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Our Daily Thread 3-18-13

Good Morning!

It’s Monday. So stop hitting the snooze and get out of bed. 😦

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Today is Pres. Grover Cleveland’s birthday.

Fun Fact

Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. Wikipedia

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Quote of the Day

“I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.”

Grover  Cleveland

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Who has a QoD?

44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-18-13”

  4. We had Easter break. But it was only Good Friday and the Monday after, as well as Sat. and Sun. My daughter get’s 10 days off.

    But I convinced her if we shortened it and did some work on those days that summer vacation could start earlier. She seems to favor that idea. 🙂

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  5. Like NancyJill, I have been up most of the night. I know I had strange, fitful dream but can only remember the last one. I, along with a friend, was driving around trying to find my dad. We went by the house where I used to live and my uncles car was there, so we went to the nature walk and picnic area that was in the neighborhood. They were sitting at a table eating pork roast, turnips, sweet potatos, and corn bread. As I started to sit down with them the alarm clock went off. I woke up unsettled and can’t wait until after 8 to call my uncle. I’m not quite ready for him to join my father.

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  6. I’m with Chas. 😦 to Mondays. Every week I get mauled by the Monday Mood Monster.

    I’m going to be off here for a while. I need to do some serious tomato-staking with 4th Arrow (see today’s prayer thread).

    Blessings to you all.

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  7. Good morning. I didn’t sleep well either. I was up from midnight until about 3:00. I just couldn’t sleep. I finally got up and read the Bible until I felt sleepy. I’ve been having lots of bad dreams about my mother. I’m not thinking about her during the day, but evidently my brain is still working some things out b/c each night I’m plagued with vivid dreams about her.

    Youngest seemed fine when I got her up for school today, but 30 minutes later, she vomited in the toilet (I saw it, so I know she isn’t faking). So, youngest will not be attending school today. Luckily, our nanny/housekeeper is here today because I have a doctor’s appointment in town. It’s just a routine appointment, but I really need to keep it b/c I had to cancel the last one. Fortunately, she doesn’t feel very bad, and isn’t running a fever, so I don’t feel too guilty about leaving her even though she’d rather have me take care of her than anyone else.

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  9. Just seems appropo for today 😉

    Mine was going on a day ski trip with a Catholic youth group. Great day of skiing with good friends, but we got snowed in. The high school leader had us pool what little money any of us had to buy PB&J, white bread and lemonade. The Big Bear Fire Department brought some blankets and we spent the night in an Episcopal church. We could chose between padding by sleeping single on a pew or warmth by sharing a blanket sleeping on indoor-outdoor carpeted floor. I opted for warmth, but with three other girls sharing the blanket even that, like sleep, came and went.

    I have slept on long flights and in some sketchy places in the world, but that was tht toughest.

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  10. I have spent many nights without sleep, but I can’t think of one occurring because it was bad; unless I was sick, and I don’t remember that.
    When I was on a mission in the Air Force, day and night had no significance. You just did what you had to do and slept when you could.
    I have never stayed up all night studying. I learned early on that I never learned anything after ten p.m.

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  11. qod: backpacking with around twenty teens back into the Wilderness. We were in some fairly steep terrain and it was pouring rain. Some of the children had become quite wet and were exhausted. We had only gone a few miles but they were not in the greatest shape. It was night so we decided to call it a day. We set up camp shortly after crossing a stream, so we could dry out and warm up the chilled ones. We set up tents at an angle so people were sleeping in their tents propped against trees and rocks and whatever would keep them from rolling down. I had given my rain gear to a girl who had fallen into a large mud slide. And my dog ate my friend’s butter when she left it out to cool. But it is a good memory and we all laugh about it.

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  12. The especially funny part about that night was that we had some horse riders with us. Well, they were behind us but passed us as we set up, but part of our group, Anyway, they went just a bit farther to an open flat area But the children were done and it would have taken us hours to make it the rest of the way. So we made it fun, even the wet ones were laughing by the time we set up camp.

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  13. I put the pen and paper to the cost of the move from Ohio to Oklahoma. Gasoline would be around $1100.00 if I take the truck and a trailer. If I rent a U-Haul, it will be around $1300.00

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  14. Well, I slept very well last night — I didn’t want to get up, as usual. 😉 Strange dreams, though (I’m a vivid dreamer): I dreamed that Obama wasn’t president (that’s a good thing, right?) but that he was running for LA City Council and I went over to their house on election day to interview Michelle Obama for an article.

    They had several dogs in the house and somehow I’d been involved in giving them dog help, but that part was very vague — seemed like I’d helped them pick these dogs out.

    Just before I woke up, I was asking her what specific advice or assets she brought to the campaign that helped her husband. I remember it was 1 p.m. and I’d just started working, was going to have to go back to the office & stay late for the election night.

    As I said, weird dream.

    We never went anywhere on spring break — growing up in public school ours was always the week before Easter while my friend across the street, who was in Catholic school, had hers the week after Easter. I thought she got the better deal, seemed like it was always hard to go back to school the day after the actual ‘holiday.’

    As a teen & while I was in college, spring break was the time to get a new bathing suit, go to the beach, start on that tan — and anticipate the summer months ahead.

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  15. QoD, several nights with migraines that would not go away.

    Another QoD. Yesterday our pastor asked us to fill in the following five blanks.
    I am ______
    I am ______
    I am ______
    I am ______
    I am _______

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  16. AQoD: I am wondering why the pastor asked that (first thought)
    I am accepted in the beloved
    I am created for a purpose
    I am gifted for that purpose
    I am obviously in the Book of Ephesians in my Bible Study

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  19. It’s not surprising that the Obama admin would come down against homeschooling. They are after all in service to the numerous teachers unions. Of course they would do the same here if they thought they could get away with it. After all, what better place to get low info voters than the low info public education system? They don’t want informed masses, just compliant ones. Properly endoctrinated students are easier to win over (when your side is doing the endoctrination) than free-thinking students. It’s not about education with them at all.

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  20. There are lots of homeschoolers in Hendersonville. Proportionately larger than any place I’ve known. And the schools here are relatively conservative.
    I once asked Mary if professors are liberal at U. of S. Carolina. She said, the teachers are liberal but the parents of the students are mostly Republican, so you don’t get much indoctrination.
    South Carolina is a RED state. There’s a big advertising campaign here against Lindsey Graham. He’s too liberal for lots in the SC Upstate.

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  21. The pastor’s point in asking the question was how many of us list, I am a wife, I am a mother, I am an accountant before or instead of what should be first. I am a Christian.

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  24. Tychicus, I believe the German family should move to Fredericksburg, Texas. I am certain the residents of Gillespie County would give them “sanctuary”. There is plenty of good local German food and they could even become Spurs fans.

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  26. It’s sad that this admin and DoJ finally find someone they don’t mind deporting. Meanwhile prisoners from the south are released for “budget reasons.” Funny isn’t it, that such a low priorty as this family warrants resources, yet actual criminal illegals don’t? That’s some messed up priorities.

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  27. I knew that about Grover Cleavland. i like to ask kids if they know why Obama is the 44th president but only 43 men have been president.

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  31. As for the German family — they applied for refugee status which is decided bureaucratically and their claim processed. Mexican and other migrant laborers aren’t refugees nor do they claim to be hence they are either immediately slated for deportation or just “catch and release”. And let’s face it, they supply an economic need or demand (of business/capital) and the German family does not.

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  32. Just to liven things up, my state senator (that is within the state of Georgia government) is the grandson of Jimmy Carter. We use to have Cynthia McKinney at home here, too. It is interesting to be in a very liberal area of a very red state. The last I heard of McKinney, she was out in California. Do you ever hear anything about her, Donna?

    Sorry to hear about the recalled dog food. That is distressing. 😦

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  34. We seem to have a lot of homeschoolers in Georgia. Could be because we were considered to be so low in test scores for a number of years and a few county systems have lost or nearly lost their accreditation. We just had our school board totally replaced by the governor except for the newly elected members.

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  35. Maybe you have seen her, Donna, and just did not recognize her 🙂 . Do you remember when she punched a capitol security person who did not recognize her with her new hairdo (and she was not wearing her ID)? I think the last thing I heard was that she was running for President with the Green Party. Now if the Green Party should ever have their candidate in the White House does it become the Green House?

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  37. Interesting how a nation in such poor shape needs to be considered worthy of missile destruction. Hmmm….how does that work? Would they be so mean as to demoslish the few remaining birds and the snow used for drinking water? Seems rather heartless.

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  38. A sign of the Obama effect on jobs: When I got to the community college tonight, the director of the satellite campus handed me a letter saying no adjunct could teach 12 or more hours anymore due to the new health care laws.

    So tell me again, Obama fans, how is Obamacare supposed to help the economy if people are getting their work hours cut? Our niece works at McDonald’s and says no one has full time hours anymore, except maybe the store manager.

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  40. It seems the grand idea of Obamacare was to get more people insured. Well, it appears to be having the opposite effect. And how much money was spent advertising this great new plan that no one could read about to know what it consisted of until after it was passed? It is all about bluff. First there is the emperor who has on no clothes (an orange jumpsuit might come in handy for a coverup). Then there is the Obamacare plan which is truly an I don’t care plan as in I don’t care what happens to all the people I have duped…at least my family and I have had some pretty swanky vacations and gotten some Hollywood glitz out of the deal. Oh, my! I have stayed up past my bedtime and I have turned into a snarky pumpkin. I just get a bit discouraged by it all sometimes.

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  41. E-mail from Liberty Counsel message:

    “Senator Lindsay Graham has now had contact with several Benghazi survivors. The information emerging from these encounters is the stuff about which conspiracy novels are written!

    Here is the indisputable truth: There is a massive cover-up and the witnesses are being aggressively suppressed.

    Thank God for the efforts of grassroots Americans and a few bold congressional leaders who are keeping the news on this outrageous cover-up alive through Fox News and a few other conservative media outlets. Please see my very important update below – Mat.

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  42. It will be interesting (although maybe there’s a better word — disheartening?) to watch Obamacare and its ramifications over the next 1-2 years. Our employer-sponsored medical care (if, indeed, they continue to offer it) has already spiked in the last 2 years and it will likely really spike in ’14.

    It’s definitely beginning to hurt and another jump next year will be hard for many, especially those with family members on their insurance plans.

    So, yes, more people be insured under this plan — but the cost of it will be heaped on the backs of everyone else who then will have trouble affording their rising deductions from already shrinking paychecks.

    Boy, I really sound like my parents now. 😦 But seriously. What’s wrong with this picture?

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  43. Donna, I left a comment for you on the prayer thread.

    Our health insurance is $1,500+ per month for the three of us. That is more than we ever paid for a house note. I am not sure we can afford another increase. I am not sure what we will do. I will be looking at Medi-share.

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  44. Responded, thanks.

    $1,500, that’s crazy, but it’s also around what my boss pays for his family. As a single person, my deductions are less than that, obviously, but they’re still noticeably jumping each year to the point of “ouch.”

    And since I’m the only one bringing home any money around here (the dogs — slackers — appear to be perennially unemployed), it’s getting to be a challenge.

    OK.

    Now I’m going to go pull the covers over my head.

    Tomorrow’s another day.

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