Days with the Dorans

Dear Joe, Ali Jane, Zach and Sean, Four years ago I wrote you a letter HERE about the last election. We've just had another election and I feel like I should share with you here my two cents on the matter. Jonasen and Ali Jane were much more aware of this election and Z and Seany, you heard things from your peers and of course you knew who dad and I were voting for and on a surface level~why. I know I thought the last election was ugly but NOTHING would compare to this one. Uncharted territory if you ask me but not in a good way. This election was hard. The tone of the campaigning was sickening and really upset and changed ME some. I heard some really ugly things and I had people who I cared about defending behavior that I thought could not nor should be defended. The morning of the 9th (the day after the election), I woke Joe up and told him, "Trump's president." to which he picked his head up and said, "Seriously?" and put his head ba...

My Dear Joey, Ali Jane, Goose and Sean, I love that I have this blog to communicate to you and it has been fun (now that the Bigs are old enough to really dig into OUR history) to listen to you read your story and chuckle along to some of the fun things you've done.  I realized that I wrote about the election four years ago (when I first started this blogging thing) and thought I should write about the one we just had.   So here we are in 2012 and President Barack Obama has been elected for another term.  You were all quite funny last night as we talked a bit about the election.  You each were able to tell us who your friends were voting for (but of course you Ali correctly pointed out that your friends can't vote until they're 18) and you each were rooting for one of the candidates (the same one) which was funny for me.  You would watch as some of the states lit up and you'd cheer, or you'd sigh.  It was during this time that we had a good tal...

I would say that I'm not one to talk politics or religion but it seems I have spoken about religion somewhat on this blog- and since it's a diary of sorts... why not go ahead and write about the other taboo. I must say that personally I am glad with the outcome of the election, (o.k so now you know who I voted for) but I also must say that had John McCain won, I wouldn't have been filled with the hatred and ugliness that I've seen from so many people. I've been thinking about it a lot over the last two weeks and it simply amazes me. While I am truly inspired by Obama and agree with many of his policies, I know that he is a human and I don't put my faith in humans but in God. I think that many people thought that because I am a Christian, I am a Republican. Well, I am not. I look at the issues that matter most to me, do my homework and have thus far always split my ballot during election times. What upset me most about this election (and still has me worried...