I am extreamly bummed that Obama won. I don't feel that he is going to bring this country the change that they want or think he is going to bring.

We are going to lose our rights, that we have because of the constitution. He wants to ban our guns.

And it is other things to, he wants to put our healthcare and 401K in the hands of the government. And we all know how the government is with the programs they run. They all turn to crap. But if that is what people want it looks as though they will get it.

I am very sadden by America today, very sad that they didn't see thru Obama.

So rather you believe it or not our taxes are going to go up. Because when you raise taxes for the rich, everyone's taxes go up. When you raise taxes for big companies, we the people have to pay more for everything.

For me and my family, we can not afford to pay more for everything. I have bills to pay and a family to take care of. With only Jeff working and having a 2nd child on the way we can not afford to pay what we are paying now much less more.

As for the economy people no president can bring it back, only us the people can do that. We were the ones who ruined it and we are the ones who need to fix it.

The one thing I did learn from this election is you do not need experiance to run and win the presidency. Anyone can do it by making empty promises and bringing false hope to Americans. Maybe I will run for president for the next election.

My sister called our dad and grandmother the other day and she had told them that I was expecting another child. Well one said they didn't think I was suppose to have anymore children and the other said that they didn't think I could have anymore children.

When my sister told me this I was like well I was always told all of my life by all of my doctors that I would never have kids at all, so having Harleyann was a miracle and my blessing. So the doctors had been wrong, however one dr was right that I could not have a full term baby if I did get pregnant and did not miscarry. I had Harleyann at 24 wks. My OB has told me every year since I have had Harleyann that there was no reason that I couldn't have another child if I wanted and that they would do everything they could to keep me from having another child at 24 wks. I did not want to have another one. It was never the fact that I couldn't or wasn't suppose to.

However, I honestly thought that I would not have anymore children as Jeff and I have never used protection and it took 6 yrs to have the first and another 6 to get pregnant with the 2nd. We were not trying to have another baby, even though Jeff wanted another, I did not. I am happy to be having another and hoping that this one stays in for a while.

God gave me another miracle and blessing in life. He fills my entire life with blessings and miracles.

The thing that I find interesting is the 2 people that I cared very deeply for passed away. My Grandma Smith passed away in Jan 2001 and I found out I was pregnant with Harleyann a yr later. My Grandpa Smith passed away in Nov 2007 (yeah last yr) and I found out that I was pregnant back in August, I just found out  a wk and half ago that it is a boy. So it is interesting that I lose these people then it like I have a baby to replace them. 

This baby however will be the last one that I have, I will be getting fixed so that I am not pregnant again in another 6 years. I don't wanna be having another child when I am 38, I am already at high risk. But I know that God is watching over me and will see me thru this pregnancy and I think that I want be seeing my little boy until March (I doubt that I will go all the way to April when I am due) 

Sarah Palin will be in Richmond 

Where: Deep Run High School.

When: Sat. November 1, 2006

Time: Doors open at 6pm, Rally starts at 8pm.

OK so I have been listening to a station here in Va, 1140 am, it is a talk radio show. They have had some very interesting information as of lately.

Last night on the John Hannity show someone called in and was talking about how stupid President Bush is. This really got me mad, because I am sorry our president is not stupid and as much as people keep saying that everything is Bush's fault. Well it is not. Think about this: Who gave us more than one tax break? Who helped us after 9/11 and has prevented more terrorist attacks on the US? Honestly I do not think anyone else would have been able to do this for our country. Also people talk about the president took us to war under false pretenses. OK this always irritates me because honestly people DO YOU REALLY THINK that if they knew we  were coming after them for their nuclar wepons that they would actually just let us find them. Of course not they would move them, Iraq is not as stupid as people think they are.

OK now I am so sick of hearing all this crap about Obama and how he is putting down McCain, saying McCain is going to continue to follow Bush's plan. First off McCain's plan is different than Bush's and secondly it is a great plan to get us out of the economic mess the country is in.

And I am sorry to you Obama supporters but I soooo can not vote for someone whom 1)has no experiance in governing, 2) anyone who wants to put our 401K, insurance and every other program we have into the governments hands. Seriously people the government is not doing such a good job with the programs they do handle, ex. Social Security, what makes you think that they will actually help us in other areas???? Of course when someone calls him out on something he has done and does not do, he says it was misconstrude. It's all lies and it is crap. I just can not look at this man and see him as our next president. He talks about how it is not fair that people will not vote for him because they are prejudice towards blacks. I don't care if you are black, white, red, purple, green or whatever, I am not going to vote for someone I do not feel is fit to lead our country. So my point is it is a problem that others are prejudice against blacks but it is ok for his wife to be prejudice towards whites. She in herself is a whole different story and people want her as our first lady. Another thing this is a man that we want to oversee out Military when he has never served his self and will screw it up even more than Clinton did? He wants to cut money going to our troops, that is not supporting them. He wants to raise taxes on the rich and big buisnesses, again this will only hurt us low class people. I just don't get how he is even a continder in this race. He can promise and promise change, but remember a president can not do anything the government will not let them do. And he is only in his 2nd year as Senator, yeah that is real political experience there. I hope people wake up and see thru this man and realize he can dream about change but honestly it will never come. And this country will never get fixed in his short term plan we need someone that is looking down the road at the big picture.

McCAIN/PALIN 2008!!!!!!!!!!

BOY!!!!!!!!!
 
That's right at 15wks 1day I found out we are having a boy. I was so shocked I thought for sure it was going to be a girl. But Harleyann was right when she said I would be having a boy. So first I had my U/S and my cervix looks great, Dr. Love said it is real long, which is good. The nurse came in took a look at the cervix and the baby. The baby was sleeping and he wouldn't move, he heartrate was 159. So we didn't think I would find out today which is fine, because I will have plenty more ultrasounds to find out what I am having. So then Dr. Love comes in, the first thing he said when he put the u/s thing on me is do you know the sex, I said no, he says do you want to know and I said yes, and he said it was a boy. So first thing he seen, then when he tried to get a pic of it, he decided not to let us see anymore. But I got to see the little turtle there (that is what I call it LOL) and not the 2 lines that was so visable with Harleyann. So his name is going to be Jeffrey Stuart McGuinn Jr, we will call him JJ for short. I have my next U/S in 4 wks so hopefully we will be able to get the famous shot :)
 
After the U/S I seen Dr. Powers and she is very pleased with how things are going, she will see me again in 2 wks to check my cervix. If my insurance company will pay for it then around 18 wks I will start getting the progesterone shots. When I get to 20 wks then I will be going to the dr once a wk to get my cervix checked and I will be watched a lot closer at that point and if there is any sign of my cervix opening/shortening then I will be on bedrest at that point. At 24 wks I will be on bedrest either way.
 
So everything is going great and now I am just going to chill and relax and let nature takes it's course and know that it is in God's hands and I have complete faith that he is not going to let anything happen to my son.

I have been a registered voter since I was 18 years olds. I remember when I was a teenager and really started paying attention to politics and watching the debates, alot for school, but it interested me and I could not wait to be old enough to vote. The first presidential election that I voted in was the one that Clinton won his 2nd term in office, I did not vote for him. Never thought he was a good president and never will. I did vote for George W. Bush these past 2 terms and am very pleased with whom I choose. Now normally I have been blogging and spreading the news about who I am voting for way before now. But this election is different, while I have known for the most part whom I was going to vote for since the nominations were made for each party I have not said much. I guess everyone is viewing this election as being different and I know a lot of people whom are just hanging back chillin' and not saying who they feel should be president and most of all those people all agree on the same person they are voting for. I myself have already made my vote via absentee ballot, because I have some issues going on right now that I am not going to be able to go to the polls and stand in line for however long. But before I say who I am supporting I wanted to say a few things that have really really p*$$*d me off lately so here it goes:

GEORGE W BUSH:

So he may not have been the best president we have had, but I support him whole heartedly and I believe he was a fine president. There are things that he tried to do for our country, but honestly people, our president does not really run our country, it is goverment ran. Think about it anything our president (no matter who they are) wants to do has to go before the Senate and the House and if they say NO!! then it is no, it's not like the president can bypass them to do things. Which to me is stupid and if that is the case really what do we need a president for??????? So you can not blame Bush on not doing something when he tried and falled because the Senate of House denied it.

ECONOMY:

Secondly, our economy did not get the way it is because of the president, honestly this is something that has been in the makings along time now. It didn't happen over night and it is not going to be fixed over night. Sad but true. The job loses, with these big companies moving to other countries. Nothing is going to change that even tax breaks for them to stay here. Think about it, you own a large buisness, you have to pay American workers $15 + an hour, 40 hrs a wk, limit overtime which is paid at time and a half, have to provide medical/dental insurance, shortterm/longterm disability. life insurance, not to mention what you have to have to run the buisness. But you can go to China or Mexico or somewhere like that, pay employees less than $2 an hr, work them as long as you want, pay no over time, no insurance and all the other stuff. So truthfully where would you choose to have your buisness?? If it were me than I would have my buisness in another country, it is a whole lot cheaper.

TAXES:

I know this is on everyones mind as of late. What is going to happen, who is going to raise our taxes and who will lower. They all promise to lower taxes, but if u look at history you will see that the democrats have always made our taxes higher and the republicans have always lowered them. Even though the democrats promise lower taxes they never do.

HEALTHCARE:

Obama's plan: To let us have access to a government plan. As far as I can see the government has not been running any program very good these days, so why would we want to let them ruin another one for us????

McCain's plan: They say he wants to tax what we pay into healthcare. Technically what he wants to do is tax our entire money before any deductions. But honestly why is that so bad. I have seen it for years my parents always had to pay taxes because they never took enough taxes out because of the deductions before he was taxed. My pops always tried to get them to tax all of his money before his deductions but they wouldn't do it.

OBAMA:

I have to say I really did concider voting for him, I read his plan and researched him and have seen him and watched the news and read the stories and even the emails going around. And honestly yes he has a wonderful short term plan but honestly his long term plan is unknown and honestly to me that is where we need to be looking at is his long term plan. He says he wants to make the rich and big buisnesses pay more taxes and lower the taxes for the middle class and small buisnesses, but honestly how is he going to do that? Because if he taxes the big buisnesses it will still hurt middle class and expecially low class people because we will have to pay more money for gas, food and everything else because when the big buisnesses/rich have to pay more everyone else has to pay more. He says he wants to fine big buisnesses that do not offer health care to there employees, well they will come back and say it is not fair that they have to pay and fine and small buisnesses don't, therefore he can not fine no buisness or fine every buisness. You really need to see the big picture and not the small picture. Look outside the box. It is also known that when the rich have to pay more taxes, everyone pays more taxes. When the rich pay less taxes everyone pays less taxes. On top of everything else, in the beginning Obama did not want his mothers side of the family anywhere near his campaign, but has since let that be part of him. His wife just runs her mouth and says things (to me the first lady should be seen not heard). And how can anyone respecat a man who refuses to say the Pledge (I seen the pictures and seen it on the news and he has even said it his self) and refuses to if elected into office swear on the Bible!!

MCCAIN:

McCain has a really good plan, it may not be a good short term plan but it is excellent long term and to me that is what we need to be looking at because honestly no short term plan is going to really help us out. I think he has a good plan for taxes, healthcare, education an...

I think people don't want a republican in office because we have had one for the past 8 yrs and they think another one is going to make us worse that we are now. But you can not compare McCain to Bush or any other republican president. We have had some great republican presidents. The 8 yrs before Bush was Clinton and things were not that good with him either so how do you know a democratic president is going to be any better than a republican. You don't. You just have to research and do your homework and listen to what is said and what goes unsaid. Make your choose from the facts, not what the other party wants you to hear. Go to there websites, read their plans.

RACE/GENDER:

It is really sad to me to know that their are many people out there not voting for Obama because he is half black and it is even more sad that people are not going to vote for McCain because Palin is a women. Honestly people Palin has more experiance than any of the other 3 because she was the Gov. of Alaska, a very large state that has to deal with foreign policy/affairs because of it's location. The others have only been Seneators. So to me I feel that she is very quilified. Yes she has issues in her family but don't we all. Who really has the perfect family?

JUST A NOTE:

I know someone whom is extreamly close to me whom is a democrat. Has always voted democaticly, however for the first time in her life she is voting for the republican. The reason is because she feels he is a better fit and she has done her research on both parties. She has listened to all the debates and she is voting for the republican. I never ever thought that I would ever know of her to vote for a republican because she is 100% democrat. She feels that something is not right about Obama and there is just something about him that she can not put her finger on, but he honestly scares her enough where she is going to vote for McCain.

MY CHOICE:

Is McCain/Palin!! I feel they are a better fit for the office than Obama/Biden. And even if I do like some of Obama's policy's I can never ever respect a man that will not say the pledge and refuses to swear on the Bible.

MCCAIN/PALIN 2008

So I had my follow up appointment today. It was a great apt. The cerclage looks great and my cervix is nice and tightly closed. The baby's heartrate was 165. I have no signs of infection and everything looks great. This makes me feel a whole lot better for a few reasons, I know the baby is ok (since I feel it move around and kick/hit me and of course hearing the heartbeat), everything went great with the cerclage and it looks great, and lastly because I am in my 2nd trimester (it seems like it took forever to get here LOL, hopefully it will start to speed up now).

So the funny story is that the baby would not stay still to get a good heartrate so the nurse finally got her trapped LOL at the bottom right on my pelvic bone. So apparently the baby did not like that. And ever since the baby has been kicking/hitting my pelvic and it hurts!!!! LOL. And now the baby want move back up :(

I said at least I know the baby is ok in there even though it is causing me some pain right now, I can deal with it knowing everything is A-OK!!!! :)

My next apt is at 1:30p next Wends. I have my next ultrasound then and I also see Dr. Powers.

Thanks everyone for the prayers for me and the baby during our cerclage surgery today. The prepping was longer than it took them to do the stitch. Once they actually started the stitch it was done in 10 mins.

I had a bit of problems before the procedure. They gave me an epidural and at first it was not working so they gave me more, then all of a sudden my heart started racing (it jumped from like 98 to 125 in about 30 seconds). Then I felt as though I had to pee, then I felt nausea's and then I got really hot and felt as though I was going to pass out. Appearently my blood pressure dropped real low (they said that is what happens when someone is going to faint). So they gave some meds to bring my blood pressure up and after that I felt normal again. So then we went to the OR. The baby did wonderful and had a great heart rate (173) and was moving all over the place after the cerclage. Everything looked wonderful. So after the procedure and I was no longer numb, I felt pretty good.

Then of course coming home wasn't so comfortable and now my back hurts and is real tender from the epidural, but otherwise everything is great and I go to the dr in a wk to check everything out.
Just wanted to update.
Hugs and Love,
Leslie

As I am approching my 2nd trimester (Tuesday) I have been thinking alot about how I was as a kid vs. Harleyann and thinking about what this kid will be like.

See I was a spoiled brat, literally, I was one of those that had to have there way and to be honest most of the time I got it. I was the first born of 3, so the first 2 yrs of my life were bliss not having to share and everyone in my family spoiled me. I was so bad at having to have my way I threw temper tantrums, in the middle of the store, I would scream and I was lay on the floor and slam my head onto the concrete floor (never did hurt myself) and people would stare at whomever I was with (mostly my mom). One time my parents were going somewhere and I couldn't go so I chased them down the road screaming. Then once my sisters came around and I got older, I decided I was the oldest and I bossed my sisters around, I beat them up. I was mean to them. Then once I became a teen my mom and I clashed big time, we would scream at each other and we would always end up going to our rooms and slamming our doors. I would slam mine a few times for the effect. But otherwise I was a good kid, I followed the rules and I never snuck out, I never partied, I never did drugs or drank alcohol. I was raised well. I remember my mom telling me I would get it 2 fold back once I had kids.

Now here is Harleyann, a very sweet, laid back, quiet child. She is 6 and a couple months after the baby comes she will turn 7. She is the best child a mom could ask for. We go places and she is well behaved, when she asks for something if I don't have the money at that time I just say lets put it on our list (the list we make for bday and Christmas) and she is just the best child. Now she does have her days, I will not say that she doesn't, but it is really not that often. I feel so lucky that she is my daughter. Harleyann is nothing like me, she is very mild tempered and just an over all wonderful child.

So that leads me to the one that I am pregnant with now. I wonder what he/she will be like. Will they be like Harleyann? Will the be just as well behaved. I really honestly think it is how you raise them, how you teach them.  But then again my mom tried to teach me and well I was still the way I was. So if this child turns out anything like me, God help me. I don't think I can repeat a Harleyann all over again, but it sure would be nice.

Neice. Yep Jeff's sister, Christy, whom is 17 wks pregnant, is expecting her second daughter in Feb. She is due 6 wks before me.

Jeff and I are really excited and can't wait to have another neice.

I had my second appointment yesterday. Everything is going really well, the baby is growing like he/she should be. I have a strong feeling that I will be having a girl. The heart rate is 162, so nice and strong. I will be having my first trimester screening on October 1st instead of October 8th, because Dr Powers wants to do my cerclage surgery that day. My surgery is at 12:15 on the 8th. I will be getting what they call the McDonald stitch, as long as my cervix stays the way it is now. That stitch is less advasive and has less risk of complications. I will be having a c-section because with me having EDS I have a higher risk of uterine rupture than that of someone with no problems. As long as everything stays looking good I will not be on bedrest until 23/24 wks because that is when I had Harleyann. So, so far, so good. Baby is there, growing well and so far behaving. He/she is head down butt up, just like Harleyann always was. I am still feeling real good. I do just have to take it easy and relax and not do to much.

So we have a plan in place and I am confident that this pregnancy is going to end a lot differently than my first, in a much better way.

This was a big game for the Redskins, playing the Super Bowl Champs. While, sadly, the Redskins lost (16-7), it could have been so much worse.

First instead of the 3 field goals that the Gaints got, they could have been TD's instead. But our awesome defense did a great job to keep them from getting TD's, well except the first one and I really think that was a wake up call to our defense.

Secondly, we did get a touchdown which helped, because we didn't get shut out.

Now my take on the offense. Yes I realize that Coach Zorn is from the West Coast and is trying to impliment a West Coast Offense here, however, I think that when Campbell gives the ball to Portis it is predictable and that is who the defense is going to go after, therefore not getting much yardage (ex. last night). While he threw the ball to Randel El time and time again, what about Cooley, he is a great player and makes big players and there were tons of times he was clear and could have made some big plays, but only one throw to him for 7 yards, that is really sad, because Cooley can and will put up the numbers. I think that the offense needs major work, while I think that Campbell has a very promising career as a QB, and I do like him don't get me wrong, I think that he needs more practice and is not ready to be a starting QB. But he didn't throw any interseptions last night which was great.

At least we have until the 14th till my Skins play again and hopefully they will be better prepared and will put a beat down on the Saints, it is a home game, so the fans will be cheering loud and proud for our Redskins.

HTTR