1) I like to take tape off of things. I learned this while removing the tape label from one of my bottles.
2) Disposable diapers are fastened with tape. So you can undo the tape and remove your own poopy diaper. If you manage not to make a mess, your mama will find this amusing.
3) Standing up is much better than crawling or sitting because you can see more.
4) There is this museum piece under our television called a VCR. It has a mouth that you can stick your hand in.
5) If you stick your hand in the vcr's mouth, your mother and father will come running and yelling and make you take your hand out. Then your father will put a big piece of shiny tape called duct tape over the vcr's mouth.
6) Duct tape is stronger than diaper tape.
7) Sometimes, when you get to be ten-months-old, you have to change classes at daycare. This can be very frustrating if you love your teacher very much. I love Ms. Diane very much, but now I have to go to Ms. Nancy's class. I like Ms.Nancy better now than before. I had to get used to her first. I think I will love her very much too.
8) Dogs like crackers very much.
9) You can trick a dog into letting you pet it if you give it some of your cracker.
10) Mommies and Daddies don't like it when you give the dog some of your cracker.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Don't Forget
No, this is not my son (name still to be determined) and no, it's not Shelby either. But a beautiful image, just as all children are beautiful images of God's loveFriday, May 04, 2007
Hypocrisy
I'm going to see how far I can go with this without naming names because I really don't want to get sued for anything.
A model who is not a supermodel, but a mother, whom I previously admired for her values, well, she made a choice I just can't endorse.
This woman is my age and lives in Queens and is the mother of two girls. She is also an actress and lists her talents as being a baby wrangler. She is Mormon and somewhat traditionally so. I had seen her on a television show that will also remain nameless that spotlights pregnant models. You might have seen it if you have the cable tier just below the package with all the HBO and Starz channels.
This woman, on the show and in other mediums I have seen has always endorsed motherhood and even been inspiring by saying she always starts her day with family prayer and scripture reading and telling herself she is the supermom. She also, as a model, is a working mother and has spoken out about too many parents working too many hours in America.
Recently, on her blog (which I won't link to here) she has shown an add to prevent partial birth abortion in which her image and her young daughter's are shown. Good for her! A real young woman standing up for this atrocity.
But another post shows she is the new poster girl for Nuvaring contraceptive. Wha-what?
It has always bothered me that there are women who claim to be very vocally pro-life are quick to endorse the other industry of death known as the contraceptive pharmaceutical industry. Preventing a life through artificial means is the same denial of life in God's world as saying that an unborn child is a mass of cells.
Not only is she the poster girl for the product, but she is excitedly so claiming that she wanted to use a clipboard promoting the product at one of her Sunday school classes for women (sorry, not being Mormon myself I don't know what the technical term is for these classes, so I'm using the common Protestant terminology used by many of my friends) to sign in on as both an endorsement of her and the product. So now she's bringing this hypocrisy to church.
I don't claim to know what any faith other than Catholicism teaches about the culture of life, but it sickens me how some members both of the Catholic faith and others can deny the horrible truthes of artificial birth control.
And I cannot even stomach any longer the argument that it might be beneficial to a woman's health. I could have died from usage of hormonal birth control that I was put on to control bleeding and cramping that was excessive. My doctor did not bother testing me for a common blood clotting disorder that I did in fact have. One of the factors that can cause my blood to abnormally clot is heightened estrogen levels commonly found in birth control pills. (It also happens in pregnancy, but is controlled with my heparin shots.)
When will we not just praise NFP but actually take a stand against these manufacturers? Let's at least try to live up to the true meaning of pro-life in all its respects and remember to be pro-life means also to be open to new life.
A model who is not a supermodel, but a mother, whom I previously admired for her values, well, she made a choice I just can't endorse.
This woman is my age and lives in Queens and is the mother of two girls. She is also an actress and lists her talents as being a baby wrangler. She is Mormon and somewhat traditionally so. I had seen her on a television show that will also remain nameless that spotlights pregnant models. You might have seen it if you have the cable tier just below the package with all the HBO and Starz channels.
This woman, on the show and in other mediums I have seen has always endorsed motherhood and even been inspiring by saying she always starts her day with family prayer and scripture reading and telling herself she is the supermom. She also, as a model, is a working mother and has spoken out about too many parents working too many hours in America.
Recently, on her blog (which I won't link to here) she has shown an add to prevent partial birth abortion in which her image and her young daughter's are shown. Good for her! A real young woman standing up for this atrocity.
But another post shows she is the new poster girl for Nuvaring contraceptive. Wha-what?
It has always bothered me that there are women who claim to be very vocally pro-life are quick to endorse the other industry of death known as the contraceptive pharmaceutical industry. Preventing a life through artificial means is the same denial of life in God's world as saying that an unborn child is a mass of cells.
Not only is she the poster girl for the product, but she is excitedly so claiming that she wanted to use a clipboard promoting the product at one of her Sunday school classes for women (sorry, not being Mormon myself I don't know what the technical term is for these classes, so I'm using the common Protestant terminology used by many of my friends) to sign in on as both an endorsement of her and the product. So now she's bringing this hypocrisy to church.
I don't claim to know what any faith other than Catholicism teaches about the culture of life, but it sickens me how some members both of the Catholic faith and others can deny the horrible truthes of artificial birth control.
And I cannot even stomach any longer the argument that it might be beneficial to a woman's health. I could have died from usage of hormonal birth control that I was put on to control bleeding and cramping that was excessive. My doctor did not bother testing me for a common blood clotting disorder that I did in fact have. One of the factors that can cause my blood to abnormally clot is heightened estrogen levels commonly found in birth control pills. (It also happens in pregnancy, but is controlled with my heparin shots.)
When will we not just praise NFP but actually take a stand against these manufacturers? Let's at least try to live up to the true meaning of pro-life in all its respects and remember to be pro-life means also to be open to new life.
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