Familial Research and Development

The drive home from work was 33% longer than normal. Quick dinner. Boomerang back north to enjoy participating in baptisms at the Temple doing Family File names. One of the witnesses is a business associate. He says to me, "This is a long drive for you." To which I respond, "It is a very small sacrifice." For thirteen years David has worked for USWest/Qwest/CenturyLink. It has been their policy, for his department, to work one weekend a month. That's fair. It is a 24/7 department, so it is fair. Also, when you work weekends the pay-rate has a differential factor-so it really is fair. For twelve and a half years David has been able to trade away his weekends and worked midweek days for those who took his weekends. Then he was released from his Stake calling that he's had for nearly 22 years. Now when he puts weekends out-no one takes him up on them-differential rate or not. So, slowly he's stopped caring about trying to trade them away. Having worked in t...

And now it came to pass that America was conferred upon Obama; therefore Obama began to reign; and he did NOT walk in the ways of our founding fathers. For behold, he did not salute the American flag unless he felt like it, but did walk after the desires of his own heart… Using Air Force One to take his wife to lunch in Paris; using a privatized Greyhound size campaign bus to haul the dog around on a campaign tour; hiring expensive staff to make sure his 'for this world only' wife always looks beautiful. And he did cause this people of America to commit sin, and do that which was abominable in the sight of the Lord. Yea, they did commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness. Even that of condoning same sex marriage; illegal aliens to take from the tax system and all manner of evils. And he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed, a fifth part of their gold and of their silver, and a fifth part of their ziff, and of their copper, and of their brass and their iron; an...

Sometimes you are put in situations that are very difficult to deal with. Which way do you choose? One way or the other you lose. Danged if you do, danged if you don't. Rarely are people able to choose and have it all. Very rarely. It was the hardest thing for me to deal with when Jacob went off to Iraq. I couldn't go to see him off because of obligations at home and I couldn't go to see him return for the same reasons. Same thing happened when he deployed to Afghanistan. So hard. I had a heavy heart and countenance for days each time. Wanting to go, to be there yet not being able to. We did eventually get to go visit him after his last return and deployment and again before he finished his active duty. Wasn't quite what I wanted but, it was the way it had to be. The foster parenting chapter of our lives closed, college graduation finally behind and at a job long enough to have sufficient vacation in place and so I got to go welcome home our sailor. What a feeling of re...