Wow, it’s been a super busy summer so far! Sorry for not posting here in the midst of my busyness! I’ll begin posting again soon!
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For those of you who are still checking in on my blog (or are subscribed to the blog’s RSS feed) you may be wondering where I’ve been. Well, the past few weeks have been such a blur, I’m not sure even I can answer that question accurately. Anyhow, one thing that happened in the Webel family recently that is noteworthy is Elizabeth and Anna’s Spring performance.
The girls have been preparing for this for weeks and it was so much fun for the actual performance to happen! The video is a bit long, 14 minutes or so, but if you watch it, I promise it will make you smile a time or two! :-)
Happy Mother’s Day Erica! You are a GREAT mom and we all appreciate how hard you work every day to take care of us, your family!
We love you! Elizabeth, Anna, Nate (and Dad)
I’m not claiming innocence, I’m as guilty as the next self-centered person, but I am increasingly annoyed by the seemingly total lack of perspective that gets displayed by people caught up in the brain numbing 24 hour news cycle. The recent “Swine Flu Outbreak” is a great illustration of what I’m talking about.
People in the news are are drooling over themselves as they can’t seem to say the word “pandemic” enough times. Reminds me of my daughters when they learn a new word that they think sounds funny, they say it over and over and over and you begin to wonder if they even know what it means.
How about some perspective:
In Africa, malaria kills more than 3,000 children a day; in South Africa, HIV/AIDS has taken 2.8 million people and infected 5.3 million more. Every day in India, 1,000 people succumb to tuberculosis. Those are just the big diseases. According to the United Nations, a recent cholera outbreak killed nearly 4,000 Zimbabweans and infected 80,000, while in India diarrheal diseases kill an estimated 600,000 children under 5 every year.
So, when the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that deaths in Mexico from the H1N1 swine flu leapt to nine, you can see why the news didn’t make the front page in Africa or India.
How come CNN isn’t covering these stats in prime time? How come you pray for your kid not to get the Swine Flu at school, but haven’t even blinked at the thousands killed by malaria in Africa? Is it because it’s all about ME, ME, ME, ME? Do you suffer from willful ignorance, thus affecting your perspective on the Swine Flu?
Am I wrong about this?
Anna turned THREE last Sunday! Wow the time sure flies! It seemed like just yesterday she was turning two!
During their championship visit to meet the President, Coach Meyer and some players talk about the team’s significant commitment to community service. Features behind-the-scenes footage of the team’s visit and words from Tim Tebow, Ryan Stamper, and David Nelson.
Tim Tebow and the rest of his national championship team went to the White House on Thursday so that Mr. President Obama could congratulate the team on their second national championship in three years.
President Obama invoked the words “playoff system” Thursday when the Florida Gators, college football’s national champions the past three seasons, visited the White House.
The president spent eight minutes congratulating the Gators, mentioning several players by name. Near the end of his remarks, as he has done before, Obama again called for a playoff system:
“I don’t want to stir up controversy. You guys are the national champions — I’m not backing off the fact we need a playoff system. But I have every confidence that you guys could have beat anybody else. And so we’ll see how that plays itself out.”
After what surely must have been an awkward pause, Obama added: “I noticed they got all quiet after that.”
According to the White House transcript, that was followed by laughter.
Apparently there was a bit of controversy stirred up by Obamas ‘playoff’ comment as sports announcers on ESPN and other places seemed to feel that Mr. Obama has more pressing matters and that he should keep out of the business of college football. There has been talk of Congress getting involved, at the encouragement of President Obama, in forcing the hand of college football to develop some sort of playoff system.
While I personally would love to see a playoff, I absolutely agree with the guys at ESPN that Mr. Obama has bigger fish to fry and he needs to stick to things that matter a lot more than college football… like people’s livelihoods, their homes, and the safety of American troops deployed around the world.
Obama recognized Tebow by specifically mentioning him during the brief visit. (I really wish Tebow could hang with Obama for a day or two, maybe Obama could benefit from having a little bit of Tebow in his life…)
Obama called Tim Tebow, the Gators’ quarterback, an inspiration for many people. Tebow is a Heisman Trophy winner who speaks openly about his Christian faith.
“He puts faith, family and academics above football. And that’s incredible when you think about what he’s done on the field,” Obama said.
Tebow said in an interview after the ceremony that he appreciated the president’s remarks.
Seems that “Twitter” is becoming the latest fad in social media, there was even a Twitter showdown of sorts over the weekend. However, as we’ve come to expect with anything technology related, the next best thing is always right around the corner…
BTW, you can follow me on Twitter if you’d like! ;-)
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