The Wilson Universe

I’m not sure where it’s written but I think it must be a rule that the less a person feels able to deal with major changes, the more major changes they are presented with. Corey and I recently reached the front of the line and climbed onto the roller coaster. All is going well with the baby, check out Peanut’s Universe for updates. Just as I crossed into the 3rd trimester, we had a huge up and a huge down, almost simultaneously.
As for the up, we’ve been looking for a new house for awhile now. We hadn’t really been seriously searching, just keeping our eyes open. We’ve realized that while Peanut will be small, Peanut also comes with A LOT of baggage and our house is pretty much busting at the seams already. A few weeks ago we stumbled across a house that we thought would be awesome, but unfortunately the seller took another offer over ours. At that point, we were more committed to the idea of finding a new place and so went on a marathon day of looking at around 12 properties in one day. From there, we narrowed it down to two, the first and third that we looked at, of course. We revisted both properties and made extensive lists, finally settling on one that was roomy, had a decent amount of land and enough character for our, let’s be honest, eccentric tastes. We made an offer last week that was accepted and so we are now in the process of dealing with financing, etc. If all goes well, we will close at the end of April and move in the first of May. The bonus to this project is that the current homeowner has been renovating while living there and is willing to finish some of the projects before selling. The new house will necessitate a move to a new town. We will become residents of New Richmond, population 334, 337 once we get settled! New Richmond is about 15 minutes from Crawfordsville and 20 or 25 from Lafayette. Everyone cross their fingers that all of this works out!
And the down… the day we signed the offer on the house is also the day we lost my Grandpa. While it wasn’t unexpected, it pretty much sucked nonetheless. I’ve always been a big fat Grandpa’s girl (for most of my life I was the ONLY girl) so I’m having a hard time adjusting to him not being here. However, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t want me to spend the rest of my pregnancy in mourning. Instead, I’m going through all of my happy memories of him so I can pass along all of those things to Peanut.

This was actually written several months ago but accidently got stuck as a page and not a post, however it still appears to be relevant.

So I started watching the John Adams film that HBO produced last year (3 DVD’s long) and I’m first struck by something. While I know they did have to take some liberties with the dialogue between John and his wife for example, I feel confident that they were written in a style that was fitting of people of the day.

Where am I going with this? John makes a statement early in the film regarding his faith in crown “The crown acts foolishly but is still valid” Paraphrasing there but you get the idea. He goes to state that men need a strong government because “most men are wicked and evil”.

I think we as a society have forgotten this. Our forefathers created the system of government we use today with the mindset that men (ie people) are evil and if left to thier own desires WILL abuse power, WILL be greedy, and WILL be evil. Our government was designed to limit the control and influence of anyone person from making horrible decisions that the rest of us would have to pay for.

When you look around the politcal landscape and decide you support cetain ideals, ask yourself if the founding fathers would have approved of what is being planned. Free “Affordable” Nationalized Healthcare? Gun ownership limitations? Progressive Taxes? hmmm, I think not.

Many Americans have been taught that people are all smart and kind. It’s only certain circumstances outside of thier control that force them to do evil things. I say nay, we are an evil, greedy, foolish species that once upon a time ate a frakin apple. We need to remember that we not the “change we’ve been waiting for” but instead the “problem we’ve been counting on”