Labor Day weekend has me picturing a long relaxing weekend with my family. Peanut has Monday off. Hubby had today off. But he has to work tomorrow, huh? Does it make sense? Not to me either but that’s how it goes here.

So we’ll have a mixed up kinda weekend. Tomorrow I intend on working my butt off anyway. I’m having a friend come to help take photos for our eBay store. Peanut is going to clean her room. I’m going to work on my blogs do some more organizing. Seems like all I do is organize. I need to find a better word, like re-organizing or something catchier. I’ll work on that too!

Hopefully by Monday I’ll have some free time so we can do something together as a family. Wouldn’t that be nice? What are your plans for this weekend?

I remember that when Lady Ali went to school there were no school uniforms. I was angry when the school board began discussing uniforms. I had grown up going to private schools from Kindergarten to High School and hated wearing a uniform every day.  I wanted my daughter to have some freedom and be able to express herself through her clothing.

Now that Peanut is in school all elementary school students wear uniforms. The school board is going to vote next year on uniforms for the higher grades. I’m still not sure how I feel about that. I think it’s OK for children up to the fifth grade to be dressed the same. After that they should have more choice.

I’d even be happier if I could shop for discount clothing that starts at $17.95 or less. Quality clothing at that price will make it easy to shop for back to school clothing. Imagine that on top of those low prices that there are special sales too!

I may even look for clothing for Lady Ali as she just started Grad school. She loves to find bargains and if I can tell her that I got her some cheap clothing that looks great and she’ll be thrilled! There’s even a 10% discount for back to school shopping going on right now. There’s some beautiful pieces too like dress pants and a nice sweater that Lady Ali would look good.

Today, 45 years to the day of the March on Washington DC when Martin Luther King spoke his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, Barack Obama will be accepting the the Democratic party’s Presidential nomination in Denver Colorado.

I was only a few months old during that important day in history but I was taught about it by my parents, in school and later on in life researched it for myself. The march took on great meaning for me as I learned about Women’s Rights, especially the Suffrage movement. It also took on great meaning because of my own beliefs in civil rights for all.

As someone who now has chronic illnesses I have learned that wanting equality does not mean the same as wanting special rights. It means having the basic human rights that are given to others.

Barack Obama does not base his candicacy on his race,  but on this historic day you cannot help but think back to a day when people had to organize to fight for equality in employment and freedom to gather and protest.