It's finally FRIDAY!!

FINALLY an end to a month of five day school weeks. Ahhhh....I'm ready to get back to our four dayers.

I am blaming the five day weeks on the fact that I have a cold and it has officially gotten the better end of the tug of war rope. Ugh. For those of you who don't know, we have a four day school week here but due to four snow days in December, we had to make them up in January. We were not pleased with the decision to do them all at once, but...no one asked us to vote.

Today is Read A Thon in the 3rd and 4th grades. We take pledges, read all day, and collect money for our field trips. Yes, we have to raise our own. Any major city is 2 to 3 hours from school, so a trip is a TRIP!! Many kids don't have the opportunity to travel unless it is with the school. Today will be a fun day.

Oh, the house? They are inside doing the finishing work and the flooring. The roofers are to be back any day to finish up. It is getting closer. I'll let you know when we are finally going to move!!! The end of December passed, didn't it? Oh well.....


Barry shared this with me via email....I thought it spoke volumes.


"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." (Dr. Adrian Rogers 1931 to 2005)