Censorship

Trump has been in office for only one day and so far has already shown his true colors. One of the first things he did was mess with the mortgage rates. This will directly impact our working class families. Then he started messing with Obamacare. He immediately removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr from the Oval office and replaced it with Winston Churchill. Then...and this is the scariest one... He ordered a twitter account be shut down because they posted something that he did not like. They posted a comparison picture of Obama's Inauguration day in 2009 and Trump's yesterday. This has been posted everywhere. However, he shut them down because it looked bad for him. They are now back up, but had to issue an apology. From the man who has screamed about constitutional rights has stomped all over the first one. Freedom of speech. Pay attention people. These may seem like little things to start with, but before you know it it snowballs. The rights he takes away today may not affect you, but tomorrow the rights he takes away might just be yours.

New Year

New Year - New Me

Cliche I know, but I really do want to make some changes this year. I will be 35 in June. My husband and I have decided to try for one more baby this year. I am super excited about that. However, I am at a very bad point as far as how I feel about myself physically. I am at the heaviest I have ever been. I have now hit my pregnancy weight! So this month I am joining a gym. I am joining the same one that my friend is a member of so we can go together. We are hoping that we will help keep each other motivated. It also has a ton of other family stuff for the kids too. The next thing is that I need to quit smoking. I have been a life-long smoker. I started very young and have now been smoking for more than 20 years! I am starting to feel the effects from it. My chest hurts all the time. I am short of breathe a lot. I don't know exactly where to start, but I need to stat. I am thinking about over-night hypnosis. What do you think? 

Our 45th President

Today, January 20th 2017, marks a day in History. Donald J Trump became our 45th President. I think that after his four years people on both sides will be surprised and angry. His supporters will be angry when they realize that he did not do the things that he promised. A lot of which he can not do, but they did not pay attentions. They did not do their homework and research. They read headlines and believed what he said. I wish it were that simple, but gone are the days of taking someone on their word. I am hopeful that maybe the other side will be a bit surprised as well. I am hoping that he will not be as crazy and scary as it seems now. I feel like as a nation we are holding our breathe. Waiting to see what he will really do. We have all spent so much time speculating. I think his Inauguration speech was like none of his other speeches. It was actually put together well. It is a shame that he doesn't mean much of it. I am sure that his supporters were left with a feeling of hope. I have a feeling that they will be terribly disappointed. I have learned through all of this that not ALL Trump supporters are completely nuts. Some of them are good people who are just a bit misguided. Some of them are hopeful that his banter is just that and that he will bring a good sense of business to Washington. For their sake, and mine, I hope that is true, but I don't think that it is. There are many people, including some that I know, who think that we should blindly show support and respect to him mearly because of his title. Well not me. I refuse. I will not blindly support someone. Respect is earned, and he has done nothing thus far to earn mine. I know that probably does not mean a whole lot to most people, but it does to me. So here it is, here we are.

 His first act as President.....

First act as President