Ephesians chapter 4:28-29 "Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands," I think our system has tried this approach. The idea being that you can exchange a bad habit for a productive one. Good advice. Let's try trading 1/2 hour of TV for some form of exercise and see how that works. Of course, trading a bad habit for one that honors God is an even better idea.
On this day;
2004 - It must have been break from college, my whole day was about taking Nicole and Craig to Dave and Busters and then Nicole getting together with friends, Megan, Melanie and Janet. Sounds like they were catching up on the good old days.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs. Now they work at McDonalds and want the minimum wage raised to $15.00 an hour. JK
Parenting -
I missed my daughter when she went off to college. I also missed her friends. I still am in touch with a lot of them, on Facebook.
Come Get These Memories - of the Sixties (excerpt)
Mom called out and asked me to look after
Martin so she could finish dinner. I
took him in the back bedroom and found some toys to entertain him with. He was the cutest baby. He resembled Spanky, from The Little Rascals,
the TV program, and laughed just like him.
He was pretty good natured and easy to take care of. After my brother Donald, who was 18 months
younger then I, Mom waited 8 years to have another baby. Donald had been born severely impaired and
Mom had him made a ward of the state and put in an institution when he was four.
They called him retarded. He only had the mental capacity of a baby, was
always in diapers and lying in bed. There
were a lot of difficult feelings regarding, Donald, I had loved him so
much. It was all somewhat eased up in
the family by Martin’s arrival. He was perfect - smart, healthy and
very happy. And spoiled. You couldn’t help it. At night someone had to sit with him in the
bedroom till he fell asleep. Every night
I sang him to sleep. I had always sang
to my brother Donald too. His favorite
was the song from the TV show – The Mickey Mouse Club. I don’t think I had a great voice, but they
must have liked it. Donald would hold my
hand and rub my fingers. He did that
till he was 16. My singing wasn’t
anywhere near as good as Adams.
Juneau Alaska
The Alaska Governor's Mansion was commissioned under the Public Building Act in 1910. The mansion was designed by James Knox Taylor in the old Federal Style. The construction took two years and was completed in 1912. The territorial governor at that time was the first governor to inhabit the mansion, and he held the first open house to the citizens on January 1, 1913. The area of the mansion is 14,400 square feet (1,340 m2). This is where the governor resides when he or she is in Juneau for official business. The mansion contains ten bathrooms, six bedrooms, and eight fireplaces. In June 1923, President Warren G. Harding became the first president to visit Alaska. During his trip, Harding visited the Governor's Mansion while Governor Scott Bone, who was appointed by Harding, was in office. Harding spoke from the porch of the Governor's Mansion explaining his policies and meeting the ordinary people.Robert Atwood, then publisher of the Anchorage Times and an Anchorage 'booster,' was an early leader in capital move efforts—efforts which many in Juneau and Fairbanks resisted. One provision required the new capital to be at least 30 miles (48 km) from Anchorage and Fairbanks, to prevent either city from having undue influence; in the end Juneau remained the capital. In the 1970s, voters passed a plan to move the capital to Willow, a town 70 miles (110 km) north of Anchorage. But pro-Juneau people there and in Fairbanks got voters to also approve a measure (the FRANK Initiative) requiring voter approval of all bondable construction costs before building could begin. Alaskans later voted against spending the estimated $900 million. A 1984 "ultimate" capital-move vote also failed, as did a 1996 vote.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable!
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