My wife frequently reminds me that her job as a mother is much harder than my 9-to-5 job at the office.
My job has a beginning and an end, while her job requires her to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In a previous job, I managed a materials stockroom that required me to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. After working several 16-hour shifts and being called in to work at 5 a.m. on Christmas morning, I started looking for a new job. My wife does not have that luxury.
I’m not going to blog or comment or anything until the 27th, since it’s break time and I want to spend time with my family. So, anyway, until then, I want to post the lyrics to a not very well known, but extremely awesome Christmas song.
It’s a Pearl Award nominated song by Jeff Hinton, an amazing songwriter who deserves more attention (it doesn’t hurt we’ve both appeared on some of the same CD compilations).
After the fold are the lyrics:
Mitt Romney is under fire for changing his mind over a ten year span.
I know I don’t hold beliefs I held ten years ago. Ten years from now, I expect I’ll cringe when I am confronted with what I’ve posted in blogs.
However, Senator Harry Reid seems unable to hold beliefs for more than two days. Behold:
Virgil Goode. Sigh. Republican from Virginia. Never heard of him until today. But he seems to think that we need to limit immigration so no more Muslims will ever get elected to Congress. Yes, it’s time for the Mormons once again to defend the Constitution, which has a small but important reference in Article 6 that Rep. Goode may want to re-read.
Look, I understand all the hysteria about Muslims. We have the first Muslim Congressman ever, and he wants to swear on the Koran. It’s worth pointing out that Mormons have been swearing on the Book of Mormon (using the Quad) for years. And, meanwhile, in the UK, Mohammed (or Muhammed) is now a more popular name among children than George.
The whole situation reminds me of the hysteria in frontier America in the 1840s. Can we agree that there are things worth worrying about, such as global terrorism, and there are things not worth worrying about, like preventing law-abiding, good people who happen to be Muslim from immigrating to the United States?
You know how how there are rumors occasionally flying of some letter from the First Presidency that some people say their bishops and stake presidents have said exists or reads to them, and others say their bishops or stake presidents have confirmed that no such letter exists? I’m in the middle of that right now, but it’s not for anything that important. However, I must know! I must! (Even though it changes nothing.)
So does anyone know if there is a letter from the First Presidency that says that it is up to the discretion of the respective stake presidents whether to have the full 3-hour block on Christmas Eve day? I have some friends and family who say there is such a letter, and their wards are indeed only having sacrament meeting. I have some other friends who are quite certain that no such letter exists, and their wards are having the full block, not because their stake president decided to do it that way, but because no letter exists.
(My ward is having the full 3-hours of meetings.)