Friday And Fighting Mad

On this Friday, the flu bug like symptoms in the house (and Grandma’s too) seem to be worsening. Mommy and Daddy are quite concerned for everyone, especially you two special babies. Both of you show signs of a cough developing, you probably worse than your sister, Buddha. There is nothing worse for a parent than witnessing a child suffer, and Mommy and Daddy are distressed. And to add to the concern, Mommy seems to be showing signs that she is developing similar symptoms!

Aside from the more critical preoccupation with the health of each of you, and Mommy, Daddy is fighting mad, as the expression goes, about the incompetence of our national politicians. Our nation is on the verge of experiencing a worsening of our economic crisis, some of which can be averted by thoughtful, cooperative collaboration among politicians, and our government is proving completely dysfunctional and incapable of managing the work at hand. Worse, is the growing recognition that there is virtually nothing American citizens can do about it. As mad as Daddy is about the overall situation, he is more concerned for the future of this country and the quality of life each of you will possibly enjoy ahead. Daddy is certainly not alone among serious, thoughtful intellectuals concerned about the loss of American society to ineptitude and corruption among self-serving, selfish, narcissistic politicians who like con artists manipulate our sense of reality to nourish their own insatiable egos and greed. As the two of you grow into intelligent, critical-thinking, patriots one hopes you will act to restore the promise of this great nation. Responsible leaders currently do not exist, and the carnage on our current situation and future prospects wrecked upon us by these political flim-flam artists is unconscionable.

As a new year looms near, one has hopes of better times. Daddy and Mommy want each of you to grow into optimists and idealists, though that is a rare and inherently difficult combination to sustain. Notwithstanding, the two of you will be prepared to face the challenges of tomorrow!

On a less somber note, we enjoyed a visit from Sister Kelly and Brother Aaron and the two of you, as usual, kidnapped Sister Kelly to your rooms and deployed every new toy you received for Christmas, as you demanded she give you her full attention (which she always doesJ!). Later in the evening, Mommy gave the two of you (and herself) the needed medications to head off the worsening of the symptoms you have suffered now for days, and the effects were that all three of you experience a phenomenal (if not psychedelicJ) burst of energy and cleaned the entire upstairs before settling in for the night.

When “night, night” came, we were all exhausted, if for Daddy for no other reason than being worn out by witnessing the three of you demonstrate your cleaning rushJ! “Night, night!”