CAMP MEME 2010: Day 2

Day 2 of Camp Meme was a little more relaxed than Day 1. We had a lot to recover from!

The boys waited patiently in their room until Obi (that's me!) blew reveille on my "hand trumpet," then we marched out on the front porch, put the USA flag in its holder and said the Pledge of Allegiance. (This is our routine every morning.)

Then we had cereal for breakfast. After a little Free Time to play, the boys & Meme started working on the Puppet Theatre for the closing day's performance. Meanwhile, I prepared a sandwich lunch for us. After lunch, nap time for Obi & Meme while the boys played in their room and watched a Disney movie.

After naptime, it was off to the OBU library for a few minutes, than dinner in the OBU caf -- hamburger, mac & cheese, beef stew, pizza, salads, cake, pudding & ice cream. Yum yum!

Then we enjoyed an hour of swimming at the motel where Judea works. After that, home for baths & showers, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and bedtime.

Another good day.

CAMP MEME 2010: DAY 1

Wylie and Miles are back for the 3rd year of Camp Meme! Momma actually delivered them the night before the camp officially satrted, so they got an extra night, and thoroughly enjoyed watching "What's Up, Doc?" our favorite comedy.

Monday, Day 1 of camp - we had reveille, breakfast in the mess hall (Meme made pancakes!) and eventually we were off for a day in Hot Springs. Their Aunt Judea rearranged her work schedule so she could spend the day with us, and was a tremendous help.

In the Spa City, we: 1) rousted Uncle Joshua out of bed (he had the day off) and let him know the plans; 2) visited the Gangster Museum and learned a lot about Hot Springs' colorful and criminal past; 3) visited the famous Arlington Hotel and had some refreshments from their Starbucks; 4) walked Bathhouse Row and took the tour in the visitor's center in the Fordyce Bathhouse; 5) got some more refreshments and cooled off (it was only about 95 degrees outside) in the Central Avenue Subway; 6) visited the historical photo galleries in the Convention Center (pictures of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Cy Young, baseball teams, Al Capone, Bugsy Siegal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Raft, and Alan Ladd, to name a few) and let the boys run off some steam in the enormous hall; 7) redezvoused with Maw & Paw and bought some chicken & biscuits at Popeye's; 8) took our chicken & the potato salad and drinks Maw & Paw had brought, to Whittington Park for a picnic; 9) watched the Hot Springs Concert Band set up for a concert of John Phillip Sousa music while we dined; 10) went and picked up Joshua to join us; 11) enjoyed the first half of the concert, then packed up; 12) went and filled up 4 big jugs with Hot Springs water at the Cental Avenue Visitors Center; and 13) headed for home!

At home, everybody bathed and went to bed! The boys watched "101 Dalmatians" in their room as their "go to sleep" movie.

A good start to Camp Meme 2010!

Another Love Affair With Legs

Yep, daughter #2 has one that's working, too.

Ten years down, many more to go.

Congratulations, Jemimah and Adam!

A Love Affair Still Working

It's always great to see love affairs that last.

It's especially nice when it's your kid.

Daughter #1 has summed it up wonderfully here: 13 Years and Counting.

Happy anniversary, Jerusalem and Nathan!

Baby Girl at the Finish Line

Well, hallelujah!

After attending college in Conway, Arkadelphia, Hot Springs, Little Rock, and Arkadelphia again, our multi-talented, multi-tasking Judea Jackson is graduating tonight from Henderson State University!

Way to go, baby girl!

An Alaskan's Take on Sarah Palin

Highly recommend you read this post from Dewey Whetsell, if you haven't already: Sarah Palin's Accomplishments.

A good way to start the year that will, we hope, see the Republican Party grow a backbone, and the American people regain some of their compromised liberty.

God bless America. Happy New Year.

I'm So Ashamed

I'm so ashamed -- NO posts in October or November! And, of course, this one embarassingly brief.

Well, that's the way it is in the world of Twitter and Facebook. Each requires much less thought and effort than blogging ... also, much less time. Maybe that's the key. "I tweet because I'm lazy," is not necessarily true. Right? No more than "I blog because I'm superior." Right?

Right?