NewsDay Tuesday

CBO Projects A Fourth Year of $1Trillion-Plus Deficits
Fox News

A new budget report released Tuesday predicts the U.S. government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September, the fourth year in a row over $1 trillion, though a slight dip from last year.

The new figures also show that last summer's budget and debt pact has barely made a dent in the government's fiscal woes.

The pact imposed $2.1 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years, but lawmakers are already talking about easing across-the-board spending cuts required under the agreement.

To top it off, another politically toxic increase in the debt limit will be needed at some point shortly after the November elections.

You can read more here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/31/cbo-projects-fourth-year-1t-plus-deficits/#ixzz1l4hl1An7 

Music Monday

Just because I LOVE this song!

Man Of Constant Sorrow
Soggy Bottom Boys

Family Friday

My Mom and I have been counting down the days for One For The Money to hit the theaters...and it is finally here!  So after kissing our guys goodbye, we are off to the movies!  YAY!

Thankful Thursday

A few things I have been thankful for this week:


Movie Night

How He Loves Me

Birthdays

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME TICKET TO A DEBATE!!!

Wordless Wednesday

NewsDay Tuesday

By now, the whole world knows that a great man, Joe Paterno, passed away this weekend.  I came to know, respect and admire him through my husband, who absolutely LOVES 'JoPa' and Penn State football.  So today's NewsDay Tuesday is to introduce you to someone I wish everyone could have known and to pay tribute to a legend.  You will be missed JoPa...

http://theschoolphilly.com/
Ryan Murray
Andrew Porter
Music: "Let Me Tell You" - Becky Dadi and Michael Bihovsk

Music Monday

A friend of mine posted just a single line on Facebook "He is jealous for me..."  I think every one of her friends chimed in a line and we have a large portion of the song posted now in the comments...Like a song we are all singing together online.  I don't have the words to describe how I feel when I hear and sing this song.  I at once want to scream it loud with joy...and quietly whisper it in awe...

How He Loves
David Crowder Band

Family Friday

So this Friday was wonderful in its boring-ness.  We all got home from work and school and took a trip to the grocery store.

After spending WAY more than I am used to on groceries, due to all of the "help" I had picking things out, we rented Kung Fu Panda 2 and headed home.

Nothing fancy, but a great night anyway!

Thankful Thursday

A few things I have been thankful for this week:


1. My Husband

 

2. My Parents

3. Date Night

4. Dreams
5. Getting Things Done

Wordless Wednesday

NewsDay Tuesday

Wikipedia Blackout: Websites...Go Dark to Protest SOPA, PIPA

ABC News

PIPA, the Protect IP Act in the Senate, and SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, have been presented as a way to protect movies studios, record labels, and others.  Supporters range from the Country Music Association to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...But the Internet giants say the bills could require your Internet provider to block websites that are involved with digital file sharing.  And search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing could be atopped from linking to them - antithetical, they say, to the ideal of an open Internet...

You can read more at the link below:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wikipedia-blackout-websites-wikipedia-reddit-dark-wednesday-protest/story?id=15373251#.TxWYs28S2Ag

MLK Jr Monday

"...we hold these truths to be SELF-EVIDENT, that all men are created EQUAL...they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER...knowing we will be able to WORK together, to PRAY together, to STRUGGLE together, go to JAIL together, to stand up for FREEDOM together, knowing that we will be FREE one day...we will be able to speed up that day when ALL of God's children: black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: FREE at last, FREE at last, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, we are FREE at last."

Family Friday

Oh, what a wonderful Family Friday this was!!  Got to work extra early, and at the end of a very productive day, got a surprise phone call from Hubby informing me that he had set up a couples massage for us!

After our hour of relaxation, we picked Little Man up from school (who passed an AR test and got a star for his behavior) and had dinner at a Japanese Steak House.  Yum!  

I couldn't ask for a better way to end the week with my family!

Thankful Thursday

A few things I have been thankful for this week:


1. Debates!

2. My Praise Team


3. 2nd Place!!

4. My Job


5. Homemade Laundry Soap

6. Making Decisions


7. OUR SAILOR IS HOME!!

I have to admit - today's Thankful Thursday post could be ALL about how thankful we are that he made it home safe and sound and how proud we are to call him Husband and Daddy.  He was what was missing in our house, and we are SO GLAD that he is back.  So WELCOME HOME Babe!  We love you!!

Wordless Wednesday

The Co-Signers

Each and every baby born this year will be immediately allotted $48,000+ of national debt: http://www.usdebtclock.org/

NewsDay Tuesday

New Hampshire's First In The Nation Primary is TODAY!!

Music Monday

Back to The Grind we go...Happy Monday!

9 to 5
Dolly Parton

Family Friday

Not a whole lot going on this Friday since I had to go to work and Little Man is spending the night with some of his cousins. (Lane came over for a while, but we got NOTHING accomplished, so that blog will have to wait!)  So I thought I would post some pictrues of my beautiful family that I am SO thankful for.  Enjoy!

The King of Our Castle

The Queen Mother

The Little Prince

The Princess

The Court Jester

And The Cat that just LETS us live here

Thankful Thursday

A few things I have been thankful for this week:


1. Having such a great little boy to travel with

2. Doing NOTHING


3. A New Year

4. Good Friends


5. My Fireplace!

 

Wordless Wednesday

"I'm reporting, live, from Iowa as the candidates finish up their last minute campaigning and the rest of the nation awaits the answer to the question at hand...Just what the hell IS a caucus?"

NewsDay Tuesday

It has officially begun!!!  The 2012 Presidential Race kicks off today with the Iowa Caucuses!!!  YAHOO!!

Music Monday

"Let's Start The New Year Right"
Emma Wallace

HAPPY NEW YEAR!