Gross!

Salt Lake City has pollution at the worst in the nation.  BAD is 35.  SLC is at 142.  Don't breath anyone!

A warming trend!

We are supposed to be up by 10 degrees this week.......wow, 18 instead of 8.  Wonder if it will feel any warmer?

Sometimes....

Sometimes (yesterday and today), substituting in the Junior High makes me forget my faith in humanity and our future.  Can they even be quiet for one second?  NO!  Are they mostly rude, hurtful, unkind, cheaters and LOUD.  YES!  Very sad.

Scary

Obama just legislated (executive order) that Interpol does not have to abide by any of the United States policing laws and can police in America......(search and seizure, etc.)  This is REALLY SCARY stuff.  Can we all March on Washington or do SOMETHING?
Here is a quote from the Washington Post:
"Obama has granted Interpol the ability to operate within the territorial limits of the United States without being subject to the same constitutional restraints that apply to all domestic law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. Second, Obama has exempted Interpol's domestic facilities -- including its office within the U.S. Department of Justice -- from search and seizure by U.S. authorities and from disclosure of archived documents in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by U.S. citizens. Think very carefully about what you just read: Obama has given an international law enforcement organization that is accountable to no other national authority the ability to operate as it pleases within our own borders, and he has freed it from the most basic measure of official transparency and accountability, the FOIA".

Aren't we lucky?

Today in the mail we got a package from Linda and Gene for Christmas:  4 steaks, 4 fillets, 4 chicken breasts, 4 hot dogs (funny, huh?), 4 twice baked potatoes, 4 caramel apple turnovers.  Aren't we lucky????  I think meat is a funny thing to mail......but it mailed well!  So, what are we having for dinner?  Left over spaghetti!

Love to you all.

Just want to wish you all a very happy New Year. 

Pretty smart for a just turned 5 year old.

Cade asked me to ask him a question.  So, I said, "Cade, what is 4 + 5?"  He immediately piped up "9", to which I replied, "Wow, that was fast."  So he said, "Well, 5+5 is 10, and four is just one less than five, so it's 9."  I thought that was incredible logic for a just turned 5 year old.  He also cuts like a 3rd grader or better.  He can actually cut things out as well as I can............including fingers, curls in hair, and the finest details.  Amazing!!!  Smart boy.  Add that to all of the other incredibly smart grandchildren, and we are raising a mighty fine younger generation in our family.