It's Saturday. I love Saturdays...It's the day we all get to do whatever we want and for Boyd, that means sleeping late. He gets up at 4:45 am every day so Saturdays are a treat for him. Today I am taking Chloe to the Mall of America to return a ring we bought there and we'll also be picking up $100 worth of hotdogs that we had a friend pick up from Michigan. We can't get them here! Josh is going to a friends house for a day of AIRSOFT wars. And what does Boyd get to do? He gets to do our taxes! Well, at least he'll have the whole house to himself since we'll all be gone. He's such a great guy. I'm so lucky. He works very hard and demands very little. I am blessed.

Today it's going to be sunny and in the 40's. I love the sun. Life seems more...sunny when the sun is shining.

Time for the Paavola4 Movie Review...

"The Bee Movie": A real yawner--at least for grown-ups. I guess if you like Seinfeld, you may like it, but Jerry Seinfeld's style of humor was never my cup of tea. I give it a "B-". Even though it's completely boring for grown-ups, the kids may still like it.

"Amazing Grace": VERY good movie that I highly recommend. It's a great historical count of one man's battle against slavery set in the 1700's in Europe. It seems like it would be boring, but it's not. I made Josh watch it for his history and he even liked it. I give it an "A" because it's a movie you can watch with your teenagers and not be embarrassed and everyone learns something about history as well. There's no sensuality to be found and if there was swearing, I can't remember hearing it. Great movie.

Time to get back to my coffee. Have a great day.

Happy Thursday to you! Well, it was in the 40's yesterday and today, so I thought I'd take advantage of the sunny "warm" days and start walking again. I took a break over the winter because I'm not into frostbite much. We northerners really appreciate the spring, summer and fall. If you're not into wintertime activities, you rejoice when the snow starts to melt and cry when the first leaf falls to the ground. Summer is just around the bend...

Food for thought...

I was perusing the newspaper today and read an article about the former Governor of New York being in a heap of legal troubles for what he did. His political life and marriage are probably in ruin. Then I started thinking about how upside down and messed up our society is really getting. Prostitution is illegal, soliciting prostitutes is illegal, but pornography—the very cause of much of our society's debauchery—is not. Porn is legally available at the click of a mouse, on our televisions, in our movies, books and magazines and in our music. The TV ads for Victoria's Secret or Lipstick Jungle are just shy of being porn, and it's all legal. Oh yes...I forgot...It's considered free speech... silly me. It's all a bit inconsistent, wouldn't you say? I don't think the men who founded our country had pornography in mind when they amended the constitution to allow freedom of speech.

If homosexuality is a completely acceptable lifestyle and legal, then why aren't all of the other sexually depraved act acceptable as well, like incest? Where do we, as a society, draw the line between right and wrong? When people's moral compass is "live your own truth" or "If it feels good, do it" or "It's all good" then we get what we've got. A moral mess.

If someone kills a woman who is pregnant and her baby dies as well, that man can be convicted of two murders...yet the courts say abortion—knowingly killing an unborn child— is legal. It makes no sense. If one is illegal, then why not the other. Does the value of a human life depend on whether it's wanted or not? We are all created by God. We are His workmanship, therefore we are valuable to Him and He wants us.

Hopefully, tomorrow's newspaper will bring a shred of good news. All I can do is pray for our nation, pray for our leaders, whoever they are or will be, and say that Jesus (not religion) really IS the answer to our human condition. We praise you God, for Easter!