Really people!!!

I just don't know what to think anymore.  What is wrong with people?  They are trying to say that school food is making our youngsters overweight.  Really people! I mean, come on! It is ONE (two for some) meal of the day.  For some, that is the only meal they get.  It is the same food that they served when we were little.  Did they ever think that kids now are just LAZY and they have parents that use video games to babysit, because God forbid they have to go outside and play with them or watch them?  That would mean that they have to get up and move as well.  So they blame the school lunches for overweight kids, but want to remove recess.  How much sense does that make, really?  It is ridiculous and it sickens me all the "educated" people that buy into this crap.  The problem is, all the "higher education" in the world can't buy you common sense, and that's all this is. One skimpy school lunch is not going to be the cause of kids to become overweight.  If that were the case, they would come back all slim and trim after summer break.  Kids need parents that care enough to play ball with them outside, take them to the park, go for walks.  Get off the couch!  Turn off the video games!  Don't take away PE and leave the school food alone.  It was good enough for us to eat.  And most of all, STOP with the blame game!

Oh yes, and who gives a crap if Paula Deen ate a stupid hamburger.  She is the one with diabetes.  She is not force feeding anyone the burger or the food that she cooks.  Get a grip people.  If you don't like her food or her, don't watch her show or buy her cookbooks.  She has never said that she cooks healthy food.  She has never said for anyone to sit down and eat the whole Ooey Gooey cake that she makes.  Common sense people, common sense!  No amount of money can buy it and I find that very unfortunate, because there seems to  be more and more people lacking it.

As for me, I grew up on school lunch and good ol' southern "Paula Deen" style food, and feel blessed beyond measure to have done so! (And no, I wasn't overweight then, nor am I now) 

My husband....

Let me just tell you a little about my husband.......The man of my dreams........My hero.......My knight in shining armor.  He is my best friend, my boyfriend, my earthly rock.  He is the best daddy that I have ever seen and he has the biggest heart of anyone I know.  God has given him such a giving and serving heart.  I love him with all that I am.  God has definitely blessed me beyond measure by allowing me to share my life and children with this man.

Now, with that being said, his biggest dread is to end up being mentioned in a bad light on my blog.  It's kind of a joke between us.  And you may ask, if he is such a great person, how would he end up on the blog in a negative light?  Well, he is a man.  He procrastinates like nobody's business.  I have never seen anything like it.  That is probably our biggest argument.  It irritates the fire out of me. 

That is what my blog was going to be about today, BUT he has gone and done something out of the ordinary.  He tried to play match-maker.  Not a good idea for a guy to do, especially my husband.  He is probably the most non-nosy man I know.  Which means he doesn't know enough about the said parties to set them up.  He knows the girl is very attractive and sophisticated-country and he knows the guy is, well, a guy and country.  To him, that was a match.  WHAT!?  NO!  He even asked me about it before and I said, "Absolutely not!"  You see, I know this girl.  She is my younger "twin."  Younger by about 13 years.  We call her my twin because she and I are so much alike.  I know her.  I knew that this guy was not her type.  Not even close. It made for a awkward little moment via good ol' Facebook. Thank goodness it was only Facebook and she could hit the "Ignore" button.  I think I would have had to beat him if he had gone behind my back to set up a person to person meeting. 

So the moral of the story is, my husband needs to get busy taking care of his own business, because he isn't nosy enough to be dealing in other peoples'.  And to all of you out there, if my husband tells you, "Don't tell my wife," it's because he is up to something that I have already told him he has no business messin' with. (Or he is planning for a gift or surprise party for me.  He is actually good at those!)

ps. I love you, Honey!

And the opinions start flying.....

I think it is so sad that we live in a society full of people who play the blame game.  It seems that so many people find it so easy to blame others for their own circumstances.  What is even worse, they have other people jump on the band wagon to support their blame of others.  PEOPLE....Wake up!  I definitely realize that there are some circumstances that cannot be helped and may cause distress, I get that.  For instance, the closing of a factory or someone smashing into your car, I understand putting the blame on someone else. This is not what I am talking about.  

Some of the things that I am talking about are blaming your parents for you growing up to be a druggie or an alcoholic or an abusive person.  You GROW UP and you know right from wrong.  I'm not saying that growing up and having a horrible childhood doesn't cause issues in your adult life.  It does.  I know that.  You know that within yourself you have these issues.  Go and get some help.  I also realize that not everyone has the means to get professional help, but find someone to talk to.  If you know that the decisions you are making are going to be detrimental, do something to change it.  Instead we hear, "My dad drank and beat my mom so that's the only behavior that I know."  Really!?!  Come on, you know that's wrong!  Make the decision not to do that.    What about the girls (white, black, hispanic, etc) sitting on welfare popping out six kids from four different guys, blaming the guys for being dead-beats. Really?  You're the one who slept with him knowing he had four other kids he didn't take care of.  Where does that blame really need to go?  We all know the list goes on and on and on and on.

 I do make one exception......Veterans.  I think it is our responsibility to help care for them when they can't take care of themselves.  Many of them have the problems that they do because of what they have endured protecting us and our freedoms.  

All of that to say, I do believe in helping people, providing a hand up, not a hand-out.  I have needed a hand up, as I know many others have as well.  I just don't feel that we should make a life out of living off of hand-outs and blaming others for our misfortunes and mistakes. 

Funny how that is what this blog turned into.  I intended on it being about something else.  I guess I will save that for another day.

Here goes nothin'

Alright, so I am giving in and doing my own blog.  I have been told it is a great thing to do, so here goes.  I will start off by saying that I am usually not a mushy, gushy person.  I LOVE my family and I LOVE the Lord and I do tend to get mushy about them, but that's about it.  I am very opinionated about a few things, okay, a LOT of things.  I tend to spew those opinions when I probably don't need to.  I am hoping that this blog will give me that freedom to write down my opinions, thoughts, feelings, goals, etc......  If you don't like them, I understand.  Sometimes I have a very different point of view than a lot of people.

So a little about myself.......I am the mom of three kids, one boy, two girls.  I am a wife and I am a princess, the daughter of the King of Kings.  

I did not have the perfect childhood, far from it.  I became a teenage mom at 16, not something that I would recommend.  Many craptastic things happened, but I would NOT change a thing.  These things molded me into who I am today, and quite frankly, I like who I am.  (Which is a huge change from how I felt years ago)

And that is the beginning of me blogging.  This might just be a little fun.  Here goes nothin'................