We're Moving - to the top of a mountain.

No, we aren't, although two people from church asked me if we were moving.  Kinda made me wonder what people are saying about the Melzers...duh duh duh...

This past week I wanted to move to the top of a mountain and not deal with anyone anymore.  

But, if I say that, people think I don't like them.  People think I'm a people hater.  Oh, I like people.  I was just experiencing some anger this week.

Maybe it was the giant crater of cancer sores on my tongue that gave me headaches and made me slur my speech and drool that made me a tad more irritable.

A big part of it was hearing about men who are jerks and bail on their wife and kids.  Lame fathers drive me crazy and ruin the world.  Quit being selfish people.   

Another big part of it was the political climate this last week.  I have opinions.  Yes, I do.  Sometimes I debate them, but I don't know why.  I'm not sure I've changed anybody's opinion yet. I think people just like to debate because they like the adrenaline.  Adrenaline makes people happy for a moment.

I think the thing that frustrated me the most with politics this last week was learning once again how divided we are as a people.  As a person who loves Mesa for the basic reason of it's important to love your community no matter what, it was hard watching all the fighting - like what I assume it would be like as a grandma to watch my grown children fight and bicker (sorry mom).  I love thinking that everyone loves everyone and we should just go have a happy carnival and eat popcorn and cotton candy together.  But I know reality is that 50% of people would say that the cotton candy was going to kill you.  

Yes, politics drove me crazy this week.  But I can see how it becomes personal and frustrating.  I think I'm a good person, loving, compassionate, strong in my religion, trying to base my political opinion on what I think the good Christian thing to do is.  And then to watch  someone else with the same qualifications as me, good, loving, compassionate, trying to make the good Christian choice, choose a different political point of view.  How can that be?  Who is right?  Let's duke it out to see who the better Christian is seemed to be the answer this last week.

Hence the frustration and can I just move to the top of a mountain and not deal with this anymore?

This last week, Michelle Duggar (the mom who has 19 children and a t.v. show) just announced she will be having number 20.  People are ticked.

I don't really know why.  All of her kids are smart, hard workers, self sufficient.  Her family is debt free, they are taught gospel truths since infancy.  You can see there is a tremendous amount of love in that family.  Do I agree with everything they do, no, but they are good people.  

And yet, the whole world wants to weigh in on their opinion of how Michelle Duggar should raise her children.

It just goes to show, no matter how good your kids may be, how wonderful your end product, someone is always going to say you are doing it wrong.

You can't please everyone I guess.  Dang it.  I was trying so hard to.     

Maybe I won't move to the top of a mountain, but maybe I just need to focus more on:

Friday night drives to South Mountain to freeze your booty off in the cold windy dust storm.   

 Or more days of dressing up like huge Tweetie Birds.

 

 And days of selling lemon-aid 

 Yes, I should focus on how fun it is to fight with the right gear instead of fighting with words:

And the awesomeness of sneaking in to see my girl laying in her "crib" reading a book.  (Leta likes to nest in make shift "cribs" as she calls them - so much like her older sister Lucy.  No, this is not her actual crib.)

Or just sitting back to ignore the world and focus on the fact that my family is so special to me and that I am amazed our cat puts up with us.

"Look mom, we made a house for Hobbes and he loves it.  We even give him stuffed animals."

 Poke.

Looking forward to a new week.  Week goal:  go to bed by 10 - wake up at 6 and put first things first.