Happy Anniversary!

One year ago today this little blog was born. After enjoying Support you Local Gunfighter and making a comment or two, I was encouraged and helped by Wyatt to start blogging myself. I started off with this little piece;

Hello and welcome to my blog

After being a reader of blogs for several years now, I have finally decided to dip my toes into the blogging waters. So with the help of my favorite gunfighter, Wyatt Earp, here I am. Therefore, to introduce myself, I am a forty-something mother of two. I am the mother of a preteen who is planning to be the next F Lee Bailey. I told him to pretend as if his sister was not there because he was picking on her, so he promptly sat on her. I said "What were you thinking" and he said, "She’s not there".

I am also blessed with a seven-year old who we refer to as the tornado because she leaves a mess wherever she goes and they are very often the damp kind. Besides being a busy mom, I have finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up and have returned to school in order to earn my teaching certificate. I hope that before the end of 2008 I will be a fully certified teacher and more importantly an employed teacher.

I am a conservative republican, which will make me an oddity as a teacher because most of them seem to be of the liberal persuasion. I will do my best to represent the conservative side. I am a Christian and not afraid to say so. I love chocolate almost more than my husband who I dearly love. I have been told I am somewhat sarcastic and that I have an odd sense of humor.

We moved to Arizona from Colorado in 2003 and we are very happy here. True, the summers can be brutal but I would rather be here then driving in the snow in Colorado. So now you have an idea of who I am and what you can expect from this blog are the posts about how school is going, life in the cafeteria, bits about the family, and interesting things going on in Arizona especially as they relate to education, illegal immigrants and why I think Mike Rowe is very hot.

And the following comments were made:

Wyatt Earp said...

See? That wasn't so hard. Welcome aboard!!!

January 4, 2008 9:34 PM

RT said...

Welcome to our twisted little blogosphere! :) Good luck!

January 5, 2008 12:47 AM

Assrot said...

Hello there young lady. Welcome to blogdom. Good luck and God Bless. You might as well get used to blogger messing up. It goes tits up about once a week for no reason. It usually comes back after a few hours. It's been doing that for years.

:-)
Joe

January 5, 2008 5:28 PM

fuzzys dad said...

Welcome to the World of Blogging.
I heard about you from SYLGF
Please visit my blog
http://www.musingsofavastright-winger.blogspot.com/
or my wife's blog
http://mysimplegifts.blogspot.com/

January 5, 2008 11:31 PM

The Conservative UAW Guy said...

Welcome!

Nice to see another conservative in academia...

January 7, 2008 11:15 AM

It took me a while to find my first posting and it was a fun trip down memory lane. I learned something very valuable at the same time. I have searched for my voice since I began this endeavor and throughout the search there have been several versions of this blog. I have tried a vocabulary word of the day, a punch line of the week, the person of the week, Wednesday’s poetry corner; I never knew that, the person of the week, the recipe of the week and so on. Some of them were more fun and interesting for me then others but the reason behind them all was to get my hit count up and garner comments. I have come to realize that when I was writing to get hits and not writing because I was interested in what I was writing I was not as into it as when I was writing from my heart about things I cared about. Rereading some of these pieces about my family, school, and what caught my eye in the world reminded me of how much I enjoyed writing. My goal is to get that spirit back and to write for the love of writing. Interestingly when I did that I actually had more comments then when I tried so hard to get comments. It should be easier to do that because when I redid by blog layout I lost my hit counter so I have no idea how many people are reading or checking in each day. I think I will keep it that way for awhile and just write because I love writing.

Thank you all for reading what I had to say and to those of you who commented, I really appreciate you. I hope you will keep reading and keep commenting and I promise I will keep writing.

Happy New Year!

Its brand new year full of possibilities, new template new quotes, new attitude!

Since I haven’t posted since last year I thought I should put some thing up today. Yeah ,that one won’t get old by the end of the day.

I hope everybody had a safe and happy new year’s celebration last night. I had a lovely evening with the people I love the most, my family. We had a nice dinner and played Monopoly on my son’s new play station 2. Thank you Dad we really appreciate the new station and the game. I like monopoly and playing it on the play station makes it even better. No dice to loose, no paper money to have to mess with and no little pieces to get lost or upset when the dice are thrown wildly. It was fun and I was smoking! I won big time.

We also watched the ball drop in New York at 11:00 ands then again at 12: oo. I was at first surprised to see Dick Clark and then I was really moved when he spoke. It is clear that he has made much progress after his stoke and it was so good to see his smiling face. Clearly his spirits are up and he was having a good time. He is treasure and it will be a very sad day when he is lost. I hope we will be able to enjoy him for many new years to come.

Today the tree comes down the house gets straitened up and we take our gift cards and we shop! I Love shopping. I hope each of you has a wonderful year this year and accomplish everything you want to.

Can’t we just get along?

Apparently not, Wyatt over at support your local gun fighter just posted an excellent piece about Michael Newdown. You might not remember him but he is the one who wants to remove all traces of Christianity from our daily lives because he doesn’t believe in god or a higher power.

I have never understood why my belief in God upsets those who don’t. It truly boggles my mind. How does my belief hurt them? I have a very dear friend who does not believe in dinosaurs. Nope, not at all. As far as she is concerned they weren’t mentioned in the bible, therefore they do not exist. The fact that their bones and foot prints have been found scatted just about all over the world is inconsequential. Does this bother me that I believe in dinosaurs and she does not? Do I spend my time trying to convince her that dinosaurs truly did exist? Does she spend all her waking hours trying to get dinosaurs removed from museums or children’s televisions shows? Ok I grant her that, I wish Barney would be removed as well. But that is not how we spend our days. Instead we talk about all the other things we have in common and dinosaurs never come up in conversation.

How does this relate to the atheists wanting all signs and mention of my faith removed because they don’t believe in it? They believe I am wrong to believe that I am putting my faith in something that does not and has never existed. That would make me a silly mistaken fool and someone to be both pitied and laughed at, how does that hurt them? It doesn’t, that was a trick question.

This next part is not for children, but I feel it is important. I don’t believe in Santa Claus, ok I said it. Am I offended by all the Santa displays this time if year? Not at all, I find them charming and I encourage my daughter’s belief in him because that is one of the things that make childhood magical.

I think they do protest too much. Let’s look at it logically. First, what if they are right and God does not exist. They have lost nothing and I have lost nothing because I will have lived a life that was morally driven and hopefully would have done some good with the time I had on earth. Now let’s assume that we are right and God is the creator of the universe. Then I have gained everything and they have lost everything. I think that scares them; the thought that what if they are wrong. What if the only thing they have to look forward to is the fiery pit? If that is the case then I would not want the constant reminders that I may be wrong staring me in the face every time I make a purchase, sit down to watch a ball game, listen to the president being sworn in, or any of the other numerous events when the name of our Lord is mentioned. After all, it would just make me feel bad. I think saying that we are forcing our religion down their thoughts is a smoke screen used to cover up their own fears that maybe, just maybe, there is something out there that is in control and we didn’t just show up by accident. They are in the minority with a majority of us having Christian beliefs. I have news for them though, they may not believe in God, but God believes in them and loves them.