Lebanon Makes Newsweek

Seems as though my little spot in the world has made it to a Newsweek Story.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/154899/page/1

The story is about Obama and the reporter was following him. This reporter has ruffeled plenty of feathers in my little town. Obama made a stop off in Springfield, Mo and then was headed to Rolla, Mo. He made an "unscheduled" stop off in Lebanon and stopped at a lil restaurant called Bell Restaurant. Well this "unscheduled" stop off is definatly not the first place I would have stopped. The diner is old, run down and has LOTS of jokes about it. But that's where the bus came to a halt. Suprising to me were the number of patrons at the restaurant that day. There is never many patrons sitting around, but on this day the building was packed when Obama got off the bus.

Now a reporter has written a story about Obama and included some of the people that he talked with in our fair town. She described them as church looking, no teeth and unemployed people. The people that he has been accused of not caring for. Hmmmm wonder why she would describe these people like this. Basically because that's some of the people that were there that particular day.

Lebanon is a good town for the most part. We have all varieties of people here. We have welfare, unemployed all the way up to millionaires living here. We for the most part are a very friendly bunch of people and we don't have violent crimes. So I guess what my post here today is about is that people shouldn't get their feathers too ruffled by a reporter from Newsweek that doesn't have a clue what Lebanon is about or what our people are about. We know that Lebanon is more than what was portrayed in the article and we know that when the dust settles Lebanon will still be the same as it was prior to Mr. Obama hitting our streets. We have a Lot to be proud of and we all know that the "unscheduled" stop was a planned stop off. And as far as Ms. Messued's words are concerned, well just turn the page and remember that we have a great town here full of people that make this town just what it is.

Math Drills.

Elizabeth started 2nd grade this year. Who knew 2nd grade would be so intense. There is homework every night so far. Not hard stuff just reading, spelling and math. Which is plenty. So this week they started math drills. They are working on memorizing simple math pharses. 1+1, 2+1, 3+1 you get the gist. Every day they have a drill. They have to be able to do 25 answers in 1 minute. Simple enough. So last night we were working on the drill. I was reading the question and she was answering as fast as she could. Timmy had been in the shower and comes thru in the middle of our quizzing. I said what's 4+1 and before Elizabeth could even think timmy rattles off 5! And kept on walking towards his room. I said how'd you know that. So I then asked timmy what's 6+1. 7 he says happily. WOW how does my 4 year old know how to add.....I don't know. But he just kept beltin them out. So I guess I will have 2 smarty pant kids, not that it makes me unhappy. I really wished that Timmy would have been accepted into the school pre-school. He was too smart however. Oh well. Just 1 short year and he'll be in K and they won't know what to do with him.