heroes

i finally took time out to catch up on the blog, you are all my heroes. i am so grateful for each of you. your stories of your everyday lives and how you are trying to weather the storms big and little are awesome.  you are an amazing group and your mom/aunt Le Anne loves you.

i can hardly wait for the weekend.  i texted the other night and said the only thing i can figure out is that "the host" has taken over the bodies of my sisters.  really? 2 visits in 7 months!!! unheard of.  we will have fun in seatle.  wish you could all come.

we did have so much fun in europe.  i do love to travel!  janie, sadie, ellyn (she cries when you try to get her out of the car)  and sawyer are incredible travelers. i will miss having brooke in germany and geof. and darla in richmond but it will be so good to have them closer to home. bet i still find someplace to go. here's me hoping that they don't cut that little benefit for parents of pilots.  i'm thinking they won't because it only costs them 15 or so peanuts a flight and i'm willing to give those up if i have to.

read an article in the newspaper the other day about the current summer crop of flawed superheroes.   in 8th grade the teacher had me do "independent studies" for a semester for the sake of both the other kids in the class and me. i went to the library everyday and read everything i could about the greek, roman and some nordic gods. i was confused because they were supposed to be "gods" that these people worshipped. they were really good at some things- superhuman in fact and yet they were capable of doing some really horrible things when you thought about it. my teacher explained that the people made their gods bigger than life people. everything about them was exagerated--bigger than life--really good/really bad.

the newspaper article went on to say that "superman is conventionally and traditionally a boy scout and that's often what makes him very difficult to relate with."  we will be better able to relate to these flawed heroes this summer. 

i'm wondering if in fact what we need to do as a society is to look for heroes not so we can relate to them and their flaws, but heroes  we can look up to as examples. why have superheroes that make us feel comfortable doing things we shouldn't do.  i think that was a prime reason mitt romney didn't get the nomination. any way  

don't get me wrong i will be there at the movies this summer with indiana jones, etc. i can hardly wait, but frankly i'm going to stick with the super boy scout hero as my role model--Pres. Monson. and all my children and my sisters' children and grandchildren.

love ya, mom, aka aunt Le Anne