Gratitude

Tonight I am so grateful for family and friends.  

We feasted this week-end in personal milestones and miracles for those near and dear to us.  

I have witness the right of passage of a favorite teenager to adulthood and celebrated in medieval style. 

I have enjoyed the beauty of a Utah spring day with great lacrosse games to enjoy. 

I have watched spiritual milestones from those dearest to me. (The sweetest of all type of experiences.)

I have basked in the joy of a new temple--

and than capped the week-end off with a dear friend coming over and visiting about everything.  You know the type of friend that just gets you--no explanations necessary.  I don't remember a time in my life that I have been happier or felt more blest.  

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Friends,

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Enjoy!

Small Epiphany

Fifteen year old son to me this evening:

"Mom, I have a new science teacher; Miss Shaw, she is insane."  

"j---, you have too many teacher's this year that you call insane.  Statistically I can't believe you."  I replied. 

"No seriously mom, something's not right with her. Socially something is wrong." he exclaimed. 

"How many of your other teachers do you consider insane?" I asked.

Well, Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Holiday, Miss Shaw . . . Hey those are all my woman teachers.  Do you think I am sexist?!"

" . . . I think you may not like women telling you what to do."

"Ooooohhhh My! Married life is going to be rough!"

Faith is Under Attack Do We have Freedom of Religion or Freedom FROM Religion

If you click on the title of this post it will take you to an article about a NC Judge ordering 3 home-schooled children to the public school.  I find it horrifying that judges think they can take children that are achieving more than their public school peers and decide the parent is incapable of homeschooling.  

It seems every day we are losing our fundamental principles.  I was shocked when visiting China how the rhetoric of their country sounds so like ours.  This was never more apparent than in our discussions about religion.  In China the people "our free from religion"  in other words the people are "free" from ever having to hear about other's religion.  As I listened about their many freedoms I shuddered that the same rhetoric is having affect here in the good USA.  We need to beware of the new "freedoms" being forced upon us: freedom from failing, freedom from debt, freedom from medical expenses.  These freedoms are shackles. 

When did we lose the right to educate our children the way we deem best?  How can a judge take a mother's right away from her merely because she is teaching a Christian curriculum.  Our we to be "Free from religion" even in our own homes?  

Carpet Update

I thought you might want to know the final chapter to my carpet woes.  After waiting a few days for the new yellow spots all over my beige carpet to fade, I realized that I was going to have to take matter into my own hands.  

I got  the Bissell out again and this time I filled the water chamber with bleach and hot water.  I realized it was risky, but I couldn't live in a house that looked like a bunch of camels hung out (even though a friend said I could redecorate with palm trees and such). So I ran the Bissell quickly over all of the yellowed areas.  

Whah lah!! Stains gone. I then kept going over the entire carpet with the bleech water so the carpet would match evenly. I have to say they turned out great. I have my old carpet back (you know the carptet I thought I hated).  I love it today.  I don't even mind the faint green outline where the oil paint had been two weeks ago.  It is a miracle.