President Scar...

Every time I hear Obama speak and look at what he has done to our country while in office I can't help but see in my mind Scar from the Lion King promising all the Hyena's as much food as they want.

It sounds so good!

Who doesn't want food you don't have to work for and the ability to be lazy and do whatever you feel like while someone else takes care of you?

We all deserve that, right?

The only problem is... that doesn't work.

Before long the food runs out and all you have are a bunch of fat hyena's (soon to be starving) complaining that nobody is taking care of them.

I know Obama tells people what they like to hear but he has shown us over the past four years that, just like Scar, he can't change the "circle of life".

It is what it is.

The "something for nothing" philosophy can never work and before long we will all be paying for it one way or another.  (and we already are)

There has to be wisdom and order and Barak Obama simply doesn't understand that, which means he does not understand how to run a country.

Clearly.



"I don't want to live in a country where everything is free but us." --Paul Ryan

Hey Shorty, It's Your Birthday!

My baby turns 6 today!

This year I went with a turtle theme because they have tortoises at Zaharis and you can buy baby tortoises for $40.  Morgan REALLY wanted one.

Dane got one.

But I said no.

I know, I'm mean.

But to show her I really love her lots we got her as many turtle things as we could.

I made her a turtle cake.

And decorated all festive like. 

She liked it.

A lot.

And she liked her new turtle friend "Fluffy".  I told her he's way easier to cuddle than a live tortoise. :)

Morgan is one of the funniest, spunkiest, most confident little girls I know.  She makes me smile every day.

The other day I was recounting stories of Olivia when she was a baby.  I had tons of them.

Morgan kept saying, "Tell one about me.  What did I do?"

I felt horrible because I could hardly think of anything.  Morgan was a baby at the hardest time in my life and my brain simply didn't store a lot of her baby-hood.  I do remember she was an amazingly good baby, she drooled a lot, she would never take a bottle (just mama), and she always made me smile.

There are plenty of things I remember about her now.  Like her uncanny ability to make up the perfect names for animals (Livy will even ask her to name things she gets because her names are always so cute).

She also makes up words and just incorporates them into her daily language.  We have to know how to speak Morgan around here.  For example, about 2 years ago, when she was either 3 or just barely 4 she told me she needed to go "Flickey".

"Flickey?  What's that?" I asked.

"That's when you have to go pee AND poop."  She had fully created the word, had a definition for it, and used it like we all knew it.  And she still uses it…well, we all use it now.

Just yesterday she created another word.  When I picked her up from gymnastics she exhaled all tired like and said,

"Whew. Well that was just piff!"

"Piff?" I asked again, "What's piff?"

"You know, when something's really hard or tiring."

Oh well of course, silly me.  Who hasn't had a day that was just piff?

She continues to be obsessed with animals.  She's gone from wanting to be an animal when she grows up to wanting to train them or own a pet store.  The latest thing she's told me she wants to do is teach animals how to swim…most especially "mouses".

She's smart, logical…very logical, straightforward, happy, and goofy.  Not many people really know Morgan because she doesn't open up for just anyone.  She's quite selective.  But once you're in her inner circle she is very loyal.

We sure love this girl and I feel very lucky to be her mom.

Lessons from Bambi...

The other day we watched Bambi.

It taught us some lessons.

Owen constantly complains about dinner.  He hates it, it's disgusting, he doesn't want to eat it.

After spewing these words out of his mouth Shane reminded him to just keep his mouth closed and channeled Thumper by saying,  "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Owen then realized that Bambi actually teaches us a lot of good lessons.  "Another lesson," he recounted, "is that we shouldn't shoot animals because look what happens."  We all solemnly nodded our heads thinking about poor Bambi's mother.

And then, perhaps another lesson I hadn't really thought of before, Owen said, "And it also helps us to see how Abraham Lincoln must have felt."

Mmmmmm-kay.  I hadn't really thought of comparing the shooting of animals to the shooting of presidents before, but I can see a connection here I guess.  Good point.  May we all refrain from shooting animals AND presidents because "Look what happens."

Bambi is so much deeper than I had ever realized.