Our Trip to Florida

Sam and I went to a real estate investors seminar in Florida this past week. The weather was lovely. Sure beats below zero degree weather.

I learned something more important than real estate investing. The last day of the training a fellow by the name of Richard Flint was brought in as a type of motivational speaking. Now, I like this kinda stuff anyway, but he really blew me away.

He shared with us his life's story. Very sad. He was born to a New Orleans prostitute. No name on the birth certificate for the father. Richard was adopted when he was 2 months old. The father had wanted a son. The mother didn't want anything to do with him. The short story is that she kicked him out of the house when he was 16 years old.

He's incredibly successful and a very genuine person. You can go to http://www.richardflint.com/ to check out his website.

Anyway, what I learned from him is to ask the questions: Will this bring clarity or add to my confusion? Whatever it is that is being asked of me or other responsibilities that I may have.

I've been practicing it now for 3 whole days. I'm happy to say that my confusion is lifting and my head is clearing.

Mr. Flint also makes a big deal of procrastination. He explains that fatigue comes through procrastination. I had never really thought about that before. But its true. Every times we put something off, we have to use energy to revisit it. No matter how unpleasant a task, we really should just get to it.

So, it was really nice to get away for a few days. We met some nice people. Sam and I hadn't been on a trip without the kids for over 6 years. It was lovely. I didn't have to change a diaper for nearly a week.

Gotta Love Global Warming!

Well, you'd think these pics were taken in the summer or early fall, you'd be wrong. January 8th actually. It was wonderful for the kids to get out and play for a while. They had a lot of fun.

Impromtu Homeschooling Trip

So, Friday I needed to go run a bunch of errands. Mostly picking up stuff from Freecycle. At one of the stops, the lady noticed I had a bunch of children in my car on a school day. I told her that I homeschooled. She mentioned that there was a pen just up the road with recued deer in it. She said that would be a fun thing to do with the kids.

I started down the road looking for the pen. It's large. So, large that I thought it was part of the peach orchard. I slammed on my brakes and parked right beside it.

There are four deer: 1 buck and 3 does. (Is that supposed to be plural?) and 1 rooster.

That was our fun, impromtu homeschooling trip for the day. Yay!!! We're told that you can bring treats for the animals to feed them. The deer didn't seem to be too interested in us. The kids pretty much chased them from one side of the pen to the other. The rooster, however, was very friendly, inasmuch as he wanted some food.

The pen is located on Richwood Road in Mullica Hill. It's just off of Rt 322.

Second Attempt

So, this is my second try at setting up a blog. I started on another blog provider but it was too hard to figure out. Not too surprising for me. Really, my college degree has been reduced to how fast can I change a poopy diaper before the other children destroy the rest of house. Ok, that's it for this one. I'm going to see what else I need to do to make this blog look semi-interesting.