(Pictures of me pondering at about age 5, and a bunch of crazy members of our family tree- its a good day to remember
family)
Nov 5, 2008
Today I woke up at 4:30 sad and depressed about the out come of this election. I studied “how to bear my testimony in Danish” and then I began to explore the internet. I discovered the tremendous effort that we all made in defending marriage and collected lots of pictures and articles on the value of marriage, especially in preserving the sanctity of the family.
Today I woke up at 4:30 sad and depressed about the out come of this election. I studied “how to bear my testimony in Danish” and then I began to explore the internet. I discovered the tremendous effort that we all made in defending marriage and collected lots of pictures and articles on the value of marriage, especially in preserving the sanctity of the family.
I finally went to our blog where I began to laugh at odd toilets ( I actually have a picture of my great grandfather’s out house- in grouse creek, Utah-probably used by my own father when he was a little boy), great scary little boys with fruit punch mustaches, a wonderful Halloween display on Kathy’s front porch, and all the goodness of bad taste in craft projects. How grateful I am for the sweetness of this little family of ours. I love this country and am so worried about where it may be going. But right here, in my dark living room, I am left with the joy of our own lovely family. Thank you for lifting me up on this dark day. We still have traditional marriage in California for another season and we have so much more to be thankful for. Thanks to all of you, and all of our little sweet children, I begin this day with many, little messages of hope. Thank you. Love, mom
6 comments:
You made me cry mom.
I feel like we have a Pied Piper for president. Listening to his speech he is attractive and eloquent and moving.... and the whole time I kept wondering How the.... are you going to do that? How will he bring about his "utopia"? How will he pay for it all. It sounds nice and all, but will be so destructive.
I dont want to follow a pied piper.
mom, i'm so thankful for our family today, too. the bailout really scared (scares) me and the weak candidates we had for this election make it all the more scary for me. (sorry, i didn't like mccain, either.) but, we ARE lucky/blessed to have our family, our faith, our health, our delicious food, funny toilets, and so many other things. hopefully, the great things of our country won't be lost in socialism/communism, but i'm glad we have so much to offset whatever happens.
and, mom and dad, you'll be able to skip out for a little while. how lucky is that?
steph, i like your pied piper thoughts.
I really can't believe myself. I've been emailing a bunch of friends about this whole election. I just watched Oprah's love-fest of Obama. Didn't that campaign say all along that race shouldn't be an issue? Well, it didn't seem that way watching the "historic" stuff on Oprah.
I blame Oprah...
Scott
Oh, I just love you all so much and Im happy you are my family!!
Oprah always ruins everything!
My mom said to me this morning "We just elected Barack and Oprah King and Queen of the USA"
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