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September

Around here, September means birthdays. Not only do Caleb and Seth both have birthdays (Caleb turned 12 and Seth turned 6), but also 4 of our closest friends and also Poppie all have September birthdays. Needless to say, we've done a lot of celebrating this month.
When we discovered that the Gatlinburg Aquarium gives free tickets during the month of your birthday, we jumped on that. The boys decided that instead of a party, they'd rather the whole family take a little trip, and we had so much fun.
Here are a few pictures from this month:

Do you think Seth is excited? This bike was from Gran and Poppie

Audrey's dilema....

The Men (my daddy with Jason and my brothers-in-law)

Maggie is always happy

My sisters and Nana surprised the boys with birthday cakes during our monthly family fellowship (my sister Keri made that cool edible gun)

...and this cool edible frog

It's been a busy month, but a fun one. I'm so thankful to the Lord for my boys, and it's such a joy to watch them grow into little men.

The Suitable Helper

I enjoyed an article by Ruth Hunt called "The Suitable Helper" . She is the wife of Dave Hunt of The Berean Call. The article lists 10 ways that a wife can be a suitable helper to her husband. When you have time, the whole article is full of nuggets of wisdom, but I especially wanted to share parts 9 and 10:

Nine: A gracious wife accepts his love, however offered. Husbands are not all poets and romantics. They may work hard, be loyal, faithful, helpful, but have a problem saying the words she longs to hear. Love can be unspoken and just as real. Accept it.

Ten: Most important of all, the wise woman attends to her inner beauty because "Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who feareth the Lord will be praised," Proverbs 31:30 tells us. Those many virtues listed throughout chapter 31 add up to a zero if her relationship with the Lord is not the priority. So--number ten is really number one.

Pro-Choice

What a great bumper sticker!

It's not even 9:00!

It starts early.....

Oh well, so much for the big kids' science experiments.

"WHERE'S THE BABY?!"

That seems to be the question most asked around here! She could be....

playing piano

or taking inventory in the pantry

(obviously she's been here...)

or trying on Daddy's work boots

or checking out Mommy's billfold

or sitting on KK's bunkbed

or trying on KK's hats

The truth is, if you blink, there's no telling where that girl might be!

The Real Trouble

The article below, written by genius Tom DeWeese and published by Campaign for Liberty, is a very important article. I know a lot of people who "don't like" Barack Hussein Obama; I don't either. But not liking somebody is a personal issue and says as much about the person who "doesn't like" as it does about the person who receives the dislike. This issue runs much deeper than simply disliking someone because he is foreign and different, or because he's on the other side of the aisle on ALL moral issues. It is much more serious than most people have ever dared to imagine. Obama is part of a long-planned evolving revolution to change the United States from a capitalist nation to a communist nation. You should be very afraid, and you should be outraged. This article is a great way to begin educating yourself on just what is happening to America; not just nationally but locally as well!

The Trouble With "Sustainable Development"

Brannon Howse and Glenn Beck have been bringing these issues into the light for several months now (I listen to Brannon's broadcast daily free on iTunes.), and of course Ron Paul has been warning Americans for years on these issues.

We can't defeat our enemy is we don't even recognize him!

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Lest we forget...

Muslims did this.

It Ain't No Mo'!

Well, we're here. The inmates are running the asylum. Not only are they in charge, but they have badges to prove it! Welcome to the U.S.S.A.

While I do totally believe that Officer Cheeks is a complete disgrace to his badge and oath of office, um...he may have a point. In the old U.S.A., it was considered free speech to boo a sitting President:

Now, in the new Amerika, when a so-called "heckler" calls out the Commandant in public, it draws cries of censure!

I keep hearing all these remarks like, "Well, that wasn't the time or the place..." Two things need to be pointed out: First of all, President Bush was booed only for having a disagreeable position , and it was DURING HIS CONSTITUTIONALLY APPROPRIATED annual State of the Union Address; whereas, Congressman Wilson was setting the record straight for Americans (since this would be their only chance to hear it on ABC, NBC, or CBS, MSNBC, or CNN) during what could easily be considered an abuse of power by the President in calling an emergency joint session of Congress for no other reason than to promote his own personal politics. I'm sure all the democrats were glad to get back to Congress and away from the town hall meetings, but no doubt Congressman Wilson had other things he'd rather be doing. I applaud his courage!

Our beloved country might be changing, but there are enough red, white, and blue Americans who will not "go gently into that good night".

(this one is so great!)

LMO Newsletter

Click on the link and you can view or download the latest newsletter from Life Matters Outreach, the crisis pregnancy center that I direct.

3rdQtr09NewsletterPDF.pdf

I pledge.......

..to boycott Hollywood. To never buy another movie theater ticket again, and to have my cable disconnected. (Oh yeah, I've already done all that!)

So, I pledge to never take advice from a celebrity whose only qualification is that he/she happened to be in the right place at the right time, is possibly attractive by the world's lust-filled standards, and is willing to disrobe and use profanity in front of an audience.



And might I just make a teensie, weensie little minor point? If they'd quit showing videos and start reading history in public school, perhaps that cute little Ashton fellow would have learned that the people don't serve the government (that's called serfdom)...the GOVERNMENT SERVES THE PEOPLE! (that's called a Constitutional Republic, dude!)

The First Papa

Today, millions of well-meaning but misguided Christians will dress their little children up for school and send them off to get all starry-eyed by their great Commander in Chief. (Now, just for the record, OBAMA AIN'T COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CHILDREN, OR FOR THAT MATTER THE CITIZENS! I'm so sick of hearing ignorant people spew out that excuse for allowing him to indoctrinate our school children! Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of that old-timey paper we used to live by states that our elected President is Commander in Chief of the armed forces! Duh!).

Now, it's no secret that I don't like Obama. But let's just get this straight. I would be outraged if this were Ronald Reagan or even George Washington himself! (Of course that would NEVER happen, as our first president had a much narrower and humbler view of the president's role.) Children are sacred ground when it comes to politics. Leave them out of it. And EVEN THOUGH Obama's speech will not be about political issues (at least NOW it won't, after all the controversy), the point is that he wants their hearts. HE MUST HAVE THEIR HEARTS. He doesn't love them; he needs them.

By allowing him access to our kids, there will be much more said and taught to them other than the content of his speech. (Please read "My Little Comrades" at the American Thinker website!) They will inadvertantly be taught to pledge allegiance, not to our flag and country, but to a man. To his worldview. To his ideals. To his agenda.

PEOPLE, WAKE UP! And don't give me that poppycock about "respecting the office" and that the Bible says to pray for our leaders. Yep. That means that I'm not going to take a gun and shoot him. And believe me when I say I HAVE prayed for him...that the Lord would have mercy on our country and let him fail in his radical agenda. Said and done. But the Bible also says that we ought to obey God rather than man, and to imply that Christians should submit their children to the direct influence of a baby-killing, sodomite-loving, Bible-mocking, truth-despising usurper just shows the desperate dumbing down of today's impotent church.

The sad truth is, that it is kind of hypocritical for parents to get all huffy and puffy about this particular day and Obama's speech, when the truth is that they allow their children to be re-educated with Marxist propaganda every day that they load them up on that big yellow bus.

Read "Great Leader Obama Coming to a School Near You".

I do quite realize that there are hard-working school teachers that will be greatly offended by what I just said, but I stand by my words 100%. It doesn't matter how sweet one teacher is, the whole system is corrupt. The textbooks are corrupt. Phonics has been replaced by post-modernistic "whole language". Economics is shallow and misleading. History is revised and re-written and selectively presented. Science is full of lies and heresy. Math and Language are overshadowed by ridiculous subjects being taught in high school now like "Psychology" and "Sociology". The goal of well-rounded learning has been replaced by nationalized test-taking and aptitude tests, both to rake in federal money and to raise good little proletarian robots for the service of the state. Teachers, themselves, have their hands tied by that great, corrupt, political machine called the N.E.A.

Yeah, I'm mad. And I know a lot of other people are too, but not enough people! It's one thing to live under tyranny. But to despise the miracle of freedom that God granted the United States of America, and to carelessly toss it aside....it's just INEXCUSABLE! It reminds me of I Samuel, when the people demanded a king for Israel. Even though God had warned them that a king would demand their sons and their daughters and their fields and their possessions (I Samuel 8:11-18), they ignorantly said, "...Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles" (I Sam. 8:19, 20) The Lord told a broken-hearted Samuel to give them what they asked for because "they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me" (I Sam. 8:7)

And so it is with America. The light will go out. All the nations that have admired us and dreamed of coming to our nation for so long....will now have nothing to look forward to. We will be like them.

Even so, come Lord Jesus!

:-)

The Fellas

The York Boys and the Stringer Boys on the Dove Field

all tuckered out!

Reason No. 6,738 to Homeschool

This article thoroughly explains the revolution that is taking place in America right now. IF I had a child in government school, I'd try not to yank his arm off as I jerked him out of that atheist re-education camp so fast it would make his head spin!

Obama's Worldview Propaganda Machine by Brannon Howse

Indulge me....

I know this is a picture of the back of my baby's head...but indulge me just a moment. I've never had a curly headed little one! It's just so precious I had to share it!

Swine Flu

We are fast becoming a police state, and this swine flu vaccine hype is just one example of it. This is really scary. Take a moment to read this article from World Net Daily, and watch the short clip embedded in the article. The article exposes all the military style provisions being put into place to force vaccinations and quarantines, and the video tells how the medical elite will not even be partaking of the vaccine they will force on others, because they know it isn't safe.

Cops jump on swine-flu power: Shots heard 'round the world'

Remember, tyrants love a crisis; in fact, they must have crises so they can come in and save the day and restore order......at the expense of YOUR FREEDOM! They invent crises just for this purpose.

Do you think I'm taking a souped-up concoction that hasn't been thoroughly tested, that's been hastily ordered up by environmental wacko czars who believe in population control and forced sterilization, and a "president" who believes the best way to cut health care costs is to eliminate the patients? COUNT ME OUT!

If you really want to educate yourself and filter through all the hype, this video below provides a wonderfully balanced view from medical professionals. It's worth your time!


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And don't forget that God gave YOU sense enough to take your own precautions and draw your own conclusions based on your own research and study. As for me and my family, we try to maintain a healthy lifestyle and diet that would prepare our bodies to endure the flu and other communicable diseases. Here are some of my best suggestions: (I'm not going to list all the WHYs, just do your own research if you're not sure! Your brain is the same size as your doctor's!)

1. We all take probiotics and vitamin c daily.
2. We never walk in the door from any trip that we don't all immediately go and wash our hands with soap (NOT antibacterial!)
3. No soft drinks, or high fructose corn syrup as much as we can avoid it.
4. Sunshine! Not only does it kill germs, it is the best source of immune-boosting vitamin D.
5. Avoid doctor's offices and hospitals as much as possible. There's no better place to catch swine flu.

And I've just stocked up my winter medicine cabinet with the following: grapefruit seed extract (pills and liquid concentrate), zinc, extra vitamin c including emergen-c packets, garlic capsules and fresh cloves, colloidal silver, and eucalyptus oil.

I'm so thankful for doctors. Truly, I am. But clearly, thanks to government intervention (medicaid, medicare, peachcare, etc., etc.) and insurance corruption, it is easy to get lost in the beaurocracy of unnecessary tests and procedures and prescriptions...and end up worse off than when you arrived! Taking charge of your own health is the smart, and healthy, and fiscally responsible thing to do in these troubled times.

Mama's Little Helper??

Omazing Grace

If I were a betting woman, I'd bet this brother voted for Obama. Just saying.




Moral of the Story: Never let a crackhead sing at your funeral.