Impatience Paid Off

Update-

We are impatient and waited, maybe 2 weeks to hear back on the colonial house, and then we started looking again :-) And we found the kind of house I wanted from the beginning...a good size ranch. We have gone through the negotiating, acceptance, inspection, and now we are just waiting for a closing date! I am very excited and thankful. It's a solid house, but needs updating. All the majors (roof, furnace, air, windows), it's very clean, but we just need to get new carpet throughout and figure out a way to update it. Unfortunately, I do not have any decorating skills, so we'll see how it turns out.

I'll have some before & after photos once we get going. I hope you can tell which is which!!

Time Will Tell....

We have been checking out houses lately and here's a pic of the first house we have bid on. It's a short sale so we may have to wait up to 60 days to find out if our bid was chosen or not, so we will see. If not, there's a lot more to choose from right now so we'll keep looking.
I'll keep you updated (Lola, lol!).

Powerfully Good Preaching!

Texans sure are lucky to have Voddie Baucham!

For Those Who Haven't Seen...

My girls happened to dvr this movie and told me to watch it. LOVED IT. Had to tell the world. You can find it at the Sterling Heights Public Library...if I decide to return it...again.

A recent forward

I got this in an email and thought it was quite clever, so I am posting it here-


I love this!!! A little long but well worth the read
The person that wrote this is a college student. Perhaps there is some hope for us after all.
DIVORCE AGREEMENTTHIS IS SO INCREDIBLY WELL PUT AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S BY A YOUNG PERSON, A STUDENT!!!

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement:--

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.--
We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.--
You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.--
We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel.--
You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.-
We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.--
You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.--
We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.--
We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood. --
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.--
You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.--
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.--
You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.--
We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find. --
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.--
We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.--
We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."--
I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World".--
We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.--
Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.Sincerely,John J. WallLaw Student and an AmericanP.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin & Charlie Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & ( Hanoi ) Jane Fonda with you.
P.S.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

Belated Update

About the book. Not bad really. I am almost done with it. It started out as one of those 'can't put it down' reads, but it didn't last. It's still easy to pick up, but I can only read a little at a time. It's certainly funny, and I agreee with a ton of what she says, but it's kind of depressing at the same time, b/c we are a screwed up society/nation, and I am certainly 'called out' many times in that book too. Maybe that's why I have to put it down so much. Hmmmm......

Well, I have also read the book, The Help. Loved it!!!! Then I saw the movie. Really like that too. Now I am using it as a unit study with the girls.

New Book

I picked this book up at Borders yesterday b/c it was deeply discounted b/c they are going out of business and I also had a gift card to use.
I don't agree with everything she says, but for the most part she tells it like it is, usually quite hilariously. I might actually make it required homeschool reading! I am looking forward to what it says - I am sure I will be guilty of some of the points.

Here's an excerpt:
"Our manners are shot. We dress like homelss prostitutes and derelict drug addicts. We spend countless hours social networking and end up becoming less social. Our pop culture has popped. In areas as broad as personal grooming, recreation, education, parenting, faith and even the way we travel, the verdict is in: we have fallen faster than a discount facelift. We're going to hell in a handbasket (and the handbasket was made in China)."

Looks good. I'll keep you updated.