9-25-2010

Well today was kind of a boring day to start out with...The family was tired and slept in this morning..My wife got up and got ready and went to buy groceries for the week and I stayed home with our children...After my wife got home my daughter and I walked up to the local gas station to get beef jerky for my daughter....Can you believe that a little girl LOVES beef jerky!!  Well I was a good dad and not only did she get beef jerky but dad got her a slushy!!  It was fun to just sit at the table and to have some father-daughter time together...She is a bull headed and very blunt little girl but she is daddy's baby and I wouldn't trade her for the world!!! Love you baby girl....When we got back from our beef jerky trip Addy and I decided that we would pick up some sticks in the yard.  After we finished picking up sticks it was time for dad to go and push Sissy on the swings...As I said it was nice to have a little bit of father-daughter time..

Later Saturday evening after my wife finished her homework we went to Thorntown's Turning of the Leaves Festival...I would have imagined that it is a nice little Festival...My family left late and got there late so just about everything was closed down...So we decided to eat at the local restuarant(The Lost Frontier is what I believe it was called) and I must say the food was pretty good and I really liked the breaded tenderlion!!  They were big and meaty and just melted in your mouth!!  I would say if you are ever in Thorntown stop by and try the tenderlion..After dinner the family and I went and listened to the Flying Toasters( they were an awesome band) and then went and got a funnel cake for my wife and kids to share...Then we headed home...So as you can see it was kind of a boring but fun day....

As some of you know, I am coaching...I must say that I think coach has changed alot since my day in school!! When I played the coaches were all about respect and discipline and had no reservations about grabbing your face mask or about grabbing you by the shoulder pads and give you an attitude adjustment...I just want to take this time to say this...Coaching sports is just that...Football is a tough and rough game and if the child does not respect those around him he/she could get hurt...The coaches are there to coach your kids, we are not there to babysit them for you so you can have free time...If your child gets out of line then the coaches have every right to deal with the problem on the spot!!  My parents would neve had dreamed to go and yell at Bud Wright or tell him not to yell at me...And on that note, if your kids always run home and tell mom and dad that coached yelled at them..Please support the coach and do not baby them!!  The last thing I want to say is that parents and the children need to realize that once you hit the Jr. High program you may or may not play...That is the facts of life and the kids are no longer in little league...But just because your child does not play in a game it does not mean that they are not important to the team...The practice squad is the ones who make the starting squad a good team...The practice squad and the starting squad are a team and they both need each other in order to be a good team....

I am really frustrated with our Congress and our President...I am a conservative person but I will also be the first to admit that BOTH PARTIES have failed the American People but I also want to say that the AMERICAN PEOPLE have failed the American People...What do I mean by this...Here it is, we(the voters) are to blame because we have allowed the same people to be put into office year after year after year...People in Congress are lifers, they have never done anything but work in politics!! They have no idea what the average American goes through on a daily basis..They make false promises and we(the American People) buy into their lies and we put them right back into office...My thing is the President has terms limits...Why doesn't the Congress have term limits?? I think they should have limits and this way we always have new blood in office and new ideas...Just my opinion and if you don't agree....Really I don't care!!

So what am I thankful for this Saturday??  I am thankful for the time I spent with my daughter today!!  I love her more than anything but in the same instant she can have dad really ticked off...But in the end God has blessed me with a beautiful daughter and I know that God will take her bold headiness and use it for His Glory!!  Thank you Lord for my daughter!!

Randy "Shrek" Weaver