Some people ask how we can make it on one income with me as a stay at home mother to five. I have always shopped at thrift and consignment stores, and this has helped tremendously with big ticket items like furniture, shoes, and coats.
Recently I went to Boulder and shopped for Ben’s Kindergarten wardrobe. As our youngest child he has always worn second hand clothes, with a few wal mart socks, underwear, and t-shirts thrown in to fill in the gaps. Childish Things is my favorite consignment store and we have been shopping there since I was pregnant with Allison seventeen years ago.
Here is a link for my local readers.
The owner has a twice yearly 50% off sale and we were able to purchase everything Ben will need for school for eighty dollars. I also bought him some church clothes, a new suit jacket, pants, and shoes, plus great quality soccer cleats, a ton of t-shirts, pants, and two sets of pajamas.
Here is a picture of him taken before church in his new suit:
Jenny Hatch
PS Susanna Baig has a great entry on more ways to economize at her blog, Home Spun Life.
Category Current Events
Girls Camp
My two daughters and I went to girls camp this past week. It was a total blast. Michelle was the ward camp director and did a fabulous job organizing everything before camp. When we were up at the Pickle Gulch camp site in Blackhawk Colorado, we took many photos, videos, and I put together this short little montage of our time together to share our adventures.
I was so glad to have the chance to spend this precious time with my daughters and their friends.
Jenny Hatch
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Ellis Washington is systematically reviewing and parsing a great book
Nietzsche and the damnation of ideas
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Ellis Washington is carefully reviewing this book with his recent columns. Check them out.
Here is the article on Nietzsche:
“Do ideas have consequences? Do damnable, evil ideas have damnable and evil consequences? If so, then a unbiased view of 20th century history would have to link Nietzsche’s “Will to Power” directly to World War I, but more directly to Hitler’s Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust. Hitler, Hess, Rohm, Goering, Bormann, Himmler, Heydrich and all of the top Nazi officers venerated Nietzsche’s radical ideas of Ubermenschen and modeled their Third Reich on his grim philosophical speculations.
The consequence of Nietzsche’s damnation of ideas was his own personal, protracted descent into madness beginning in January 1889 – his perhaps syphilitic-derived dementia so completely cast him into despair that his daily rantings and ravings were: “I am dead because I am stupid. … I am stupid because I am dead.”
Regarding the popular “political correctness” movement that dominates the modern academy, politics, culture and civil discourse where one cannot even tell the truth about anything for fear of offending someone, Nietzsche howled against that immature view in his own inimitable style – “Niceness [political correctness] is what is left of goodness when it is drained of greatness.”
Where will Nietzsche’s Will to Power take a people, a society, a nation, a world that has long since disposed with the inconvenient niceties of Christianity and morality? Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, Ho Chi Mihn, Pol Pot, Edi Amin, Osama bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea, Syria, Iran, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have given us a glimpse into the abyss, and it is not very hopeful.
British historian Paul Johnson wrote about Nietzsche and his indelible place in history: “The greatest event of recent times – that ‘God is dead,’ that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable – is beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.”
Nietzsche, admittedly, was a brilliant and influential philosopher, but because his ideas are rooted in atheism, humanism, Social Darwinism, eugenics and nihilism, the latter of which is an extreme view that there is no need for values and no justification for good, evil or morality, in the end he can only offer society perpetual war, genocide, utter despair and no future hope of eternal life with God, because Nietzsche declared, “God is dead.”
America, we can do better than Nietzsche … can’t we?”
Yup.
Jenny Hatch
For a great talk on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Nietzsche please review this movie I put together from a talk by Ezra Taft Benson.
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3 year anniversary of The Natural Family BLOG!
I put together this short montage as an overview of my three years of Blogging:
It is also located on my share page
And at You Tube:
On Friday July 4th, 2008 I celebrated three years of Blogging.
This video is an overview of some of the photos and videos from these three years of sharing portions of my life on the internet.
I discovered this amazing song in the easy listening music catagory at One True Media. Only by Faith is the music used to accompany the montage.
It was written by Rom Ryan.
Here are the lyrics to the song:
ONLY BY FAITH by Rom Ryan
FAITH A VOICE IN THE DARKNESS
A STAR THERE TO GUIDE US
WHEN WE LOSE OUR WAY
FAITH
EVEN WHEN WE ARE FALLEN
INTO THE FIRE
CONSUMED BY THE FLAME
WEÂ’LL RISE FROM THE ASHES
ONLY BY FAITH
FAITH
A PROMISE UNBROKEN
THE POWER THAT GUIDES US
WHEN WE BELIEVE
FAITH
EVEN WHEN WE ARE FALLEN
INTO THE FIRE
CONSUMED BY THE FLAME
WEÂ’LL RISE FROM THE ASHES
ONLY BY FAITH
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
ONLY BY FAITH
LOVE CONQUERS HATRED
PEACE DEFEATS WAR
ONLY BY FAITH
JOY OVERCOMES SORROW
HOPE REPLACES DESPAIR
WE FALL IN THE FIRE
CONSUMED BY THE FLAME
WE RISE FROM THE ASHES
ONLY BY FAITH
I sent an email to Rom yesterday asking him about the lyrics and he was kind enough to email them to me, he also said:
QUOTE:
Hi Jenny,
Thanks for the generous comments. I’ve got a cd coming out sometime in the next year that will be vocal based, and will have all material along the lines of OBF. The singer on the recording you heard is Arlandus Chimney he’s the bass player in Moodafaruka as well as a wonderful singer.
The lyrics to OBF are below.
Thanks for having us in the mix,
Rom
If you enjoyed this song, go check out his web site for more information on the new CD as well as his other wonderful CD’s!
www.moodafaruka.com
Jenny Hatch
The Natural Family BLOG
The Natural Family Company
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Bob Barr for President
I know it has been a wacky presidential year for those of us who are confirmed Freedom Lovers. I was a strong supporter of Mitt Romney and then switched to Ron Paul. When Dr. Paul left the race, I felt that the only choice left for me was Bob Barr, who is the Libertarian Candidate for president.
At this point I am not really concerned about my vote being “wasted”, I am going to vote for the candidate who will guide America toward Freedom.
Jenny Hatch
Here is Bob Barrs video:
And a link to his web site: Go Here
And his issues page: Go Here
