Snow Day

So, it's Mid December and we have snow. It's funny that here in Oregon the whole place shuts down once there is even the slightest chance that snow will stick to the ground. Our first winter here, it snowed a little on a Saturday night. We went to church the next day, there was just a little slush on the road, but the place was deserted. We went home and the news reporters were all a dither about the snow. So now we know - life shuts down when the white stuff sifts down from the clouds. No church today, and no school tomorrow. Un fortunately, the courts don't close so I must get to work tomorrow and brave the slick roads with a bunch of people who have no idea how to drive in it. But the kids are loving it!

My raison d'etre, my kids. How can anyone dislike kids? How could anyone intentionally harm a child? I wish it were not so, but far too many are harmed in our society. We are too soft on perpetrators. We allow too much to enter their lives through the media and schools that can sully their innocence. These I will strive to help grow happy and strong - enough so that they can tell right from wrong in a world that no longer makes that distinction.