Just One Little Break?!

Seriously. I was all set to get a few documents notarized by my doctor when I got a call that we had to cancel the appointment. The poor man was in a car accident and broke his arm. It has been a week and he's still not really back to work, although he is trying.

Come on! Can't this be easy just once?

Common Ground?

I have frequently heard Obama supporters say that the president wants to find common ground with the pro-life community. My question is, is there any? At first I though so, but my beloved husband pointed out that he didn't think so. I said that the president could let abortion be legal, but not use taxpayer money. He oh so intelligently, replied that was compromise, not common ground.

I am convinced. This common ground argument is empty political posturing. Either you think that it's okay to kill a baby before it is born or not. It's a really black and white issue.

Either

You think that a baby can be killed because a big person decided that they want to. You think that an unborn child is not a person. You may think that a child that has certain medical conditions do not have the same value as a healthy baby.

OR

You know that life begins at conception. (If you don't know when life begins, shouldn't you err on the side of caution?) You think that the weak defend the strong. You don't think that people have the right to do things to the detriment (and death) of others.

What common ground do we have? Pro-abortion supporters feel that abortions should be "rare,"but they don't really try to talk mothers out of the abortion. No, they resist pre-natal ultrasound and parental notification. Pro-abortion supporters think people have a right to kill an unborn baby. Pro-life supporter believe it is wrong to kill any innocent person.

What common ground is there?

More Paperwork

I spent today at doctors' offices getting all our medical forms renewed. This is the third time we've had to do it, which is ridiculous. I think the doctors are sick of us. The last 4 months of work were essentially wasted. On the other hand, my resolve has only been strengthened. Although I am frustrated with the whole process, I am very peaceful that we should be adopting Sweet Pea.

Abercrombie and Fitch is being sued in Great Britain for discriminating against a congenital amputee, claiming that she didn't meet the "Look" code. The college aged employee was hired and then told she would have to work in the stockroom until winter uniforms (that would cover the joint between her arm and prosthetic) were available.



This is at least the second time that the company ha been sued for discrimination. The first time, nine employees claimed there were forced to work in the stockroom because they did not meet the "Look" standards because they were of minority ethnicities.

Click here to read the full story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192674/I-banished-stockroom-says-disabled-shop-girl-suing-Abercrombie--Fitch-discrimination.html

Where I Live

Dear Friends and Family,

Many of you have never been able to visit or haven't been here in a long time. I thought I'd let you see what the house is looking like these days. A few months after Sweet Pea was born, we had some MAJOR renovations done on the house. It was re-sided a lovely green. We got new windows, we had the driveway paved and a new front porch put in. At the moment we are have our half bath renovated as well. When we worked on the laundry room, we kind of ran out of steam and that bathroom was never completed. It's exciting to think that after so long it will be back in service. It should be done on Tuesday. I'll try to post pictures when it is.

A Lot Crunchier Than I Used To Be

I thought that as I got older everyone got more conservative. And I have. Although I was always pretty conservative. That urge that many young adults get to reject everything they ever heard and see what they believe to be true did hit hit me as hard as others. I have definitely become more socially Conservative, more religious, less inclined to have government interference in my life and less inclined to pay for it in other people's.

On the other hand, I also do some things I always thought much more liberal, march to the beat of your own drummer, mamas would do. I homeschool-- given people on both ends of the social spectrum do this. I cloth diaper, co-slept, and carried the kids in a sling as infants. I am still nursing a nearly two year old. We drink organic milk-- those growth hormones scare me and have been linked to the early onset of puberty. We recycle, compost and use lots of reusable containers instead of single use packaging.

Do we have different motives for doing the same things? Or have some gone left and others gone right and then we all ended up circling around to meet each other? Food for thought. Granola, maybe?

I Dare You

Go ahead, leave a comment. I double dare you.