have you heard about president obama's new educational plan? if not do a google or just click here. it's basically his plan for extending school hours, days and no summer's breaks... so american children can strive to be competitive with asian countries and the cookie-cutter children they're popping out. you know... so ALL of the kids in american can keep up globally.


look, i could beat my son over the head with a bag of wonder bread... and he would never understand greek mythology. i could threaten to make him sit at the kitchen table until 9 am every night... pushing academic excellence. i could enroll him in every enrichment class available to him. but, if that's not his passion. or his God-given talent... then i would be wasting valuable time.... time he could spend pursuing his own interests. not the government's.

what is it with you anyway? shouldn't you be working on resolving the wars that are happening? especially iran's nuclear ambitions? deciding whether or not you should send more troops to afaganistan... which by the way, i thought you were anti-war... but since you're heading to denmark today... shouldn't you be inviting the olympics to michigan instead of your backyard in chicago? michigan could sure use the economic shot in the arm... regardless if it's a few years away. i'm just saying... and another thing... perhaps good education starts at the top? with a better curriculum and better teachers. let's not play the blame game... the kids are just learning what the guideline says. they have no control of pushing their education. nor do the teachers.

not all of our children are meant to be engineers. doctors or lawyers. quite frankly, i don't want those type of stressful jobs for my son. God knows and has the plan. not the government. while, we are certainly grateful for those who've achieved high scores on their act's or sat's.... but, let's also be greatful to the man who picks our morning garbage up in the morning.

that said, let's not forget.... that we also need plumbers. we're grateful for tow-truck drivers. we need certainly need good local mechanics. and, we need the crane operators to give the white collar's a place to earn a living.

as a mother of a son... i often think what type of wife my son will have? i am hoping she's out there.... learning homesteading lessons from her parents. i'm hoping her mother is teaching her to be a good keeper of her home. and love her family and God. how to be thrifty, bake and be a good mother. these lessons will serve a happy life to herself and those around her.


Ecclesiastes 3:22. enough said.