On Friday, August 29, my girlfriend’s 14 year old son, Brodie, was in an ATV accident in Wisconsin and had to be airlifted to a hospital in St. Paul, MN, because of head injuries he sustained when hitting a tree.

Brodie suffered complex fractures to his left orbital bone as well as a subdermal hematoma in his brain. You can read Brodie’s progress here.

Please pray for this family as they go through the slow process of healing. Brodie is showing remarkable progress since the accident, communicating and even making an occasional joke, but his family could use some encouragement and prayer so please feel free to leave a message in their guestbook.

I spent some time today with my friend, Darla, who always reminds me that there’s nothing more important in this world than family. And she makes me feel like I’m a part of hers.

Even her dog, Dudley, posed for a photo and smiled for the camera!

Darla’s son, Jake, is a senior this year so we took a few photos for his senior picture.

The boy loves his hunting and I love the boy.

Oh, one more thing.

With school beginning very soon, I am going to take some time off from blogging to spend preparing for the new school year and just plain having some outrageous fun with the kids. I will be back on September 2nd all refreshed and stuff.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

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Explanation from the McCain campaign staff can be found here, but seriously.

It’s not like someone asked him how many socks he owns.

*JennineJohnsondotcom is not publicly endorsing any presidential candidate unless Ted Nugent decides to run as an independent.

“So what if we used it in the barn,” he argued. “The fire will kill all the germs.”

How do you debate that kind of logic?

It’s the same logic that prompts 11 year old boys to jump off tall ladders with open umbrellas, or to put their full weight on tree branches with diameters no larger than a pinky finger.

Youth affords him a notion of invincibility and I find myself constantly standing in the gap, armed with a tirade of maternal warnings.

“What if the fire kills all but one of the billions of bacteria on that pitchfork?” I asked. “And then you start writhing on the ground in pain, foaming at the mouth because some strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has taken up residence in your intestines.”

“Yeah right! Like that would ever happen!” he laughed.

“Or worse, what if I ground you from Xbox for the rest of the summer for not listening to me when I tell you to put the pitchfork back in the barn?”

“Either way I would end up writhing on the ground, foaming at the mouth.”

“You have one minute to get it back in the barn.”

“Great,” he said as he walked towards the barn, shaking his head. “My intestines are now infected with a bunch of stupid rules.”

That’s right.

He’s got an acute case of inflammatory momsrightis.