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Family Reunion

August 6th, 2010 |

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A family reunion is a great way to strengthen families, as you meet seldom seen family members.

We recently attended a family reunion near Yellowstone Park. It was fun visiting family that we haven’t seen for years.

Sometimes a misfortune can bring a family together. Ours was a dance with a buffalo. Or should I say a run in with a buffalo. In short, we ran into a buffalo.

It happened after dark as we were driving through Lamar Valley. Buffalo are dark animals and tend to absorb light, like head lights. So they are hard to see. We braked hard and almost got stopped before hitting the buffalo, knocking it off its feet so that it fell onto the hood of our car and smasked our windshield.

We thought we were going to have it in our laps, but instead it rolled off the car and walked away. We were unhurt, except for some whip lash. The car was totaled.

We did nor swerve to avoid the buffalo, which was good. More people die from swerving to avoid an animal then those that die from hitting an animal. This is because swerving will take you off the road way, where you might fall off a drop off, hit another call online, hit something else and roll over, etc.

We were thankful to God that we were alive after running into a buffalo. And we still enjoyed the reunion.

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Family Vacation

July 7th, 2010 |

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Saturday night my wife and I got back from visiting our children and grand children in Minneapolis. It is a twenty hour drive. Four of our five children were there at least part of the time. Our fifth child is serving a mission in Switzerland for our church, so she could not be there.

Our four grand children were a lot of fun. It was the first time we have seen the baby, now four months old, and weighing a hefty 18 pounds.

Can anyone explain the physics of how, when you are holding a baby in your arms and she falls a sleep, that she seems to almost instantly gain ten pounds?

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It was great fun to be able to play with the grand children. And it was great visiting with our grown children. Everyone enjoyed a visit to the Como Zoo. It is a fairly small zoo. However, it is designed to be educational for children (and adults). The seal lion show was a big hit. So was the lion, tiger, and cougar.

Twelve people together in a student housing apartment can get a little close at times, but we all managed with no problems. Being together, having fun together, making meals together (and cleaning up afterwards), and catching up on what is going on in everyone’s life, is important and good. It is another way of strengthening families.

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Tags: Como Zoo, cougar, family vacation, Minneapolis Zoo, tiger, visit the zoo |

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Rhubarb Pie

May 19th, 2010 |

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Home Made Rhubarb Pie

It has been a very wet Spring here in Utah. The weeds have loved it. They grow so very fast. There is one vegetable that grows as fast as the weeds. It is rhubarb. Our rhubarb plant is very big. If other vegetables grew as fast there would be a lot less food shortage problems.

Last Saturday I cut some of the rhubarb. I didn’t make any difference to the plant. You could not tell that I had cut any. After bringing in I washed, then diced the rhubarb.

Then my oldest daughter came by. Together she and I made an open faced rhubarb pie. We made it from a recipe we found on the internet. It was a simple recipe, with rhubarb, sugar, tapioca, butter, and a little flour.

The pie was delicious.

Working together with children is a good way to strengthen the family. It is a good time to talk and laugh together.

Albin
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We Need More Heroes

May 4th, 2010 |

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When I was a boy we had heroes. I think today there is a lack of heroes.

To me, a hero is someone that sets a good example, meets challenges face on, and always fights for the right. He or she is a person of honor and a believer of and fighter for truth.

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In the days of my youth we always celebrated the birthdays of George Washington (see picture of George Washington) and Abraham Lincoln. As we celebrated their birthdays we also studied their lives. They were man of honor, who stood for truth and freedom despite tremendous odds. They were heroes. Now they are not celebrated very much andthat they are becoming more forgotten with each passing year.

Willie Mays, the great San Francisco Giants out fielder, was one of my heroes. There were many others in the baseball and other sports in those olden days. Though there may have been scandals among them, I don’t remember. Today we hear of scandals among sports players on a regular basis.

I remember learning about Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier, and the Swamp Fox by watching the Walt Disney hour on Sunday evenings. They were true heroes. I can still picture Davy Crockett fighting at the Alamo and the Swamp Fox outwitting the British to help win out war for independence.

Our children need to have heroes that they can look up to. Mom and Dad, do you know who your children’s heroes are? Talk with your children about it, and help them find true heroes. And don’t forget that parents can and should be among the heroes that children look up to?

I invite you to comment on this post, telling us about one of your heroes. Thanks.

Albin

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Taxes and the Family

April 29th, 2010 |

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The United States has become a two-class society. Half of Americans pay federal income taxes and half don’t. Most people had no knowledge of this appalling economic fact.

Even worse is the reality that 40 percent of Americans receive federal government handouts of cash and valuable benefits. Those handouts are financed by the people who do pay federal income taxes.

Those handouts create a tremendous bloc of people who depend on the government for their living expenses. The Tax Foundation reports that 20 percent of Americans now get 75 percent of their income from the federal government, and another 20 percent get 45 percent of their income from the government.

This could be a huge voting block for welfare/socialistic candidates.

Obama’s Stimulus law will add nearly $800 billion in new means-tested welfare spending over the next decade. That means about $22,500 for every poor person in the United States, which will cost over $10,000 for each family that pays federal income taxes.

According to the Tax Foundation, married taxpayers pay three-fourths of all federal income taxes, whereas two-thirds of single parents who file as head-of-household pay no income tax at all. According to a Heritage Foundation report, taxpayers (mostly those who are married) will spend more than $300 billion providing welfare aid to single parents (mostly women).

In 2008, 40.6 percent of children born in the United States were born outside of marriage; that’s 1,720,000 children. This is not, as the media would like us to believe, a teenage problem.

Only 7 percent of those illegitimate babies were born to girls under age 18, and over three-fourths were born to women over age 20. The problem is the collapse of marriage as the social institution responsible for the costs of the care of children.

The wrong-headed welfare system started in the 1960s with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and his proclaimed war against poverty. The system should have been called the war against marriage.

LBJ’s Great Society set up a grossly immoral system whereby millions of people were taught that they had an “entitlement” to pick the pockets of law-abiding, taxpaying families if they met two conditions: they didn’t work, and they were not married to someone who did work. This destroyed the work ethic and subsidized illegitimacy by giving single moms money and scores of benefits such as welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, housing, utilities, WIC, and commodities.

LBJ’s welfare system undermined marriage and greatly increased all the social problems that flow from fatherless homes, such as drugs, sex, suicide, runaways, and school dropouts. The feminists rejoiced because all the cash went to women, thereby deconstructing what they called the oppressive patriarchy, and the liberals rejoiced because these handouts required more bureaucrats and higher taxes.

The Republican Congress passed welfare reform in 1996, which was signed by President Clinton, who admitted that it was time to “end welfare as we know it.”

The goal of that welfare reform was to help families move to employment and self-sufficiency and end long-term dependence on government assistance. This policy was repealed by Obama’s Stimulus, which will add more families to welfare dependency by paying bonuses to states that increase their welfare caseloads.

Obama’s real goal is a permanent expansion of the welfare system. Nothing promotes that goal as much as discouraging marriage and providing financial incentives to increase the number of single moms.

Single moms have become a fast-growing demographic group that demands a growing welfare industry. They look to Big Brother government (a.k.a. the Obama Administration) as a provider and the solution to their problems.

Even Obama’s Health Control Law contains a subsidy of thousands of dollars a year to unmarried couples and a penalty if they get married. That’s the goal of the Obama liberals: a society dependent on the government.

And the traditional family is under further attack.

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Welcome to The Strengthen The Family blog

April 23rd, 2010 |

Author: admin

Hello.

We believe that the family is the main building block of society.

Families have changed a great deal since I was growing up in the 50s and 60s. Then divorce and single parent families were rare, at least they were rare to my knowledge. Now they are common.

Today it is harder to raise children. The mine fields that can hurt or destroy youth have grown in number and diversity.

There are more social and governmental forces putting pressure on the traditional family unit.

My intention with this blog is to provide a platform where these, and many other issues relating to families can be discussed, with ideas and solutions being shared freely.

We invite you to make comments and share your ideas.

Have a great day and enjoy your family.

Albin

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