Still trying to get up to speed with blogging! I'm getting there...
It is the day after the midterm election, and I'm not happy. Deval Patrick is Governor. Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House. The Senate is split, and may go to the Democrats depending on what happens in Virginia. Bad news--I fear for my civil liberties as a homeschooler and a Catholic. Good news--the most conservative of democrats are the ones that won. As they say, Democrats can only get elected when they act like Republicans (unless you're from San Francisco or Massachusetts.) I would feel much less threatened if the Democratic Party was run by the moderates!
I was disgusted at hearing Pelosi and liberal C-SPAN callers being so "congenial" and listening to a liberal NBC news reporter asking Pelosi something like, "The nation knows you as someone with "San Francisco" values. [Poor Saint Francis!!!] Can you tell the nation what you're really like?" UGH!!! Too bad too many people did not know her last 6 years of vitriol--and now they'll all going to be nice. So was the past a lie, or their future?
I've taken to the habit of writing what needs to be finished up on the white board in the playroom. I'll put words Sam's having trouble spelling, assignments that did not get fully completed, projects pending. It has really helped, but I noticed it was getting a bit long today. One issue was finishing Romeo & Juliet. The Lamb book has got to go--much better for a middle-school child to read as a transition into Shakespeare himself. I'll look at Nesbit; if that doesn't work I'll check the library for alternatives.
I have not spent as much time with Zack and Aaron as I would like to, mostly because of slow starts in the morning. I am trying to get my children in the good habit of spending quality (and quantity!) time with God each morning. We kneel to say our prayers, we read the Bible, we read about a saint, we sing a hymn. Zack and Aaron spend so much time goofing off, and I have to spend so much time disciplining and waiting for them, that it's well after 9 by the time I get upstairs (I eat and clean up after them, and maybe start some laundry.) By then I am correcting Sam's work and helping him such that I cannot concentrate on getting the other two started on something.
We are actually spending the entire day at home, and given the rain, it's a good day to stay home. It has been awhile, so I am glad for it. I wish we had more.
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November 8, 2006 - Election blues
I feel much as you do, being rather disappointed in the election news. Of course, I am old enough to remember back in 1976 when, after Watergate and Carter's victory, some were predicting the end of the Republican Party, only to have Reagan win in 1980 and 1984, and George Bush in 1988, and after the humiliation of Clinton, to have the Republicans win Congress in 1994 and then elect George W. Bush in 2000. So these things do go back and forth.
While I certainly take a keen interest in the political and civil affairs of our nation, and support those candidates who I believe best represent the principles of morality and righteousness that God has given to mankind with the hope that they will be most likely to promote and follow those principles, I do try to take comfort from the scriptures in times of defeat. "Do not put your trust in princes" (Ps. 146.3). Why? Because "The Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses" (Dan. 4.32).