Social Issues
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3 Ways You Can Positively Impact the Immigration Problem Right Now
Unless you live under a rock, you have probably heard of this issue known as immigration. Our country is at its wit’s end; yet another subject that seems to be causing more division among Americans. Even people from other countries are watching what we are doing here in the States, judging our every move and throwing in their two cents. Regardless of your stance on the issue, there is one thing that we can agree on…people feel helpless. We have elected officials to represent us in our government and they are the ones tasked with the responsibility of sitting down and discussing these issues and coming up with a resolution…
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Why I Don’t Regret Being A Stay At Home Mom
As a writer, I read a lot of various pieces written by people from all over the world. I recently read a piece entitled “9 Reasons Why I Regret Being a Stay-at-Home Mom” by Lisa Endlich Heffernan. While I can certainly appreciate the value in our freedom of speech as Americans, I am also a mom…of seven children. I am a military spouse as well, which means when my husband is gone for work the odds are 7:1 in our house. After our move this summer, we will have relocated our family 11 times. I home schooled our children for 8 years and then enrolled them in public school.…
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Are You A Dish Head?
Has anyone seen that commercial for Xfinity? You know, the one where the guy is flying over a “secluded civilization” of “disheads” who haven’t discovered Xfinity yet? Oh yeah, these poor suckers are trapped with their satellite service that only gives them about 250 channels as opposed to the people who have Xfinity who have like 50 million channels. There is a man in a plane flying above this civilization raining his pitty for these unfortunate souls because they are so stupid “they don’t even know what they’re missing.” But the narrator doesn’t lose hope. Nope, because one day these people will be saved when they find out about Xfinity and…
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I Am Indeed An Army Wife
If you are an Army Wife and you have a computer you know what this post is about. One thing I will not do is bash “Army Wife, Army Life” for her recent blog post. While I agree with not one single word of it, I as a seasoned Army Wife understand how our words and our actions directly impact our husbands and their careers. I will not negatively impact my husband’s career. She’s not worth it. One point I would like to make though is that when it comes to being an Army Wife, or better yet, a military spouse in general, we are all supposed to be on…
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The Wife of Noble Character
I have posted here many times about how crappy and unappreciated I feel some days. I mean let’s face it, being a mom isn’t always the most rewarding of jobs. Sure, there are days when we are showered with hugs and thank yous and hand drawn and colored pictures…but there are countless days too when we seem to be “Invisible Moms”. Today my eyes were open to a fact that, deep down inside I know I knew, but today it seemed to hit a little closer to home. It all started with Proverbs 31: 10-31. Now if you don’t have your Bible handy I’ll give you the Cliff’s Notes version.…
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What’s It Worth?
Appreciation. It’s a pretty simple concept, right? Someone does something nice for you and you say “thank you”. But true appreciation is more than just words…it’s action! To simply say the words “Thank you” is great, but to show that you are grateful and appreciative means so much more. How many times have you felt unappreciated? How many days have you felt like you were invisible; like if you dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow no one would notice until they needed money for something, clean clothes, or a hot meal? I feel like that every day. Every day of my life I think “Ya know what? The…
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Sometimes Things Are Not As They Appear
Take a look at the photo above. What do you see? Illusions surround us every day. Things in our lives may appear one way but be very much different when given a new perspective. I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently. So many times I catch myself essentially judging things before taking the opportunity to look at them from many different angles rather than just mine. Not something I’m proud of but we’ve all got something, right? How many times have we seen an overweight person and just assumed they were fat because they were lazy? How many times have we seen a homeless person begging on the street…
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Is This The Best We Can Offer?
I had the most horrible night tonight, and I’m posting this here because I really want your feedback. I’d truly like to know if my experience is simply an isolated case of ignorance or negligence or if this has become the status quo among medical facilities these days. My son Nathan, who is 6, had a terrible nose bleed. I couldn’t get it to stop and it was bad enough that I thought he needed to be seen by a doctor. Now keep in mind, I’m not one of those parents who runs her kids to the doctor for every sniffle and sneeze…he was really bleeding badly. I ran him…
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Books Are For Cavemen
The doctor’s office. A place where people wait…and wait…and wait some more right? So I’m there yesterday, filling out my paperwork and watching Robin Meade and Sanjay Gupta explain the dangers of high fructose corn syrup, when it occurs to me that no one else in the entire waiting room brought anything with them to do while they wait. I turn in my paperwork to the young, gum-chomping girl in scrubs behind the desk and I sit down (to wait of course) and prepare to dive into the latest Jodi Picoult novel when I stop for a moment and look around me. Over there, yeah…right there, is a young woman…
