First of all, here is the picture of my Christmas gift from my children which I promised yesterday! It's my life verse, John 3:30, "He must increase, I must decrease," in symbols: I < + > I. I'm sure I'll write more on my gift - and the verse - later on in this blog.
Well, it's January 14. Six years ago today, exactly, January 14, 2002, I registered for my first election, for my current seat as Family Court Judge. That year, I survived the two-week registration period without any other candidates filing against me. This year, no such luck, I'm afraid.
I do know that two candidates have registered this morning for the other Family Court Judgeship in this area, so they are not running against me. But, the handwriting seems to be on the wall that the remaining candidate will indeed choose to run against me. She hasn't told me that, but I've heard things through the grapevine...if she were to choose to register in the other division, against the other two candidates, it would be a great and wonderful surprise. But for now, we'll consider that I do have competition. Whatever the circumstance, it will be confirmed in a few hours or days.
There could be others out there, waiting in the wings, who have made no public announcement but who also intend to file. I doubt it, but certainly it could happen. That would throw an interesting twist into the mix - it's already fairly interesting, to say the least.
One thing is true - when the filing period is done and we all now "for sure" what is going on in terms of who is against who, that will be a relief. At least, then we'll all know what we're dealing with! I'm looking forward to a clean and honorable campaign and lots of hard work - it'll be a challenge with all I have to do here at the office, and all my responsibilities at home - but God knows all that stuff. He's orchestrating it all even now for whatever the outcome will be.
My family's gotten involved - thinking up ideas for creative commercials, designing a logo for me, etc. It's nice to have a talented family - they're all very positive about this and pitching in like crazy. I love them, for who they are, not just for what they do, though that's pretty wonderful too!
One thing, as I said yesterday - I promised our youngest at the beginning of the school year that I'd go with him on his school field trip to Philadelphia, and even though that's very shortly before the primary election I'm still going. First things first! My wife will still go to Haiti and be gone for ten days before the primary. I'm proud of her work there! Duncan will be home to help me with his younger brother which is great.
There's a bar meeting tonight which I'm looking forward to attending. The meal is always good and there's usually a good turnout. Most of the members of the bar, I like, and I think I have a good rapport with most of them.
Signing off for now --
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