Are People Too Lazy For Their Kids?

Maybe I shouldn't be talking because I don't have kids yet, but with Christmas around the corner, I have seen a lot of commercials for toys for kids and I have been a little appalled at some of them. For example, there is a book with a special pen that let's kids click on a word and it says it for them, or books that have a recording so it can be read to them. Have people become so uninvolved that they can't read to their kids, they have to get a pen to do it?

My sister who has a nine month old says I should wait until I have kids and see how it is, that its hard enough to keep kids happy all the time, let alone be teaching them and interacting with them all the time. She probably has a point, but look at what is happening with teenagers playing XBOX all day and texting, I can't help but think they are missing out on learning important social skills.

I was talking to a recently returned mission president the other day and he said that social skills is one of the biggest challenges that incoming missionaries face. With all the texting, facebooking, and video games they don't know how to approach strangers and talk to them or interact with people in person.

A guy I work with sent this out. Foreclosures aside, I am really not excited for Halloween. Halloween isn't fun unless you are single and you get to dress up all skanky (we all know I love that) or its fun if you had kids and you get to dress them up and go trick-or-treating. Married people can't exactly go trick-or-treating, we can't go to single parties, what do you do? Maybe I'll have to get a bunch of married people together and do something. Boooring.

Mike is officially a FAT KID

We all know Mike loves to eat as much as the next guy, but last night he made it official that he is a Fat Kid. We were eating burritos and he got some sauce on the side of his mouth and he took the burrito and wiped the sauce back on the burrito from his face, then continued eating! Fat Kids don't waste any sauce. Shortly after that he was eating a some of my nieces leftover birthday cake with his hand over the sink. Welcome Mike, welcome.

Stories From Our Calling

Mike teaches Sunday School for the 14-15 year olds and I am the Laurel Advisor. Our ward had youth conference at Camp Williams, which is a Army training base. It was really cool, we went rappelling and did an obstacle course and one of the nights we had a dance with another stake and some of the priests were hanging out outside the dance being too cool and one of the leaders from the other stake who was a big burly guy with a go-tee comes out of the dance and yells to the priests, " either you guys get in here and ask girls to dance or your dancing with me." And all the priests ran inside, it was hilarious!

Then Mike was giving his Sunday School Lesson and he was talking about how he and I had just watched special on WWII on a Saturday night (it related somehow I promise). Then at the end of the lesson he asked one of the kids to pray and he prayed that Mike would take his wife out on a Saturday night!

Also, my young women are seriously awesome. They know so much about the gospel and they are such good examples to me and I actually sometimes say things that get me in trouble. For example, one of the girls was talking about a guy at EFY who was hitting on her and he was almost nineteen and I said, "Isn't he a little old to be going to EFY?" and one of the other girls said something like they wanted to go to EFY as long as they possible because it is so amazing. Oops, put in my place again. Anyway, I thought those were funny.

Fat Kid!

A fat kid is not necessarily an overweight person, but just a person who loves food and does extreme things because of that love. Below are some examples:

Fat kids yell "Hamburger" while being pushed in a pool with all their clothes on because their only concern is the hamburger, not being wet.

Fat kids yell to pull over when they think a cake box might be on the side of the road.

Fat kids get tricked to see their ex-boyfriend because he bribed her with pizza.

Fat kids answer the door while eating out of the serving bowl.

Fat kids “march madness” involves tracking down girl scouts for their cookies.

Fat kids go to multiple fast food joints to put together their full meal.

Fat kids find cake icing on their clean clothes, know that it’s cake icing, and eat it.

Fat kids think the rain sounds like popcorn popping and say yum.

Fat kids ignore boys’ calls because their cereal might get soggy.

Fat kids favorite rap artist is 50 Cent – “ I love you like a fat kid loves cake.”

Fat kids take the money their fiancée gives them for gas and buy food

Fat kids use more soap

Anyone For Abortion Needs to See an 8 Week Embryo

We went to go see Body Worlds, and it was amazing, seeing how much bigger an athlete's heart can be from a normal person, a smokers lung, and just how the body works; but the exhibit that hit me the most was the embryo exhibit. They had embryo's from 1 week all the way up to 28 weeks. I couldn't believe how small, yet how intricate an embryo at just 8 weeks is.

It is just a tiny tiny baby, with little arms and even little hands. 8 weeks is just 2 months into pregnancy, and Obama and others want to sign the Freedom of Choice Act which allows partial birth abortions, at 8 months? The act also calls for LESS parental consent and a big supporter of the FOCA is planned parenthood, who also wants to not allow those wanting an abortion to see an ultrasound because they often change their minds.

Have these people seen an embryo at 2 months or 3 or even more shockingly at 8 months? I think it is unbelievable that people can support partial birth abortion. That is the same as leaving a newborn child in a dumpster if you ask me, which is a CRIME.