Why and who decided this?

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***There may be..... okay there IS some inappropriate language below***

Soooooo last night I was rudely awakened by a barking dog. To my disappointment that barking dog was mine and he had jumped over into the neighbors yard and couldn't get back (different story). As I laid in my bed trying to go back to sleep (after fixing the situation of course) I got to thinking about WHY some words are bad or inappropriate. For example the work "hell" or "damn". Growing up we were definitely not allowed to say these words, but we weren't allowed to say stupid or shut-up either. As a matter of fact I don't let my kids say shut-up or stupid, but I feel it's for a good reason. They just are not nice words. They are words that you'd use to put someone down and I personally would rather teach my kids to use words that would raise one's spirits=). However, as I thought about these two words I couldn't understand why they'd be "bad". What is different about saying "what on earth is going on" verses "what in the hell is going on". They mean the same thing. Why is earth socially okay, but not hell.

*BTW- I understand that some people don't believe it is a "bad" word, but like the word "damn" you probably would go using it while you were giving a talk in church. (unless used in the right context)

So then I got to thinking about the other curse words. Who decided that these words are bad. For example what's the difference between "please get your a** off my table" and "please get you're butt of my table". Who decided these words were inappropriate and WHY? Obviously, saying "get your a** off my table" sounds worse, but isn't that just because society views them as bad words?

I want to know you're opinion on this. Although I may not totally agree or understand why these words are "bad" I will refrain from using them around my children and in public (and most likely some words all together) because society views them as inappropriate and I don't care to have my kid dropping the f-bomb in the middle of primary.

I went post CrAzY!!!!!

Yup!

I couldn't control myself and went a little crazy with the posts on my family blog.

Chem em' out here if you want...

grrrrrrrr....

Many of you know this already, but we are a bit crammed for space.

We have 5 people living in a 2 bedroom house.

When we bought our house we only had Shaylee and planned to live in our home for 2 maybe 3 years and then move.

We bought in the first phase so we felt pretty good that we'd make some money off of it.

4 years later the market is terrible and we owe a lot more than our house is worth.

Apparently there is a lesson we need to learn and it's been a tough one.

However, we've come to realize and except (as much as one could in this position) that we will not be selling our house anytime soon.

We were at least hoping to refinance to decrease our bill a little.

Unfortunately no one is willing to help the honest people in this rough economy.

You have to either have bad credit or foreclose on your house to get help.

It's been VERY frustrating as Chad and I have called bank after bank trying to work something out only to find out that no one will help us out.

It's no wonder so many people are walking away from their home these days.

They're more likely to get help once they do.

I'm convinced that doing the right thing is going to pay off, but really sooner rather than later would be great.

grrrrrrrr!

Brilliant I tell ya!

I have a friend who I believe is

BRILLIANT.

You know she's one of those girls that likes learning and reads alot.

I'd like to introduce you to her. Her name is Bridget.

She's so brilliant in fact that a magazine wanted to interview her.

I heard about this one day and didn't think much about it. To be honest I wasn't surprised. After all she is a smarty pants so why wouldn't they.

Well it just so happens that one day as I was in a store looking at the magazine section I couldn't help but notice a familiar face looking at me from the REAL SIMPLE magazine.

I couldn't believe it. After all REAL SIMPLE is a magazine I like. I expected her to have an article in Newsweek or something (which she may have preferred), but to my surprise and liking she was right there on the cover of REAL SIMPLE magazine. Not only was she interviewed, but she got front cover. WOW I was impresses.

Well the story gets better because as I read her interview I found that she was being interviewed about motherhood and right there in the middle of the article was a HUGE shout out to me!!!

Now I've always felt like Bridget thought I was a good mom, but I was on cloud nine reading about how she felt I was an example of a good mom.

Unfortunately, I was reading this interview around 3:00pm last night and was rudely awakened at the best part by my sweet little boy who had had an accident in his bed.

So yes, this was a dream. That is most likely why this doesn't sound at all familiar to you Bridget.

I thought of casually mentioning I had a dream about you =), but I thought this would be so much more exciting.

However the truth is....

-Bridget is brilliant

-I apparently took the compliments from Bridget about my parenting to my head

-and, for real, one day I was walking in a bookstores coffee shop and as I was walking through the magazine section something caught my eye. I turned back to see what it was and it was my cousins face on the cover of a magazine (Steph that's a shout out to your bro!). I was very impressed to say the least!

*Bridget- I hope you dont mind that I wrote a blog post about you. We're even =)

Have you tried this?

because you need to on some chicken tenders!

As Requested...

I'm posting my story about Cache's name on my open blog (minus his pics).

Cache- the boy with many names
So many of you are wondering who this Cache fellow is that I keep referring to. He sure looks alot like our son Aeden. Well that's because he IS Aeden. In late MAY of 2007, May 25th to be exact, we welcomed a handsome little boy into the world and our family. Chad and I both agreed on the name Aeden and were very happy with it. In fact we still are. I love the name Aeden. We knew that it was a fairly popular name, but that didn't bother us. Plus we were spelling it differently than most Aeden's we had heard of anyway. So from that day forward this new little baby boy was known as Aeden among all that knew him.... ..... well until lately. I would take him to the park to find numerous Aeden/Aiden/Aden's running around. I would take him to the mall play area and find that there were numerous Aeden/Aiden/Aden's running around there too. It seemed that anywhere we went other Aeden's were sure to be around. Which isn't/wasn't a problem until all the other moms are calling their Aeden/Aiden/Aden. It can get a little confusing and to be honest a little annoying. So to lessen the confusion for my own Aeden I decided to call him by his middle name, Cache, when we went to play area's. Then I started thinking that maybe we should just start calling him by his middle name all the time. It would be alot easier once he goes to school and is in a classroom where most likely half the boys in his class are named Aeden/ Aid.... (you get the point with all the other spellings). So we figured we'd change it now while he was younger and if he wants to go by Aeden when he's older than he can. So it began....... we started calling him Cache, as weird as it was and I even found it to be a bit sad. However, he's still my little Aeden and still gets called that quite a bit, but if you ask him his name he'll most likely tell you that it is Cache. As a matter of fact that is how we introduced him in our new ward. Which I'm happy about because it seems like there are sooo many Aeden, Kaden, Braden, Jaden's...... in this new ward. So now weeks later I've come to really like the name Cache. I think the name Cache is pretty GoRiLLa! So there you have it. That is why we changed his name. That's our story and I'm stickin' to it.

New Year's Resolutions

Soooo I should REALLY be in bed because tomorrow morning is going to come way too soon, but I'll end up laying there for atleast an hour before I finally fall asleep. So instead I'll blog about New Years Resolutions......

How many of you make New Years Resolutions? Are you good at keeping them? I've personally never been a big believer in them. Don't get me wrong I think that they could and in some cases are a good thing, but I think far too often people make unrealistic goals and too many of them. They think that starting January 1st they are gonna change EVERYTHING they don't like about themselves which is....... "unrealistic". Maybe it's because I'm someone that has to take small steps. I can't change everything I don't like about my self in a day. Instead I choose to make goals throughout the year on my own time and I try not make make goals that I know I'm gonna fail at. For example I don't make the goal that I will workout EVERYDAY for the next year when I HATE working out. Or I'll give up Chocolate when I'm a chocoholic. Instead I might decide one day that I'm going to try and eat better and I allow myself room to enjoy life without throwing all the fast food out the door.
So there you are I'm an unbeliever. So convince me those of you that live your lives by your New Years Resolutions. Are you really successfull? Or at the end of the year are you left feeling a little down of yourself because you didn't become everything you wanted to be by Decemeber 31st?