Is there a War on Christmas?

Its been awhile since I updated blog but I found a issue close to my heart that I feel that I must write about. Its came about when I went to my towns tree lighting this weekend. It's the issue about all the political correctness that has gone into Christmas.

At the tree lighting one of our local churches puts up a nativity scene every year. After last year there where protestors that felt it was wrong to put it up. However it was sponsored privately so the whole thing was fair. One thing that bothers me is that they are ruining Christmas by taking the religious customs away. What if we did this to Jewish or other religious holidays also? Santa Claus started with St Nick, candy canes are to represent the shepherds at Jesus birth and Stars and Angles are to guide us to baby Jesus. These things have been secularized in today's culture though. I only ask people to give fair treatment and asking to keep Christ in Christmas

Thanks for reading. They ruled that the nativity scene was allowed since it was sponsored privately. Just wish the issue wasn't brought up.

Christmas and commercialism

With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up I thought about the commercialism in it. I realize that I am just as guilty of buying presents as anyone however I feel that it has become way to commercialized

I just realized as I was looking at the Black Friday ads and how the stores are opening so much earlier to collect a couple extra dollars. Presents are fine but I think we should all take some time to think about the real reason we calibrate. Jesus is the reason and that is why I go to church. It's my favorite part of the holiday is the Christmas Eve Mass at church. The spirit there is amazing.

I hope everyone gives some thoughts to the true meaning of Christmas. Enjoy all the presents and family time also

Labor Day 2012

Today is labor day and since my favorite season is fall I love the start of fall as well as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The last for months of the year have been my favorite since I was little.

We spent the weekend as a last hurrah of summer. As it should be but this year I am actually sad to see summer go. We had a lot of changes this past year and I am wondering how they will affect us this fall and into winter.

I am grateful for all the prayers and support that I have gotten over the past year and have a long road ahead. This is only the beginning.

Traveling!

I always feel I don't get to travel much. Mostly because of just life. Things just seem to happen to me. I had so much craziness in this past year I was just excited to visit a friend and get away from the craziness life brings.

We had to take a route that was slightly longer than we would have liked mostly so that we could keep in touch with family and be in the loop incase of a emergency. However we made it to Baltimore. The city is wonderful we spent time in Towson as well. We where able to make a trip to the ocean city why we were there as well as a trip to Washington, DC. The east coast is such a beautiful and vast area. I must also admit it was pretty driving through the Allegheny mountains and loved everything we got to do.

I know traveling takes a lot more planning for me than the average. I am still lucky I got a chance to go. I am hopping that I will get to travel more but probably won't get to do to much for the next 15-20 years

The good the bad and everything inbetween

I haven't updated my blog in awhile but now I have a few moments to do it I would like to say that it's been a emotional journey for me these last few mounths. I have had a lot going on and have been though a really long journey. Though it all I have learned a lot It all stated just before Easter I went to two of the hardest funerels in my life. One was for my great Grandma. I was very close with her she was the one that did many or the things with me my grandma would have normaly done but could not because of her MS. My grandma went into the hospital on Easter Sunday and was on a ventilator. I saw her and was just in tears I has already lost two relitives that week and saw a third fighting for her life. I know that is a lot for one week. She went on and off the vent for almost a month and a half until they put a Trachea tube in her last week. I also had some high points like we went to the science museum and it was a wonderful experiance and my family loved the planetarium show that we saw there. We spent memorial day up at the lake and it was the most peace I had in awhile. In conclusion that the story of the last two mounths filled with heartache and tears but a few nice moments.

One month without twitter: Early Summer

Hi! I thought I would blog tonight. This last week the weather here in Pennsyvaina has been amazing. It's been summer weather even though it's still early spring. It's been a nice treat but makes me wonder if we could break 100 in the summer though. I am still longing for summer though. Summer is always a great time because it's the only time the beaches and water parks are open anywhere around here.

I have been trying to get ready for summer since the weathers has been so nice. It's been a bit busy here. I can't believe that the warm weather snuck up as fast as it did. 80 degress. Remember last year I was wondering if we could shed our costs before memorial day. What a difference a year makes. I am hopping this weather continues through the summer don't want a rainy summer. I am looking forward to summer this year. Only 2 1/2 more. I have a lot of stuff going on this year.

I hope you enjoyed my blog and the weather. Working on a few different projects for the summer can't wait to get back on twitter.

Day 24 I made it week 3

Hi! I haven't written a blog in awhile so thought that I would post one tonight. I have now made it 3 weeks without twitter. I have missed talking to all of you. I know it's just a mater of time before Lents over though. This has been a test of will power for me. I have taken some time to look over all the gifts that god has given me.

I had a pretty good childhood for the most part grew up in a nice urban neighborhood with lots of kids my own age and had lots of friends. My patents where great parents. I remembrar our trips downtown and our Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter celebrations. I remember baking cookies with my mom. To this day I love to bake cookies even though I am not the natural cook. I competed in Gymnastics and Figure Skating. My room had medals and trophys I won. The hardest thing I faced was moving as a kid. My patents wanted out of the city. They said that although we lived in a nice neighborhood it was getting to crowded. We moved out to a small town in PA. I must admit we do have a beatiful state. The kids though in my new town I was the outcast

This school was different from my old school. 98% of the kids had lived in this town there whole lives and since I had not I was the outcast of the school. I also wasn't into the same music, movies or clothes these kids where into. I just go through high school and went onto college. This was where I met my husband. We got married after college and we had a nice wedding. I was just looking through our wedding album the other day and remembering the day. Though we had ups and downs these last few years I would not trade it for anything.

I hope you enjoyed my blog and looking back on my life been busy these last few weeks and very excited for Easter. I hope to catch up with all of you in a few weeks.