33 posts from 2008

I don't think my children will sleep tonight.  Kgirl didn't sleep at nap time.  They are so amped up, they are going to be delirious soon.

I don't know that I will sleep tonight...I have the constant list in my head searching for what I have forgotten. 

Alas, I'm sure to leave something...as long as it's not my ID or the tickets, we should be okay though.

So...stayed tune for photos when we get back. 

What can I say, I liked the challenge

ONE WORD ONLY!

Not as easy as you might think. Now copy and post this, change the answers to yours and pass it on. It’s really hard to only use one word answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? somewhere

2. Your significant other? hubby

3. Your hair? long

4. Your mother? busy

5. Your father? santa

6. Your favorite thing? naps

7. Your dream last night? past

8. Your favorite drink? tea

9. Your dream/goal? master's

10. The room you’re in? breezy

11. Your ex? who?

12. Your fear? defeat

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? parttime

14. Where were you last night? home

15. What you’re not? bored

16. Muffins? tops

17. One of your wish list items? car

18. Where you grew up? santa ana

19. The last thing you did? dryer

20. What are you wearing? cords

21. Your TV? dying

22. Your pets? none

23. Your computer? dead

24. Your life? full

25. Your mood? neutral

26. Missing someone? friend

27. Your car? hideous

28. Something you’re not wearing? earrings

29. Favorite store? target

30. Your summer? comfy

31. Like(love) someone? hubby

32. Your favorite color? red

33. Last time you laughed? today

34. Last time you cried? yesterday

35. Who will re-post this? hmmm

Okay, so in regards to the last post.  I really feel like in this day and age that it is high time one reads again the declaration made by our founding fathers...not just the part about man being created equal, but the entire thing.  I thought maybe by posting it someone would take the time to read it.

Don't get me wrong, I miss the days of holding sparklers and lighting picolo pete's and snakes.  I love a good BBQ like the next person.  Nothing like a good firework finale.  But sometimes it's good to remember why all the block parties, what all the hulabaloo is about.

I am thankful that I live here...regardless of which party is controlling the oval office or the senate.  I am thankful that I can worship where and as I please.  That I can pray in public.  That I can come and go as I please.  That I am free.

Sometimes I worry about that freedom continuing in America...but that worry is short lived.  Because thankfully, I'm free for two reasons...one can be taken away and one can not be removed.  My freedom is  from being an American, but even more so, I am free in Christ.  It is because of Him that I am truly eternally free, and for that, I am eternally grateful.

I wonder what the fireworks will be like in heaven.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776.
THE UNANIMOUS
DECLARATION
OF THE
THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that Governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyranny only.

HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean Time, exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.

HE has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our Legislatures.

HE has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

HE has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies:

FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection, and waging War against us.

HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with Circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

HE has constrained our Fellow-Citizens, taken Captive on the high Seas, to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes, and Conditions.

IN every Stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every Act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them, from Time to Time, of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our Connexions and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the Rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connexion between them and the State of Great-Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of Right do. And for the Support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour.

John Hancock.
GEORGIA, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton.
NORTH-CAROLINA, Wm. Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn.
SOUTH-CAROLINA, Edward Rutledge, Thos Heyward, junr. Thomas Lynch, junr. Arthur Middleton.
MARYLAND, Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Thos. Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
VIRGINIA, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Ths. Jefferson, Benja. Harrison, Thos. Nelson, jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
PENNSYLVANIA, Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo. Ross.
DELAWARE, Caesar Rodney, Geo. Read.
NEW-YORK, Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frank Lewis, Lewis Morris.
NEW-JERSEY, Richd. Stockton, Jno. Witherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra. Clark.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Thornton.
MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, Saml. Adams, John Adams, Robt. Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry.
RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE, &c. Step. Hopkins, William Ellery.
CONNECTICUT, Roger Sherman, Saml. Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Wolcott.

IN CONGRESS, JANUARY 18, 1777.

ORDERED,
THAT an authenticated Copy of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCY, with the Names of the MEMBERS of CONGRESS, subscribing the same, be sent to each of the UNITED STATES, and that they be desired to have the same put on RECORD.
By Order of CONGRESS,
JOHN HANCOCK, President

Just an update for you prayer warriers out there who started praying when I posted the Psalm 46:10 post:

All 3 patients I mentioned are doing better--not 100%, but better.  The one in the hospital has a light at the end of the tunnel to go home soon.  The doctors are still working on pushing the cancer into remission, but at least she'll be able to heal in the comfort of her home.  The woman with the stroke is out of rehab and returning to see me next week.  The other one who experienced trauma, well, she's returned to work part time. 

Jehovah Rapha--God who heals.  Sometimes God just wipes us clean, giving us a clean bill of health miraculously.  But, God doesn't always heal in one breath, sometimes he works slowly.  Sometimes, the healing is when we stand whole again in front of his throne in heaven.  Anyway you look at it, God holds us in His hands and is the Healer. He heals our hearts, minds and souls...thankfully.

Okay, I know some people would disagree with me, but I've just got to say it. There is a HUGE difference between boys and girls.  There is no getting around it.  I'll agree they have equally painful toys when walking through the house in the middle of the night.  They are both capable of serious whining and temper tantrums.  But they simply play differently.

I have two little girls (Kgirl and Stel) sitting in my living room wearing tutus, princess dresses, crowns, and holding purses.  I'm a little disappointed that my husband has the camera since he went camping with the Jboy.  I used my phone, but it's just not the same.

If life gets stressful, have a little dress up time and pretend to be a princess....it really helps reset one's mindset.

Yep, that's what I said.  Do peacocks have a season, or is it just whenever?

We discovered a quaint little hiking/walking very close to home.  Evidently, Leo Carillo (Pancho in the Cisco Kid --TV series) lived in San Diego, and had a ranch complete with vaqueros in the 1930s.  It's now a historical site and in process of renovation.

We went for Father's Day to check it out, and got there minutes before closing time.  We discovered it also appears to be a peacock farm.  There were about 20 peacocks on the grounds (peacocks and peahens)....and a few were, well, ahem, desiring a little, ahem, action.  We got quite the display of cat calls, splayed feathers and birds shivering with excitement.  Who knew?

The barn on the ranch is scheduled for renovation, and they are going to turn it into a small theater.  My guess is they'll show his movies in it.  Currently however, its the perfect home to a rather striking owl living in the rafters.

On another note, my hubby thoroughly enjoyed his father's day gift...the items required to make a stamp for letterboxing (thanks for the intro from my SIL).  It'll keep him and the kids busy all summer.  I'm hoping that he finishes both stamps--maybe we'll set one in Washington when we go visit the family.

Happy Father's Day to my dad, brother, brother-in-law...and all the other dads I know out there. 

We went to Ruby's tonight (after a full day of work, SH coming by, toilet repair with Sgirls visit)...we had to celebrate after all.  IT IS SUMMER!  Kindergarten has been completed.  Jboy got only high marks, Ms. Revell said he was her shining star.  Evidently one of the girls started crying about leaving kindergarten, and thus the teach started crying....and it went from there.

So now we have it.  There is a first grader in my house.  Whatever shall I do?

I can't wait to hear THE words....you can hear them too, can't you?

"Mommy, I'm BORED (whine, whine)"

Oh, and on another note, I've regained control of my house.  Yes it's clean (and yes, people are coming to visit on Friday).  So I asked the children what they thought I would do if I came home and it was messy again.

Kgirl immediately responded..."clean it?"

Oh well, what can I say?

Okay, so it's time for hubby to start his own blog.  I'm being emailed suggested links.

So for all of you who have difficulty getting songs out of your head, there's help available:

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-get-a-song-out-of-my-head.html

The sun-seeking know to avoid southern California beaches in the late spring. A period known to the locals as May Gray and/or June Gloom often darkens the coastal skies of sunny southern California with a layer of marine stratus. During this time, the coastal clouds may remain all day but often give way to some hazy afternoon sunshine. The number of days during this two month period that are gloomy vary from year to year. (Quote from some googled web site)

Sadly it is San Diegans that know June Gloom, and not out of state visitors.  I feel bad for all the beach seekers who will have grayness for the month of June.

May 30 and May 31st were beautiful sunny perfect temperature beach days in San Diego.  On Sunday when I woke for church....it was overcast and gray until noon.  It arrived right on schedule.  But since I work from 6-230, what do I care?  It's sunny when I get off work! :D