some more political stuff...

Am I the only one that is nervous?


ISSUE
JOHN McCAIN BARACK OBAMA

Favors new drilling offshore in USA
Yes No
Appoint conservative Supreme Court Judges who interpret the law only
Yes No
Military Service (Active and/or Inactive)
Yes No
Time in US Senate
22 YEARS 173 DAYS
Advocates Socialized Medicine
No Yes
Supports abortion (including 'partial birth')
No Yes
Troops out of Iraq now
No Yes
Supports 2nd Amendment Gun Rights
Yes No
Supports homosexual marriage
No Yes
Overall programs require large tax increases
No Yes
Supports English as the official language
Yes No
Social Security benefits to illegal felons?
No Yes
HOME SALES TAX

MCCAIN
0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples) and no tax increase for all other existing home sales.
OBAMA
28% on profit from all home sales, a MAJOR 'hit' affecting retirees downsizing for equity transfer to retirement.
STOCK DIVIDEND TAX

MCCAIN
15% (no change)
OBAMA
24.6% increase to 39.6%
GENERAL INCOME TAX

MCCAIN(no changes)
Single making 30K - tax $4,500Single making 50K - tax $12,500Single making 75K - tax $18,750Married making 60K- tax $9,000Married making 75K - tax $18,750Married making 125K - tax $31,250
OBAMA (reversion back to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400Single making 50K - tax $14,000Single making 75K - tax $23,250Married making 60K - tax $16,800Married making 75K - tax $21,000Married making 125K - tax $38,750Under Obama, taxes almost double!
INHERITANCE TAX

MCCAIN
0% (No change to previous Bush repeal of Inheritance Tax
OBAMA
Wants to restore the inheritance tax, a HUGE hit to long-term family held business and properties lost due to inability to pay exorbitant inheritance taxes. Multiple properties going into receivership, often sell for 50 cents on the dollar.
NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA

New federal 'luxury' tax proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet.
Additional federal gasoline tax.
New federal tax on natural gas, water and electricity.
New tax on retirement accounts.
New, across the board general taxes to pay for socialized medical benefits, including to illegals.



Above information may be verified at the following sites:http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/election/2008/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.taxes.htmlhttp://elections.foxnews.com/?s=proposed+taxeshttp://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/mccain_obama_offer_different_visions_on_taxes.htmlhttp://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/barack_obama/http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/john_mccain/

websites

ok i know im chatty tonite... lol i guess im making up for neglecting my blog the last couple weeks.
i was looking at some cool sites about voting your values and thought i would share...
www.wallywonderswhy.com
http://ivotevalues.com/
www.ivotevalues.org/

thankful.

Today, We (terry, me,Whitney,Nick, and Haley) attended wrap the homeless with the church. Wow, what a wake yp call. the next time i complain about something stupid, Slap me!!!! I am so thankful for all that i have. i know we have struggled but i guess i take for granted that we have so much more than others and i nedd to really be Thankful for it. It was such a blessing to love on people that have nothing and to really share hope with others.

political joke.

I thought this was funny.............My stepmom sent this to me.

Getting A Parking Ticket The other day I went downtown to run a few errands. I went Into the local coffee shop for a snack. I was only there for about 5 minutes, and when I came out, There was this cop writing out a parking ticket. I said to him, 'Come on, man, how about giving a Retired person a break'? He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. His Insensitivity annoyed me, so I called him a 'Nazi.' He glared at me and then wrote out another ticket for Having worn tires. So I proceeded to call him a 'doughnut eating Gestapo.' He finished the second ticket and put it on The windshield with the first. Then he wrote a third ticket when I called him a moron in Blue. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I talked back To him the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn't really care. I came downtown on The bus, and the car that he was putting the tickets on had One of those bumper stickers that said, 'Obama in '08.' I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm Retired. The doctor tells me that it's important to my health

confessions.......

ok so i have to get a few things off my my chest. and i only do so because i need the prayers of my readers and i just need to be real about my feelings. I want you to know this is very general and has happened over my lifetime and i do still struggle with this today. Thank God that i can know that i dont have to impress him. Just love Him.
I know that i dont have the best personality, i have a had a lot of issues this last year , tend to say the wrong things and have horrible timing. I have always been the person who has the ignore me, unpopular or tease me target on my head. I feel like have a lot of friends but i also feel like i am just a face in the crowd and if I leave town or something no one would notice or miss me. I have tried to fit into so many different "cliques" only to feel like the outsider. I have felt snubbed on different occasions and just clearly left out. I was always the unpopular one and the one teased about everything. I hung out with people a lot older or younger than myself, because im not sure why but i was just not accepted by my own piers. I am not trying to be negative, I just thought i would be real in figuring out who i really am and what my real purpose is. I have been praying through a lot of issues in my life in trying to get closer to Jesus. This one of my bigger ones i am working on. Thanks for listening.

pandora

ok so i was told about a cool website. its called pandora.com. all it is is streaming music and its free. the cool part about it is you put your favorite artist or song it will stream the that type of music. www.pandora.com just thought i would pass that along.

is it so hard?

I wrote this a while ago when i attempted to blog on myspace.
I just read it and i dont remeber what was going on when i wrote it but it sure did inspire me today so here it is.



is it so hard to live a life of worship? is it so hard to realize that we are loved beyond comprehension? Is it so hard to not only know who we are but whose we are? I we purpose in our hearts to stand on the Word of God and use it, No devil in Hell can defeat us. We can stomp on his ugly head and command him to flee. God loves us sent His Son to die in our place. He is the King of Kings so that makes us an hier to the throne. 1 peter 2: 9-10 We are to walk in that power use our sword and live a life worships him. Think of the Power in that. It is hard because we are in a war. (3For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons.4For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, 2 corinthians 10: 3-4)Satan is a liar, He wants us to get our idenity from anything but Christ. so to combat him and war against when we study the word, live in an attitude of worship and take every thought that comes to our head captive and make obedient to Christ( 2 Corinthians 10:5) and listening to the Holy Spirit> Its not easy to live in that. it is spiritual warfare. it i s a consious eveday minute by minute choice we make! I pray peace strength and love over each one that reads this!God Bless~

waiting.

Ok well i mentioned before that terry fnally got a job. things are getting better and things are still looking up. But please pray for us that we will have wisdom in our finances and are able to catch up on things and spend wisely. We are still waiting on his first check to come and i praying that we can get things back to normal soon.

Our biggest concerns at the moment are
rent (continued grace and good relationship with our landlord)
phone and internet (i go to school online)
Light the Night Outreach.

thanks for the prayers God Bess.
Proverbs 3:5-7 (New King James Version)
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.

little tornadoes.

i have such a hard time keeping anything clean with this little tornado. lol :)

I thought the tornadao in august 07 was bad but it was nothing compared to my little tornadoes i deal with daily.

yes this is there room but when it is this messy all time it spills into the rest of the house.

thank you for letting me vent. :)

priceless artwork....

i love it when my kids draw me a picture... just not so nuch on my walls.....

Hmmmmm i wonder if might get some good ideas of how to remove it.

WONDERFULLY BROKEN...

This weekend we went to the leadership conference at our church. can i just say wow. God is so amazing. I went expecting to really just kindof learn some to become a more effective leader but i got so much more. i attended Dena's session "Women in Ministry" She spoke about mary and martha. I so needed that. It is easy to get totally involved in so many things and just forgot to lay down at the feet of Jesus. In our time of prayer i really was seeking direction and provision when a dear friend came and just prayed with me. It was amazing, I said nothing to her and she prayed out loud what i was praying to myself. She gave a few words of wisdom as well and well i guess just lost it. I was so wonderfully broken for rest of the day and truly feeling so loved by my Father. On Sunday Pastor Adam spoke about truly living the first commandment and then the second commamdment in that order. I seriously thought for a while was the only person in the room. Pa also spoke on sunday night about taking our position and accepting our position in Christ. He talked about the butterfly and challenged us to spread wings.

It was absolutly beautiful.
Today i have say i just abolutely Loving God.
i subscribe to a weekly newsletter that sends scriptures for the week.
Here they are:
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the Rock Eternal. --Isaiah 26:4

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. --Psalm 63:1

I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed -- I, and not some foreign God among you. You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "that I am God." --Isaiah 43:11-12

It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. --Deuteronomy 13:4

Listen to advice and accept instruction and in the end you will be wise. Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. --Proverbs 19:20-21

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Psalms 62:8

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. --Proverbs 3:5-6

This came with One of the scriptures as well and it really Hit me.

Almighty God, teach me your ways and help me discern your paths for my life. I have so many plans and schemes, but I know if they are not from you, they will not stand. Lead me to your wisdom and I pledge to you that I will not only seek to know it, but also seek to live it. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.

shoes didnt work

Well the great deal i got on the was not so great. i wore one pair last night and they killed my feet. since 3 were the same brand and same style and the fourth were a size smaller than my normal and still were to big i took them back. Oh well.

Coupon savings.

ok say i am startin to do the coupon thing. Im really excited. anyway i went to kmart today because they are doubling coupons today through the 5th up to $2.00. I made terry go with me because i wanted him to see how was done and since he is skeptic, I wanted him to see it with his own eyes.

Ok so we did ok i think for our first time. Our total had we not had coupons would have been approx. $165 our savings from sale items was 48.65 and with our coupons we saved another $38.50. Our total we paid was about 80.00. that is half. im really i excited about it. Alot of it was suff that we mainly needed around house or a couple misc things that i wanted buy unless it was incredibly on sale.

I was a ble to buy a few things to stockpile with too. *yea*

Ok here are few of my favorite deals............

ok so these were not actually on sale but i love infusium 23 and i refuse to pay 6.50 a bottle for any shampoo. So i had 3 coupons for 2.00 off and since they were doubled iget them for $2.50 a bottle. *woohoo*

Ok Deal #2

Family size bottles of garnier shampoo and conditioner. reg 6.49 on sale for 5.00 double 2.00 coupon makes them a buck a piece. Plus if you looked on the of the isle they were selling them with a product attached that runs about 3.50 a jar and there are coupons attached. sweet.

Deal # 3

my donation item. we only use shaklee detergent. but these were on sale for 2/$10 so with my $2 double coupon i got a bottle of tide for a buck.

deal #4

reg price 2 .89. had 2 $1.00 doubled coupons final price .89 each

ok last but not least disosable razors....

had coupons (cant remember details lol) but they were around $1 or $1.50 each. not bad.

God is so good.

Ok so i needed a pair of shoes because basically all i have is flip flops and sandals. So today while at Kmart i found that shoes were on clearence and an additional 50% off of that. Way cool. I found myself four pair of shoes for $10.00. that was $2.50 a pair and they are cute.

Thank You God for provision in the little things.

oh yeah i also found Nick a pair of shoes for $4.50 and Haley a like new pair of "SKECHERS" at a garage sale for 50 cents. Yea God.

poor little ones.

well its that time of year again, Allergy and cold season!!!!! yuk! Poor Whitney and Noah are fine during the day but when comes to bedtime they cough all night long. i took Whitneu to the dr today and he gave a cough medicine but she is still in there coughing. grrrrr. i maybe making another phome call tomorrow. *sigh*

you like.

I cant believe i just spent two hours sitting here revamping my blog. I hope you like.

Kudos......

I just have to say that our womens Ministry team is the Best!!!!!!!!!! Thank You Dena for your obedience and your honest and straightforward words. Prayer team You Rock. Worship team there are no words to express what God gives me through you. thank you thank you thank you all for your willingness to serve and obedience to the Lord.
God Bless You All!!!!

a little political.......

I got this email and thought it was good so.....

TEN PREDICTIONS NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION:
1. The Bible will still have all the answers.
2. Prayer will still work.
3. The Holy Spirit will still move.
4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people.
5. There will still be God-anointed preaching.
6. There will still be singing of praise to God.
7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
8. There will still be room at the Cross.
9. Jesus will still love you.
10. Jesus will still save the lost.
ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS STILL IN CONTROL? AMEN!!!

the light at the end of the tunnel

Wow!!! what leesons we are learning(at least i am). terry has been out of work since July 4th.
We have been really tested this summer. His company fought his unemployment and after filling out paperwirk with dhs they said that we were eligible food because of the deal with his other job grrrrrrr Financially we have been through the ringer. Each day we have to pray for things like gas and basic needs. terry and i acutally almost seperated. It was at that time that i finally just gave up and said God you have to take this cuause i cant do this anymore. Wow!!!!! why didnt i do that before? Well we finally got his unemployment *yea* and our benefits back. and terry got a job finally after about 300 applications he put out. He starts next week. All we ask now is for prayer because obviously we are behind on a few things and we need wisdom and provision in getting some things paid. Like rent phone and utilities. Also i am looking for a babysitting job. so if you know of anything let me know. thanks

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Light the night needs!!!!!

Hi Our family is hosting an outreach with our church on Halloween called light the night. Our goal is to reach out to our community and show them the Love of Christ on a night that is traditioally very dark. we are doing U of M. vs. MSU theme. we are looking for as much as we can to decorate with. we could also use christmas lights sport equipmentwall hangings a goal post
those yard blow up things sacks fo three legged races.some fun bright ideas.sheets (themed msu um or colors)if have any ideas for games or would like to to participate please email.

If you are interested in donating some items and would like them back please label them and email what you would like to donate to me.
I really appreciate the help and like i said already some bright ideas.
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer please email.
God Bless,
Terry, Amy, Nck, Whitney, Haley, Kelsey and Noah

Eph. 5:1-2
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
www.shaklee.net/psalm121
www.myspace.com/child_of_god1975

cool little bumper stickers

i really hope my answer is yes!!!!!!!!!

i like this one a lot!!!! I guess i want it to be a goal.

Oh the sunshine....

After a full three straight days of rain, it was so nice to have sunshine today.
i guess i cant compain to much cuz i have a house and electricity. i could be in Galveston right now!!! God bless those that are there. I pray for speedy recovery!!!!! I am just glad our basement is starting to dry out!!!!!!!!

frustration ................

Ok so i am going to vent a little. am i the only one that has issues with disrespect and disobedience? I feel like when i say something i am completely ignored or it is an negotiation*sigh* i want to just really scream. Seriously why cant i just get it straight.
Thank the Lord, that when I am disrespectful or disobedient He doesnt scream and stops his feet. His simply extends grace and mercy and gently gives correction. Boy have i got a lot to learn.

The box game. It looks a little dangerous but its a favorite.

sorry about the sun.

These kids are absolutely the best kids. They are crazy and so are the leaders(myself being one of them) the one question i have is who came up with this game? Its my favoerite and if you watch video you will see why.

Actually i have two viedos and again sorry about the sun.

More than the fun and games, These absolutely Love God and their Hearts becoming REFINED.

To me the is most exciting thing to watch.

Picture over load!!!!

ok so it is is teo weeks into school and i am am just now loading pics of the first day. im slow. lol

We have a few big days. A few firsts and lots of busy - work. I just love filling out all the back to school paperwork. Oh and just mention i am in school too. i started the same day as the kids. lots of fun.

Nicholas is in 6th grade.

Whitney is in 5th and started at fis. She was so excited.

Haley is in 3rd grade. Kelsey is in young 5s. oh my my goodness she could hardly stand the excitment.

and noah started Preschool at Freedom Montessori.