom, which always go together.
Tonight, just like with September 11, 2001, we will all hug our loved ones a little bit tighter. And hopefully resolve that we will vote righteous leaders in charge again of this country that there is still hope for.
Who's with me??

"I'll Be Back..." - The Terminator

I just don't have a good feeling lately... I keep imagining the dramatic scene in The Terminator when they show the flashback of the kids swinging in the park and the nuclear bomb explodes and it all becomes an inferno. When I was young, it was just the USA and the Soviet Union that had nukes, and both knew that if the first country fired one, then the other would retaliate, and we would all die. But now we have these crazy hot-heads like Kim Jong Un and Ahmadinijad who are crazy enough to be like the martyr terrorists and take us all down. And everyone here in the U.S. keeps carrying on like everything is just fine. This country has been so dumbed down and so hypnotized, that they think we are immune. But we're not. And guess what? If you've ever studied Revelations, it talks about a third of the earth being destroyed in the End Times. Of course, we don't know WHICH part of the planet is the third, and are hoping it's not us. But it could be. The United States isn't mentioned in the End Times. I've heard people guess that either we are a) hit with a nuke and collapse or b) have a financial collapse and are not a world player. Either way, it doesn't look good for the USA. If you're a Christian who has studied what God says about it all, you know there is a "rapture" where the Bible mentions that God beams up His children at some point towards the end. They all argue if it's before the Tribulation, mid-Tribulation or even later. That, of course, is up to God. But there are several years called the Tribulation, and then Jesus comes back. It's been talked about for 2,000 years, so many are calloused to hearing about it. But all of the Biblical prophecies have already happened except the rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, and Israel already has the plans and it will happen at some point. And the Battle of Armageddon will happen in Israel as well. My entire life I have heard about all these things, and now they seem to be unfolding before my eyes. By all accounts, the Anti-Christ is already alive but has not been revealed. And a new Pope has just been selected, which also figures into the last days.
I find myself not knowing how to plan. For example, I need a lot of dental work evidently since I fractured a molar by clinching my teeth nightly, waking up to a locked jaw. My dentist said they can do a root canal and buy me time (about 2 years) or pull the tooth and get an implant (much more expensive.) I am going with the root canal figuring we can die at any moment. I'm talking to my children about the future, yet not knowing if there will be one. I'm praying constantly and asking God to have mercy... on this country... on this planet... and spare us as He asked Lot before He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah... I'm just not sure how much time we have left. If you're a Christian, it's time to pray. If you're not,
you had better do some soul-searching....

"It's not your parent's prom..."

Okay, since I can't take any more bad news, I pulled some photos off of my Instagram to show you that asking a girl to prom has become much more showy, thanks to tv... These are all pix of my high school daughter's friends, and there are even more without photos. The screenshot of texts below are of Allen asking Brooke to prom with Taylor Swift song names, since she is a huge Taylor Swift fan. One of the Junior girls at her high school asked a younger guy to prom with a customized baseball card she made, telling him if he goes to prom with her, then he will get to second base.... Ummmm, that reminds me to do a separate blog on sexuality these days.
Anyway.
This is MTV's influence...

"Haters Gonna Hate"

Is THIS what we've come to?? Pastor Rick Warren's son commits suicide and the haters are spewing their venom about this. Evidently Rick Warren came out against same-sex marriage, and the gays are celebrating his son's death. It is beyond disgusting.
And today we hear that Margaret Thatcher has passed, and the haters are just as vile about her. She has always been such a wonderful role model for me -- as a Baby Boomer female, I always had trouble finding a woman that I wanted to model myself after. Sadly in public schools, they never pick someone like the former prime minister for young girls to write papers on... No,  it's always Hillary Clinton or fill-in-the-blank women's libber that they learn about.
But I digress.
My brother and I had a long conversation about our country's 'state of the union' today. We blame the mainstream media.
They must be stopped...

A picture's worth 1,000 words...

Here are pix from my Facebook feed this evening:
(Prom pic in Missouri)

"Danger, Will Robinson!!"

Just read that North Korea warns military cleared to wage nuclear attack against U.S. and our new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says some of North Korea's actions present a "real and clear danger and threat" to the U.S...
So now we've allowed Kim Jong Un to get nuclear power and he's threatening the U.S. I've seen a lot of  lay people saying things like, "I don't think he can hit the mainland" but don't we really want to know FOR SURE??? Are we just going to keep sticking our head in the sand and hope for the best?  Are they giving us the same advice as when they thought the meteor might hit, and "PRAY?" Granted, praying will be the first thing I do, but besides that, I want the leaders of my country to #1 Set up a system where the North Koreans cannot even get a nuke (like Israel is doing with Iran) and #2 Have the military now go in and do something to prevent him carrying out his threat #3 Address the country about what's going on (and, of course, it indirectly addresses the crazy man too.)
Has everybody gone CRAZY?!?!?!

Through a child's eyes...

No time to post tonight - here is Alex's baby on Easter!

"Eat, Drink and Be Merry?"

Yes, my posts are different lately.... yes, they seem negative - much more negative than in the past. But I just can't help thinking that we should live in "Realville" and realize that our country cannot sustain itself on it's current path. We (the USA) is on a speeding freight train that seems to be going faster and faster and is out of control, racing for the cliff.  I had hoped if Romney had won the last election we had a chance of stopping the train and turning it around, but alas, no. We all seem to sense that something or several things will push us over the edge. So.... I'm going to start preparing. It feels weird saying that. But Noah started building the boat like God told him to, and that was before anyone even knew what rain was. It took faith, because he couldn't see it. That's the thing. When we can see it, it will be too late. So, I know it's hard, but we have to prepare. At least prepare for 2 weeks of mayhem.
And we will pray that will be all that it is...

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free..."

Today is the anniversary of my mother's passing... And this is the first time the dates matched the days. She died on Monday, April 1st, the day after Easter in 2002. She had the best hugs of anyone...
Sigh.
I guess the only good thing is that my mother and father don't have to watch the disintegration of America. They lived full lives in the greatest country on earth, and passed while life was still sane. They were alive for September 11th, 2001 which, in retrospect, was the beginning of the end. I'm sorry to sound so pessimistic, but if God doesn't intervene, we're going to go off of the cliff. I've been trying to ring the bell for years, but few will listen. Even on Facebook, few want to see my politics and religion - they just want 'happy' stuff. I do have close to 1,000 Twitter followers that are conservative in nature, but it seems to be the same people posting all the time and everyone else just cyber stalks.
I guess it's the same-sex marriage issue that is really weighing me down. If God struck down Sodom and Gomorrah for their sins, what will happen to our country?? How has this country changed so much so fast??  I guess we all know the answer. We lost the mainstream media as a checks and balance. Hollywood gives us their propaganda too. And the liberals took over the children - with public school, with colleges, with feminism, and infiltrated organizations like the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts.
Why do most people not care?....