The Last Week of January

As I said before, time sure flies, I can hardly believe in another week it’ll be February. It was a pretty full weekend capped off with 2 great football games yesterday. It should be quite a Super Bowl in 2 weeks between the Packers and Steelers. My Mom’s thrilled! Now it’s back to reality.

I have a couple days worth of work to squeeze into the day and then the boys have basketball tonight. When we arrived at church yesterday, we realized that the kids activities were no longer available at the 8 am service so they had to join us for the regular service. Sitting for an hour listening to a sermon is pretty hard when your 7 and 9 years old. Our boys did really well, much better than I remember I did when I was a kid. Of course they did ask (every 10 minutes), how much longer until it was over. The best part of church for the boys are the donuts that are laid out after each service. It’s a spread of glaze, sprinkles and chocolate beyond compare. As soon as we got home my wife’s back went out and she would be down for the count for the rest of the day. Thankfully she doesn’t work until Thursday which should give her time to heal.

I think both boys grew again last night. They literally look taller every morning. The 7 year old is wearing 10 year old jeans and the 9 year old is in 12’s. It won’t be long until they’re taller than their grandma’s, (all of them), and then their Mom. The youngest is living in his prized roller skates he received for his birthday. Yesterday afternoon he came down the stairs and declared, “roller boy in the house”. He’s pretty good. He’s also been hooking a leash up to one of the dogs and has him (or her depending on which dog), pull him around the house. It’s quite a sight.

We’ll sure be glad when this month is over as it’s been challenging on the financial front. A lot of unexpected expenses in the last few months of 2010 are impacting us now. Once we’re past this week we should be ok for a while. I’m tired of having to worry about money. I’m on a mission to eliminate the stress of money and debt from our lives by the end of the year. Not sure how we’ll do it, but we’re focused and working on it everyday. At least we have good jobs. I really feel for the people who want to work but can’t find a job. A lot has changed in the past few decades, it’s pretty rough out there. Personally I think the key to turning our Country around, is to start building things in America once again. We were all told years ago (and fell into the trap), that it would be good to let China and other countries build things for us as they could do it much cheaper. So we sent all our manufacturing overseas, which over the years cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs, revenue, and gutted the heartland of America. I won’t go into a long rant here, but we need to get back to what built this country, innovating and making things. We also all need to buy American whenever we can, even if it costs a little bit more. It took years to get into this position and it’ll take years to get out, point is, we need to start now. Oh well, enough of my views on society, just realize it’s not going to get better anytime soon, we’ve got a lot of work to do.

Have a good day and do something nice for someone,

God Bless,

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