Think you know the South and Southern history?

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South gives you the facts behind scores of revelations like these:
The first of the 13 colonies to formally legalize slavery? (Hint: it's not in the South)
How Georgia banned slaves -- and lawyers -- in its founding charter
Throw away those history textbooks: How the South started -- and won -- the American Revolution
How Southerners led the way in drafting the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
Why Northerners -- not Southerners -- wanted slaves to be counted as property instead of people in the Constitution
Peculiar fact about the wealthy slaveholder whose court cases helped legalize slavery in Virginia: he was black
How Virginia militiamen created the American Midwest
Why Northern states threatened secession long before the Confederacy -- and why they considered it Constitutional
How Southerners outnumbered Northerners almost four to one among the heroes of the Alamo
Why slavery, which spread across all thirteen colonies, was far crueler in the North than the South
How the Northern colonies grew rich on slave trading -- and revived slavery in the South just before it collapsed
New York City's largest industry in 1860? The outfitting of slave ships
Why economics -- not slavery -- was the driving force behind the War Between the States
How Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation left more than 800,000 slaves in bondage in states aligned with or occupied by the Union
How the more civilized Southern way of war contributed to its defeat -- in contrast to the North's brutal "total war" against civilians and property
How the Northern victory dealt a death blow to states' rights -- leading eventually to today's all-powerful federal government
Why "Reconstruction" is the most misnamed period in American history
Why segregation, which didn't exist in the antebellum South, was a legacy of Northern-imposed "Reconstruction"
How virtually all of America's highest-ranking World War II generals had Confederate roots
How the South was making movies when Hollywood was nowhere
Why race relations in today's South are much better than in the North -- or anywhere else in America
What Yankee reporters don't understand about the South
Why faith and family come first in the South
Why the South is naturally conservative (and the North is naturally liberal)
Why limited government and low tax rates are a Southern tradition
Statistics show Southerners are happier than people in other regions -- Clint Johnson shows you why
Why blacks have been moving back to the South in droves
How American jazz, blues, and rock 'n' roll (when it was still music) all came from the South
Why blacks hold more - and more powerful -- political offices in the South than in the North
Why Southern industry is booming, while the North's is going bust
The second war against the South -- the campaign to erase memory and history -- and how it serves liberal interests
Why Southerners are overrepresented in the military - and no, it's not poverty
The best American literature? Southern, of course -- and our high school and college reading lists confirm it
10 Things Southerners Don't Understand About the North (#1: Why isn't Ted Kennedy in prison?)

Merry Christmas!

We had a Christmas party a couple weeks ago with the kids we teach taekwondo to. It was pretty fun and the parents there are so great. We got a couple of cool taekwondo Christmas tree ornaments also.

I turned another year older this month. Happy Birthday to me:) Danielle will be 10 this month! My brother and brother-in-law also have a birthday this month, even on the same day. Happy Birthday to you too! We came home the day before my birthday from a trip down south. While Rex and I were gone, the kids made me 2 birthday cakes. So sweet! I am not the only one eating them!...lol…Rexford went to the store and bought all the ingredients for the cakes. We are so proud of him and all the fruit we see in him. Praise God for His mercy and love!

Our trip down south was super sweet. The family we stayed with are such an excellent family. Their kids are so well mannered. We had a blast getting to know them better. We visited a church down there, they have a fellowship meal every Sunday and most people stay all afternoon at the church fellowshipping. We were there from 9:30 till around 4. Everyone had something spiritual to talk about.

We are deciding if we are going to move down there. We are praying for wisdom about this all. Rex has a great job opportunity there. We do need to make a decision soon though, it is weighing on Rex’s mind a lot. He is listening to a sermon series we listened to for family worship awhile ago on making decisions.

Looks like we might have a white Christmas here! My last day in the south, I spent sitting by a pool in 70 degree weather, which I love because I was raised in Virginia and it took my body about 5 years to get used to cold weather. I mean cold weather, not like here in Minnesota. We have not had a very cold winter here since we have lived here. If we move, I would definitely miss the snow though, it is so beautiful and clean. Rex and I have really appreciated our friends up here telling us they would miss us and trying to think of ways for us to stay up here. Faithful friends are such a blessing from the Lord!

Praise God for His Faithful Son Jesus Christ during this time of year and always Praise God! He is faithful in all ways!

Dec. Stuff

I am ready for Christmas break. I don’t have time to get some things finished! Geneva and I had physicals last week. She did really great for her flu shot and they took some blood for a lead test. When it was time for me to get a shot she covered her face with her hands and said,” I feel so sorry for you”. She is in the 95 percentile for her height and 50th for weight.
I am extremely behind on my holiday baking. Oh well I think I will take a couple days and do it all then instead of trying to spread it out. I do have Christmas cards ready to send out though, hopefully I will get them out this week:) Hoping for a white Christmas here!