Human Trafficking Awareness Day

The Ant and the Grasshopper with a Twist... :-D

Dad sent me this e-mail and I thought it was hilarious. It's political, so if I offend anyone, I'm sorry, but I thought it was funny - and true!

Enjoy!

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

 

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

 

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper

calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be

allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

 

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,

and ABC show up to

provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper

next to a video of the ant

in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

 

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper

is allowed to suffer so?

 

Kermit the Frog appears

on Oprah

with the grasshopper

and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeing Green...'

 

Occupy the Anthill stages

a demonstration in front of the ant's

house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

 

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright

has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake,

while he damns the ants.

 

President Obamacondems the ant

and blames

President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the

Pope

for the grasshopper's

plight..

 

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid

exclaim in an interview with Larry

King that the ant has

gotten rich off the back ofthe

grasshopper,

and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

 

Finally, the EEOC drafts

the Economic Equity &

Anti-Grasshopper Act

retroactive to the beginning of

the summer.

 

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number

of green bugs and,

having  nothing left to  pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the GovernmentGreen Czar

and given  to thegrasshopper.

 

The story ends as we see the grasshopper

and his free-loading  friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is  in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,

crumbles around them because the grasshopper  doesn't  maintain it.

 

The ant has  disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

 

The grasshopper  is found  dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken

over  by a gang of spiders  who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous  and peaceful, neighborhood.

 

The entire Nation collapses

bringing the rest

of the free world with it.

 

 

MORAL OF THE STORY:

 

 

Be careful how you vote in 2012.

 

 

My Face Won't Bruise...

I've always kind of known it from past experiences, but my face won't bruise. Wednesday just solidified the fact for me. You see, on Wednesday I was helping Promise off the zip line and she let go before I was ready and could keep the wooden seat of the zip line from flying up. Anyway, the wooden piece shot up and smacked me in the face. Hard. In fact, it still hurts. And would you believe it, my face didn't bruise in the least.

Later, Promise did the exact same thing again and it smacked her in the face. Lo and behold, she developed a whopping goose egg. What did I get? Nothing.

This is going to sound lame, but seriously, if I get smacked in the face and have to put up with a lot of pain like that, I'd like something to show for it! I mean, even laboring moms have something to show off when the pain ends! And what do I get to show off? Nothing.

I'm sure someday I'll be thankful for that fact, but right now, I can't help but think, "Seriously? I could have had a really cool bruise to tell a really cool story about!" If people asked about it, I could have said, "Wait until you see the other guy." Or something like that.

However, I can't do that... Because I never develop a bruise on my face.

Oh well.

Other than that, nothing much is going on in our family except that everyone's got really bad colds and Joshua is a real crab because of it.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to help with Winter Jam, the Christian concert that comes once a year. This year it's at the RBC Center, where the Carolina Hurricanes play, and I'm volunteering with Holt International, an adoption/child sponsorship agency. (It's the agency we adopted Grace through.) They're sponsoring Winter Jam and need people to help with child sponsorship. It should definitely be interesting - especially since I can never remember where I park my car at the RBC Center... I'll make sure I post about what happens when I get back. If I get back. Because if I can't find my car, then I'll be stuck there. And that would be sad. At least I have a cell phone.

Anyway, happy Friday!

Best of 2011

I compiled a video from last year's best photos and videos. It's just a quick re-cap of 2011.

I hope you enjoy it!

It's the Truth

Credit goes to author

Zip Line Fun!

We got a zip line for Christmas! It's 200 ft long and holds up to 250 lb. Dad set it up today. However, it's too loose for us older people to do yet (our legs drag along the ground) so so far only the kids can do it. Dad hopes to fix the zip line for us older ones soon.

Anyway, here's a video I made of Isaac, Grace, and Promise doing the zip line. Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody! I can't believe it's 2012!

Last night, Nathan and I decided to stay up and watch the ball drop in Times Square. To pass the time, we watched a few movies. Around 11:15pm, the movies ended and we decided to see if we could find a TV station showing the festivities in Times Square. After searching through several channels, we found one but it was focusing on Lady Gaga, so we switched the channel. The next channel was reporters talking about what was going on in the square and interviewing people. We decided to stay on that channel since it was rather interesting. We figured that all channels would show the ball drop. We were wrong.

At midnight, instead of showing the ball drop, the station showed an obnoxious female reporter kissing a random police officer. Nathan and I were so furious! Needless to say, we turned the TV off. We were both very disappointed.

I thought it would be appropriate to give a quick overview of the notable stuff that happened in 2011 to our family:

• I turned 16 in January and got my license
• Joy Anna was born at home into Dad and my arms in early March
• Promise, Isaac, and Grace decided that chapter books are cool and interesting
• I got into a car accident...
• Nathan and I almost experienced a tornado, we could see where it was and it was close 
• I got to help photograph a wedding
• We went to the beach
• Nathan, Dad, and I went and watched Captain America in the middle of Hurricane Irene and the movie theater lost power just at the climax...
• Nathan and I finished our first year of Gileskirk (a very intensive history curriculum)
• Grandma Wight and Aunt Tara and Barbara came and visited
• Dad had the brilliant idea to pick Grace up and playfully shake her back and forth while she was shaking the milk. Do I need to detail how messy the kitchen was after that? We were cleaning spilt milk for a while and everyone had to pitch in...
• Nathan took Driver's Ed and got his permit
• Joshua became Dad's little buddy
• Nathan, Dad, and Isaac played a bunch of hockey!
• Our family made a bunch of movies (I think this year held the record for the most movies good enough to put on youtube.)
• I became a doula and have attended a grand total of 12 births!
• Rising Dawn Services was started
• This blog was started ;-D
• Nathan, Dad, and I read the Hunger Games series :-D
• Joy Anna learned to crawl
• I missed Promise's birthday because I was at a birth
• I applied to Newlife International School of Midwifery *scary*
• Nathan started animating a Lego movie of The Peleg Chronicles 
• The whole family went to a hockey game and all got Carolina Hurricanes' jerseys
• I got the DSLR I've been wanting!
• We beat our usual record of how often we've gone out to eat. We've eaten out quite a bit this year.

There's lots more, but it would take a while to detail it all. I'm really excited that it's 2012 since I, at least, will probably have a big year. In May (May 12, to be exact), I'll graduate high school. After that, I'll probably go to the Philippines and become a midwife (I just need to get accepted first). I'm so excited! I guess when I leave this summer, I'll have to give this blog to Nathan, since he'll be around to know what's going on in Wilson-dom, and I'll have to get another blog about my time in the Philippines. 

Anyway, I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!