Poetry...

And yes, those are all of the Latter-day prophets on his back.

I love poetry. I have always been drawn to it as is evidenced by my poem I wrote for my mom when I was 4 about my love for her and kites and drawing paralells between the two (Good grief!)

As I get older though I am finding poetry in so many different places: in scent, in nature, in people, in a perfectly peaceful moment. But I enjoyed a real doozey the other day. As I was applying for health insurance, my daughter threw up ALL (and I mean ALL) over the lady, the desk, the documents and for good measure the book she was holding and her brother. Now that is poetry people, that is poetry! Everyone was super nice, humanity rose to the occasion, the janitor (BLESS HIS HEART) was so sweet and just totally worried about her and the hispanics in the waiting room were all swarming and asking "is she OK, is she OK?" (how sweet is that?). Anyway, I left what remained of my pride there on the floor (so any questions, comments and concerns, there is no pride left here, feel free to ask!) and went and got a slurpee. The up side is that she took a nap. I am a nicer person when BOTH of my children sleep at the same time, this is also poetic.

Anyway, I have been in a blogging funk. My inner blog voice is hoarse and maybe I have run out of things to say.

Here are some of my favorite recent poetry:

"Gratitude is the highest form of intelligence."
-John (the man) Flint

"Live your life so that those who know you, but don't know Him (Christ), will want to know Him, because they know you."

"Have I shown you my 'Charity never faileth' tatoo? It's totally compassionate!"
-Afton

What are your favorite quotes?

We're walking....

"We're walking, we're walking, we're walking......we're stopping."

I love walking. God gave me two legs and one car so you do the math. We walk or ride whenever we can. And bless Oregon's heart, the weather has totally cooperated recently. Anyway, when I walk along a street I have driven past 100's of times I notice things that I swear on a bible weren't there before. My favorite thing I saw today was a bumper sticker that said "As a former fetus I oppose abortion." This I like, ALOT. I'm not going to tatoo it or anything, but fabulous none-the-less. It never ceases to amaze me the things the people willingly and permanent affix to the cars, regardless of value. As an observor, I could probably tell you a little about everyone I see in those cars, if they hold the cell with the left or right, how laid back there seat is, if they are smoking, if they are yelling, if they have an OBAMA08 sign etc.

Plus the kids seem to fight less when we walk rather than ride in the car or "chariot". My dear Harry, captain of the obvious, screams and labels everything that goes by, especially noises. "The loud car go boom, boom."(this in reference to the low riding, high finned, bass boomer....how is that pretty?) "Wisten, train honk, honk." etc.

P.S. WE HAVE A COMPUTER!!! But I don't know how to download pictures yet, I will figure it out and get back to you. There are things that need to be documented, Grandma visits, parks, farms, lions and tigers and bears OH MY!

Light at the end of the tunnel....

Attention all people...

Due to rising fuel costs, war budgets, receding polar ice caps, high unemployment, no health insurance, budget cuts and high energy use, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Thank you for your understanding and patience in this matter.

Conversations...

Kent reading to Bella: & Harry:

Kent:"....and that is climate."

Harry: "Dammit?"

Kent: "No, Climate."

Harry: "Dammit."

Kent: "KRISTIN...."

Remarkably observant, considering I only mumbled here and there once or kinda maybe a teeny tiny bit more, a pitifully soft or unaudible word, a time or two, forever ago..... blah, blah, blah.

Watched the greatest movie, every couple needs to watch it....it is called Fireproof.  Loved it.  Thanks for the recommendation. 

Let's talk numbers, shall we....

Caught them having a tea party together....so cute. I live for moments like this.

"Perfect love casteth out all fear...."

Moroni 8:16

This scripture changed my life a few years ago.

The costant bombardment I am recieving from everywhere of fear and loss is so completely depressing. Especially for someone in our situation, that we are waiting for the "Ok" on the dream job. Is there no hope? The conversation at church is "is your job OK?" or "Have you enough food storage?" and I haven't recieved "Quick grab your children and run!" but the feeling is there. So I did a little digging to get some numbers for the current economic situation, in regards to unemployment.

Our country's unemployment sits at about 7.6%.

In 1992, our country's unemployment sat at 7.8%

In 1982, the unemployment was at 10.2% (respectively)

In the great depression, it sat at 25-30%, for years.

Objectively speaking, it sucks, but it's not the end. It has been worse and it will get better. I get really irritated when the government makes it sounds like it IS the great depression. Fear begets more fear. My biggest problem with this whole recession, is that I believe it was all brought on by GREED (me and Suze Orman). So we have to cinch up the belts, big deal. So we can't put our kids in private school, so we have to make homemade birthday presens and cards, so we have to find joy in each others company instead of entertainment (movies, etc.) so we buy 5 bananas instead of 10, please .....we are so blessed....we still get bananas.

Anyway, numbers and objective non-partisan perspective, I thought you would appreciate a little, I know I needed it! I am trying to replace my fear with faith, because I don't think I can have both at the same time. I am determined to chin-up and step forward.