Okay, so it's been a while since I've posted. It's amazing how fast time passes when you're busy.  

We have a new granddaughter, Lilly, who lives in Alaska so I haven't seen her in person, held her, or began spoiling her like any respectable grandmother would!  Here she is...

This makes 5 grandchildren for us and they are all awesome. 

So today I added a bird bath to my little yard and this evening, as I was sitting on my porch with a glass of wine while my husband fixed dinner, there was a bird getting a drink from the new bath.  Success!  I understand that birds like the water moving so tomorrow I'm on the hunt for a small pump for the water.  My husband thinks I'm getting a bit carried away with the birds but it's my new hobby and I'm enjoying every minute of it!

It was hot today, got to 80 degrees in parts.  It will be warm all week.  The bees are coming out and looking like spring!

Love this time of year!

I haven't been posting for probably a week now.  Not for any particular reason but for lack of energy and just body hurting.

I spent the day yesterday with my grandson, Ashtin.  We worked hard yesterday and at the end of the day I could hardly walk!  But we had fun. We fed the birds in the morning and sat on the porch and watched them come eat, we blew the leaves from around the patio and porch, we planted flowers, Ashtin collected worms, we took a nature walk and he collected more leaves for his book, we played rock checkers, and we painted rocks!  The weather was beautiful.  I love this time of year and it's much better than 11 feet of snow that I hear Anchorage has this year!

Just the Facts

We, and I’m talking about anyone who listens to the news, hears it, then forgets it after several months or years go by, need to take a good look at what this administration stands for, without having to read between the lines or figure out what it means “politically” to have done this. David Barton is a man after my own  heart--he’s an extensive researcher. This article contains factual information on what the president and his administration has done while in office, attacking our nation’s religious.

Barton says in this article that “…perhaps the most accurate description of his [Obama] antipathy toward Catholics, Protestants, religious Jews, and the Jewish nation would be to characterize him as anti-Biblical. And then when his hostility toward Biblical people of faith is contrasted with his preferential treatment of Muslims and Muslim nations, it further strengthens the accuracy of the anti-Biblical descriptor.” 

At the bottom of the article Barton includes a list of the things he's documented, along with references.  You may be as shocked as me, at least I hope so. We don't have much time left to save our country.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/barton-calls-obama-americabiblically-hostile-u-s-president/

41st Anniversary

Just got back from a lovely dinner with hubby to celebrate our anniversary. Forty-one years is a long time to be married and living every day with the same man.  But hey, when you invest this much of your life with one person you're in for the long haul! So to speak.  :)

Today was also the primary elections for the Republican candidate for president. I didn't vote because my candidate was not on the ballot. For whatever reason, Santorum and Gingrich were not on our ballots in Virginia so why bother?  It's an interesting primary this time and should be an interesting Republican convention this summer.

I learned recently that the grandbaby that we were expecting did not make it. Nine weeks along, the mother miscarried.  I know in my heart that he/she will be waiting to meet us in heaven but it's never easy to know that you will not get to meet the little bundle and share in the life of another grandbaby while we are still here on earth. My heart grieves for my son and Hailey for their loss.

Hello blog.  I've missed you!  Things got busy this past week and I haven't made it to post anything all week.  I need to catch up and not get so busy.

So, what to talk about today.  My husband and I will celebrate 41 years together on March 6th.  That's practically a life time.  There are some people that don't even live that long.  We have our rough spots but it would be interesting to see if we can get to 50!  My parents were going on 61 years when my mother passed and my husband's parents were together for almost 60 years before my mother-in-law passed.    It's an oddity any more to see couples together for so long.  So, I'm curious. I start researching the percentage of people who stay married (you know me, I'm a researcher).  But I am alarmed at what I find. 

I google marriage statistics 2012 and find a chart that says a female married in 1971 does not make it past the 30th anniversary and the shocking part: the note at the bottom of the chart that says "Marriage cohort had not sufficient time to reach stated anniversary at time of the survey."  What the heck does that mean? There's no one who made it past 30 years in this survey? How can that be possible?

So, I move on to something a little more interesting and with more information.  I come across the "Highest Divorce Rates In the World".  Interesting, right?  Well, listen to this: Russia has 5 divorces per 1,000 people; Belarus (where is that you say? it's a country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania. You're welcome.) 3.8 per 1,000;  Ukraine 3.6 per 1,000; Moldova (never heard of it right? It's a small, former Soviet country sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine.) has 3.5 divorces per 1000 people; Cayman Islands: 3.4 per every 1000 Caymanians;  the United States as a whole has the 5th highest divorce rate in the world—3.4 divorces per every 1000 people; Bermuda: 3.3 per 1,000; Cuba: 3.2 per 1,000 (less than the US!); Lithuania in 9th place at 3.1 per 1,000 people; and last, which is actually 1st in the least amount of divorces is Czech Republic 3 per 1,000 beer guzzling Czechs. Czech is known for their beer and has the highest beer consumption per capita in the world! 

So the moral of this story is to drink more beer!

There's a good chance that I'll do most of my blogging on weekends.  I work long hours and am too tired when I get home in the evenings to try to blog.  During the day there are so many topics that run through my head that I would like to discuss here, but they usually require a lot of thought and research and take time that I just don't have during the week. 

The past few days have been filled with the news of tornado devastation across the mid-west and eastern parts of the country.  My thoughts and prayers go out to the families who have been in the paths of these horrible tornadoes.  I was close to a couple tornadoes when I was young, had friends who lost their homes, and I don't think there is anything more frightening than a tornado.

So, my 3 year old granddaughter told me today that she wished I was little like her.  And when I explained to her that I couldn't be little anymore because I'm a grandma, she wanted to be a grandma so I can be her.  How sweet is that?