Something about having Daddy home is making these children sleep in the mornings... nice. Of course, last night at 11:30 Toby was wired... climbing on us and laughing and rolling around and pinching and biting... very cute stuff. He was so offended when I put him in his bed and closed the door. He screamed.. like, mad screamed for approximately 1.5 minute before he was asleep... ha.
Doctor's appointment yesterday was uneventful... everything looks good. I start getting shots next week. But I will have to drive to her office for that instead of having a home nurse... and then drive home with my aching "lower hip"....
A big ultrasound scheduled for that day that will live in infamy... December 7th... so you will all be able to buy gender-appropriate Christmas presents for little Question Mark Clark.
Toby just shut the door to my bedroom and now he is very mad at whoever locked him in here...
Tonight is Bill's rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. I am so, so, SO happy for my friend... he has found Twu Wuv and this is going to be fun!
Thursday, November 09, 2006
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congratulations on your sleepy morning. =)
Coo, dem kids are sleeping. That’s funny- Toby closing the door, then getting mad about it.
Called Bill last night while he was bowling with Richy and Daniel, hopefully I’ll get to chat with him sometime today while he’s still a single man.
VKG (from downstairs)- We’re on the high ground here, and many miles from any major river so we’re good. Lots of places are flooding, but it won’t be anywhere near us. Thanks for asking.
We did just find out yesterday that some nice land that was priced well is in the flood plane (and probably under water now). Explains why it was nicely priced. We found out it was only zoned as recreational, can’t build on it for that reason.
new blog post re servant
click on the clam
back to work
The Dems now have both houses. Errr!
Chuck Colson getting hard on conservative leaders:
A Pounding at the Polls
Chuck Colson
Why Conservatives Lost
Election Day is over, the votes have been counted, and it's clear that conservatives took a beating. I have always maintained that Christian leaders should not make partisan endorsements-and I never have. But I am unashamed to say that I am a conservative.
In one sense, I think, all Bible-believers are conservative, because we believe in governing our lives by revealed truth rather than by man-made, utopian ideologies. Modern liberalism wants to remove all restraints on people's behavior. Conservatives believe in the moral law. So Bible-believers might be liberal on a lot of issues, at least in the common sense of that word, like helping the poor, but they would be fundamentally conservative in their disposition toward life.
So, what happened in Tuesday's election? The economy is strong. And it's true we're in an unpopular war, but people vote their pocketbooks most often. Yet the conservative movement, which had been gaining ground, has blown it. It has been defeated. Why?
The answer is one that may startle you. Conservatives lost because they deserved to. They failed to live up to the high standards of personal behavior they preach about. And that's what brought them down.
Is there a double standard here? Why should the case of Mark Foley have helped bring down the Republicans? After all, twenty years ago a Democratic congressman, Gerry Studds, had an affair with a male page, disclosed that he was a homosexual, got his wrist slapped by the House, and then got re-elected! Why has Foley's indiscretion turned into Foley-gate?
The answer is because it's just the tip of the iceberg. Look at how the conservatives for years railed against the Democratic liberal establishment and all of its money, the lobbying establishment, the junkets, the payoffs. The conservatives campaigned against it in 1994, only to take over Washington and do exactly the same thing. This is what is known as rank hypocrisy.
Is it unfair that when conservatives do things liberals do, that they, the conservatives, are labeled as hypocrites? No.
According to that great conservative thinker Russell Kirk, the first tenet of conservatism is the preservation of the moral order. True conservatives don't look at government as a plaything by which they can impose their latest ideas on the country; they look at political power as a guardianship, what Chesterton called the democracy of the dead. In other words, we have a debt to those who have gone before us, and the primary debt is to preserve the moral and constitutional order that our forebears fought to defend.
So when a conservative has a much-publicized affair or is outed for improper sexual behavior with pages, or digs into the congressional budget pot to hand out earmarks to his own district, he is a hypocrite to be scorned.
My hope and prayer is that conservatives in America will do some serious, sober soul-searching. We need to get our own act together before we can preach to others, or before we deserve to hold power. And if we break trust, we are breaking trust with the very essence of who we are. Our own character is at stake.
You can talk all you want about the unpopularity of President Bush, or the Iraq war, or immigration. But what this campaign really boiled down to was, well, when it comes to conservatives, it's character, stupid. If conservatives don't learn that lesson, they will spend a long time in exile-and deservedly so.
well said...
Lord help us all...
How's Mark?
ok, there's definatly something wrong with me
I'm sick AGAIN!
this is plain ridiculous!!
a heart blog...on my blog...for you to read and leave tidbits of prayer, wisdom, or random comments
physically ill or spiritually ill or emo-ill???
physically Ill...
spiritually I wallow in mud, then realize what I'm doing and get out and clean myself off(well, ask Jesus to rather)
I"ve got sinusy nonsense...again
sore throat...lots of drainage...earaches...the whole sh'bang
So much for my "alergic to R2R" theory.....
Daddy God, Heal Your Favorite little child and make him whole.
Reveal Yourself to him in a powerful way....Thank you Jesus
I dunno whats wrong with me...
perhaps spiritual...
perhaps mold in my house...I dunno
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