Hurst Family News

November is a month of gratitude.  A little gratitude can soften the hardest of hearts. Why not add more gratitude in our lives?  I'll jump on that bandwagon. Ian says, "I'm thankful for friends." (and then added "Can I go play with friends Right Now ?") Landon says, "I'm thankful for being nice." Then clarified, "I'm thankful for me being nice." (Me too kid.) Charlie doesn't talk but he is thankful he gets Daddy and Grandpa time today building our wood shed. I'm thankful for a husband and father in law who work hard in all aspects of life. I'm thankful for resources and generosity of others that allow us to have what we need and live within our means. (Our wood shed when finished should hold 6 cords of wood and we'll have it all built for under $250 *hopefully* and there's a cool story about the shed that will be another post.) Gratitude can change the tide of a day and give us peace when before there ...

I know I have woefully neglected the blog. Oh well. Life happens. I'm blogging today and that's good too. It's not fun stuff today because I'm going to take a minute  (or 5) and stand on my blogbox.  (Like a soapbox only on the internet.) I will eventually get pictures of all the fun halloweeney stuff, but today I have an issue. You see, last night at a Halloween party I overheard one woman asking another woman a very deep and personal question.  The fact that I could overhear it should suggest that perhaps it was an inappropriate place.  I mean, we were all sitting there.  Now this person is family to the woman she was speaking to but that doesn't actually make her question appropriate. She asked, "Did you get the wish of your heart?" Everyone knew what she was hinting at because of the boisterous  loud conversation previous to that about babies. But then another person clarified, "She's asking if you're pregnant."  To which ...