Saturday, March 28, 2009

MORGAN!!!!! AND HER DAD!!!!!

I will have pictures coming soon of Morgan and her dad, they met up with us in Kentucky and took Alyssa back to Ohio!! sending me back with my family!!! lol
Olivia coulden't come she had to......well I'm not sure?? but we all missed her!
:( But she is coming when we pick Lyssa up!!! SUPER!!!!


I am SUPER busy there will be a post coming soon! I hope?

Maddie.M

Friday, March 27, 2009

I miss basketball!!!!




AWEOSME!! I know we didn't go to that many games but still!!! I really miss basketball! oh well I'm sill waiting on next year I guess!

PS. Family up date: We can not wait to move! the move will be around the end of May!!!! THAT LONG!! lol this time we are moving bye choice we REALLY DO NOT LIKE WHERE WE ARE!!! for better lack of a another word! this house is awesome! I will post pix of it as soon as I can!!!!

Please be preying that everything goes good with the house!
Thanks for your prayers!

Maddie.M

Thursday, March 19, 2009

WARNING!!!



I was watching Glen Beck and He said ......the first person to tell us on FOX NEWS and CNN mind you......He said that yesterday the FEDs voted and approved the printing of a trillion $$$$$BUCKS$$$$$ Making gold go up 50 BUCKS$$$ in four hours!!!!! Not good.

IT'S A JAW DROPPER FOR ME!!!!

example: Hyper-inflation

A shopping List in the future!!

1.) Milk 8.99$
2.) Bread 7.65$
3.) Paper towels BIG pack 20.oo$
4.) dawn dish soap 3-6$
5.) I don't think we need a five it's already to expensive :P

We can be clean and eat bread and milk that could be it. Of course learning and knowing how to take care of ourselves in tough times is key. There are great books out there on these subjects. Interested? I will post a few.

Economy!!!!! PART TWO!

16. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1861-1865

Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."

Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.

The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:

"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all."

Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."

He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.

The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

Economy!

On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles."

Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman.

He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him.

From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions.

When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years.

He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

Washington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President.

He did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger.

To his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances.

Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, for he died of a throat infection December 14, 1799. For months the Nation mourned him.

Obadiah!?!?!?!?!

Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring the down, Saith the Lord.

I don't know who else but I think MAYBE.........Obadiah is one of the less read books of the Bible??? it is the shortest book of the Bible! I was thinking that thought, and then I read that verse and decided to blog about it! I LOVE THAT VERSE!!
We all need to be brought back down to the ground, at one point or another!! at least. I DO!!!

I may be wrong about the outlook HAT DO YOU THINK???? I would very much like to know!

Bass pro not the first time we have been there just he first time I brought my camera






yeah I know I'm full of myself!

SORRY!

I'm so sorry about not posting you have NOOOOO IDEA HOW BUSY I HAVE BEEN!!!!
So I will have a post coming soon! ....... I think??



Sorry again! Maddie.M

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Moving

OK I do not have time for a really long post, But I just want to let everyone know that we are moving! YUP! it's a house on the river! LOTS OF SPACE!!! and lots of water to fish!!! because when we move there in May I think that's what my dad has in mind! WHO WOULDN'T??

I got to go for now! please be praying that every thing goes well!

Maddie <3

Sunday, March 8, 2009

But blessed are those that put their trust in the Lord
and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.
They are like trees planted along a riverbank...."
Jeremiah 17:7&8

<3 Maddie.M

I just was looking at my blog and saw that I have NO pictures of my grandparents!! ...so here are some!!





Saturday, March 7, 2009

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14