So I...
BBBBLLLLEEEHHHHHH
Have an announcment,
Hang on, I think I'm gonna...
BBBBLLLLEEEHHHHHH
We're...
BBBBLLLLEEEHHHHHH
expecting another baby!
(attempting smile and...BBBBLLLLEEEHHHHHH)
I'm 9 weeks on Monday and until this past week I felt pretty good.
But this is what pregnancy sounds like, feels like, taste like, and we wont even go into what it smells like! BBBBLLLLEEEHHHHH!
:)
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Nobody
It's the nobodies in this world that make life worthwhile. The silent heroes that go about their common lives, in their common ways, harboring extraordinary skills and talents that are belittled and overlooked because they are "common," it is these heroes that bring about all the greatness we have to see in our world.
It is because they are common, because they are nobodies, because they really are just like us, that their triumphs move us so completely and allow us to participate in the joy of their success. They wouldn't be nobodies, nor would they be heroes, if they were aspiring to the triumphs they obtain.
God Bless the Nobodies, they're what keep the rest of us going.
It is because they are common, because they are nobodies, because they really are just like us, that their triumphs move us so completely and allow us to participate in the joy of their success. They wouldn't be nobodies, nor would they be heroes, if they were aspiring to the triumphs they obtain.
God Bless the Nobodies, they're what keep the rest of us going.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Passion for Patriotism
Freedom. Liberty. The opportunity to choose. The RIGHT to choose.
My liberties and freedoms are something I think about multiple times each week. The privileges I enjoy simply by living in the United States of America, are blessings I reflect on and contemplate often. I'm daily reminded of the blessing that it is to call myself an American.
When I think of America, I think of the ability to choose. I think of myself as a 22 year old WOMAN and the opportunities that I have. I have voted in 2 presidential elections and a number of local and state elections. I have the power and opportunity to influence change and legislation by writing my Congressman and voting. Simply the fact that I'm a woman and I CAN VOTE is significant in this world. I CAN VOTE, so I DO. I think of my opportunity to obtain a secondary education, a college education, and the encouragement I receive to continually educate myself. I think of the CHOICE I made to stay home with my children. I think of the opportunity to choose who I worship and how I worship. I think of my right to inform my self and develope opinions and SHARE opinions. I'm grateful to live in a country where individual thought and purpose is encouraged and promoted. It allows us to thrive, progress, and develop talents and abilities, that are stifled and strangled by many governments around the world.
When I think of America, I think of the cost to give me the above pleasures. I think of some 200,000 farmers and shopkeepers armed with muskets, who took on the TOP MILITARY in the WORLD. AND THEY WON! By the grace and guidance of God the Father those barefooted poor soldiers with inadeqaute food, clothing, lodgings, military leadership (they had leadership, and it was pretty good, but inexperienced ESPECIALLY by comparison, their just wasn't enough expertise to go around) won our freedom at the tip of the sword and the end of musket. The fog at Trenton, the battle at McHenry...coincidence? Not so, for "Our God is marching on..."
I had family who fought in the Revolutionary War. Family members of the Sons of Liberty. Family who understood the dier need, the ABSOLUTE necessity that FREEDOM IS! And that it is COMPLETELY WORTH DEFENDING WITH OUR LIVES. When people don't think it's worth fighting for, that complacency allows men like Napoleon, Hitler, and Stallin to be the powermongers they were. Indifference causes the greatest aches and the deepest wounds, and the most damage-physical and mental.
All of the blessings I have in my life I would peg to the God-guided success of the Revolutionary War and our Independence as a country. We are a nation, a country priviledged, set apart, and consecrated for His Work. I take glory in His wisdom and pleasure in blessing His Children, with such a country.
~~~
IF you haven't read the Declaration of Independence, read it! If you haven't read our nation's Constitution, READ IT! You are priviledged, KNOW WHY!
My liberties and freedoms are something I think about multiple times each week. The privileges I enjoy simply by living in the United States of America, are blessings I reflect on and contemplate often. I'm daily reminded of the blessing that it is to call myself an American.
When I think of America, I think of the ability to choose. I think of myself as a 22 year old WOMAN and the opportunities that I have. I have voted in 2 presidential elections and a number of local and state elections. I have the power and opportunity to influence change and legislation by writing my Congressman and voting. Simply the fact that I'm a woman and I CAN VOTE is significant in this world. I CAN VOTE, so I DO. I think of my opportunity to obtain a secondary education, a college education, and the encouragement I receive to continually educate myself. I think of the CHOICE I made to stay home with my children. I think of the opportunity to choose who I worship and how I worship. I think of my right to inform my self and develope opinions and SHARE opinions. I'm grateful to live in a country where individual thought and purpose is encouraged and promoted. It allows us to thrive, progress, and develop talents and abilities, that are stifled and strangled by many governments around the world.
When I think of America, I think of the cost to give me the above pleasures. I think of some 200,000 farmers and shopkeepers armed with muskets, who took on the TOP MILITARY in the WORLD. AND THEY WON! By the grace and guidance of God the Father those barefooted poor soldiers with inadeqaute food, clothing, lodgings, military leadership (they had leadership, and it was pretty good, but inexperienced ESPECIALLY by comparison, their just wasn't enough expertise to go around) won our freedom at the tip of the sword and the end of musket. The fog at Trenton, the battle at McHenry...coincidence? Not so, for "Our God is marching on..."
I had family who fought in the Revolutionary War. Family members of the Sons of Liberty. Family who understood the dier need, the ABSOLUTE necessity that FREEDOM IS! And that it is COMPLETELY WORTH DEFENDING WITH OUR LIVES. When people don't think it's worth fighting for, that complacency allows men like Napoleon, Hitler, and Stallin to be the powermongers they were. Indifference causes the greatest aches and the deepest wounds, and the most damage-physical and mental.
All of the blessings I have in my life I would peg to the God-guided success of the Revolutionary War and our Independence as a country. We are a nation, a country priviledged, set apart, and consecrated for His Work. I take glory in His wisdom and pleasure in blessing His Children, with such a country.
~~~
IF you haven't read the Declaration of Independence, read it! If you haven't read our nation's Constitution, READ IT! You are priviledged, KNOW WHY!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I feel...
Exhausted.
Behind.
Late.
Slow.
Lazy...or exhausted, not sure these two are distinguishable.
Lonely.
Distanced.
Slightly ill.
Sweaty.
Behind...
And slightly hesitant...
Perhaps a little dominated...
Deliberating.
Decided.
Resolved.
Capable.
Determined.
I'm going to clean my kitchen now. Tomorrow, I'll be glad I took the time today.
Behind.
Late.
Slow.
Lazy...or exhausted, not sure these two are distinguishable.
Lonely.
Distanced.
Slightly ill.
Sweaty.
Behind...
And slightly hesitant...
Perhaps a little dominated...
Deliberating.
Decided.
Resolved.
Capable.
Determined.
I'm going to clean my kitchen now. Tomorrow, I'll be glad I took the time today.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Brendan's Kenya Pics
This weekend a group of Brendan's colleagues traveled south to Lake Nakuru.
It is an absolutely beautiful area, famous for its flamingo habitat...
It is an absolutely beautiful area, famous for its flamingo habitat...
(more than 1.3 million)...
and rhinoceros population.
On the way into the park there were a great deal of zebra
and antelope.
Brendan was also delighted to see some baboons.
He got some great photos of a baby baboon on an acrobatic adventure.
It was such a nice weekend to relax and take in the beauty of Kenya. Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Oh, the ironies! or conincidences? or disappointments?
So, as part of my spring cleaning, today I washed/scrubbed the windows.
Inside and outside.
And it's raining...
The worst part is, while scrubbing a particularly dirty spot on the laundry room window, I had this thought:
"Well at least I'm not washing the cars, because then it would rain."
Curse the monkeys! I jinxed myself.
What is it about ironies that makes them funny, but not?
According to Wikipedia,
"The American Heritage Dictionary’s usage panel found it unacceptable to use the word ironic to describe mere unfortunate coincidences or surprising disappointments that “suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly.”
Inside and outside.
And it's raining...
The worst part is, while scrubbing a particularly dirty spot on the laundry room window, I had this thought:
"Well at least I'm not washing the cars, because then it would rain."
Curse the monkeys! I jinxed myself.
What is it about ironies that makes them funny, but not?
According to Wikipedia,
Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood. Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience.
"There is some argument about what qualifies as ironic, but all senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or between an understanding or expectation of a reality and what actually happens, "when the literal truth is in direct discordance to the perceived truth.
"Henry Watson Fowler, in The King's English, says “any definition of irony - though hundreds might be given, and very few of them would be accepted - must include this, that the surface meaning and the underlying meaning of what is said are not the same.
"The word 'ironic' is sometimes used as a synonym for incongruous or coincidental in situations where there is no “double audience,” and no contradiction between the ostensible and true meaning of the words."The American Heritage Dictionary’s usage panel found it unacceptable to use the word ironic to describe mere unfortunate coincidences or surprising disappointments that “suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly.”
Maybe that's why ironies seem funny, because they aren't really ironic or at least we can't decide whether or not they should be ironic. So the irony of irony, as it is commonly used, is that ironic is not a accurate term--potentially. Situational ironies that have been deemed as ironic, (again according to Wikipedia) are not actually ironic. Rather, situational ironies could be more appropriately deemed incongruous or coincidental--"unfortunate coincidences" or "surprising disappointments."
Wikipedia discusses a wide range or different kinds of ironies but apparently my understand of the word and its application to "unfortunate coincidences" is, in and of itself, an "unfortunate coincidence" and not suitable to be defined as ironic. Ironically, enough. ;)
So, rather than exclaiming, "How ironic?!" I shall exclaim, "What an unfortunate coincident!"
How surprisingly disappointing it is that I never correctly understood that proper usage of the term ironic.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
All the Adventures
We've had a great deal going on as we've desperately tried to diminish our "Indy Places to Visit List." So here is a streamline of what we have done via pictures:
They're hotel rooms!
The Eiteljorg Museum
Cutest bandits I ever saw!
Monument Circle
Knee-high to a Pigeon!
" relaxing all cool..."
The Civil War Museum/Memorial
And this is just cute
Indianapolis Union Station--Now Crowne Plaza Hotel
They're hotel rooms!
The Eiteljorg Museum
Cutest bandits I ever saw!Monument Circle
Knee-high to a Pigeon!
" relaxing all cool..."
The Civil War Museum/Memorial
Some of our Adventures didn't require us to leave!
And this is just cute
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