Documentaries

Today I was educating myself by watching documentaries and became fascinated with all the money being spent on the buildings for the Olympics. Who decides what is enough or too much, is something I have always wondered? 1000 welders had to be trained to do the 15 months of welding for the Birdnest!

Then there is the Bubble building that is also intricate and expensive. Evidently the Chinese want to have something that no one has done before and it is costing plenty!! But in a world full of needs should money be spent like this on the Olympics? It has become a competiveness between countries and I think it has gone too far.

On the opposite end of spending money is the Duggar family who started out doing everything for themselves and even built a 7000 square foot home that is debt free. On their website you learn about financial freedom and their philosophy on having children. They are really living christian values. She even homeschools!!! Totally unselfish. They are always being asked if they are Mormon or Catholic and they are neither! Interesting story on their website.

Since they have become famous though, I am sure there is lots of income from appearances and photoshoots. Good for them, they will be interesting to watch as the children continue to grow up. They reminded me of the Packard family as far as organization and all the children being responsible for each other and sharing the load. Amazing parents is all I can say!!!

And last but not least, news of the day, is that BYU is the Most Socially Conservative school of the top 368 colleges in America!!! Yea for BYU!

Oh, and one more thing I learned today is how to make Wendy's Frosty, which has always been a favorite of mine. The formula is twice as much milk as Nestle's Quik and three times as much ice cream as milk. Umm, yummy!