It’s the middle of January and winter’s finally put in an appearance. Yesterday was cold, dark and snowy. Not much accumulation, but man, the roads were a sheet of ice last night. It took Tim 3 hours to get home. That’s about double the normal time. Today the sun is blinding, but it’s cold. Freeze your nether-parts off cold. And guess what? I am happy, thrilled even, about it. After four straight days of rain and dealing with sopping, mud caked, dogs, kids and husbands….I consider nice clean snow and frozen goo a good thing.
We are still feeling our way through the whole Matt/Ashley/where exactly does Matt live thing. I guess I’ve resigned myself to accept a lot of things, rather than take the chance of alienating him. I’m talking about things like him staying with her family some nights rather than come home and her being here pretty much every single moment that he is. As far as house rules, I have gone over a few of those with him. So far so good, but then he isn’t here a whole lot. I hope my mom heeds our example and follows it. She’s been pretty vocal with me about her displeasure with his decisions and especially about Ashley. If she doesn’t get a handle on it, it’s going to start being noticable to Matt and I know him. He will shut her out. Sigh. I guess every generation of parents has had the same lament…."What’s wrong with these kids today?"
Matt and Ashley were here last night, but bad as it was out, they had to head back to Pittsburgh around 10:00. We weren’t happy about it given the shape the roads were in, but there was no helping it. Ashley has some pretty serious digestion issues….some disease of the esophagus that has a fairly high rate of leading to cancer, acid reflux and you know those flappy things that cover the inside of your stomach? She doesn’t have any of those. The acid reflux irritates the other two conditions. Anyway, she had some kind of attack last night and was having a hard time breathing (I thought she was having an asthma attack) and of course, she didn’t have her meds with her. Matt says she isn’t a whole lot better today so after work he’s taking her to see the doctor.
Oh, yeah….I finally got to see the engagement ring. It had been out being sized and they just got it back yesterday. It’s pretty. White gold and very dainty. I was glad about that. I was worried Matt might have taken on a huge pile of debt to buy her a big rock, but in this at least he used his head (relatively speaking).
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I usually stay away from politics but I just have to applaude Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy. Amen and let’s not stop at just national security. It’s long been my opinion that federal judges stick there noses into too many things where they don’t belong. The job of the courts is to interpret and apply the laws as they exist, not to bend and change them to suit their own political beliefs. It’s my humble opinion that the Supreme Court has turned itself into a legislative body, setting policy by way of their rulings, rather than a judicial one.
We lived through it with my son Pat and he and we survived. Bending is not easy for a parent. EWe were lucky because grandma bente asier than us.
I don’t know how you can have a court made up of people that doesn’t allow its understanding to shape the law.
Comment by Dr. John — January 17, 2007 @ 9:22 pm