A Weekend to Remember

Our website is up and running, and now we are trying to generate some publicity to drive people to our site to buy T-shirts and golf shirts. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Speaking of T-shirts, we bought a Ford Focus last July, and the dealership gave us a blue Ford T-shirt. The back of the shirt says "Built Without Your Tax Dollars" below the Ford logo. Neither of us recall ever wearing a shirt that prompted strangers to stop us and say, "Hey, I love your shirt. Where can I get one?" We hope our Arkansas Diamond Mine Adventure T-shirts will generate the same reaction. Apparently a lot of people think the federal government wasted a lot of our money bailing out financial institutions and General Motors a few years ago.

This past weekend we attended a "Weekend to Remember" marriage conference by Family Life. We highly recommend that you and your spouse go to one of these, no matter what shape your marriage is in or how long you've been married. We met couples whose marriages seemed to be in good shape, and we met some and heard of others who admitted that they were on the brink of filing for divorce.

Ford refused outside help, and they're doing fine. GM didn't, and now they've emerged from bankruptcy apparently in much better condition. While we may argue about "too big to fail" and government intervention, we feel compelled to say that it is not a sign of weakness to admit that you and your spouse could use some outside help. Every married couple knows that relationships are tough, and everyone can use some help every now and then.

We are grateful to friends from church--the Lapps and the Spoons--for making this weekend getaway possible. Our two conference speakers, Bruce and Dan, made the sessions interesting and even entertaining. They were very good at weaving personal stories and illustrations with the Family Life conference material to instruct and encourage the 400+ attendees to not give up and to work at improving their marriages. Some of the assignments are not easy, but they are worth it, because if anything in this country is too big to fail, it is our families and our marriages.