Thursday, April 23, 2009

Most Embarrassing Moments

Anna Moseley inspired this blog. Everyone must comment back with their most embarrassing moment and we will all relish in each other's crazy stories.

Here is mine:
So I was 7 to 8 months pregnant and fairly big. I was just wasting time wandering the department stores after Christmas looking at all the discounted junk that we all seem to need in early December when I saw a massage chair. My pregnant body was all for a massage in any form so I waddled over and decided to give it a go. It was one of those portable chairs with just a back and arm rests that would sit against your wall on the floor. After I finally get it set up and get me on the floor to use it, I turn it on and it is fabulous. I'm loving this chair. I lean back, relax and close my eyes to enjoy a free post-holiday massage but suddenly realize I had relaxed a bit too much! Yes, that's right, I peed my pants! Just a small, small bit, but enough for me to take my sweatshirt off and tie it around my waist. OMG, I was so embarrassed. I immediately got up, pushed the chair in the corner, squirted all my purse-size purell on the floor and then lied to a nearby cashier that I "spilled" my purell and it needed to be mopped up. I don't think I went back into the store until after Elliot was born and I no longer had him squeezing my bladder. I was SO embarrassed!

Okay everyone... I told you mine... you tell me yours! Spill the beans!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Moving Sale

We are having an in-home moving sale before our garage sale in hopes to off load some of our bigger items. Please see our craigslist post for details. We are WAY squishy on the prices, I always list high knowing people will offer less. We'd love to cut you all deals!

http://redding.craigslist.org/fuo/1131379995.html

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Verse of the day

I signed up for Air 1's verse of the day years ago and I get it about once a week - don't ask me why there is a difference - I haven't a clue! Anyways, this was the verse for the day and I thought it was pretty hard core. Read it.

"Examine yourselves to see if your faith is really genuine. Test yourselves. If you cannot tell that Jesus Christ is among you, it means you have failed the test."

2 Corinthians 13:5, NLT

Did you pass the test?

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Interesting Article about Obama and Easter Sunday.

I found this article and thought how crazy it must be to be the President. He can't even sit in a pew on Easter without being picked apart! Good luck Mr. President - We'll be praying for you!

D.C. churches anxious as Obama picks Easter church

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama and his family are looking for a new church, but his decision represents more than merely settling on a pew.

The Obamas planned to attend Easter services Sunday, marking the president's first visit to a Washington church since taking office in January. Aides have been secretive about which church the first family will attend, citing security and the desire not to disrupt services for other worshippers. They also caution that the church Obama visits might not signal that the president has decided on a permanent place of worship.

Obama's choice of a permanent pastor is sure to draw scrutiny, given his history with a pastor in Chicago whose bombastic sermons almost destroyed Obama's presidential bid.

"On one level, I think he's just getting acclimated to DC. He's still feeling things out. Easter is a very important day in the Christian calendar; he's a Christian," said J. Kameron Carter, who teaches theology and black church studies at Duke University. "But you are the president. Whatever decision he makes is going to be analyzed with a fine-tooth comb against the backdrop of the Rev. Wright."

Obama's presidential campaign was blind-sided last year when video surfaced of his friend and pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, condemning the United States and suggesting the government was to blame for the HIV/AIDS scourge on black communities. Wright's sermons forced the then-senator to deliver two speeches: the first, a tempered defense of the pastor whose rhetoric inspired the name of Obama's memoir; later, a speech about Obama's views on race that has been viewed almost 6 million times online.

Wright followed up with a media tour that personally frustrated Obama and politically enraged his aides. Obama left Trinity United Church of Christ and has been without an official house of worship since then, instead relying on a close circle of advisers and pastors to help him in private.

"What the president should do — and I believe would do — is find a church home that's good for his family," said Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical who speaks with White House aides several times each day and Obama frequently.

"In the post-Jeremiah world, he can't just do that," Wallis said.

But Obama has told his advisers he needs a church, and he faces choice.

He could join a historically African-American church in the nation's capital, where 55% of the population is black. It would be a nod to his family's roots on the South Side of Chicago, a signal to his black supporters who helped fuel his rapid rise and a cue to his two young daughters. It could also be a danger if a message from the pulpit comes anywhere close to Wright's heated rhetoric.

Aides say he could just as easily select an integrated church, similar to the one his visited immediately after his South Carolina Democratic primary win last year. Obama made his first appearance after the victory at an interracial and interdenominational church in Macon, Ga. The move helped him with whites concerned Obama was merely a candidate for black voters and helped him win that state's nominating contest.

Experts caution reading too much into what Obama does on Sunday and beyond to address his personal faith.

"At the end of the day, whatever way he finally goes is going to be dissected," said Carter of Duke's divinity school. "I think it gets in the way on some level."

So far, Obama hasn't really needed a church to call his own; he spent last Easter in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Christmas in Hawaii.

But for his first major Christian holiday as president, Obama is publicly marking the celebration. Obama enlisted aides, friends and advisers to scout out more than a dozen churches in the Washington area.

Since the New Year, the Obamas have only attended church services twice in Washington. Two days before the inauguration, Obama visited 19th Street Baptist Church where worshippers lined up three hours before the service.

"Just another typical Sunday," deadpanned the Rev. Derrick Harkins of 19th Street, one of the oldest historically black churches in Washington.

Aides this week said the Obamas would not be visiting 19th Street for Easter.

Obama and his family attended a private service at St. John's Church on Inauguration Day, a tradition for those about to become president. The Rev. Luis Leon welcomed the Obamas to the Episcopalian church and noted every president since James Madison has worshipped at the church at least once, "some of them kicking and screaming."

White House aides note the Obamas have spent several weekends at the presidential retreat at Camp David, where there is a chapel. Aides say there would be no way to know if the Obamas visited the chapel for private prayer with a guest pastor.

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