What's with all the politics?

I dunno.

I guess I'm just feeling cranky for some reason. ;-/

Last week I didn't do much at all, just was in recovery mode from the long week of Pat's vacation, which I'm going to pay him back for in a couple of weeks when we run off to San Diego for the

Woo Hoo!

Serenity, Topanga, (but not Lora),

and I did go off to Shadow Cliffs for a bit on Saturday afternoon. We were only there for a little while. I'm glad I got the yearly East Bay Parks membership because that way I don't mind if we go and then the kids decide to leave after an hour, I don't get bent out of shape over wasting the $6.00 parking fee cause I didn't have to pay it! :-)

We set up the new tent I got in the back yard

and the kids slept in it Saturday night, they seemed to enjoy that.

There now, it's not all cranky political rants now. :-)

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NBC anti-life?

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Child Driven Education

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The Tea Parties

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