DanceCore card

This is pretty much the card we are thinking of using to represent our company. It is simple and classy while saying exactly what we do.

We teach people how to move well.

I'm excited for our future role in sharing the knowledge about our bodies and what a great gift they are!

new blog...Dancecore!

So, I haven't written anything in it. I just spent much of my afternoon making the background in Photoshop. Check it out if you'd like.

thedancecore.blogspot.com

Happy looking!

Do what is right, the daydawn is breaking...

From George Washington's Farewell Address (as cited in this booklet of the constitution)
he states:

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.... Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be concede to the influence of refined education...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle"

So why does the separation of church and state seem so right? It is not the Atheist who founded this particular country. It is the God fearing and compassionate religious majority who escaped the tyranny of religious oppression.

Yet today we face a minority of Atheists who demand that we give up our rights so they may have theirs. In our country we are fighting just to say the Pledge of Allegiance due to the reference of God in it. A father in California said that it takes away his son's right to not believe in God to have to hear that every day in school. If it were true that there was not a God then he shouldn't have to worry that it would corrupt his son. But it is not true.

I know there is a God. I know that all science and feeling demonstrate that there is and must be a Father in Heaven who started and continues to monitor, intervene, and allow the progression of this earth. Shouldn't it be my right to be able to say that whether I walked into my home or into a school? Doesn't the freedom of speech protect that right?

In other countries Gays/Lesbians have fought for the right to call their union marriage and won. In those countries the rights of the religious population are being stripped from them. So, who is being tolerant? Not the Atheists, Gays and Lesbians.

George Washington also stated in (1792):
"I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe, that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God, who ais alone able to protect them."
(The writings of George Washington, by John C. Ftzpatrick, GPO, 1931-44. vol. 32:2) As cited in the same booklet.

We always should do what is right. Most of the time we won't be popular. Some of the time we will be openly ridiculed and beaten. It does not change what is good and right.

This is our country and our Constitution.

We are ..."its only keepers, the people." -George Washington

Soap Box: Rewrite the foundation of our country?!?

Obama has been saying things that sound a whole lot like communism and socialism. Today was no different.

I was watching him give a speech and heard him say that he is preparing to rewrite the foundation of our country.

Isn't the responsibility (which he swore to do) of the president of the United States of America to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION? Now he wants to re-write it?

I think people need to start being creative in a capitalistic sense. Make jobs for yourself. Where some industries are suffering others are doing well. Find your niche.

Sometimes I feel like a "Hitler" figure is trying to raise up a depressed country. Scary. He says we deserve this-that-and the other. He is imposing socialistic ideals to try to solve other people's problems. He wants to buy out and be a secondary lender! Do you realize that means the government will own our homes, cars, etc? That is not how this government was meant to be set up. We are not here to accept everything from the government.

Some of you may say I am hypocritical. I am using Medicaid and Food Stamps to take care of my children. This is a program created to help people in need. Unfortunately it is firstly unconstitutional and secondly poorly managed. I will be the first to say that they need to change how they run such a program.

The LDS church has a very good example of how to run Food Stamps. The Relief Society President talks on an individual basis to the mother of the family. She helps set up a meal plan for two weeks time which gives them a list of food to mark off on a list. Then, when they reach the Bishop's Storehouse those are the only items they can get. NO IMPULSE BUYS.

Food stamps is helpful due to allergies that plague so many of us. Still, I know that sometimes I see things and go, "Hmmm, that would be nice..."

As for Medicaid. Well, too many Medicaid users decide it is easier to use the ER than to make an appointment and wait like normal people. Those are expensive visits that get paid for by tax payers dollars.

I understand there are many people who benefit from these programs who are perfectly upstanding people. I also know that the programs are set up to keep people stuck in them. I have only seen the housing programs set up ways for people to actually get out of being in the poor cycle.

I want to get out from underneath the governments thumb. Obama wants everyone answerable to the government. All of this government regulation will only create more problems. (Wasn't it the government who encouraged banks to get unwise people into homes they couldn't afford?)

We deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is what we deserve.

Sleepless nights

So, about 4:00 am Katelyn woke up crying.

She woke up Sunday morning (2X) because of nightmares. Naturally I assumed this was the same reasoning. NEVER ASSUME. (I should print that on a sign and put it around my house to remind me of the ever changing world of parenthood.)

This morning she kept saying her ear hurt. Brian brought her to me and I snuggled with her in bed. She tossed and turned on the pillow, then on my arm, and what do you know the place she found most comfortable was with the pillow on my stomach and her body laying between my legs. It was kinda cute...except that I couldn't turn over. Finally she fell asleep.

The next time she woke up crying I gave her some acetaminophen to help her feel better. She was fine until about 1:00 pm. She brought up her ear again and was refusing to eat. I was convinced. We went to the local doctor and filled out all the paperwork to get her in. I was fully expecting someone who normally does "immediate care."

In came the doctor (who knows Brian's family and Bri's lightning history) to take care of Katelyn. I was really impressed that he would do instant care for her little ear ache.

He also was very clear and knew what he was talking about. He answered my questions and didn't talk down to me just because I'm a mom. He used correct terminology and explained it in layman's terms as well.

After her checkup he gave her a sucker (bright blue tongue) and a sticker from "Cars" so that she would be happier. He went one step further and gave me two free ice cream cone certificates for the local Arctic Circle.

Sometimes I get frustrated with general practitioners. This one knew his stuff and was prepared to make us as satisfied as possible.

That was cool. We will definitely go back to him in the future.

This is the graphic I made and sold to one of my student's parents. I designed it from the original pictures.

fun, huh?

After move aftermath

Hi all,

We just finished our 8th move in 4 1/2 years. I'm tired. The children are moody and disobedient. Brian is gone for longer hours because it is a half hour drive to town in order to get to work so he stays at work in-between lessons and classes.

We are staying at Torri and Curtis' home. Most of our stuff is in a box sitting in a storage unit. What we do have out of the storage unit sits in the van or in a guest bedroom in a box waiting to be organized.

I am thoroughly overwhelmed and feel the immense pressure of being a burden. We continue to work on getting other jobs; but we are discovering how difficult it is to get another job. I can't tell you how many jobs Bri has applied for. He was qualified, optimistic, ready to start, even ready to work for a year or two at each establishment. The problem is that he plans on continuing to build our studio until we are self sufficient from other establishments. These businesses want him to plan on being with them for twenty years.

Realize that many people in this area stay in this area. If they graduated from a university it was probably BYUI or ISU. This is not bad. It's just that the companies are used to people wanting a career in managing, or sales, or banking, etc. All of the interviewers have been very impressed with Brian. Sigh.

So, I dwell primarily in a basement with two little ones. As the past few days have turned out I will probably have to figure something else out. The children are stir crazy and are not supposed to touch half of the items in their reach. The dog has a knack for finding dirt at this house so I have to wash her down three and four times a day. I'm tired of not feeling welcome and it's only been four days.

Sorry to gripe. I don't know if it makes me feel better or worse. I just want to be in our own home with our own food and our own space. I know Torri feels the same way.

Maybe we'll become very familiar with the mall's playland, the library's children book section, the high school's dance room, and the inside of the vehicles.