Labor Day

Well today was kind of a low key day. To be honest, I forgot it was a holiday until last night. As a teacher I always knew exactly when holidays were and thought it was weird when mom's would say they lost track of the day of the week or when holidays were. I guess I've gone to the other side :) Trav went camping with some friends last night and did some early morning fishing. Apparently the "guy talk" kept them up pretty late so he was exhausted when he came home. I'm glad he had some male bonding time. :) So we just stayed home until the Cardon's BBQ. Until then, I had a very typical day. I exercised, took Collin for a walk, made some zucchini bread, cleaned the bathroom.... yawn.

I did have an interesting talk with my mom though while I was on my walk. Our biggest topic was the video that will be shown in all schools tomorrow. I watched it on You Tube and was pretty shocked. It all seemed fairly unremarkable until the ending when all the brainwashed celebrities "chanted" together- I will serve Barack Obama. Seriously? They all claimed pledges to smile more help their neighbor. But some pledged to "not flip people off while driving" or "get rid of their obnoxious car and buy a hybrid". This video will be shown to Kindergarteners. Can't say I knew what flipping the bird was at the tender age of 7. It definitely filled my "propaganda" quota for the day. My mom was debating on whether to keep my brothers home from school to make a statement, or just let them go, but discuss it with them since you can't "protect" them from everything. It's tough being a parent. I can't imagine the kinds of decisions I'm going to have to make when my kids are in school. I was also pretty outraged from the standpoint of a teacher because apparently they are given lesson plans to go along with the video that they have to do with their classes. If you ask me, this is just scary.

Also today, I had my first encounter with Jehovah's Witnesses. Two women came by and Trav saw them coming and warned me, but I was kind of curious, so I opened the door. They didn't state who they were or what they were doing, they just asked me if they could share a scripture. They shared the one in Matthew about the 144,000 being saved. I was unfamilar with the scripture, but had heard this was one of their beliefs. I asked, "So you believe that only 144,000 go to heaven?" They said yes, so then I asked where everyone else goes. She said that they would stay on earth. So I told her I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and shared what I believed. When I told them that I believe I can be with my family forever in heaven and even become a Goddess of my own world, their eyes got all big and one lady commented on how I "glowed" when I said that. They honestly didn't seem to know how to convince me that I should be content with staying on earth when I believed I could become a Goddess someday. :) They shared another scripture and seemed to try and find more common ground with me, but I think they realized they weren't going to convince me of anything, so I thanked them for their message and they left. To be honest, I thought they were very nice ladies. I wasn't interested in bible bashing with them, because I don't think I'm much of a scriptorian and I don't see the point anyway. I've just heard so much negative about them that I was curious about what they would say. Even though I believe they are confused, I guess they are just trying to share what they think is right, so I can't really fault them for it. And even though I think my knowledge of gospel doctrine and principles is good, it's not what it could be. So my resolution is to read more and dig deeper in my studying. That goes for politics too. :)

And I'm quite proud of myself- a whole Labor day and no pictures.