In 19 days my children will start school at a local Christian school.
In 19 days my adventures in homeschooling will officially be over.
In 19 days I will, for the first time in their lives, wake them, feed them, make them get dressed (even shoes!) and drop them off for someone else to impart knowledge to them.
In case you can’t tell, I am in full re-evaluation mode.
Not that I think God was wrong about this. I don’t . Intellectually and spiritually, I know we are doing the thing that God has told us to do. Everything about it feels right. Emotionally, however, I am a nervous wreck. Many in my family have long considered me too overprotective of my kidlets and think this is long overdue. I’ve always considered it my job to protect my children until they were mature enough to face situations on their own. At 10 and almost 12, they have a good foundation in Christ and a great sense of who they are as individuals. I do worry about my daughter especially. At 10 she is about to venture into the awful pre-teen years. Personally, I wouldn’t be 10-18 again for all the gold in Fort Knox. I have a nagging sense that I am about to abandon her on “mean girl” island.
So in 19 days I will drop my excited, innocent children off at school. Then I will sit in my car and cry my mascara off.
Last November, I answered the call to get involved in the local politics and help change the face of Congress. I have been blessed to meet some folks that think my time wasting hobby of blogging/Twitter/Facebook was actually a valuable asset and hire me to help their campaigns. Since then, the kidlets have had an education of a different sort.
Sure, we still covered the basic five that the Great State of Texas requires of it’s homeschoolers (reading, math, spelling, grammar and a course in good citizenship) and even managed some latin, geography and science. However, the “course in good citizenship” has been much more thorough than it ever had been before. It has been wonderful to have my kids by my side as I worked on these campaigns. They know more about issues and how elections work than most adults. They have stuffed envelopes, collected signatures and block walked a district. The high point was when my boy stood in the Texas Senate Chamber and whispered “Mom, I’m going to be here someday.”
I have always been of the opinion that I would homeschool until God had other plans. When I was gearing up for the 2009-2010 school year last August, I was having a hard time mustering any enthusiasm for the new school year. Hubs, in all his wisdom, said “Maybe God is preparing you for something else.”
Was he ever!
So we prayed a lot and looked around at our options and decided on local Christian school that was everything I could ever want education-wise for my kidlets. They have a very rigorous application process, but on Friday, we received word that the kidlets had been accepted.
So if God figures out a way for us to pay for this fabulous (and expensive) school, I guess the kidlets will be leaving me this fall. They are excited. And I’m sure I’ll get there, too.
Hand me a tissue. In fact, give me the whole box. I know I will need it.
Notwithstanding John McCain (war hero/RINO), I think I just fell in love with Arizona.
Hubs lived there as a kidlet and has been trying to drag me back there every spring by telling me “how amazingly beautiful the desert is in spring.” So far I have resisted. I’ve only been to Arizona twice–once on a drive back from L.A. with my deceased boyfriends belongings tied in the back of a truck with no headlights (don’t ask), and once as a guest at a shi-shi-la-la-foo-foo spa (if you’ve been there you know). Overall, I had a pretty good impression of Arizona and its red dirt and low humidity.
After last week, Arizona just got a little more attractive.
Now, to be honest, I’m a little peeved that Arizona beat Texas to the punch. Ballsy moves like enforcing existing laws regarding immigration in an election year when one of your borders touches a foreign country is usually the domain of my beloved Texas. We like to spit in they eye of the MSM elitist journalist and then laugh while they convulse and vomit up threats and vile names. We’re just twisted like that. However, Arizona came out of no where and did the very thing that every true American should want–enforce our border laws.
Now before you libs out there start with the name calling, let me clarify–I am very pro-immigration. My grandparents came here from Germany just before the turn of the century (legally, of course). American is indeed the land of opportunity and even with the current crop of miscreants in Washington, it is still the greatest nation on the planet. Period.
However, I have serious issues with a porous boarder that our government will not protect because it might hurt the feelings of the criminal trying to gain access illegally. Illegally. That means against the law, MSNBC. If we give amnesty to the illegal people that are here in our nation, we have sanctioned their bad behavior. As the mother of two children, I can assure you that no good will come from rewarding bad behavior.
Instead, we need to remove the incentive to come here. Face it, there is no wall high enough. If there is a reason to come here–jobs, free education, free healthcare–they will come. We must streamline the process to apply to come here to enable the good and productive people to come and keep the freeloaders out. I know–”streamline govenment” = crazy talk.
Arizona, I salute you. When the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune come your way, know that there are plenty of people who live in other states that wish their legislatures would cowboy up and do the same exact thing.
It’s almost bed time and I decided to turn on Fox News to see what’s going on in the world and I discovered it was Earth Day. Dang. I missed it.
I almost never miss celebrating this day in someway. I love it. I always try and do something special to commemorate the occasion. Like buy incandescent light bulbs. Or take a drive and make frequent stops and starts in my big ‘ol gas-guzzling SUV. Or at least turn the air conditioner thermostat waaayyyyyy down.
This year I will just have to settle with refusing to recycle and buying convenience foods that have all that extra packaging.
It’s nice that people have missed me. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say anymore, or that I’m bored with blogging. True to form, I still have lots of opinions on just about every topic.
God, because he has a great sense of humor, has pushed me off my comfy couch and put me on the playing field. I no longer just write about the things politicians do that piss me off. I am now actively trying to change the world. I’m working for a guy that will be the next congressman from Texas District 27.
Change can be uncomfortable. Like buying a new pair of heels for the new suits I had to purchase. My “mom wardrobe” was pretty much stretchy and stained. Not suitable for the campaign trail. Amazing how fast my wardrobe had deteriorated. So there’s that. And then I filled out the applications for a private school in town that the kidlets will be attending next year. That change just full out sucked. I shed more than a few tears over that decision. However, on Easter Sunday as I sat in church, I felt God sneak up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder and lean over and gently whisper “I got ‘em.” They were his anyway. I still haven’t balanced the juggling act between work and domestic duties either. Maybe I won’t and just get a cleaning lady. I like that idea.
So, I’ll sneak in from time to time and post something about something. I’m still the same mouthy broad I always was.
I just got off the phone with mom. The parents retired to central Texas a few years ago, but they still have lots of friends here in South Texas. She was telling me that she had had a most interesting conversations with some of them regarding my candidate for choice for U.S. Congressional District 27, Willie Vaden. The prevailing wisdom with these folks was the same old song I’ve heard all year “He’s already run 3 times and proven he can’t win against Solomon Ortiz.”
Really?
Let me ask you something, what did you do to help Willie in his previous attempts to unseat a 20+ year incumbent? Did you put his sign in your yard? Hold a fundraiser for him in your beautiful homes? Did you even donate a dollar towards his victory? How about knock on a door, put his flyers out at your place of business, or even attend ONE SINGLE meet and greet event that he paid for out of his own pocket? Because if YOU didn’t do EVERYTHING in your power to ensure a victory for him, then you haven’t given Willie a chance. You have been nothing more than a foot soldier for Solomon Ortiz and a passive participant in his machinery.
How dare you people sit in your country club homes and look down your noses at a man that has been laboring for over a decade to protect your interests from a corrupt politician! Do you have any idea the amount of courage and fortitude Willie Vaden has to even attempt to take on a well-funded politician like Solomon Ortiz? When Willie ran against Ortiz in 2004, 2006 and 2008, he didn’t come to you and ask for help. Self-made millionaires are like that, you know. Stubbornly independent and don’t like to beholding to anyone. Despite your lack of interest and being the Marine is, he took on a fight that had to be done, but no one wanted to do. He didn’t ask anything of you but your vote. How many of you gave him that? A lot didn’t. If Willie had garnered the same number of votes in Nueces County and San Patricio County that the other victorious Republican candidates on the ticket had, he’d be in Washington right now.
BUT NO! You elitist snobs looked at this blue-collar guy and decided to keep Solomon Ortiz. Most people, in fact, EVERY person that has ever run against Ortiz has only tried once. They are more interested in being “Congressman So-and-so” and not working for the people of District 27. What you folks don’t get is that Willie isn’t in this to have a big office in Washington. Willie is in it for the good of the people of District 27. Willie has made his fortune, he doesn’t need to seek in it your wallet.
Shame on you people! When Willie wins for the 4th time, I hope you will do the right thing and FULLY support his candidacy.
It is rare to find a person of such intelligence and humility. Rose has a hard time tooting her own horn, which makes her a lousy candidate, but a FANTASTIC judge. She knows it’s not about her, it’s about the law. She understands that we are a nation of laws and that it is not the job of the judiciary to legislate from the bench.
August 1, 2010 
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