The kids kept jumping on the bed. During a conversation with a friend, I heard myself say, “It’s as if they are getting something from the jumping sensation.” Holly proceeded to tell me that jumping helps her son (who has Aspergers Syndrome) organize his thoughts. That next day, Aldi had an excersise trampoline for sale and we went and got it.

This is HILARIOUS! aaaaaannndd not so funny. . .

by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace ·

(2009-01-16) — As part of his effort to smooth the transition for his successor, President George Bush today offered to “pre-pardon” Barack Obama’s choice for Treasury Secretary to clear the way for Timothy Geithner’s approval by the Senate.

Concerns about Mr. Geithner’s failure to pay self-employment taxes for several years pose a potential embarrassment for the incoming Obama administration. If the Senate endorses him as Treasury Secretary, it could set up the awkward spectacle of the man who leads the IRS ordering an audit of his own tax history.

“Bush has offered to write the pardon now,” said the source, “leaving the date line blank for President Obama to fill in once Geithner has been convicted. That way, Obama can blame Bush for the pardon, and still keep his Treasury Secretary.”

I love when people I don’t know come across this blog and find something funny or encouraging and then leave a comment to let me know and, in turn, be encouraged. Amanda, a mother of ten who lives Down Under, did just that a couple weeks ago and I got to go visit her blog and be encouraged and challenged.

Amanda keeps a Book Blog where she is listing the books she reads in 2009 and giving a bit of a summary/review. I have subscribed to it as a resource.

Recently she wrote about the book Gems From Tozer and included this quote:

“We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them. The big danger is that we assume that we have been delivered from our sins when we have in reality only exchanged one kind of sin for another.We must, for instance, be careful that our repentance is not simply a change of location. Whereas we once sinned in the far country among the swineherds, we are now chumming with religious persons, considerably cleaner and much more respectable in appearance, to be sure, but no nearer to true heart purity than we were before.”

Dude.

Oh, and she reads like lightning so be ready if you decide to go check her out!

Thanks Amanda! I hope others will comment so I can learn from/with them as well.