My sweet baboo

Today is my youngest son's 36th birthday. How can he be so old when I am so young?!! He is my "not normal" son (conservative vs his mother, "the crazy liberal"). He challenges me, makes me think and makes me laugh.

Happy Birthday, sweet boy!

GM and bankruptcy

I posted this erroneously on my quilting blog. Sorry if any of you read me in both places. Suzan

Know what? Sometimes bankruptcy is the only option. The government gave them big money and that didn't work. How much more do we need to throw at them? Chapter 11 would force them to re-structure and new union contracts could be written. I can only hope the Obama administration hangs tough.

Constitution

I think it interesting that the Republican Party has now decided to support the Constitution...considering how it was trampled on during the Bush administration. I also think it interesting that conservatives have no problem supporting the portions of the Constitution that they like and blatantly ignore the ones they don't.

Wind

When I was a child, we lived for a time in Kansas. I have had a fear of high winds since that time. Certainly not comparing the winds we are experiencing here to tornado winds, I am more than a little freaked out this morning. It is dark outside and it is very windy. The house is moving with the wind and I don't like that.

I don't like it one bit.

And it begins...

This is on the front page of the Huffington Post this morning


Can you feel it? A new beginning for our country. I feel such a sense of patriotism and energy and excitement. I know the tasks ahead are daunting but the possibilities and dreams for the future color my world for the moment. And I am thankful!!

Anyone going to the Inaugural?

I would love to go but I think it is going to be totally crazy in DC and I will see much more by watching on TV. I am taking off on the 20th to spend the ENTIRE day in front of the television. My parent's will arrive about 10am for breakfast and mimosas. This will certainly be a party day for us!

(I was seriously thinking about putting bunting up on the front porch. Too much?)

Thanksgiving - January 1, 2009

I greet this very cold morning with thanksgivings. I am thankful for shelter, warm clothing and food in my kitchen. I am thankful for employment, friends and a family that supports and loves me. I am thankful that I discovered a creative outlet that both entertains me and feeds my soul.

I hope you have much to be thankful for as we begin this New Year.