Those moments

Have you had moments in your life where you have so much joy in your heart that you feel like, if I had to die today, I would be okay with it. Like you could just burst! The happiest days of your life. I haven't had a day like that in a long time. And when you do have a day like that, you realize how rare they are and how you usually actually feel. The stress, anxiety, everyday pressures that just bring you down little by little. But I had a whole weekend of that complete uninhibited joy- the soaking up of my loved ones. Tayton says to me last night as he squeezed me around the neck, "Mom I love you SOOO much!" He must have also felt what was happening here. I can't explain it. I just know the Lord is at work and it's a visible, tangible,difference.
Did you watch the debates last week- Palin and Biden? I was glad to have been able to see it. They both did an awesome job. I have alot of respect for Biden, but I am officially sold on the McCain/Palin ticket. I had considered not voting, voting independent prior to the debates, but Saturday even went down to the Republican office and picked up four signs for my yard. I have never had any signs in my yard. Always felt like I wanted to make my decision a personal one. But now I feel like the risk of an Obama presidency is something that I have to fight against. Our house is on the route to the voting booth for Ford River. There's not many signs out here for either side, but I'm not going keep quiet about my decision either. Oh, sure there are some things coming to light about McCain and his affair on his first wife with his present wife. But I'm not voting for who I would like to be best friend's with either. I'm voting for who I think will be the best choice for president. Obama's friendship ties to William Ayer is also finally coming out too, thanks to Sarah Palin. If you don't know from my previous post, Obama is good buddies with an admitted terroist- William Ayers among others. Had his presidential kickoff party this year in the guy's living room and yet is lying and saying that he hasn't seen him in years. The truth is, getting an honest, moral, Christian for presidency is not the majority as we saw with Huckabee. He'd of been my first choice. So I'm going with my second choice. I don't think either candidate really knows right now how to get our country out of this financial mess, but I have confidence that McCain and Palin can figure it out with the least cost to us. And I know without a doubt that if there is another terroist threat, that McCain will take it on with ease and with soldiers in mind as he does. I know that in the past that Palin was a stay home mom without insurance and her husband working three jobs to make ends meet. She's doing well now since being governor, but when you have been down that road of struggle, you don't forget it. I don't care about all the references she makes to soccer/hockey moms- what makes her someone that I see that can voice my concerns is the fact that she's been there. That she no doubt will have a tough time being mother and vice president, but that she has passion for changing this country for the better good. I don't see that passion with Biden as much as I do like the guy. Biden's political fate will forever be tainted with being an Obama running mate.
Okay enough politics.
It has gotten really chilly at nights here. Saturday was only 21 when we got up in the morning. I took out my tomato cages from the garden. The tomatoes that were left got hit by the frost and were squishy. We've been using our backup fuel oil for heat sparingly. But Paul made major progress this weekend with the repairs to the boiler lines and so now all we have to do is put the antifreeze back in the system and we can get it going. We have a huge pile of wood to cut, but we have alot of smaller stuff already cut from some trees from the neighbors. We should have plenty of wood for the winter- that is our hope- that we'll use less that last year with this new heater core that we had put in our furnace. Next up is the repair to our chimney. Bricks have been falling out all summer from it onto the roof. Hopefully he can just patch it and not have to rebuild the whole thing. My husband sure wears many hats around here.
Well, that's about it for now.