Perhaps we are approaching the whole pro-life message in the wrong way. Don’t change the laws and expect hearts to follow. Change society and the laws will change. H/t to Paul at Thoughts of a Regular Guy Read more

I took the quiz and was a bit surprised that Fred was my top match.80% Fred Thompson79% Tom Tancredo77% Mitt Romney72% John McCain68% Ron Paul68% Mike Huckabee58% Rudy Giuliani34% Bill Richardson34% Hillary Clinton33% Barack Obama33% Chris Dodd32% John Edwards29% Joe Biden23% Mike Gravel16% Dennis Kucinich2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz Read more

As I write this, a member of our Catholic homeschool group is having a c-section to bring baby “M” into the world (or would that be further into the world?). So congratulations to their family, especially baby M’s sister who is no longer the only girl in the family. Welcome baby M, and to her joyful parents, I wish you many happy sniffs of the baby head. Read more

Once upon a time, people would atone for sins by donning their hair shirts. I’m not really sure what they looked like or how they were made, but I’ll bet they were pretty itchy. Hair shirt just sounds itchy. The whole point was to wear it under your regular clothes and endure the itchiness so that no one would know about the penance you were making. I have lots of questions about them, because I’m a girl and am fascinated... Read more

Thanks to Therese at the Aussie Coffee Shop for the Share the Love Award. I tag Annie at Gimme Some of Your TotsCris at June Cleaver After a Six PackGem of the Ocean and anyone else who wants to play Read more

Every day, I have people who end up at my website after googling RU-486 because of a post I wrote last year telling of my own experience with it. I can see what they searched for through my site-meter. It is often obvious from the search criteria that the hit is either from someone in the midst of an RU-486 abortion and looking to find out if what she is experiencing is normal (isn’t it strange that they don’t call... Read more

Our moose of a boy has said his first word! No surprise, it’s about eating. At lunchtime today, I got distracted talking to his sister. When the food supply was interrupted, he hit his tray and demanded “bite!” Not Mama or Dada…Bite! What do you do with a kid like that other than feed him? Read more

I opened my big mouth over on June Cleaver after a 6 pack and said I knew the best way to fold t-shirts and that I would share with the class. It’s been a week. I hate doing laundry. Get a clean t-shirt. If you hate doing laundry like me, wait until your husband gets tired of the pile and washes it himself. Then come in like a hero and offer to fold it for him.SO, anyway….get a shirt.Lay the... Read more

Last week, I kicked our 8 year old out of the family. I’d had enough of his whining and complaining. I was done arguing with him, so he was out. He said: “I hate doing schoolwork. I wish school didn’t exist. I don’t want to work. I just want to play, and I hate this family.” So, I picked him up and carried him out onto the front porch and locked the door behind him. We have other children, what’s... Read more

We all know, at least intellectually, that change can be a good thing. In the case of the baby’s diapers, change can be a very good thing. Unless you are my in-laws whose personal motto is “Commutationem Timemus”, also known as “We fear change.” My darling husband agreed with them until today. Today, I have him whistling a different tune. He went to McDonald’s last week for a highly nutritious low-cal meal and got a buck somethin’ in change. When... Read more