Monthly Archives: January 2017

I give my kids fake names on this blog having to do with their interests or personalities. Recently, we had a little party for “The Batman’s” 24th birthday. Now, as long as I can remember, ever since he discovered Batman as a very little boy, He’s been Batman crazy. He even carries around little Batman figures for different things . . . one for reading, one for watching TV, one for sleeping, and one to just carry in his pocket wherever he goes. 🙂 Well, a new friend of ours who happens to be a member of Heroes Alliance NM, and who portrays Batman as a member of this group, had planned to come for Alex’s party as a favor. Unfortunately, at the last minute he ended up stuck going to work at his “secret identity” job because a lot of people called off that day. 😦 However, being the great guy he is, he sent some replacement heroes, who were kind enough to come!

So, the birthday party!

Eating pizza with Tony Stark and Wonder Woman . . .

And with Hal Jordan and his lady friend Tasha . . .

After pizza, Hal Jordan had to leave, but look! The Green Lantern showed up!

We’ve decided that Wonder Woman truly is a brave woman. When all the boys asked if she would have a mock battle with them, she agreed! They gave her a sword, and she let them shoot her with Nerf guns!

Here is the birthday cake . . .

And our Batman, blowing out the candles!

One good pic of all the kids with our special heroes . . .

Now, the really cool thing in addition to this is that Batman came by about a week later, in his “secret identity” to bring our Batman an autographed photo.

He accidentally left his sunglasses behind, so when he came back for them the next day, he brought a Batman book for our Batman. What a guy! 🙂

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And I know how very divided our country is right now. And I understand, too. However, here’s the thing . . . It’s a done deal. It’s time to think about some things.

• We live in one of the most free places in the entire world when it comes to politics and voting.

• I don’t recall ever in my adult life hearing that 100% of eligible voters participated in their right (and privilege!) to vote and take part in choosing our leaders.

• Every single election, whether local, state or national, is important, and every single time I hear people complaining, who as it turned out, didn’t even exercise their right to vote! Don’t vote? Don’t complain!

I want you to know, I was greatly disappointed when President Obama won. Both times. Not because of his color, I have two African/American boys. No, it was because my views and beliefs were totally opposed to his. But do you know what we did anyway? My children and I took the day off and we watched both inaugurations. And we watched all of the coverage. Why? Because it was a historical event. EVERY inauguration is a historical event, and I envy those who live where they can actually see it in person.

Our new President-elect was not my first choice, but he is the one who most closely follows the beliefs I hold, and I think it’s important now to support and pray for him, as we should for all of our leaders. We should pray that he WILL be a good president, regardless of our misgivings, whatever they may be.

I saw something on Facebook recently that summed it up for me:

To hope that the president fails is like hoping the pilot of your plane fails while you and a lot of other people are on the plane.” It’s stupid. I’m sorry, but it is.

Once again, my children and I will watch the inauguration tomorrow. We will also be using a free one day unit study from a company called Homechool Legacy, a company I have previously reviewed products for as a member of the Homeschool Review Crew. This study is called Inauguration Mini Study, and you can download it today here, free. I promise you, you will be happy you did.

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