Beware: The apocalypse has started…

By today’s standards, 6 kids is certainly a large family. We often draw the eyes of those around and undoubtedly the snide comment that we weren’t meant to hear. And of course there is the select few who feel it is appropriate to share their shock and dismay with us unsolicited. Most recently we set out to a family dinner at Olive Garden. Not seated more than 10 minutes before the older couple seated alongside us said “Are they all yours?” How do you respond to that? More importantly, what would possess a person to ask or even ponder that question? Or even better, what would make one think that they are entitled to the answer to that question?

This is a twofold problem with society today. First, why are people more surprised that we have six children than if we were to say we were abducted by aliens. We will talk about this more later... Secondly, many people have been misled along the years to think somehow their opinion matters. Someone led them to believe the rest of the world would somehow benefit from their opinion being known. They were lied to… Don’t get us wrong, everyone is entitle to their opinion, we just wish people understood that not everyone’s opinion is worth a crap. We often ponder if they so freely share the same opinion with ugly people… Would it be acceptable to walk up to the homely lady at the restaurant and ask “Is that face yours?” Hmmmm…. Who wants to be the first one to try that out? Let us know how it goes for you.

One word… tact! It is of course a lost art in this world of Facebook, twitter, and anonymity. We empower our youth to speak their mind, yet fail to provide them a moral compass in order to calibrate that less than functional space between their ears. This obviously isn’t a new aged thing, the folks at the restaurant were older than us. Perhaps this is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. Perhaps the brain decay is eroding people’s ability to be courteous and discrete. That must be it… so each time a person feels obligated to ask us “Do you know what causes that?” we will deploy our zombie countermeasures and flee insistently…

Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.

~ 1Peter 3:8