Could it be that I would be part reptile due to the fact that whenever the sky is gray and the thermometer drops below 55 I become lethergic and listless and unmotivated? Or perhaps a better explanation for such a problem is that I am simply unmotivated?
Yep, that's probably it.
Or maybe I just need to spend a little quality VHS tape time with Cindy Crawford or Elle McPherson and if I put on leotards and Reebok princess athletic shoes I would naturally feel warmer on days like this?
When the upstairs is finished and the basement has some living space in it again, maybe I'll check the thrift store for that $3 exercise step I saw on Saturday and make a little fitness room for myself.
Stepping to Cindy Crawford in the dark, dampness of the basement is sure to boost my motivation.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
unqualified
It's quite obvious, among other lessons to be learned from such a situation, that family services and the legal system has way too many on staff and way too much money on their hands. In this story from New Ulm, 13-year old Daniel Hauser was diagnosed with cancer. When the family tried traditional chemotherapy to treat it and CHOSE to discontinue that and go with another treatment, the family doctor turned the Hauser family into Family Services.
A Brown County judge spent 58 pages on a ruling today that details why the family must be forced to go back to the chemotherapy to treat their son. The threat to remove the boy from his Catholic homeschooling family of 7 other siblings remains unless his family complies.
My argument is not about the best treatment for cancer, although I might wax eloquent in at least 58 pages on this topic of medicine and the failings of chemotherapy on just the people I am related to and are friends of mine.
Are there no children actually being neglected by parents under the influence of anything in excess or illegal in the New Ulm area?
How about any left alone for many hours without adult supervision on Friday and Saturday nights?
Perhaps even one of two might be going home from school Friday afternoon without hope of a meal until they go back to school Monday morning because their parents are engaged otherwise?
Surely there must be something else for these officials to devote their time to. Perhaps the money spent fighting a family trying to raise their kids in the best way they know how could be better spent making Saturday lunches for kids whose parents actually are absent. Although I am surely at the top of the list of folks not in favor of government handouts, surely there is some program some bright family services employee could conjur up to keep small kids off the streets when they should be in bed and while there parents are living the "good life" downtown.
Or... perhaps those problems are too numerous and too complicated and it's much easier to pick on a family where they could actually do some harm...I mean think they are doing something beneficial.
Silly as it might seem now, what if some well-meaning child services employee sees me feeding my kids grainy bread sandwiches and apples at the park some afternoon and feels they are being neglected and deprived because they should eat be eating white bread and twinkies? Will I be the next target? What if I don't run my kid to clog up the clinic everytime they have a sniffle or fever and chose instead let them rest in the comfort of home and give out a few extra vitamins? Will that be considered "medical neglect" as Colleen and Anthony Hauser are accused of?
Thankfully, God is still on His throne and He is still in charge. Oh but I shutter and tremble to think of the implications of the government superceding God-fearing honest parents' judgment. Their track record with nearly every other category is dismal at best. How are they qualified to make demands on how I raise my children?
A Brown County judge spent 58 pages on a ruling today that details why the family must be forced to go back to the chemotherapy to treat their son. The threat to remove the boy from his Catholic homeschooling family of 7 other siblings remains unless his family complies.
My argument is not about the best treatment for cancer, although I might wax eloquent in at least 58 pages on this topic of medicine and the failings of chemotherapy on just the people I am related to and are friends of mine.
Are there no children actually being neglected by parents under the influence of anything in excess or illegal in the New Ulm area?
How about any left alone for many hours without adult supervision on Friday and Saturday nights?
Perhaps even one of two might be going home from school Friday afternoon without hope of a meal until they go back to school Monday morning because their parents are engaged otherwise?
Surely there must be something else for these officials to devote their time to. Perhaps the money spent fighting a family trying to raise their kids in the best way they know how could be better spent making Saturday lunches for kids whose parents actually are absent. Although I am surely at the top of the list of folks not in favor of government handouts, surely there is some program some bright family services employee could conjur up to keep small kids off the streets when they should be in bed and while there parents are living the "good life" downtown.
Or... perhaps those problems are too numerous and too complicated and it's much easier to pick on a family where they could actually do some harm...I mean think they are doing something beneficial.
Silly as it might seem now, what if some well-meaning child services employee sees me feeding my kids grainy bread sandwiches and apples at the park some afternoon and feels they are being neglected and deprived because they should eat be eating white bread and twinkies? Will I be the next target? What if I don't run my kid to clog up the clinic everytime they have a sniffle or fever and chose instead let them rest in the comfort of home and give out a few extra vitamins? Will that be considered "medical neglect" as Colleen and Anthony Hauser are accused of?
Thankfully, God is still on His throne and He is still in charge. Oh but I shutter and tremble to think of the implications of the government superceding God-fearing honest parents' judgment. Their track record with nearly every other category is dismal at best. How are they qualified to make demands on how I raise my children?
Saturday, May 9, 2009
She's the one...
...who did the damage...
...caught in the act in broad daylight, while I was watching.If I had a quarter for everytime the kids checked the rhubarb this week and asked if they could pick it yet, I'd had enough to buy many strawberries for strawberry-rhubarb jam. Maybe we'll have to wait a little longer.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
don't be fooled
She can be good...but she can also be very bad.
In his excellent, convicting volume Devotions for Sacred Parenting, Gary L. Thomas quotes Charles Spurgeon on children, parenting and sin:
[The doctrine of the cross] will necessitate your teaching the child his need of a Savior. You must not hold back from this necessary task. Do not flatter the child with delusive rubbish about his nature being good and needing to be developed. Tell him he must be born again. Don't bolster him up with the notion of his own innocence, but show him his sin. Mention the childish sins to which he is prone, and pray the Holy Spirit to work conviction in his heart and conscience. Deal with the young in much the same way as you would with the old. Be thorough and honest with them. Flimsy religion is good for neither young nor old. These boys and girls need pardon through the precious blood as surely as any of us.
Nothing needs to be added to that. And I would say anyone who believes children are born good needs to try a two simple non-threatening experiments: put two 2-year or 3-year or 5-year olds together with one toy. Or three children and two pieces of candy.
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